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I think it's mostly that he's a vocal critic of AI/big tech at a time when much of the public is anti-AI and anti-big-tech, so his message is resonating with people and he's popula…

This is actually a well-known phenomenon in ML, called "The Bitter Lesson". > One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods,…

I'd agree with you if this applied to primary residences, but it seems like this only applies to secondary residences? I find it hard to reconcile "middle class" with "has a second…

Re: existing model, for recsys, as long as the product already exists you have some baseline available, even if it's not very good. Anything from "alphabetical order" to "random or…

Yes, it's just really nice to be able to push a button and have it hold at the right temperature; sort of like how boiling water on the stove or in the microwave and using an elect…

Guessing the hygenics depend on your local water supply, but some varieties of tea (and coffee actually) want to be brewed at below-boiling

A little desktop app that lets me upload transaction csvs from my bank and figure out how much I need to split with my partner. Mostly because I always forget to charge her for uti…

I don't see how their analogy is stupid. Aeropress and french press are pretty similar from an "enthusiast coffee device" perspective. Lots of room for variability in grind size, c…

Might have been k-nearest-neighbors rather than k-means. Knn can be used for "recommended because you bought X" or "users like you also bought X" type recommendations that relate u…

With free games (which make up a pretty large portion of competitive online games), cheaters who get banned usually just make or buy new accounts.

As part of the Intuit purchase Credit Karma had to sell off their tax service, which Square bought. I'm guessing that's what OP is referring to.

I have also recently been playing around with Julia coming from numpy/pandas. I found that 1.6.1 felt way smoother on startup and import than 1.5.x. Might be worth trying to upgrad…

This is actually the idea behind Direct Primary Care[1]; basically the idea is that by not taking insurance the overall cost of care goes down due to the decreased overhead around …

I've heard "the tallest blade of grass gets cut first" in the US, although Google says it's either a Russian or Assyrian proverb originally.

I was also curious. Using an out-of-the-box weighted random forest, I got an f-score of ~.85 using a 75:25 stratified train-test split.

To encourage active participation, I have created a private repo where all future edits and entries will be made starting November 2019 after which this project will be deprecated.…

I tried a few: runbox, protonmail, and fastmail, and ended up staying with fastmail. The web interface isn't pretty but is functional and the service has been great so far. Very ea…

I graduated from the program in December. Overall, the program was absolutely worth it for me. Based on my experience I'd say that the online program isn't quite at the same level …

For anyone who's interested in a more long-form, intuitive explanation of the fourier transform and how you can use it to multiply polynomials, I'd highly recommend Erik Demaine's …

In my experience, it's a combination of a couple of things. First off, the field is heavily regulated (in the US anyway) and the penalties for violating regulations like HIPAA are …

By the utilitarian argument, wouldn't the answer just be to stop eating meat and eat whatever we're feeding to livestock (or some other food grown in its place)? Meat is a pretty i…

I think the idea for the original product (I.e. non cypto) is that it's target the "little guy" with no commission on trades. So people feel like they're taking from the rich insti…

I think they're saying that they're being taxed as if they were getting 4% interest on their savings, when in reality they're getting less than 1% because rates are low. So even th…

Well, it's a resume service. Gotta include at least one JS framework to make it past HR.

I would love this as an individual when learning new languages on my own projects. I find it really hard to tell if I'm actually doing things the "right" way without talking to som…