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Their model was not logistic regression (the networks may have had a few logistic units in it, but it's hard to call that a logistic model). The logistic models they compared again…

Depends on what you mean by "trust with money" - trust them to spend it on something that will give back to society? In that case, yes...I trust almost anyone more than Jeff Bezos.…

I think the point was that the chair viewed as a per-employee "tax" has benefit to the employer, but this head tax doesn't.

Yes, the cost of things is more expensive in dense cities, but by 2x-3x for some services and not at all for buying a pair of jeans from a retailer - those prices are pretty much u…

Walmart competes with Mom and Pop grocery stores. Google is competing with god damn Amazon. And possibly future startups that might otherwise try to enter the smart speaker space, …

> unpaid data gathering tool I get free unlimited google searching, gmail, google maps in return. I would pay a hefty amount if they starting charging for those and am happy to tra…

Funnily enough, your post is also missing some important details. The Canadian system is very transparent with its scoring. Unless you're from a natively English/French speaking co…

> well, at least the ones that don’t abuse the system, like FAANGs It's unclear whether you mean that FAANGs do or don't abuse the system. I've heard both sides of that.

That must've amounted to several tens of cents (per book) on the $200 price tag.

A CSR returns 4.5% on travel/dining, if you only redeem on travel through the Chase portal, which is not a ripoff based on when I've checked and what I've read (you can get even be…

That seems to be a precursor to the work mentioned in the article. This is the one that was presented at NIPS this year: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6182-fast-mixing-markov-chains…

The first year or two of math (and physics, and to some degree, CS) are roughly standardized. There are variations, not only across colleges, but within the same college (honors vs…

NIH too.

The current deep dreaming fad is going to last about one more week before everyone gets sick of looking at those stupid pictures. They really serve no purpose other than "look how …

I'm no expert, but afaik probabilistic programming isn't a new method or technique. It is just wrappers around existing statistical techniques, as an attempt to divorce the details…