ronald_raygun | 7 months ago | on: AI is propping up the US economy
Throw some nukes and a war over Taiwan into the mix?
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ronald_raygun | 7 months ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
Location: Arizona
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, sklearn, a/b testing, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, ML, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-bradway/
email: [email protected]
I'm a data scientist/machine learning engineering type, with a BS in math and an MS in statistics with over 8 years of experience at large companies, startups and consultancies. I have a solid background doing advanced modeling at places like Deepmind, Numerai, and for Fortune 500 companies (stuff like convex portfolio optimizers, Nonnegative matrix factorization for collab filtering, RL for stock trading, etc). I great at creative ML pipelines go beyond out of the box models.
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw
the term carcinogen is very broad, I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm (sorry, former CA resident here)
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop
geese are excellent gaurdian animals
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?
Well, as the deer die off there are more resources left for the remaining deer, and so it is easier for them to have kids and the birth rates might increase. So it could potentially converge to a predator-prey equilibrium
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop
Kids these days are still getting all the shit jobs in the cool science labs.
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
"i would be happy to assist you in rtfm"
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
Well it sounds like an instance of "your keys are always in the last place you look, because then you stop looking"
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph
TLDR: breadthfirst
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: I gave myself a month to make one new friend
I agree with this 100%
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: I gave myself a month to make one new friend
College seems to me to be geographically structured to help you make friends. I remember reading one study that shows basically repeated random interactions with the same person will tend to develop towards making friends with them organically. Well how does college work? You take classes in your major, where you will meet other people with a common interest. Also you might live in the dorms, eat at the mess hall, etc where you're also going to bump into the same people again and again.
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What's an interesting, esoteric programming field?
whatever this is
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/how-to-beat-paper-mar...
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Was the Stone Age the Wood Age?
The Devonian certainly wasnt a wood age
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Generative A.I. arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR
I can already change my race. I just check a different box on government forms...
ronald_raygun | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers
von Neumann could do calculus when he was 8. Some people are just born that way
ronald_raygun | 2 years ago | on: Japan's Space One rocket explodes seconds after liftoff
Because they are essentially bombs
ronald_raygun | 2 years ago | on: Ancient Rome's failed building projects
What do you think a serf was?
ronald_raygun | 2 years ago | on: Ancient Rome's failed building projects
Idk lots of civilizations had slaves (I almost wrote ancient, but slavery didn’t go away until less than 200 years ago, and human trafficking is still a big issue). But compare Rome with say the Spartans, who had an insanely big slave class, but who didn’t produce the same types of things as Rome.
ronald_raygun | 2 years ago | on: Everything is a linear model
Wasn’t there an OpenAI paper where they showed that MM multiplication with the numerical imprecision of floats was enough to get general function learning?
You might not even need anything else…
ronald_raygun | 2 years ago | on: The AI bullshit singularity
Sure computes have lots of transistors, but brains have 10s of billions of neurons and only use 12W of power.
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