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by Jack000 6y ago
surprised no one's mentioned fairseq, which is probably the easiest way to train and use a transformer model. With huggingface etc you still have to write a bit of code for preprocessing input, training scheduling, batch inference and
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by Jack000 6y ago
note that the fairseq implementation requires 2x 32GB v100 gpus for inference.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Upwork has worked well for me. You really have to invite promising candidates individually instead of opening the floodgates, and even then the hitrate is low. I typically give a small assignment to around 5 selected freelancers. I've
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by Jack000 6y ago
It's interesting to contrast western bike culture with China. I've always found it weird how seriously people take it here - gotta dress up in a little speed suit, $5k bike, constant animosity with drivers. I guess that's the
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by Jack000 6y ago
maybe, but model quality doesn't scale linearly with model size. The performance/dollar metric is more important, and that definitely will decline over time. Personally, I have a boots trapped business that uses a transformer mode
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by Jack000 6y ago
This is a great feature of the AI space for startups - in the short term it reduces competition, in the long term it's not really a problem. If your business is break-even currently, it will be profitable in 2-3 years due to declining
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by Jack000 6y ago
validation is noisy, and can be just as hard as building the the thing. If you put up a landing page and people immediately start buying, great. What happens if you get no conversions? Is it the product, market, your marketing? How much eff
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by Jack000 6y ago
That kind of gets into "what is it like to be a bat" territory. The more imminent question is more of engineering than philosophy - what does it take for GPT-3 to not make the mistakes it does? This would require it to have some i
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by Jack000 6y ago
I don't think training on language by itself is enough. Consider for example, if we found extraterrestrial transmissions from an alien civilization. We don't know what they look like, what they're made of or if they even have
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by Jack000 6y ago
also didn't downvote, but clearly there are confounding variables (fertility also correlates with poverty, for example) There is a common argument that X social group has a lot of children, thus they'll become a greater proportion
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by Jack000 6y ago
It's still going to be AI/ML. The AI summer started with convnets, then generative models like GAN, and more recently transformer-based NLP. Each of these represents a step change in capability, fuelling its own wave of hype. It&#
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by Jack000 6y ago
There is a pretty big range of prices. The cheap Chinese ones aren't necessarily well built but they work fine for hobbyist stuff. Motors, motor controllers + motion system are cheap enough for affordable home robots I think. The probl
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by Jack000 6y ago
I'm always surprised how much these things cost. A 3 axis CNC is basically a 3 degree-of-freedom robot, yet only costs a few hundred dollars. I think we'll see mobile autonomous robots come into people's homes only after they
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by Jack000 6y ago
surprised this is so controversial. Anyone mind explaining why you disagree?
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by Jack000 6y ago
Agrarian cultures probably ate a lot healthier than modern people, simply by virtue of not having heavily processed foods. Preindustrial societies also didn't have to deal with heavy metals in seafood or arsenic in rice.
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by Jack000 6y ago
sustainable customer acquisition is the hardest part of being an indie dev, it's a lot more difficult than building the product itself. You got amazing press coverage though, should be able to leverage that for SEO and content marketin
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by Jack000 6y ago
yes, I did. to add to this - I pay exactly what the freelancer asks, and not a single person I've worked with has ever asked me for an increase in rates, even when I would have gladly accepted. When I offer more money proactively, it&#
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by Jack000 6y ago
I've kind of lost count, but about 5 on hn, and 10 or so on upwork. I'm still working with 1 from hn, who is posting to the thread despite having very limited availability. There were 3 people from upwork whose work quality was gr
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by Jack000 6y ago
In my experience the quality of developers posting on that thread is worse than upwork, on average. This shouldn't be surprising, since hn is an open forum where literally anyone can post. On upwork there's at least some work hist
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by Jack000 6y ago
Figured I'd post this before the flash player is EOL. This is an open-source flash application I wrote 10 years ago while I was in school. https://launchpad.net/partkam here's a youtube video, if you don't wa
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by Jack000 6y ago
dashboard is getting 503 Service Unavailable for me.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Yes certainly, memetic information is similar to a virus (eg. religion). There exists technology whose sole purpose is to kill or torture, it's all part of the human story for better or worse.
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by Jack000 6y ago
If tech can be generalized to "tool", tech is the defining feature of humanity. Language, fire, society and even art can all fall under this umbrella. In many ways, humans exist for tech rather than the opposite. "Tech"
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by Jack000 6y ago
that's only 256GB, which isn't enough. I'm not sure it's even possible to nvlink 16 v100s. I'd love to try it out for $40/hr if it were possible though.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Some products are inherently difficult to monetize. I wouldn't give up yet, but another approach is to make the product free and use it as lead-gen for something else (an affiliate product, your own product in a separate niche, or even
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by Jack000 6y ago
a direct transfer of this concept to text isn't possible because the SotA for text generation is based on transformers, which do not work using latent space sampling. The directly analogous version of stylegan in the nlp world would be
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by Jack000 6y ago
yes, but reliable facial recognition alone has huge social implications, never mind all the other potential applications for cognitive automation.
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by Jack000 6y ago
been on both sides of the fence. As an employer, the problem is that everyone says this, even people who have no idea what they're doing. In fact these people are over - represented in the hiring pool because skilled devs are usually a
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by Jack000 6y ago
This seems like a difficult niche because you're selling to a demographic that doesn't have a lot of disposable income. There are monetized chore apps, so it's certainly not impossible though. I would make the app free, try t

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