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Re:How to Become a Pure Mathematician (Or Statistician)
on Friday September 12, 2025 @07:27PM (#45227885)
Kudos to you for acknowledging your error and correcting it. We certainly do need more high IQ (>128) math PhDs with integrity, like yourself. Please do consider pursuing higher math in a full time capacity.
Re:Is old music killing new music?
on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:24PM (#29999488)
straight from the go kanye
Re:A neuroscientist prepares for death
on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:02AM (#29805710)
What you're describing is similar to Pascal's Wager:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
Re:Don't Waste the Good Days
on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:43PM (#29755593)
I really love this quote - thanks for sharing.
Re:Advancing Sports Analytics Through AI Research
on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:36PM (#27109926)
Would love to hear more about your analytics work in League of Legends. Is it fair to say that the "useful" numbers/stats tend to be low-hanging fruit and not particularly interesting / requiring of creativity? I imagine with a fairly dynamic meta-game, you're limited by the data available to you, which can quickly become obsolete.
I'd also imagine any data you can crunch from solo queue games is of limited use in competitive play.
Re:Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999)
on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:54AM (#20305620)
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...
Not exactly "anyone can do this," but the first paragraph in the above link:
"The answer is an emphatic NO. In order to make good and useful contributions to mathematics, one does need to work hard, learn one’s field well, learn other fields and tools, ask questions, talk to other mathematicians, and think about the “big picture”. And yes, a reasonable amount of intelligence, patience, and maturity is also required. But one does not need some sort of magic “genius gene” that spontaneously generates ex nihilo deep insights, unexpected solutions to problems, or other supernatural abilities."
Re:The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:35PM (#20118866)
The combination of getting romantic advice from movies and the statutory rape vibes of this comment would lead me to suggest not following this advice, OP.
Re:Our Boss Will Call Your Boss
on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:43PM (#19381314)
Are there any particularly interesting exposes that you'd recommend? I'm curious to read more about this sort of thing.
Re:Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:31PM (#19000845)
Has the classic ML course been deprecated? I noticed that following link no longer works: https://course.fast.ai/lessonsml1/lesson1.html
EDIT: looks like they've been moved to the following link instead: http://course18.fast.ai/ml.html
Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George S...
on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:54AM (#18460880)
I believe the parent is referencing anti-semitism
Re:Introducing Masse, a New Shopping Platform Combatting Fake Reviews
on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:47AM (#18442405)
As employee #1, presumably you had a say in choosing the tech stack - any particular reason why you chose F#?
Re:What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin sp...
on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:07PM (#17830302)
Funnily enough, as of this writing, the top ranked google result (at least for me) is this post.
Re:Walmart stumbles with its 'last mile' package delivery plan
on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:04PM (#17675869)
Walmart is the Fortune 1, FYI: http://fortune.com/fortune500/
Re:Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?
on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:44AM (#17515700)
2 decades
Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech
on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:46PM (#17033916)
If you're going to take that stance, you should do a better job of qualifying your opinions. You think women "avoid tech because they think tech guys are unattractive" - simply asserting this to be true doesn't do much for your argument. Likewise with the whole "women are also interested in money."
Re:Data firm boss suspended amid Facebook row
on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:56PM (#16631961)
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...
[1] https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=fb (check "insider trading") towards the bottom half of the page
Re:NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:52PM (#16477201)
Does anyone know of any similar resources for Pandas?
I've found the following to be quite helpful but would love to know if anyone knows of other resources in a similar vein: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/cookbook.html
Re:The day I accidentally killed a little boy
on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:54PM (#16109948)
Seems pretty easy to quantify - it looks like there are ~37K motor vehicle deaths in a given year [0] and "Approximately 6.2 million patient transport ambulance trips occur annually." [1]
Ambulances would need to save their passengers' lives <1% of the time for them to "break even" so to speak.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Re:How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
on Saturday December 23, 2017 @11:34AM (#15994836)
Pray, do tell what this one skill is
Re:Why our outdated brains are making us unhappy
on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:08PM (#14993168)
Honestly, as an enthusiast of all things callipygian, Sir Mix-A-Lot's treatise (BGB) was groundbreaking.
To your point about being unable to control his own reptile brain, however, I don't know how much I buy that. From the get-go, SMA acknowledges that "[he] cannot lie", which I think is a concession to determinism more so than one to biology.
Re:Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:15PM (#14962049)
What's the harm? You're ripping off other people's content to advertise your "Founder Playbook" app. Do you really not see the issue here?