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by Radim 9y ago
We did that with B2B consulting in machine learning (rare-technologies.com) => transitioned to B2B products (scaletext.com, pii-tools.com). Actually, we started even one step earlier, by working on open source (Gensim), no money involved
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Machine learning benchmark: GPU providers(rare-technologies.com)
75 points by Radim 9y ago|6 comments
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Interesting link, thanks. HyperLogLog is a simpler algo in a way, as it only estimates the set cardinality ("count distinct"), as opposed to frequencies of individual items . Bounter includes HyperLogLog as well (mentioned in t
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Are there any benchmarks for this Yahoo lib? To trade performance/accuracy numbers, rather than impressions. There's no shortage of various streamed counting implementations; the sweet spot of Bounter [0], the Python lib from the
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Bill Burr (the comedian) has his own take on this problem. He makes reading the ads so entertaining they become a part of the podcast -- a very entertaining part! Nobody skips that. Though to be fair, sometimes he shits on the product he&#x
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Interactive ML Analytics with Google's Facets Dive and Scikit-Learn(rare-technologies.com)
41 points by Radim 9y ago|2 comments
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CountMinSketch in Python: Counting big datasets in little RAM(rare-technologies.com)
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Quickly counting lots of stuff in little RAM: CountMinSketch in Python(rare-technologies.com)
49 points by Radim 9y ago|8 comments
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by Radim 9y ago
Perhaps not as lofty goal as time series, but a good, commercial database for vectors (aka the building representation block of modern machine learning) is long overdue too. A few open source options exist (Spotify's Annoy, Facebook&
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by Radim 9y ago
A lot of people do. Here are the academic articles that cite Gensim and contain the word "protein" (4 pages of them): https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2005&cites=1...
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It's hard to quantify "most", but I can attest that some of the largest companies in the world do in fact use Gensim, in part because of its good performance and robust battle-tested implementations.
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"Let me get this straight… you're saying we should organize our societies along the lines of the LOBSTERS?!" Harsh, perhaps. Honest, not so much. I found most of her ripostes a dishonest caricature of Peterson's positi
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I get your point, you're using the word "profit" in its narrowest accounting sense.
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Do you mean to say "for a short-term, monetary profit"? Because there are other types of profit, more subjective ones, like feeling good, emotional well-being, long-term sustainability etc, which are more elusive by definition but
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I suspect the cause is a little more subtle (and terrifying). The majority of people don't give a shit. Correct spelling and obscure searches are not even on their radar, it's not a part of their reality. Don't let the commen
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by Radim 9y ago
This! Except without the burn out, and I'd move "sales" from last to first. Looking back, being more involved in B2B sales (aka straight on the battle lines) has been absolutely instrumental for my growth. There's this s
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by Radim 9y ago
Hah, competition? :) Ping me an email, I'm open to a chat how we could help each other… it's a big pie.
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The response is across the board. Some companies (B2B, larger enterprises) take it very seriously: form a compliance team, dedicate a budget for tools/consultants etc. Others have a "fuck it" attitude, self-author a 1-page PD
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And it is a good point. Perhaps what they meant by that "difference in kind vs degree" was just such a (hypothesized) phase transition. The frantic scramblings that happen around phase transitions are often fascinating [0] and wor
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"…we really do not have a good working definition of what constitutes life. At the most fundamental level, we still do not know whether the difference between animate and inanimate is simply a difference in kind or degree." What
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"…hereby suggesting we throw a massive party to celebrate all that Python 2 has done…" Perhaps it's that ominous counter, but these words really evoked Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" for some reason.
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Same here :-) Spending time with a teacher (kindergarden teacher, no less!), helping out in the classroom from time to time, gives completely new perspectives.
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The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer(quillette.com)
381 points by Radim 9y ago|264 comments
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by Radim 9y ago
Nice list. Nr. 1, FastText, was actually released in the middle of 2016 :-) The world moves fast… Maybe they confused it with StarSpace [0], also by Facebook Research, which was indeed published in 2017? [0] https://github.com&#x
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A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using(blog.dlib.net)
1 points by Radim 9y ago|0 comments
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Stone age & early bronze age history, archeology, anthropology. I find the genesis of storytelling, religion and how we conceptualize the world fascinating, even (especially?) where it comes in tiny fragments. Things that are so deep-ro
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"That mistake was to fund the build-out of the public world wide web—as opposed to the earlier, government-funded corporate and academic internet—by monetizing eyeballs via advertising revenue." TL;DR: "Dude" discovere
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For us, the door opened with open source. We maintain a few semi-popular Python packages for machine learning, which brings in enough leads to keep a team of data scientists booked for months in advance. (Funnily enough, the actual work is
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Plurals evolved to serve a practical role in languages, so that'd be more devolution than evolution :-) You could also go Indonesian: repeat a noun for plural. "Frog-frog play in water!"
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Sure, but that's been the case for thousands of years. The novelty is in the global nature of the competition, the physical and informational proximity that accelerate evolution of patterns. That's what makes them spread so quickl

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