astrofinch
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Comment · 6 years ago
There's a great recent documentary on Netflix called My Octopus Teacher about an octopus which displayed some of these behaviors (interspecies bonding, tactile drive, play). Another good Netflix documentary, on birds, is Beak & Brain: Genius Birds from Down Under.
Comment · 6 years ago
Most planets don't have life.
Comment · 6 years ago
My issue with microtransactions is that the cost of making the decision seems like it outweighs the currency cost. Like, I used to buy computer games (e.g. from Steam) when they were on sale. Now I ignore any sale which has a price greater than $0.00, because if a game is free, I don't have to spend any time figuring out whether I will like it.
Where do you see microtransactions being applied in practice?
Comment · 6 years ago
>Say you flip a coin a few times and only get heads. Your maximum likelihood (frequentist) estimate is that the coin will always land heads. In a Bayesian setting, if you have a (say uniform) prior on the probability that the coin lands heads, your maximum a posteriori estimate of this probability will be non-zero, but will get continue to get smaller if you continue only seeing heads.
Not quite. If you have a uniform prior, there will be no difference between MAP and MLE.
>From the vantage point of Bayesian inference, MLE is a special case of maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP) that assumes a uniform prior distribution of the parameters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood_estimation
More discussion here:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/64259/how-does-a-u...
Comment · 6 years ago
>The training algorithms for deep learning are also the hottest algorithm research area in machine learning, and are certainly applicable beyond deep learning.
The lore I've heard is that most new deep learning training algorithms (optimization algorithms) only work better on particular special cases, and it is hard to do better than the established algorithms in general.
I'm also not sure why you're saying they're applicable beyond deep learning--how do you plan to train a PGM or SVM using Adam?
Comment · 6 years ago
Why is mean reversion difficult to trade?
Comment · 6 years ago
Dalio admits in this that he didn't see the pandemic coming.
Comment · 6 years ago
What poor hiring practices does Google have?
Comment · 6 years ago
Most startups offer equity to their employees.
"the company is owned by tyrants"
Citation needed.
Comment · 7 years ago
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
Comment · 7 years ago
Drones which plant trees seem pretty exciting:
Comment · 7 years ago
>The way forward for us is developing and owning our own locations together with customers, neighbors, service providers etc, and that in unusual but really interesting locations (think Kigali, Bethlehem, Kathmandu), with a foundation on top developing a common infrastructure for procurement, payments, customer service etc.
Nice. I like the idea of cohousing in undiscovered interesting places.
Comment · 7 years ago
That's why you need better roommate matching: to find roommates who are cool with a cat + overnight guests.