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I rarely blog about interesting problems that I think could help others and sometimes gaming.
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I rarely blog about interesting problems that I think could help others and sometimes gaming.
One such study found that children who grew up in homes with between 80 and 350 books showed improved literacy, numeracy, and information communication technology skills as adults.
Of course Apple chips won’t work well for gaming, but what other benchmarks will this $2000 desktop win?
Some companies go a step ahead and keep your original documents (Degree certificate etc) so you can’t apply elsewhere after accepting offer. It’s ridiculous.
> Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others.
I'd say that's exactly the model that some of the startups are taking. Uber and Lyft come to mind. A part of their wealth is coming from the pockets of workers who have to work for lower wages than before and get hit by depreciation that they didn't account for when earning.
It's just that based on current political climate, I think it's hard to keep politics aside.
My thoughts about pg have essentially gone through this flow: - Start reading some of the old essays in college, agree with most of the points - Start working, the essays slowed down. I read old ones once in a while, still mostly agree - Start following pg on twitter. There's some stuff I don't agree with but it's alright. - See a lot of stuff that I don't agree with [1]
(in between somewhere, I got convinced that keeping politics on sidelines is not an options)
Then I see the essay on wealth tax. My read is that main argument is that the tax compounds. But I don't see any alternative arguments. So I see his position as against the transfer of wealth and societal equality and I don't agree with that.
Maybe I'm being too opinionated or not reading deep enough, but that was my line of thought.
Then I saw his recent tweets and especially the essay about wealth tax, I was a bit disappointed. But as you said, his position is well earned. But I don’t see any useful real life advice from him anymore.
I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure?
I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.
Maybe, they are focusing on other things like thinness and light weight which results in making gadgets less repairable instead of a big planned conspiracy.
I prefer desktop clients because I have 6 email accounts and managing all of them in tabs is just a headache.
They are included in the IG formula but since they are multiplied by 0, they don't have any effect.
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Using them to get a feel about dataset is an interesting use case and I haven't tried that. It does sound interesting though. Something to do with my next ML problem I suppose. :)
Just skimmed through your article(class final exams tomorrow), it is informative. Thanks for sharing.
Author here. Thanks for the links. I originally planned to try a bigger dataset but didn't want to make the article too long, so left out the optimizations.
I had to do the same exercise for my ML class and had similar results. Random pruning (mostly) worked great for me.
IMHO, While DTs do overfit a lot, they are a great starting point for beginners because of their (relative) simplicity. Better to start light and then introduce the math heavy neural nets and SVMs.