LeanderK

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by LeanderK 8y ago
ah ok, then I've misunderstood your comment :)
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by LeanderK 8y ago
i don't agree. Google ranks, but shouldn't be allowed to treat one group unfairly. For example, google shouldn't be allowed to downrank one ethnicity and prefer another. Similiar, google shouldn't be allowed to "for
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I don't agree. Europe had a culture where the current handling of sexuality in the internet would be considered prude. There were people running around naked in the cities parks, munich was sort of famous for a these naked people in th
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I think java made some wrong decision, with bigggest one being very pragmatics generics-addition, resulting in trouble down the road like List<int> not being possible. But I don't think checked exceptions are one of them ;) I don
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I think it's probably also a programming-language thing. When I write in haskell, the sytnax of the language and construction of the abstraction hirarchy, with all the simpel and well-specified rules you have to follow, makes it easier
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by LeanderK 8y ago
but wouldn't a fine that's actually sizable send a different signal? I don't get how google can violate somthing like this and the only results is the enforecement of existing law and some fine? Or I am not getting something?
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, programming languages evolve and to maintain a clean language (which python aspires to be), it has to cut some ties. I think the overly backward-compatible way in which the change was managed really prolonged the adtoption and getting
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by LeanderK 8y ago
50M euros seems far too little to me. It's a major violation against a fundamental regulation in their core product and compared to their revenue, 50M is nothing. A magnitude more will probably get google thinking, but I doubt this wil
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by LeanderK 8y ago
So why was this a statistics problem?
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by LeanderK 8y ago
this doesn't seem like fair thing to do at all. Clean water-acess is a basic human right, market forces should not determine who pays how much. Think of children of poor families born into areas where clean water is expensive...i don&#
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by LeanderK 8y ago
It's always a fun moment when you realize he's at the same university and might be sitting next to you right now. Especially because it's a rare occurence to see the KIT here. It makes you appreciate your education more (and
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by LeanderK 8y ago
In germany, there are a lot of the "Verkehrsverbünde" and they work very well. For example, in munich there's the MVV (Münchner Verkehrsverbund), but the s-Bahn (slimiliar to BART) is operated by the Deutsche Bahn and the und
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I would really recommend anyone who want's to get a taste of "real" function programming to develop some parser with parser combinators (I developed a java-parser). I started to understand a great deal of functional-programmi
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I don't think you're blaming them for not getting into any, but I still want to say that i think one can't expect such an initiaitive from (essentially) childen. Taking initiaitve is also very character-dependend, I know some
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by LeanderK 8y ago
well, i don't know whether this is true. I am quite frustrated with germany, because our scattered expertise and resources are just not that competitive in this area. We were unable to retain our top people (Schmidhuber, Hochreiter, et
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I am convinced that unions would have a positive impact even on high-paying and in-demand jobs like software-engineering. From vacations, protection against unfair practices (for example unfairy formulated shares in startups as compensation
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Maybe LeNet from LeCun et. al? It was before my time, but the architecture is still influential. The more important paper would probably be Phoneme Recognition Using Time-Delay Neural Networks, which introduces Time-Delay NNs, from which Co
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I agree, i think I was more confused. I thought he meant the time to realize the projects, not the complete cycle from estimating whether it's doable to financing to building. There are also project on hold for 30 years in munich.
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by LeanderK 8y ago
> 20-40 years into the future (if not delayed) that seems to be unreasonably long. In germany, both the city I am studying at and the city I was born are undertaking big changes in their transportation infrastructure, and both don't
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by LeanderK 8y ago
well, german tech is not really into the business of targeting consumers. You can critizise it, but you can't deny that germany has a large high-tech industry. I was making the observation that the tech industry in germany is quite spr
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I agree that the population density is a big factor, i wanted to express that with "not-too-small-towns". I don't see how tech-jobs can move into the completely rural areas. But there are still areas left above the critical p
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by LeanderK 8y ago
well, germany is quite spread out and has lots of tech in smaller towns. It's not always perfect and we are also struggeling with some things, but I think a few approaches can be emulated. First, I think it's important that the sm
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by LeanderK 8y ago
yeah, i agree. there's a crazy brain drain. Just look at TUM. If they could hold onto the talents they developed they would count Schmidhuber, Hochreiter, Schaal, (Marcus) Hutter etc. to their faculty and would be a serious competitor
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by LeanderK 8y ago
doesn't look too good for german institutions (or europe in general) :( I thought it we are just not really that important in machine learning, but other disciplines are similiar. Any physicist here? Are german institutions more visibl
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I always advise to really reflect your current situation and think what changes might be possible. Work is a big part of your life. It depends a bit how willing you are to do more risky stuff, but the great thing is that skilled programmers
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I have not read the whole strategy, just skimmed it. I think one of the biggest problem of Germanies strategy (and the EU as a whole) is not trying to reach a critical mass (of researchers etc.) somewhere. You need a lot of ingredients for
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I really don't think so. Google doesn't make keeping up with tensorflow hard because of all the wonderful innovations, but because of needless breakage. Moving of packages, renaming things. It regularly breaks not-so-old code. Als
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by LeanderK 8y ago
> Tensorflow 2.0 will be a major milestone for the most popular machine learning framework: lots of changes are coming, and all with the aim of making ML accessible to everyone. These changes, however, requires for the old users to compl
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by LeanderK 8y ago
well, I don't think so. Not everything you do is interactive. Data exploration and basic model selection is, but complex models and more complicated data-pipelines/preprocessing isn't, I think. Tensorflow is the opposite of i
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by LeanderK 8y ago
diving code between models/data-pipelines and experiments. Notebook are used for visualization and telling a story why you tried what for the other team-members.

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