Not to mention that the entire class of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques only form a subset of general uses for Markov chains. Markov chains form the basis of n-gram language models, which are still useful today.…
Being reputable and being a vanity division are not mutually exclusive. You could argue that at it's peak Bell labs was a vanity division. That research may have changed the world, but very little of it likely ended up…
My guess is this is ultimately about money. Facebook/Meta stock lost 30% of it's value a few months back and may not recover any time soon. Many of these people are high level, so I'm guessing (based on a quick skim of…
You've never had to any kind of factor analysis in your work or done any searching for latent variables that map to customer/stakeholder question? Given the number of people I've worked with that are interested in…
It's very clear if you read the article that what the author is calling "feature selection" might be better termed "feature generation". He explicitly calls out what he means in the post: > When used for feature…
Am I alone in really disliking Towards Data Science? While their articles always look nice, their content is all written quickly by data scientists wanting to polish their resume with the ultimate aim of rapidly…
> And I sometimes wonder why. Numpy. I honestly think it all boils down to numpy being developed long before matrix libraries became a standard part of software development. Ruby's early "killer app" (remember that…
I believe the parent is attempting their own demonstration of Poe's law. I was impressed by the quality (and really hope I'm not wrong).
"I'm having kids because of the movie Idiocracy, and inspired because Elon Musk did the same" has to be peak Poe's law[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I'm surprised this argument is so hidden in the comments. All things being equal I would prefer permanent standard time, but it's pretty obvious that a very rational way to solve this problem is just choose whichever…
> They point to evidence, notably from the Nordic nations, that economies can continue to grow even as carbon emissions start to come down. This a pretty laughable piece of "evidence" given that the most important…
> That if someone really wants to understand where we are with all those Libya, Syria, Iraq, ... Ukraine. I appreciate Mearsheimer's perspective, but for a self professed "realist", I find it strange that he talks a lot…
Putin/The Russians aren't insane, they're looking after oil/NG interests. That's the entire reason they captured Crimea in the first place. The Ukrainian government then stopped the flow of water to Crimea to make it…
I second this question. In the last few days I've heard pretty heavy reference to "people cheering on nuclear war" but haven't seen it first hand anywhere. A link to an opinion piece that explicitly states this, or even…
I'm presuming the link is supposed to be about this book https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapo... There's a review with the same title as this post here:…
I think Bishop et al. WIP book Model-Based Machine Learning[0] is a nice step in the right direction. Honestly the most important thing missing from ML that stats has is the idea that your model is a model of something.…
No, this is the second volume of "Probabilistic Machine Learning", the first volume of which was just published this week. The 2 volume set can be seen as a complete rewrite/replacement for "Machine Learning: A…
For clarification, Murphy's first book is just Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective this is his newest, 2 volume book, Probabilistic Machine Learning which is broken down into two parts an Introduction…
Kevin Murphy has done an incredible service to the ML (and Stats) community by producing such an encyclopedic work of contemporary views on ML. These books are really a much need update of the now outdated feeling "The…
I've had tinnitus for about 20 years now and I don't notice it most of the time and when I do don't really mind it too much. The only thing I really miss is perfect silence. One of the things I've noticed people…
I haven't done or even really touched front end work in a decade and I believe that this would have been an interesting interview. Given his perfect answers I probably would have been able to come pretty close to…
No, these are always the tools used to convince people to go to war, and later to justify the results. They are part of the ways power maintains power. Every first king is just a warlord, a thug more brutal than the…
I'm surprised to see so many moral narratives, like this one, surrounding war start popping up. I thought it was pretty well understood and established that the narratives we tell about war are mostly propaganda/myth…
Curious what's delusional about this? Russian and Ukraine combined account for 29% of global wheat exports, much of that to the EU. Near term climate change will most certainly lead to massive crop failures,…
Not to mention that the entire class of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques only form a subset of general uses for Markov chains. Markov chains form the basis of n-gram language models, which are still useful today.…
Being reputable and being a vanity division are not mutually exclusive. You could argue that at it's peak Bell labs was a vanity division. That research may have changed the world, but very little of it likely ended up…
My guess is this is ultimately about money. Facebook/Meta stock lost 30% of it's value a few months back and may not recover any time soon. Many of these people are high level, so I'm guessing (based on a quick skim of…
You've never had to any kind of factor analysis in your work or done any searching for latent variables that map to customer/stakeholder question? Given the number of people I've worked with that are interested in…
It's very clear if you read the article that what the author is calling "feature selection" might be better termed "feature generation". He explicitly calls out what he means in the post: > When used for feature…
Am I alone in really disliking Towards Data Science? While their articles always look nice, their content is all written quickly by data scientists wanting to polish their resume with the ultimate aim of rapidly…
> And I sometimes wonder why. Numpy. I honestly think it all boils down to numpy being developed long before matrix libraries became a standard part of software development. Ruby's early "killer app" (remember that…
I believe the parent is attempting their own demonstration of Poe's law. I was impressed by the quality (and really hope I'm not wrong).
"I'm having kids because of the movie Idiocracy, and inspired because Elon Musk did the same" has to be peak Poe's law[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I'm surprised this argument is so hidden in the comments. All things being equal I would prefer permanent standard time, but it's pretty obvious that a very rational way to solve this problem is just choose whichever…
> They point to evidence, notably from the Nordic nations, that economies can continue to grow even as carbon emissions start to come down. This a pretty laughable piece of "evidence" given that the most important…
> That if someone really wants to understand where we are with all those Libya, Syria, Iraq, ... Ukraine. I appreciate Mearsheimer's perspective, but for a self professed "realist", I find it strange that he talks a lot…
Putin/The Russians aren't insane, they're looking after oil/NG interests. That's the entire reason they captured Crimea in the first place. The Ukrainian government then stopped the flow of water to Crimea to make it…
I second this question. In the last few days I've heard pretty heavy reference to "people cheering on nuclear war" but haven't seen it first hand anywhere. A link to an opinion piece that explicitly states this, or even…
I'm presuming the link is supposed to be about this book https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapo... There's a review with the same title as this post here:…
I think Bishop et al. WIP book Model-Based Machine Learning[0] is a nice step in the right direction. Honestly the most important thing missing from ML that stats has is the idea that your model is a model of something.…
No, this is the second volume of "Probabilistic Machine Learning", the first volume of which was just published this week. The 2 volume set can be seen as a complete rewrite/replacement for "Machine Learning: A…
For clarification, Murphy's first book is just Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective this is his newest, 2 volume book, Probabilistic Machine Learning which is broken down into two parts an Introduction…
Kevin Murphy has done an incredible service to the ML (and Stats) community by producing such an encyclopedic work of contemporary views on ML. These books are really a much need update of the now outdated feeling "The…
I've had tinnitus for about 20 years now and I don't notice it most of the time and when I do don't really mind it too much. The only thing I really miss is perfect silence. One of the things I've noticed people…
I haven't done or even really touched front end work in a decade and I believe that this would have been an interesting interview. Given his perfect answers I probably would have been able to come pretty close to…
No, these are always the tools used to convince people to go to war, and later to justify the results. They are part of the ways power maintains power. Every first king is just a warlord, a thug more brutal than the…
I'm surprised to see so many moral narratives, like this one, surrounding war start popping up. I thought it was pretty well understood and established that the narratives we tell about war are mostly propaganda/myth…
Curious what's delusional about this? Russian and Ukraine combined account for 29% of global wheat exports, much of that to the EU. Near term climate change will most certainly lead to massive crop failures,…