cowabungabruce

Re:Combating Misinformation on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:02PM (#26583391)

Gotta starve the beast somehow. Then worry about the other minnows.

Re:Combating Misinformation on Thursday March 25, 2021 @01:29PM (#26583008)

They can remove the entire newsfeed and remove the ability for users to share links?

Oh wait, nevermind, this is "Combating Misinformation WHILE STAYING a multibillion rev business who makes money from users' attention"

Re:BerkShares on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:39PM (#15202872)

Grew up in Pittsfield. Went to South Berkshire schools. Also never heard of them.

But I still have a Berkshire Bank card in my wallet!

Re:Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:42PM (#13861594)

Squaring gets you guaranteed positive numbers. Remember, we are adding all the errors together to optimize the model: If we get

sum_errors_A = 4 + -3 + -1

sum_errors_B = 1 + 1 + 1

B is obviously the better model, but it has a higher error than A when comparing. If we squared all the terms and then added, B would be the stronger model.

What exactly are recruiters looking for in a screen?

Posted by cowabungabruce on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:26PM
from the self-post dept.

I have only gotten past about 2/3rds of the standard half hour phone screens by recruiters. They have usually been around the same format:-Describe your past roles. -Why here? Why this role? -Any questions for me? (Which is always a bit tough because the recruiter is not on the team I apply for)I have usually given the same exact answers everytime with about 2/3 pass rate. When I get rejected...

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Re:My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:53PM (#11249037)

This is Jeff Hull's follow up to the Jejune Institute, which I was lucky to have participated in and you can see a documentary on it called "The Institute".