madenine | 5 years ago | on: Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo
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madenine | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Point taken.
Still, as far as risk to RH is concerned - if this kicks off a change via their customers, regulators, or legal action the change is probably not in their favor.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
RH makes money by selling data to investment firms, not off individual trades/fees.
If their customers - the firms that pay them, not app users - see the RH platform as a threat to their business they could pull the plug[0]. Or if this prompts regulators to examine RH and similar products.
The risk isn't in the outcomes of options/trades; its risk to their business model.
[0] RH's customer are actually market makers, who by and large will be profiting heavily off of this.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
I don't think its the FBI's job to figure out who smashed up a Target or looted a Footlocker.
Its definitely the FBI's job to figure out who breached a federal building, let alone the seat of our legislative branch during an active session.
That being said... the FBI, DOJ, DHS, and state agencies definitely do shady stuff and track people via their devices at protests. I'm remembering surveillance planes over Baltimore that were traced back to feds.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices
>is it a new environment, or is it an extended Jupyter Notebook? It looks like Jupyter Notebook to me. Why not Jupyter Lab?
Neither? It doesn't change the features of jupyter notebooks, and its not an improved/expanded UI like jupyter lab (you could use nbdev with jupyter lab). Its utilities and automation to make package/library development a better experience if jupyter is where you write your code.
From https://github.com/fastai/nbdev:
"nbdev is a library that allows you to develop a python library in Jupyter Notebooks, putting all your code, tests and documentation in one place."
madenine | 5 years ago | on: AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review
No, its not really the same - but the parent is "planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning" so my guess is HuggingFace/SpaCy/PyTorch/Tensorflow/FastAI are more the consideration than touching CUDA directly.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review
If you want to dabble; use the cloud.
Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Is there a common linear algebra benchmark?
Would love to see a non-Intel chip + OpenBLAS beating out Intel + MKL
madenine | 5 years ago | on: China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
> Thinking of Lebron James who hypocritically spoke up about BLM and not about human rights abuses in China[1].
I don't understand this take.
Why does LeBron James have to address human rights in China before he, a Black American, can address human rights abuses against Black Americans in America?
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Science and steely nerves spared Houston from a nightmare hurricane evacuation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgarcFkXz4
Plane boarding is kinda fascinating.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
I'm with you.
First real forays into FE that didn't involve slicing PSDs to tables were in Bootstrap and Foundation in ~2013. The responsive grid those frameworks delivered seemed magical at the time, but you got the sense that the benefits came on the back of some serious CSS wizardry and framework overhead.
The newer CSS features (grid, flexbox) seem so light and magical.
madenine | 5 years ago | on: Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
2018 video on Valve's use of deep learning for anti-cheat in CSGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc
madenine | 6 years ago | on: Root cause analysis on the Notre Dame fire
There might be something interesting here, but I’ll never know.
The real content is gated, and the blog/abstract rolls up to a sales pitch.
madenine | 6 years ago | on: A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live
In short, yes.
madenine | 6 years ago | on: State found $117k in double payments through data analytics
HAVING COUNT(*) >= 2;
Back to 10%
madenine | 6 years ago | on: State found $117k in double payments through data analytics
most likely? my joke fails to pan out in reality
madenine | 6 years ago | on: State found $117k in double payments through data analytics
SELECT TransactionID, Amount, COUNT(*) FROM Transactions GROUP BY TransactionID, Amount
I'll take 10% of savings
madenine | 6 years ago | on: An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
I like to think of arxiv as the holding area for anything that COULD be peer reviewed.
Advantage is we get to see stuff now, not after it gets accepted at by a conference or journal. Disadvantage, we have to filter on our own.
Twitter and sites like arxiv sanity preserver are helpful for filtering.
madenine | 6 years ago | on: Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
Honestly, I was trying to convey the opposite - the gates are wide open and it’s never been easier to drive through.
madenine | 6 years ago | on: Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
I’m in favor of there being more and better resources to learn anything out there, but every time I see a deep learning 101 type material all I can think is “who is this for?”.
In ~July 2016 I was at a presentation by NVidia at GW in DC. They showed off how easy it was to build out and train a model using some of their tooling (Digits maybe?). After the demo they opened it up for questions and a grad student ‘asked’ “You just did in 10 mins with 30 lines of code what I worked on for an entire semester”.
That’s been the trajectory of the tools and increasing abstraction in this space. It’s just getting easier and easier to build models that work (which is great), and it gets easier and easier to do so without knowing more than an extremely high level overview of the math behind it all.
So while this looks like a great resource - who’s it for?
For jobs/problems that need you to have a thorough understanding of the math and theory behind the networks this isn’t going to cut it.
For jobs/problems that need you to get something working math or not - this likely isn’t necessary to get started.
So it’s for people that have been getting into DL but also haven’t bothered or needed to look up the math concepts?
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If you relocate a government agency HQ to an area that doesn't have any competitive jobs, you're making it more difficult for that agency to attract and retain tallent.
Just by moving the office in the first place you'll hemorrhage experienced personnel who don't want to move their lives across the country.
To proponents - that's a feature not a bug. Less effective regulation (and eventually deregulation) being the goal.