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Introduction to Loss Functions

aangjie — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.algorithmia.com/introduction-to-loss-functions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656243

Points: 3

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aangjie — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:31:26 +0000

> The fact that capitalism is the best resource allocating framework we found, for managing society, shouldn't prevent us from discussing its flaws.

The thing that people forget is that democracy is inefficient, but it has less flaws than anything else we have tried in the past. I suspect Capitalism is similarly the least flawed system we've found so far. (don't know enough economic distribution history to be sure).

A lot of people claim socialism is much better, but I am not sure it works well at big scales, looking at say a country like India.

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aangjie — Thu, 10 May 2018 14:40:46 +0000

Ah.. that seems like a reasonable grouping of all communications..

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aangjie — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:07:12 +0000

Ah.. the causality.. the argument can be made that without engineers the creation would never happen, (even if others are still trying to make money without ethics..).

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aangjie — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:03:31 +0000

Here's a thought, what if you can get the same substance to work on the sand part of concrete?? It assumes more research and work, but the argument has a kernel of truth.. I don't sure I agree with using that to not think about the ethics of what you do, but nevertheless.

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aangjie — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:04:32 +0000

Yeah no body is arguing against that particular point. I have to say OP was just pointing out that preference on it's own can contribute quite a bit to the "wage gap".

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aangjie — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:21:52 +0000

Here's the catch in that, my master's experience convinced me that even academia, isn't as free as it is hyped up to be. There's a strong marketing drive to hype up the freedom in academia, but there's a strong guide/suggestive coercion from the guides, to do your work along the lines and plans they have. Eventually i decided not to do a ph.d.

Note: This is the case of an average coursework. Perhaps cal newport was always extraordinary and so had extraordinary options, but the advice has it's limitations for applicability to everyone.

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aangjie — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:32:37 +0000

Don't know why you're getting downvote, the first part of your stmt might be debatable, but being harmless is reasonable and in the example of about:config, it's also useful for a smaller set of users.

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aangjie — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:46:40 +0000

Dude, they do tend to be a bit overly simplistic about it, but don't need to insult them for it. Just point out and move on. (P.S: I am not even american)

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aangjie — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 06:40:18 +0000

Ugg... that looks like a ripe market for some Indian company to sell the older versions of insulin. (Of course, there will be legal hurdles and hoops to jump through, but it seems like it'll be bringing competition to the US companies better).

I for one, am tempted to just ignore the legal aspects and start a market on tor or something like that. sigh..

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aangjie — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:42:39 +0000

>leaders need respect and to be followed. This works two ways. Parts of it has to be earned, I've worked with founders, whom I would gladly followed when it comes to s/w engineering, but disagree violently when it comes to product/business calls/experiments to do. The reverse has been hard to detect, but my first instinct is that it's a lower percent.

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aangjie — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:37:12 +0000

Either I've been in only mediocre to average roles(for any of the reasons, including my inability) or you're a very small minority not aware of the fact. I'd like to believe in the latter, for peace of mind, but better to believe in former for driving personal growth. hmm.

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aangjie — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:01:47 +0000

you're correct. And that's why the fractional reserve lending system creates problems.(To be fair, it creates more credit and risk-taking behaviour).

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aangjie — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:59:37 +0000

>Deflation only prevents purchases when the savings from waiting outweigh the cost of not having the item. reply

Very true, but it simply is a semantic gap. I suspect(not know) most economics students are taught 'deflationary scenario' or 'deflation' is when savings from waiting outweigh (cost of not having the item or benefit of having the item).

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aangjie — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:16:40 +0000

As long as you don't explain why you think it is not relevant, there'll not be much progress.

You could argue for example the default should be to treat the two(representation of women in tech vs psychological gender differences) different and "burden of proof" should be on the side arguing they're same. I think that's not obvious to me(and probably a lot of others).

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aangjie — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:30:33 +0000

Bro, just got aadhaar fingerprint auth rejected two days in a row. Don't think i'll get it to work anytime soon. Local states' aadhaar auth rejection seems to be 30% rejection rate. (For first 3 months of 2017).

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aangjie — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:22:08 +0000

> I also have no idea how you'd sell a product that considerably reduces billable hours.

Hmm.. perhaps, if they can force the opposition to use similar tech, then they can promise faster resolutions.(That's still assuming both the parties wouldn't mind it much, but don't see it happening).

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aangjie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:00:16 +0000

Oops.. looks like my etymology has long been forgotten. thanks for correcting.

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aangjie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:33:58 +0000

you should publicly shame the VC. it should be a necessity. if you're worried about the backlash at least go anonymous and publish on something like pastebin.

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aangjie — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:35:34 +0000

Meh.. manual does not mean hands.. or if you were trying to be satirical, please don't turn HN into reddit.