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by Fede_V 11y ago
I think you are exactly right, and in a healthy market that's what would happen. In practice, I believe we are so far from equilibrium that it would take such a long time for the trickle down effects to push housing costs in a range w
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Housing in SF is an incredibly powerful illustration of the danger of letting things get so bad that the usual remedies no longer apply. Basically: - Traditionally, the proper fix for a shortage of housing is to build more houses. Just lif
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I am really curious to see how this plays out. Kudos for the 'be nice' rule - rejections really really hurt, and if they are in public, even more so. Anyone who is willing to put themselves out there like that deserves to be trea
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Out of curiosity: has anyone ever tried to do a correlation about the performance of a hard-tech company vs the ratio of technical/political people in their board of directors? This is probably a strong prior on my part - but when I sa
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by Fede_V 11y ago
That would be fantastic!
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I can only offer my point of view as a complete rust novice. Lifetimes are the most intriguing and new aspect of programming in rust - this unfortunately means that when people first start with the language and they run into non-obvious er
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Cool blog. I tried playing around with Rust as well on some toy problems, and had a similar experience: cryptic error messages that only made sense in hindsight. It's an awesome language, but I wish there was a bit more effort put int
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain that :)
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Hey Sam, semi technical question here. NIPS, ran an experiments a few years ago where for 10% of the papers they had two completely independent teams of reviewers assess papers and score them - the agreement between the teams was very low:
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Necronomicon.
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AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video](youtube.com)
566 points by Fede_V 11y ago|407 comments
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by Fede_V 11y ago
That's actually true - going from the pixel level to the board state is trivial and not particularly interesting.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
They used ~1000 CPUs and ~200 GPUs 5 months ago.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
That's incorrect. The features that AlphaGo uses are not pixel level features, but board states - and the architecture between AlphaGo and the Atari network is completely different. It's still an incredibly achievement - but it&#
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I think critically examining these actions can be useful, but cynicism only goes so far. Generosity is a good thing, and him sharing his compensation with employees is something that should be commended.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
In life sciences, the last author is almost always the person whose grants paid for most of the research. Usually, they also helped supervise the research, but the grant aspect is more important. For example: Mike Synder, a brilliant biolo
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by Fede_V 11y ago
If something can be described as 'maybe' deceptive, than it probably is deceptive. I don't mean this flippantly - playing cute with being deceptive is not really helpful to customers.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
That's actually an exceptionally useful way to think about this. The more intrusive are the ads you sell, the more valuable they are (to brands) - while the more intrusive they are, the more people will block them. Of course, unless y
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Yeah, but Keras has a lower level abstraction layer to switch between Theano and Tensorflow back ends.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Because then why would any dentist who is not at the top pay for advertising?
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I completely believe in being the charity principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity ) when interpreting what someone said, but in this case, I think you are being too generous. He was not complaining
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by Fede_V 11y ago
What I found particularly illuminating was this: 'Some investors said Mr. Dalgaard was as instrumental as Mr. Conrad in pushing for steep revenue targets, and that both men’s ambition pointed in the same direction — toward hypergrowth.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I'm just struck by the total lack of compassion towards your fellow humans. Levinas used to say that ethics was recognizing the obligation that we have towards people that are suffering - I just wonder how someone who is not a sociopa
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I have always felt that the problem with linkedin wasn't so much the 'questionable' growth tactics (fake contacts which don't actually have accounts, etc) as much as the absolutely abysmal content that gets posted there.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
The problem with this is that a sexy splashy finding gets a completely unwarranted level of attention. A study with 21 patients should never be published in the first place (unless it's something like a medical case study - that'
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by Fede_V 11y ago
My favorite tidbit about pharma payments to physicians comes from Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma. Based on a survey, most physicians think that the money doctors receive from pharma definitely affects their prescribing choices, HOWEV
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by Fede_V 11y ago
There's a few similar process. Shedskin, Nuitka, Pythran, etc. They are all pretty cool projects, and worth looking into just to learn new techniques.
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by Fede_V 11y ago
I think he is largely correct in identifying the flaws of 'academic research', but he does not spend enough time discussing the whys. Academics are in an insanely competitive environment, where what is rewarded is bringing in gran
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by Fede_V 11y ago
Did you consider adding an option for a one time purchase? I really don't like re-occuring subscriptions if I can at all avoid them, but I'd happily buy something like this (like I payed for sublime, etc).
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by Fede_V 11y ago
There's certain questions that you can ask, but you will almost never get an honest answer, because the downside of potentially upsetting someone far outweigh the upside of being completely frank. It's the same reason HR never giv

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