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I like this. Interviews are supposed to be proxy of how successful / valuable the team member is going to be on the job. Since the person is already contributin

I like this. Interviews are supposed to be proxy of how successful / valuable the team member is going to be on the job. Since the person is already contributing, makes sense to cut out the "algorithmic quiz". Too bad I am not a java developer! :)

agibsonccc 10y ago
We also do a lot of c and scala :D. That was the idea. One of the things I wanted to do was avoid using a degree or "pedigree" as an indicator. I myself dropped out of my undergrad at a no name university in the midwest. I don't have "pedigree". I'm also not a large believer in the way things are done in the valley (did 2.5 years, that was enough for me..). This is my opinion, I don't claim this is fact, but I know again, this may offend some: A lot of the emphasis on pedigree, but there are a lot of dead startups with people who have degrees from stanford,mit, harvard etc. It's a self perpetuating echo chamber with a lot of money flowing through it. The group think is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I love the valley, and there are a lot of good things about it, but the perpetual group think with the larger part of the population is a problem. That being said, I don't think I would found a company anywhere else. I tried 3 times in Michigan, and it's just a lot harder. I learned a lot quicker in the valley. You have to learn what to watch out for though. Anyways: I also live the same life style we hire by. I mostly travel. My cofounder is in san francisco. I travel all over different parts of APAC with an established office in tokyo. There's only 2 of us in japan right now though. A lot of us are in the apac "time zone".
- random42 10y ago
  Do you plan to include python in your roadmap in near future (I can possibly help if you don't have in-house expertise on it ;), or choosing to avoid competing with Tensorflow? I suspect Python would be fairly popular amongst companies looking to build deep learning based products.
  - agibsonccc 10y ago
    Nah not our focus. We are going to interop with keras with our scala api: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet That will allow us to benefit from what that community is building in terms of neural networks. We want to be the "deployment path" for those kinds of models while we focus on making c++ on the jvm as fast as possible. We basically focus on the hadoop and spark crowd. We're already the industry standard in java/scala: https://tech.knime.org/deeplearning4j https://tech.knime.org/deeplearning4j https://www.rapidminerchina.com/en/products/shop/product/deeplearning4j/ https://www.rapidminerchina.com/en/products/shop/product/dee... https://www.lightbend.com/blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-biddata-two-emergent-machine-learning-technologies-for-the-JVM https://www.lightbend.com/blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-bidda... http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/dl4j-in-the-wild http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/dl4j-in-the-wild

agibsonccc 10y ago

We also do a lot of c and scala :D. That was the idea. One of the things I wanted to do was avoid using a degree or "pedigree" as an indicator. I myself dropped out of my undergrad at a no name university in the midwest. I don't have "pedigree". I'm also not a large believer in the way things are done in the valley (did 2.5 years, that was enough for me..). This is my opinion, I don't claim this is fact, but I know again, this may offend some: A lot of the emphasis on pedigree, but there are a lot of dead startups with people who have degrees from stanford,mit, harvard etc. It's a self perpetuating echo chamber with a lot of money flowing through it. The group think is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I love the valley, and there are a lot of good things about it, but the perpetual group think with the larger part of the population is a problem. That being said, I don't think I would found a company anywhere else. I tried 3 times in Michigan, and it's just a lot harder. I learned a lot quicker in the valley. You have to learn what to watch out for though. Anyways: I also live the same life style we hire by. I mostly travel. My cofounder is in san francisco. I travel all over different parts of APAC with an established office in tokyo. There's only 2 of us in japan right now though. A lot of us are in the apac "time zone".

random42 10y ago
Do you plan to include python in your roadmap in near future (I can possibly help if you don't have in-house expertise on it ;), or choosing to avoid competing with Tensorflow? I suspect Python would be fairly popular amongst companies looking to build deep learning based products.
- agibsonccc 10y ago
  Nah not our focus. We are going to interop with keras with our scala api: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet That will allow us to benefit from what that community is building in terms of neural networks. We want to be the "deployment path" for those kinds of models while we focus on making c++ on the jvm as fast as possible. We basically focus on the hadoop and spark crowd. We're already the industry standard in java/scala: https://tech.knime.org/deeplearning4j https://tech.knime.org/deeplearning4j https://www.rapidminerchina.com/en/products/shop/product/deeplearning4j/ https://www.rapidminerchina.com/en/products/shop/product/dee... https://www.lightbend.com/blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-biddata-two-emergent-machine-learning-technologies-for-the-JVM https://www.lightbend.com/blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-bidda... http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/dl4j-in-the-wild http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/dl4j-in-the-wild