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Re:Introduction to Learning Rates in Machine Learning on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:01PM (#19994208)
I'm totally in agreement with you here. The issue is that many of the people writing these posts are in the process of learning themselves and don't know what they don't know (Dunning-Kruger effect) and because they skip over a lot of the theoretical details it is very easy to have missteps. Having a decent theoretical basis is absolutely necessary to be anything beyond a hobbyist in ML.
Re:Finland is winning the war on fake news on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:12AM (#19991959)
Conscription service is shorter these days. I believe 5, 8, and 11 months are the possibilities.
If you actually bothered to watch more than one of his videos you'd easily be able to surmise he is politically left of center. He's probably more of a classic liberal than a modern one, but he wants things such as single payer health care, progressive taxes, etc. Those are definitely left of center ideas.
Re:AI Dungeon on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:19PM (#19811589)
Great idea, but the trained model is still a little bit lacking. Many times the choices didn't make much sense coming from the question. That being said this is a super ambitious chatbot and I love seeing this type of thing implemented
Re:Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:50PM (#19772519)
If you can get through ESL, then you are very theoretically set for machine learning work! Fabulous book that is very dense with information.
My personal experience with Waymo autonomous driving has been pretty good. Never seen them do anything poorly and I see them a lot. They're known in Mesa/Chandler Arizona as decent enough drivers, but they can take a little long for a left turn and they also follow the speed limit rather than the flow of traffic which is the normal Arizona case.
Re:VSCodium: 100% Open Source Version of vs. Code on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:58AM (#19635943)
Same here, Code is simply one of Microsoft's best made products.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019) on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:58PM (#19550047)
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Remote: Yes

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- Languages: Python, R, C++, HTML/CSS/Javascript

- Tools: CUDA, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Hadoop, Spark, SQL

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I have a very strong theoretical foundation in Machine Learning and Computational Engineering. Strong focus on working from the simplest solutions in order to keep focus on scalability and ease of business implementation.

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