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Interesting app of CV in OR.

Questions: - what is the measurement precision?

- do you need calibration? How do you do it in production?

- what it is the root problem you are trying to solve?

- what is your hypothesis about your solution- quantitatively?

All this money and attention will surely pump up the R stock/s like crazy. Not sure if these investors are also receiving any preferntial liquidation preference too. Is it not likely that they might dump stock to book huge profit and the retail Indian investors will be left holding the bag ?
Re:Neural programmer better than Quicksort on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:43AM (#23790095)
Right! I was hoping to see the body of one of their system induced algorithms. They don't seem to have included any - or maybe I am mistaken and their system is opaque and does not allow a generated algo. to be read out...
Re:Neural programmer better than Quicksort on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:18AM (#23789921)
Was this "discovered" by their system or was it hand-crafted by the authors from their custom instruction set elements ?
Good starter project to flex your JS muscle. But other than that - Zoom's built-in whiteboard is pretty feature-rich and meets my use-cases perfectly. My use-cases -: brainstorming with colleagues, interviews.
Will things like WP (not in particular) die out eventually because of poor developer experience ? Corollary: frameworks liked by developers will eventually stick even if currently they have a modest userbase.
Re:How does one appear in the Google News carousel? on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:02PM (#19111156)
Right swipe and left swipe remove the item from the feed. Gives me i-taught-google-news-wrongly anxiety. News hell for the romfl!
Re:FRAMES – A Framework for Representing Knowledge (1974) on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:40AM (#17865939)
Is there a framework which lets one encode these ideas today ?
> Too often the only way we figure things out is by getting screwed. That's a recurring behavior pattern that has to end. Somehow.

That's just it - exploration vs exploitation trade-off. Don't believe this can be dusted off.

Re:Analyzing Articles on Hacker News Using NLP on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:56PM (#17659289)
good work!
I liked the boldness of this idea. But 'something' needs to select the sklearn model, tune its hyper-params - how long can you keep it all hidden away from the user?

The training phase can be considerably long. Have you thought of some kind of an async wrapper that Smart Fruit might provide or will the user be expected to code it up?

This is more of a user experience comment - when the interface is designed to feel as if one is interacting with a DB / ORM the user may come to assume that the outcomes will be deterministic... While the returned results will remain deterministic given the training data, model and hyper-parameters remain the same - it won't feel as deterministic when either of these is updated... I am not sure if I communicated my concern clearly. I am trying to understand who the intended end-user is, of this package...

Re:The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:25AM (#17424687)
A logistic regression model is typically used for a classification task. 'Fitting a logistic model' entails finding optimal coefficients / 'weights' of input features such that classification error is minimised.

For a binary classification task, one could simply calculate mean squared error between predicted values and actual labels (as in linear regression) and then proceed to find the optimal weights iteratively using gradient descent. But the sigmoid shape of the logistic function makes gradient descent a poor choice of an optimization technique (w.r.t. lack of guarantee of finding a global optimum).

A surer way to find globally optimal weights is using the Newton's method of calculating weight updates. This is a numerical optimization technique that requires one to calculate the 1st and 2nd order derivatives of the error function. The matrix that 'calculates' the 1st order derivative is called a Jacobian and the one that calculates the 2nd order derivative is called a Hessian...

Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:55AM (#17266009)
Yet another tech that nobody wants. They are the next worst thing after the "allow notifications" pop-up that every landing page seems to be infested with these days.
Re:AI winter is well on its way on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:04AM (#17194278)
> Also it got better than humans in those games from scratch in about 4 hours whereas humans have had 2000 years to study them so you can forgive it some resource usage.

Few would care. Your examiner doesn't give you extra marks on a given problem for finishing your homework quickly.

Re:TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:58PM (#16781835)
While dealing with CSV files using SQL statements is cool and all, SQL queries are still SQL queries.
Re:First firing of air-breathing electric thruster on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:09AM (#16527590)
"Sorry data, air may be the eventual oil."

Trivia question: How many round-trips from Neptune would it take to cause a 1% dip in Earth's air content?

Bonus question: Since the Earth is not making any more Xenon, are we losing some of this resource to the deep space every time we nudge a satellite?

Ask HN: Django templates are a tad bit annoying to set up. Right?

So, I like django templates, a lot, and I have used them quite a bit. The sheer variety of built-in tags and filters and the ability to define custom ones is great...Here's what I don't like: the effort that goes into setting up a fresh template starting from a raw HTML page.Every time I start a new project I need to lookup-up django docs for these info nuggets: - Where and how to place the...

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Ask HN: What kind of projects do you use Django for?

Hola!In which of the following contexts do you use the Django web framework?1. Bootstrapped business websites (e.g. eCommerce, SaaS, etc)2. Personal pages (e.g. blog, portfolio, etc)3. Developing 3rd party websites (freelancer / company)4. Embedded development (e.g. deployed on a Rpi for IoT, etc)5. Something else?Appreciate your answers much!

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Re:My personal site is a terminal on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:44AM (#15540131)
Karlsteltenpohl's cat.
Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:49AM (#15312117)
Press F1 for Hell