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Hope it was helpful. It's unclear what you t-tested here. Ideally, you would test for difference between groups of "Is there a difference in number of endorsements between people w…

First 200 pages https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...

If you breakup the plot by any number of categories of technical ability, then there are trends. But to your question, what I was suggesting was that the aggregations done, especia…

Your analysis is extremely flawed. I really appreciate your sharing the data with us and I like your service. But, this is a poorly done and a far from subtle plug of your business…

World class engineers (especially data eng) who built some amazing open source things, but internally was a mess. The reason LinkedIn is a terrible product is because it was mired …

Looks awesome, are you hiring data scientists?

This is how you train soldiers. Some aren't cut out to follow.

Honestly, the paper wasn't bad, but I'm shocked they let this article get out. Combine the author's incredibly poor understanding,shit link bait headline, and baseless article with…

Fair enough. Otherwise, does that help shed any light on this side? Thoughts?

No, you just had a bad point that you'll come to realize if you ever have to manage a team or company. More often than not, you outsource items that are not the highest value proje…

Bingo. More data beats better algorithms, see http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h...

That's another good point. The required computing power that is now cheap and widely available has changed our ability to even try these methods.

Every model's output quality is dependent on the quantity of data it ingests. Statistics developed as a science because of the need to overcome the weakness of large samples being …

They do [1], but not as often as you expect. Most games don't actually use AI, as the goal is to make in game characters appear intelligent, rather than actually being so. [1] http…

Facebook. See http://www.quora.com/For-top-technology-companies-what-of-th...

Looks really awesome, I'll await it's arrival.

What I've learned in the months since is that in order to overcome the panic and anxiety you have to do something very simple yet seemingly incredibly difficult; you have to let it…

Thanks for the tip, I don't think I can change it now (correct me if I'm wrong), and will keep this in mind for future submissions.

I read this a while back and was reminded by another post on SF public transport today. HN community, has anything changed?

In the same aggressive tone you're holding towards the article, you probably should have read the publication before criticizing the experiment. Quick lesson on pharmaceutical stud…

I believe you are repeating what I said (?). All of the algorithms have different methods of arriving to an objective function and leveraging it's results. Yet, most share the same…

Copped out when called out. Deleted comment said GAs were bad search algos and tend to get stuck at local minima.

This is not a good generalization. I've usually only seen this issue with optimization problems when: 1) You haven't played with parameters 2) Implementation is not correct (usuall…