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Should we validate before we verify the software?

What happens if you have a prior knowledge for $k$ as a probability distribution?

>Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower. I totally with this sentence. BUT If you ask for my opinion, merely knowing a list of statistical formulas is no…

I believe your description of software development is highly aligned with the ideas of peter naur, programming as theory building. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

> I wish there was two types of ipynb files, one for file with just code and markdown (for example ipynbc), and one for keeping code+markdown+results. I believe you can achieve tha…

I am keeping my CV on overleaf and it is very convenient. Did you try that option?

https://www.amazon.com/Solution-Selling-Fieldbook-Practical-... If you are planning to build enterprise software solutions then I highly recommend this book. It contains very helpf…

I recommend this blog: https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/?m=... Not all posts are business related but you can learn many practical tricks hard to find in bo…

You can compute the max-flow of an undirected graph. The edges have capacities and in the undirected case you assume that capacity can be used in both 'directions'.

I found this explanation: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/rag > General-purpose language models can be fine-tuned to achieve several common tasks such as sentiment analysi…

Very good and important observation. In his talk "Simple made easy" [1] Rich Hickey defines simple as opposite of complex and easy as opposite of hard. The easiness is relative (as…

I am not sure but another reason could be the mortgage duration. In US 30-year is very common, according to my quick google search in Canada most mortgages are limited to a 25-year…

You are right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34643811

Reminded me this blog post about the complexity cost of trying to cover all the edge cases, using the example of recipe writing! https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/edge-c…

I am seeing multi cars in the screenshots, maybe those are controlled by the players :)

I am surprised when I realized that the author is the same professor in Georgia Tech who wrote this wonderful free book about warehouse planning: https://www.warehouse-science.com/…

I really like the content then I realized that the lecturer is an ex-CEO of Wealthfront (one of the earliest Robo-advisory company). That totally makes sense considering the practi…

Super interesting. Do you know how much advantage a player using this information gets against a 'naive' player non-using it?

Is your work publicly available? If you are interested, I've tweeted my notes on 'Guess Who' game: [ https://twitter.com/arman_boyaci/status/1463139888489025537?... ]

If you are interested in graph classes, there is another (more mature?) resource: https://www.graphclasses.org/

I am distracted with the example provided in the post. I am pretty sure that most pandas users will just put course_ids on the columns. I mean the shape of the user_courses datafra…

> Other learning paradigms are about minimization; reinforcement learning is about maximization. I don't see why this is important.

I have a friend who also tracks his life: https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/vital-signs/ > What you see is some of the daily data I’ve collected during the last 7 years of …

For example, when X plays a corner, there is a possibility that your heuristic may play another corner right? In that situation X wins.