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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning on Spark

32 points by rxin 11y ago

nolite 11y ago
not funnny...
jmatthews 11y ago
April fools day?
- phaefele 11y ago
  Most definitely - 'Additionally, DeepSpark, during its code scanning, is capable of generating code for new components of Spark'
- catnaroek 11y ago
  Yep, it's an April Fools joke in most likelihood. It's too low on technical specifics to be serious.
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knieveltech 11y ago
Hah! A lot of devs think it's hilarious to make smug comments about pivoting careers whenever software eats a manufacturing or soft skills job. I don't hear anyone laughing. What's up guys?
- habitue 11y ago
  I am going to assume this is a meta-joke about how April fools posts aren't very funny
  - knieveltech 11y ago
    It's not.
    - habitue 11y ago
      Is this even more meta than that?
      - knieveltech 11y ago
        I'm not sure it's meta at all. All I'm doing here is sneering at the smug self-congratulatory tone a percentage of the developer community takes in response to accusations that software is eating the world. As an example, there was a discussion a little while back about self-driving cars and the implications for the OTR trucking industry, a change that is likely to spell the end of OTR driving as a career path. With exceptions, the general response was "Oh well, sucks to be those guys. They should learn to code.". This kind of entitled response is typical whenever loss of jobs due to automation is discussed. Usually followed up with assertions that this merely frees up labor to pursue other opportunities in the broader economy, ignoring the fact that all too often these "new opportunities" are a McJob of some kind.
        habitue 11y ago
        Ok, I had assumed you weren't making such an insinuation since it was an April fool's joke. It loses a bit of its punch when there's no legitimate threat to a programmer's job
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LandoCalrissian 11y ago
Hah, that's actually pretty funny.
patrick_99 11y ago
I was about to share this on hipchat at work until I realized it's April 1st. Very well written April Fools post!
karmacondon 11y ago
This is what passes for humor in the ml community? Ouch. I would normally flag this as being April Fool's Day nonsense, but I like the idea too much. The title is an homage a karpathy blog post that demonstrated how an RNN could write code that didn't necessarily compile, but looked reasonable. It would be pretty cool if someone took that and tried to develop it into something, though the StackOverflow bit might have been a bit much. Sooner or later one of these April Fool's Day things is going to turn into a serious project.
andreyk 11y ago
Definitely an April Fool's joke - "Its deep understanding of human nature and emotional intelligence allows it to reject bad PR requests without offending the contributor—in fact it sends an apologetic rejection e-mail." Pretty amusing, and not a bad parody of ML/technical blog posts, though.

32 points by rxin 11y ago

nolite 11y ago

not funnny...

jmatthews 11y ago

April fools day?

phaefele 11y ago
Most definitely - 'Additionally, DeepSpark, during its code scanning, is capable of generating code for new components of Spark'
catnaroek 11y ago
Yep, it's an April Fools joke in most likelihood. It's too low on technical specifics to be serious.

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knieveltech 11y ago

Hah! A lot of devs think it's hilarious to make smug comments about pivoting careers whenever software eats a manufacturing or soft skills job. I don't hear anyone laughing. What's up guys?

habitue 11y ago
I am going to assume this is a meta-joke about how April fools posts aren't very funny
- knieveltech 11y ago
  It's not.
  - habitue 11y ago
    Is this even more meta than that?
    - knieveltech 11y ago
      I'm not sure it's meta at all. All I'm doing here is sneering at the smug self-congratulatory tone a percentage of the developer community takes in response to accusations that software is eating the world. As an example, there was a discussion a little while back about self-driving cars and the implications for the OTR trucking industry, a change that is likely to spell the end of OTR driving as a career path. With exceptions, the general response was "Oh well, sucks to be those guys. They should learn to code.". This kind of entitled response is typical whenever loss of jobs due to automation is discussed. Usually followed up with assertions that this merely frees up labor to pursue other opportunities in the broader economy, ignoring the fact that all too often these "new opportunities" are a McJob of some kind.
      - habitue 11y ago
        Ok, I had assumed you weren't making such an insinuation since it was an April fool's joke. It loses a bit of its punch when there's no legitimate threat to a programmer's job
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LandoCalrissian 11y ago

Hah, that's actually pretty funny.

patrick_99 11y ago

I was about to share this on hipchat at work until I realized it's April 1st. Very well written April Fools post!

karmacondon 11y ago

This is what passes for humor in the ml community? Ouch. I would normally flag this as being April Fool's Day nonsense, but I like the idea too much. The title is an homage a karpathy blog post that demonstrated how an RNN could write code that didn't necessarily compile, but looked reasonable. It would be pretty cool if someone took that and tried to develop it into something, though the StackOverflow bit might have been a bit much. Sooner or later one of these April Fool's Day things is going to turn into a serious project.

andreyk 11y ago

Definitely an April Fool's joke - "Its deep understanding of human nature and emotional intelligence allows it to reject bad PR requests without offending the contributor—in fact it sends an apologetic rejection e-mail." Pretty amusing, and not a bad parody of ML/technical blog posts, though.