Moral of the story, the key to happiness is low expectations.
I haven't read this paper yet so I can't speak to it's quality but it appears to be addressing the same questions in this post. Bengio is a coauthor so maybe that's a good sign . Here's the abstract. This paper provides…
I suggest this reference [1] for anyone needing to look something up. [1] https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf
The problem is high dimensions knowing the distribution or even characterizing it fully with data is incredibly difficult (curse of dimensionality). I think the real assumption in ML is just that there is some low…
Julia only hit v1.0 in 2018. It's doing pretty well for being so young in my opinion. All the arguments against Julia are basically that python has a lot of momentum and it takes time and effort to switch to a new…
I think this suffices as a summary, "The other reality is the frustration and drudgery of operating in a world of corporate politics, bureaucracy, envy and greed— a world so depressing, that many people quit in…
I was expecting this to be more about writing fast matrix multiplies. Surprisingly, it ends up being a lot more than just a triple loop and there's a reason that everyone uses existing libraries like OpenBLAS and MKL…
I think this is really the tale of two Millennials and is a phenomenon that actually effects all generations currently. There is a concentration of wealth in this country and the wage increases in the bottom 90% have…
This article may have been on here yesterday and seems relevant [1]. For this guy it's probably not about fighting for what he believes is "right", it's all about winning. He bought land, a fight ensued, and now he…
The author does make a point of discussing the question of what business does a team like DeepMind have researching the folding problem? The solution is of no apparent value to the parent company Alphabet, and yet they…
Isn't there utility in accepting the null hypothesis? It's almost as valuable to know that there is no signal in the data as there is in the opposite, i.e., knowing where not to look for information. I think your…
I used to only use MATLAB, which for a lot of research code applications is actually nice for getting a prototype running quickly. Now that I have the freedom to choose, I typically use Julia as I'm trying to gain…
All good points. It would be nice to see some game theory type assessment of these imbalances.
So he's saying that concentration of "wealth" is bad, and war is bad. A quick glance at the definition of moral gives, "a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to…
These types of experiments pop up from time to time. You have to compare the performance relative to the single lag error. So the baseline is to use the previous time step to predict the current time step. Ultimately,…
DRL has definitely shown some excellent results but can someone in the field comment on this paper, Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning [1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07055
This latest craze of "AI" research seems to be fueled by a sudden glut of computational power (GPUs) that wasn't available previously. I think that most technical people would agree that the mid 2020s is extremely…
I wasn't implying that the interview was easier for candidates with recognizable track records. Perhaps two sigma was not restrictive enough. I was merely suggesting that if a candidate has domain expertise and it is…
All anecdotal evidence points to arriving at the correct, optimal solution as being key to passing the interview. It also seems like often times the interviewers are not even going to be working with the candidate so…
Wow. I'm surprised to see this on here. I used to work Johnson, he's is a super nice guy and always made time to have long conversations with me about optimization. I believe this algorithm is widely used in the video…
But your estimate isn't very meaningful if you only have enough samples such that the N v (N-1) normalization matters, the variances on the estimator will be too large. The 1/N normalization comes from the MLE BTW, I'm…
Seems to me that at some point hiring moved away from hiring based on potential to hiring based on pure skill and how many boxes the candidate has checked. Companies seem to just want people who can turn the crank,…
Why penalize folks who didn't know what they wanted to do in high school. It took me a long time to get a vague idea of what I wanted to do for a career and it's something I have to constantly contend with. In fact, I'm…
I agree completely. Cost of living is dominated by your housing expense, so to scale you're basically just looking at the net delta in rent or mortgage divided by the tax rate, so like current_salary + rent_delta/0.6…
I've heard similar arguments about age and physics. I've always theorized that as time progresses the body of work one must be familiar with in order to make new contributions grows as well. We should therefore expect…
Moral of the story, the key to happiness is low expectations.
I haven't read this paper yet so I can't speak to it's quality but it appears to be addressing the same questions in this post. Bengio is a coauthor so maybe that's a good sign . Here's the abstract. This paper provides…
I suggest this reference [1] for anyone needing to look something up. [1] https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf
The problem is high dimensions knowing the distribution or even characterizing it fully with data is incredibly difficult (curse of dimensionality). I think the real assumption in ML is just that there is some low…
Julia only hit v1.0 in 2018. It's doing pretty well for being so young in my opinion. All the arguments against Julia are basically that python has a lot of momentum and it takes time and effort to switch to a new…
I think this suffices as a summary, "The other reality is the frustration and drudgery of operating in a world of corporate politics, bureaucracy, envy and greed— a world so depressing, that many people quit in…
I was expecting this to be more about writing fast matrix multiplies. Surprisingly, it ends up being a lot more than just a triple loop and there's a reason that everyone uses existing libraries like OpenBLAS and MKL…
I think this is really the tale of two Millennials and is a phenomenon that actually effects all generations currently. There is a concentration of wealth in this country and the wage increases in the bottom 90% have…
This article may have been on here yesterday and seems relevant [1]. For this guy it's probably not about fighting for what he believes is "right", it's all about winning. He bought land, a fight ensued, and now he…
The author does make a point of discussing the question of what business does a team like DeepMind have researching the folding problem? The solution is of no apparent value to the parent company Alphabet, and yet they…
Isn't there utility in accepting the null hypothesis? It's almost as valuable to know that there is no signal in the data as there is in the opposite, i.e., knowing where not to look for information. I think your…
I used to only use MATLAB, which for a lot of research code applications is actually nice for getting a prototype running quickly. Now that I have the freedom to choose, I typically use Julia as I'm trying to gain…
All good points. It would be nice to see some game theory type assessment of these imbalances.
So he's saying that concentration of "wealth" is bad, and war is bad. A quick glance at the definition of moral gives, "a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to…
These types of experiments pop up from time to time. You have to compare the performance relative to the single lag error. So the baseline is to use the previous time step to predict the current time step. Ultimately,…
DRL has definitely shown some excellent results but can someone in the field comment on this paper, Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning [1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07055
This latest craze of "AI" research seems to be fueled by a sudden glut of computational power (GPUs) that wasn't available previously. I think that most technical people would agree that the mid 2020s is extremely…
I wasn't implying that the interview was easier for candidates with recognizable track records. Perhaps two sigma was not restrictive enough. I was merely suggesting that if a candidate has domain expertise and it is…
All anecdotal evidence points to arriving at the correct, optimal solution as being key to passing the interview. It also seems like often times the interviewers are not even going to be working with the candidate so…
Wow. I'm surprised to see this on here. I used to work Johnson, he's is a super nice guy and always made time to have long conversations with me about optimization. I believe this algorithm is widely used in the video…
But your estimate isn't very meaningful if you only have enough samples such that the N v (N-1) normalization matters, the variances on the estimator will be too large. The 1/N normalization comes from the MLE BTW, I'm…
Seems to me that at some point hiring moved away from hiring based on potential to hiring based on pure skill and how many boxes the candidate has checked. Companies seem to just want people who can turn the crank,…
Why penalize folks who didn't know what they wanted to do in high school. It took me a long time to get a vague idea of what I wanted to do for a career and it's something I have to constantly contend with. In fact, I'm…
I agree completely. Cost of living is dominated by your housing expense, so to scale you're basically just looking at the net delta in rent or mortgage divided by the tax rate, so like current_salary + rent_delta/0.6…
I've heard similar arguments about age and physics. I've always theorized that as time progresses the body of work one must be familiar with in order to make new contributions grows as well. We should therefore expect…