mkrum | 7 years ago | on: Playing Atari with Six Neurons
Just curious, why did you pick ruby over python? Personal familiarity?
mkrum's comments
mkrum | 8 years ago | on: The problem with Facebook
As someone mentioned in a comment section elsewhere, "It is very easy to sacrifice another person's job."
mkrum | 8 years ago | on: The tech sector might be evil
Who gets to decide whats "socially/morally net positive"? Every company thinks they're "socially/morally net positive", which at best happens by accident. If you want to help people, join a non-profit, don't buy into some company's PR. Companies chase money, thats the point of a company.
mkrum | 8 years ago | on: A decade after the crisis, The Fed plans to shrink its bond holdings
What he said was correct, its more a comment on the fundamental relationships than a prediction. The only thing that is priced in is the expectation of what is going to happen. No one knew for sure what the FED would do or when.
mkrum | 8 years ago | on: Machine Bias: Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker?
If you are going to "debias" your model, what is the point of even training the model to handle these issues in the first place? Not surprisingly, human language can be biased. If you train a model on human language it will not magically transcend those biases. The problem is that people have this expectation that ML is going to lead to these perfect decision makers.
Machine Learning creates models that reflect the data, not the truth.
mkrum | 8 years ago | on: Physiognomy’s New Clothes (on the Limits of AI)
I remember a story a professor once told me about something similar to this. He once knew of a research team that was trying to develop an algorithm to tell the difference between pictures of American and Russian tanks. They were able to achieve a very high success rate very quickly. Excited but skeptical, they decided to keep testing the algorithm on lower and lower resolution photos. Shockingly, they were still getting close to 100% identification on images of sizes around 10 by 10.
Turns out, all the pictures of Russian tanks were taken in the winter, while all the american ones were taken in the summer. All they had done was trained a model to classify how bright the picture was.
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: Just Say No
I definitely think thats a more realistic example of the things that might happen. It won't be the shady guy on the street corner, it'll be your boss asking you to do just one little thing.
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: Machine Learning Gender and Racial Biases from Language
Breaking News: Algortihm designed to learn how humans use words learns how humans use words
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’
Not only from a socioeconomic point of view, but I would guess that having parents who are involved enough in a child's life to pay for, drive to, and participate in these types of activities is more likely to be a source of a "mental health boost"
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just five days
I just changed my caps lock key to escape. Life changing, highly recommend
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
How did you get started with that?
mkrum | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)
Location: Chicago, IL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C++/C, Python, Caffe, TensorFlow
Résumé/CV: https://mkrum.github.io/resume_latex.pdf
Email: [email protected]
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