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So this is just showing a bit of your ignorance of stats. The general notion of compound risk is not specific to MSE loss. You can formulate it for any loss function, including L1 …

No it is not bogus, you just don't know much stats apparently.

parquet is perfectly fine > There is Parquet. It is very efficient with it’s columnar storage and compression. But it is binary, so can’t be viewed or edited with standard tools, w…

To me, Polars feels like almost exactly how I would want to redesign Pandas interfaces for small - medium sized data processing, given my previous experience with Pandas and PySpar…

Suggest the following pattern: 1. load and process / aggregate in polars to get the smaller dataset that goes into your plot. 2. df.to_pandas() 3. apply your favourite vis library …

i mean, if you are reading and writing csv then yeah, you've already fucked up.

Scientific fraud makes me sad and angry.

Disagree. The purpose of a textbook and a lecture is very different. A good textbook can be a helpful resource for teaching and lecturing, but it is not sufficient to guarantee hig…

The ability to communicate math this way is honestly rare. It comes from a combination of deep understanding, long experience in communicating math, and a certain level of "culturi…

Because with real world data like in production in tech there are so many factors to account for. Brittle methods are more susceptible to unexpected changes in the data or unexpect…

> This seems like a natural feature of any sensitive method, not sure why this is something to complain about. I am exactly complaining it is sensitive. If theres robust alternativ…

Yeah, the only common theme I see in causal inference research is that every method and analysis eventually succumbs to a more thorough analysis that uncovers serious issues in the…

From my experience propensity scores + ipw really doesn't get you far in practice. Propensity scoring models rarely balance all the covariates well (more often, one or two are marg…

It may be ideal to have all these items checked off. I think a productive way to look at this is "how many of these items does the roadmap check"? If the answer is "very few" then …

thanks

can you please spell out what MDL is an acronym for?

I mean, of course? Concurrency != parallelism, so that makes sense. Where multiprocessing shines is when you have an algorithm that can be fully parallelized and represented in a b…

I mean, hopefully why you might need multiprocessing in python is clear? If you have a python task that is highly parallelizable on a single machine with multiple cores, then multi…

how do you work 4 years on a project before having a tracked goal. absurd. sounds like management's fault.

fancy name for what seems like a fairly standard "intro to proofs" textbook, at least based on the ToC.

> The fact that Microsoft is baking GPT into all of their products guarantees explosive growth. Why?

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> I still think Elon is a smart guy. > I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. Hmmm...

Amazon has roughly 350 MM products if you account for third party sellers, so yeah, the scale is massively different.