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amazing!

Spotify doesn't pay artists. They pay the labels. And labels pay the artists. What artists get paid has nothing to do with Spotify.

I have a lot of Kindle highlights, inspirational/motivational/instructional book passages I like to live by and continually remind myself of. I would like something that randomly s…

I have a lot of experience with this problem. The simplest way is via data munging in python/ pandas etc by finding what percent users convert/churn after doing an event N times wi…

Because the author draws a lot of parallels between computer science majors and physics majors, citing that physics majors are better prepared for the type of work ML requires. I a…

Doesn't really seem like the author spoke to a lot of actual physicists to write this article. Don't get me wrong, physics majors attract a certain type of intellect, but the vast …

And this is thanks to Yann LeCun whose vast experience at Bell Labs experience has shown him how mixing engineer/business requirements/deadlines with research produces shitty resul…

I think one of the only companies doing this right, and that has the resources to do this right, is facebook, as they seperate AI research and teams that are focused on putting the…

2001: A Space Odyssey Sunshine Blade Runner, gattaca, the matrix, alien etc.etc. basically just google "best sci fi movies of all time"

Disagree about motivation. See Steven Pressfield's "War of Art" and "Do the work." Motivation is ephemeral. Hard work, habit, consistently applying yourself regardless of your moti…

Not dangerous, in my experience. It doesn't take deep theoretical knowledge to provide value (i.e. value to a customer or to a business) through machine learning. Assuming here tha…

I wish everyone on r/MachineLearning and those preparing for data science careers would read this comment and heed the advice of those of us who have actually spent time on data sc…

Would love to see this post if you have it handy.

I read Murakami books not because they are entirely entertaining WHILE I'm reading them, but because the dream-like memory of the experience sticks in your mind for years.

After reading this, I recommend reading the following: https://yanirseroussi.com/2016/08/04/is-data-scientist-a-use...

It's really challenging, people are trying. Are you specifically referring to auto, health, life...all of the above? See http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097642/google-shuts-dow…

The good news is you don't have to bookmark this blog because when you're writing scala and googling questions, it's going to come up on page one, because it's one of the best.

Yeah I mostly agree with this. There are some small wins though like how BigML allows you to export random forests into plain text node.js and you can just deploy in shitty php pip…

I think the best part of this article is the approach to learning new things he presents--going beneath the surface, learning the fundamentals below the “API” layer (abstractly spe…

Anyone using dl4j? http://deeplearning4j.org/

The last two screen shots are the same

yeaaaaaahh but is that really the most annoying? dimensional modeling, getting all the joins right, scripting all the transforms (the T in ETL) is pretty annoying. Getting data int…

Call me a snob, but after reading too many beautifully typeset LaTeX books/papers, trying to reading math in fonts like this is very off putting.

Is anyone on HN using Julia professionally?