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sumodds

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    Comment #6783653

    I agree and disagree. I am a candidate and prefer coding challenges provided they are reasonable. Meaning, if you are wanting to check the person's ability in x, check the person a…

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    Comment #6567243

    That is a weak argument :). Not really, there is a certain and rather high possibility that common man can buy Tesla cars. Sure, there is a premium price tag now, since we are stil…

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    Comment #6566748

    I am not as much against automated trading, as I am against High Frequency Trading. Automated trading itself is still dangerous, in that many of these algorithms are black-boxes. T…

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    Comment #6566374

    I disagree with this assumption. The problems with military research, law firms, advertisements are of degree not of its existence. Sure, they have their own problems. But we need …

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    Comment #6503316

    I do Computer Vision/Machine Learning for a living, but would caution a little against super-focusing on a narrow area. AI in general is known for its AI winters, where jobs dry up…

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    Comment #6227292

    No problem here in Mountain View :)

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    Comment #6092680

    Wallstreet ;)

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    Comment #5815894

    I loved the first part of the argument, that many a time causality is not from one source but multiple (often overlapping and even contradictory sources). But towards the end, you …

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    Comment #4615207

    Not that only, I had a high variance on my bias.. ;)

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    Comment #4614248

    Lol.. my bad. I did not pay attention. I thought the error was in percentages. (I was comparing with MNIST and somehow assumed this too was percentages). Come to think of it, that …

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    Comment #4612014

    Am not sure if you can apply winner takes all for such marginal difference in error. Give a slightly different database and things go awry. Check out : "Unbiased Look at Dataset Bi…