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by JamilD 10y ago
It's not a zero-sum game of open jobs to potential employees. If you're able to interact with the smartest people in the world - and not just your own country - you end up forming more effective and larger companies. Which in turn
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by JamilD 10y ago
That's a common misconception. I paid more in US + California taxes than Canada + Ontario taxes at the same company, same salary, when I moved location.
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by JamilD 10y ago
Of course. But it'll do some damage, which will only get worse as time goes on. What about 8 years? 12? If you restrict skilled legal immigration long-term, you're necessarily going to (slowly) drive companies away.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. The Bay Area's become an international hub for tech, not just a domestic one — many influential founders (including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel) were born outside the United States.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I'm sure if YC opened up a Canadian branch they could be one of the accepted incubators. The federal government seems keen on trying to make Canada a home for startups, even if it hasn't been a totally successful effort yet.
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by JamilD 10y ago
This is great news for both Canadian and international founders. Is the next step having an additional Canadian office for those that can't get US visas? Canada has a generous startup visa for founders coming from other countries [0].
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by JamilD 10y ago
It's interesting how manual everything is, at least near the beginning: > At Apple, the company starts working on a new language by bringing in humans to read passages in a range of accents and dialects, which are then transcribed b
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Apple's Siri learns Shanghainese as voice assistants race to cover languages(reuters.com)
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Stopping GAN Violence: Generative Unadversarial Networks(arxiv.org)
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Walking San Francisco's Streets with the Night Minister(kalw.org)
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by JamilD 10y ago
I find play to be the most effective way of learning. When I was learning, for example, the backpropagation algorithm, no amount of lectures could've helped me understand better than just drawing a network, thinking "what happens
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In Silicon Valley, Caltrain Upgrade Is Imperiled as Trump Withholds Funds(nytimes.com)
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High Speed Rail report estimates 11m riders between Las Vegas and LA by 2035(reviewjournal.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to focus and find information quickly. It's quite a distracting template.
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by JamilD 10y ago
Yeah, if you look at the description of the companies, it's much more indicative of what the companies actually do. I suspect AI is just a buzzword they use to attract more attention. From the article, the AI startups are doing: · Sale
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by JamilD 10y ago
The difference to me is cultural — it's not about infrastructure or fast internet at all. It's hard to explain how it feels for me, when I get to the Bay Area. Being able to talk to like-minded people, not feeling like an out-of-p
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Airlines Aim to Trick Your Taste Buds at 30,000 Feet(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
We should hold governments and companies accountable no matter what they do. It's not a hate campaign to call institutions out on their transgressions. It's not unfair to call out injustice wherever it exists.
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by JamilD 10y ago
People generally feel more empowered to call out a company when others do. It's not so much about the media piling on Uber, as employees feeling safe in talking about their company's problems.
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Robot Gains Social Intelligence Through Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
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by JamilD 10y ago
I've realized exactly the same thing. A starting intuition is necessary, but not sufficient, for understanding. I can watch as many lectures as I want, but nothing beats sitting down with a pen and a piece of paper, playing around with
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by JamilD 10y ago
San Jose is mostly just suburban sprawl. There needs to be more investment in the downtown area, and transit — hopefully BART coming to San Jose in the 2020s will help.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I've started to get the same impression. It seems like VCs, as a result of one or two past successes, now attribute to themselves omniscience when it comes to choosing companies.
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by JamilD 10y ago
> Apple could convert its entire Objective-C code base to Swift if they wanted. They certainly have the resources. The amount of liquid assets they own is staggering, of a size unprecedented in history. Nevertheless, their current corpor
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by JamilD 10y ago
Yeah — after reading this article and the paper, I agree. The previous link [0] on this submission was much more sensationalized and very misleading. [0] http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-new-ai-has-learned-to-b...
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by JamilD 10y ago
The AI can minimize loss / maximize fitness by either moving to look for additional resources, or fire a laser. Turns out that when resources are scarce, the optimal move is to knock the opponent away. I think this tells us more about
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by JamilD 10y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted; while it's true that racial minorities are targeted more often than most, many don't empathize with that. They only care once their own rights are threatened. By making it clear that these
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Some Lecturing Heuristics(cs.duke.edu)
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Tim Cook Receives Newseum's Free Expression Award(newseum.org)
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by JamilD 10y ago
As Tim Cook said, "if you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock." If you don't like what the company leadership says or does, you always have the option to sell your ownership and start a

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