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Not to mention that the entire class of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques only form a subset of general uses for Markov chains. Markov chains form the basis of n-gram language mo…

Being reputable and being a vanity division are not mutually exclusive. You could argue that at it's peak Bell labs was a vanity division. That research may have changed the world,…

My guess is this is ultimately about money. Facebook/Meta stock lost 30% of it's value a few months back and may not recover any time soon. Many of these people are high level, so …

You've never had to any kind of factor analysis in your work or done any searching for latent variables that map to customer/stakeholder question? Given the number of people I've w…

It's very clear if you read the article that what the author is calling "feature selection" might be better termed "feature generation ". He explicitly calls out what he means in t…

Am I alone in really disliking Towards Data Science? While their articles always look nice, their content is all written quickly by data scientists wanting to polish their resume w…

> And I sometimes wonder why. Numpy. I honestly think it all boils down to numpy being developed long before matrix libraries became a standard part of software development. Ruby's…

I believe the parent is attempting their own demonstration of Poe's law. I was impressed by the quality (and really hope I'm not wrong).

"I'm having kids because of the movie Idiocracy, and inspired because Elon Musk did the same" has to be peak Poe's law[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I'm surprised this argument is so hidden in the comments. All things being equal I would prefer permanent standard time, but it's pretty obvious that a very rational way to solve t…

> They point to evidence, notably from the Nordic nations, that economies can continue to grow even as carbon emissions start to come down. This a pretty laughable piece of "eviden…

> That if someone really wants to understand where we are with all those Libya, Syria, Iraq, ... Ukraine. I appreciate Mearsheimer's perspective, but for a self professed "realist"…

Putin/The Russians aren't insane, they're looking after oil/NG interests. That's the entire reason they captured Crimea in the first place. The Ukrainian government then stopped th…

I second this question. In the last few days I've heard pretty heavy reference to "people cheering on nuclear war" but haven't seen it first hand anywhere. A link to an opinion pie…

I'm presuming the link is supposed to be about this book https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapo... There's a review with the same title as this post here: htt…

I think Bishop et al. WIP book Model-Based Machine Learning [0] is a nice step in the right direction. Honestly the most important thing missing from ML that stats has is the idea …

No, this is the second volume of "Probabilistic Machine Learning", the first volume of which was just published this week. The 2 volume set can be seen as a complete rewrite/replac…

For clarification, Murphy's first book is just Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective this is his newest, 2 volume book, Probabilistic Machine Learning which is broken down …

Kevin Murphy has done an incredible service to the ML (and Stats) community by producing such an encyclopedic work of contemporary views on ML. These books are really a much need u…

I've had tinnitus for about 20 years now and I don't notice it most of the time and when I do don't really mind it too much. The only thing I really miss is perfect silence. One of…

I haven't done or even really touched front end work in a decade and I believe that this would have been an interesting interview. Given his perfect answers I probably would have b…

No, these are always the tools used to convince people to go to war, and later to justify the results. They are part of the ways power maintains power. Every first king is just a w…

I'm surprised to see so many moral narratives, like this one, surrounding war start popping up. I thought it was pretty well understood and established that the narratives we tell …

Curious what's delusional about this? Russian and Ukraine combined account for 29% of global wheat exports, much of that to the EU. Near term climate change will most certainly lea…