Ten questions: 1) What is one thing that you have always wanted to try but never have? Why haven’t you done it yet? 2) What has been the highlight of your year so far? 3) What book or movie character do you most relate to? 4) What is your biggest regret? 5) What do you […]
Author Archives: Roc Reguant
We got the trolley dilemma wrong
The trolley dilemma or trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics. The problem states that we have a trolley on railway tracks going directly towards five people. They are tight to the tracks and therefore cannot move. The trolley is also unstoppable. You are standing next to a lever with a full picture of […]
How to add ROC AUC as a metric in tensorflow/keras
The way to add the ROC AUC as a metric on your tensorflow/keras project is to copy this function that computes the ROC AUC and use the function name in the model. To use the function in the model. We first need to compile with the function (not a string) as shown next model.compile(optimizer = […]
How to insert code snippets in WordPress or any other website
I was recently struggling to insert code snippets into this blog. I tried SyntaxHighlighter Evolved among others. And I didn’t like the outcome… (CSS is messed up?). The way to go? 1. Create a Gist thanks to Github ( https://gist.github.com/ ) 2. Copy the embedded JS script they offer you after publishing the code snippet. […]
Forcing the disagreement
Currently, the idea that the crowd is wiser than any single individual is widely spread. Places like Wikipedia and Quora rely on the network effect of the internet to benefit from collective human knowledge. The idea behind this is that the aggregated knowledge of the population is able to find the right answer and cancel […]
Black swan and gray rhino
“Blacks swans” and “gray rhinos” refer to two very different but dangerous threats for investors. Nassim Taleb popularized the term “black swan” through his book (es) with the same name. But the black swan theory comes from much farther and is a metaphor describing an unforeseen event that has major effects. These events are so […]
Fix yourself before you try to fix others
Many want to eliminate suffering… No shit! Who wants to increase the world’s suffering? I’m against poverty. No kidding, no one is pro-poverty! If you commit to a greater good don’t do it in public; otherwise, your goal is to demonstrate how virtuous you are to the world. The journey starts by fixing oneself first. […]
Worth mentioning I: Content generation, Flywheels, Network effects, what customers want?, Instagram bots
This is a small experiment. When I read posts that I really like I will compile them in groups of five, write a small paragraph for each link and post it here. So let’s start with the first of its kind. The GaryVee Content Model This is the most insightful presentation I’ve seen in a […]
New Year’s Resolutions 2020: Focusing on the right habits
For eight years I’ve been setting public goals for myself. With more or less success I’ve also been evaluating the outcomes without exception. From these reviews come the feedback I crave to keep improving and tweaking to adapt myself. From last year’s review, one of the main conclusions was that I need some more focus […]
2019 resolutions revised
This blog entered a new phase during 2019. I started writing in English and the first post was the new year’s resolutions. Like I did with the previous years, now it’s time to review the goals I set up for myself and evaluate them. I should say that on one side I’m happy because I […]