miltava
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Comment · 8 days ago
That’s true. It could help with the cold start problem for training models and maybe replace heuristics/rules in some cases.
Comment · 1 month ago
And I like the bayesian interpretation too. Murphy's "Probabilistic machine learning" has an occam's razor section.
The idea is that a complex model explains many more configurations (datasets) than a simple one. So its (prior) probability distribution is lower on the data seen (to compensate for the other possibilities it might explain). So the (marginal) likelihood that the simple model is correct is higher if it fits the data well enough.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think both are at play here and I don’t know about Musk’s programming skills. But it seems that they had other very good programmers (including levchin). So maybe business success can buy good engineers to clean the messed up code. I’m not sure how it goes with AI now though.
Comment · 6 months ago
How many big fraud cases happened in the US over the last decade? I can think of many of them. Would u say that it’s a cultural thing in the US because of that? So ur statement is more about prejudice than anything.
Comment · 7 months ago
Maybe for most of their acquisitions (but I don’t know). But they do get acquisitions right: YouTube, android, double click, Waze…
Comment · 10 months ago
Is this still a valuable read today (specially taking it into account)? It's been in my reading list for a while now but I'm always postponing :|