NumberCruncher

>> The average user spends more than 74 minutes each day in Toutiao

so many wasted lives

Some people don't share your views. So what? Why do you care?

The abuse of the words "equal" and "unequal" is a common phenomenon.

same != equal

different != unequal

I am for “Everyone is different and equal”.

And Web2py works well with Intercooler JS so you can get quite far without having to write any JS code.

try this one:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

All throw away db table names starts with suxx_.

Telling people that they need less not more does not make you revenue. Except if you are selling self help books.

Consuming 'less' in general is not an option.

The doc starts with a picture of a stupid time-travel sci-fi nonsense, ends with a picture of a stupid magic-monster harrypotter nonsense, in the middle with a picture of the remake of The magnificent seven. Which was the remake of Kurosawa's The 7 samurai. This is only entertaining if you are 14 or you have spent the last 35 years in a cave without contact to the outside world. What is killing the movie industry again?

>> the number one way that burglars break into a house is simply through an unlocked door

Is this a statement about criminaity or about stupidity of home owners. As a Europian it is hard to make a difference...

A [someone who studied the same like I did] is, in my experience, much more intelligent than their [majority of this forum] counterpart.

As someone already stated here, modern philosophy more or less is nothing but a dick measuring contest.

QED

Doomsday porn stays doomsday porn even if you combine it with itself.

>> One estimate suggests that there is a 1% chance of a super-eruption in the next 460–7,200 years.

And there is a 99.9999% chance that I will not see it. So why should I care?

In my experience if you develop a "data science pipeline" forcing the data scientist to build

- reproducible

- validated

- back-tested

- easy to deploy

models, they are going to hate it. It just kills the fun and/or makes obvious if they made a mistake.

You should read this:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

Patrick may have a skewed view of reality because of his experience but this (and his other posts) brings you in the right mindset.

Could you recommend something non investment related from him? How I found freedom is one of the books I re-read every year.

Thinking that we are somehow special makes us feel better. The truth is that we are not.

If you take a look at the evolution of the most advanced non artificial general intelligence, eg. human intelligence, it is strongly connected to the evolution of communication. It is a question of efficiency whether you learn through your own experience and failures or through the experience and failures of others. This teaching/learning process was boosted through the use of pictures, spoken language, hand written and printed books. This is why I believe the artificial general intelligence will we teached by an other artificial general intelligence and this evolution will be somehow connected to language processing. As far as I know Google tries to train its AIs through human imput, eg. to recognize animals drawn by humans. I consider it as one of the first steps in the right direction.

Not all the good data scientists I used to work with/for are mathematicians but all of them have a deep understanding of mathematics. Knowing math upfront is not a must but if you are not willing to learn it along the way than you shouldn't choose the path of ML.

Exactly. It is like running your own authentication system in production without deeper knowledge in CS. It works well, until it doesn't.

"Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data." /wikipedia/

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Selling stuff is a better business than making the world a better place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w

You get a comparable kick playing paintball (not woodsball) or laser tag without killing anyone.

I heared about Germany lawyers being on the hunt for sites breaking the laws like the cookie law. In Germany being sued can get pretty expensive pretty quickly, especielly for small sites. I wouldn't put anything online without a corporate body protecting my private wealth, which can be sued and go bankrupt.

The last time I jumped ship I did not took a paycut - actually a got a small raise - but took a job where I am paid ca. 15% less than my market value. I was recruited by the VP of IT at a small company. We used to work together in the past and he knows what I am capable of if I work under the right conditions, which excludes discussions about BS and interruptions through "burning issues". I do what I love to do, I set my own priorities and my own deadlines. I have a site in Confluence showing the satus of my current projects, he gets every two weeks an e-mail from me with the actual highlights/achievements and once a month we go for lunch together where I can ask him for guidance. I can take some time learning new technologies during working hours and make homeoffice now and then. Why should I leave? Actually I can imagine working for someone else than me only under these conditions.

Why should the majority share my opinion? Maybe I am wrong. Maybe it would be boring, because there wouldn't be discussions any more.

Different opinions may coexist.

What happens if Amazon uses the lookalike audience feature of FB? He uses the contact details of customers who was looking up the coffee machine and automatically defines a group of FB users who look alike them. In this case your wife looks alike you. Or if I would have developed the lookalike audience feature I would say she looks alike you. That is why she gets ads for the coffee machine.

[edit:] This may be considered as dodgy. In Germany it is forbidden to use the lookalike audience feature of FB and companies are fined if they admit using it.

Yes, the ratio changes. In this book are some statistics:

https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details