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Moving to Nyc, not pursuing a job that I should have
Re:AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened? on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:58AM (#18646600)
Right but the current innovation with regards to ml for medicine will force more data to be collected.
Re:AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened? on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:23AM (#18646429)
I personally think that machine learning will have a broad effect on the legitimacy of the pharmaceutical industries and health care in general. Once real data about all of these drugs, treatments, and expensive procedures finally starts being collected and exposed, the public will see things as they are, a farce.
Re:How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015) on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:37AM (#18645961)
I think basically entrepreneurship is your only shot. Finance maybe, but probably not
Re:Why Not to Use Quora on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:22PM (#18645183)
Have you used the website? It’s not racism if it’s reality
Re:Why Not to Use Quora on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:20PM (#18645173)
I’m actually surprised at how bad their ML model is. Funny to see someone else mention how overfit their model is. There’s literally no content discovery, it’s the same extremely specific topic. But you know what? I’ve also noticed this phenomenon on YouTube, maybe there’s something to it from an advertising revenue perspective.
I think part of the problem with politicians is how we choose them. A government career politicians says nothing about their individual abilities, except for the fact that they are adept at public speaking.
Re:Ask HN: 23, Too late to study Mathematics? on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:25AM (#18627068)
I know this is a joke, but there’s truth in it. If he aspires to hit a high level of mathematical altitude, the time for that has likely sailed.
Most software developers really aren’t making that much. If you can’t make it into FANG companies or can’t be a founder, find a different career
Re:Clojure's missing piece (2017) on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:43AM (#18587514)
Mind elaborating as to why?
Re:AlphaFold: DeepMind predicts 3D shapes of proteins on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:23PM (#18585464)
Solving Protein folding is low key one of the most important scientific endeavors. Understanding and being able to reconstruct the building blocks of the human body's (proteins) will make modern pharmacy/medicine obsolete.
Re:Ask HN: What heuristic made a big difference to your life? on Sunday December 02, 2018 @12:10AM (#18580927)
If someone does something once, they will do it twice. This has never failed me on the big things. People are mostly static