Radim

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by Radim 9y ago
Influence, sure. "Repair", hubris. A cry for a static world that never was and never will be. Reminds me of the doomsayers that claim humans will "destroy" the earth :D Mind you, mine is not a call to "do nothing&qu
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by Radim 9y ago
Hubris! You presume you can, or even attempt to, "repair" the nature? What does that even mean? I commend you for realizing how complex nature is, with its never ending loops and constant change, and our temporal lot within it. Bu
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by Radim 9y ago
How magnanimous! Such a generous heart. The problem with socialism is, you eventually run out of other people's money.
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by Radim 9y ago
I subscribe to the sentiment! As a semi-philosophical aside: in what capacity are dollars not real, but the things you can buy with them are? Since everything seems to be a means to an end, from glamour (gets you money), to money (gets you
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by Radim 9y ago
"I teach online advanced-Python programming workshops every month... In the last 2 months, it's consistently 60%-70% Python 3." So you're basing your conclusion on a sample of two? :) I teach advanced Python (and
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Can computers cope with human races? (1989)(web.stanford.edu)
11 points by Radim 9y ago|0 comments
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On maintaining scikit-learn and sustainability of open source [AUDIO](rare-technologies.com)
2 points by Radim 9y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 9y ago
While it's true there are speed cameras everywhere (with ample camera-ahead-warning signs) here in South Korea, they seem to be duds or at least not enforced. Pretty much no-one seems to obey the official speed limits, instead opting t
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by Radim 9y ago
That article is remarkably low on content --- it doesn't even name the archeological site! It's Göbekli Tepe, of course. The PDF doesn't work for me either, but here is the Google Cache version: DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPE WITH AR
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Andy Müller on maintaining scikit-learn and sustainability of open source [AUDIO](rare-technologies.com)
3 points by Radim 9y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 9y ago
I see you're attempting to shift the goal posts :) Instead of veiled insults, just re-read the original utopian quote. It's nothing like what you're describing. In fact, it's exactly the opposite -- a direct call to acti
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by Radim 9y ago
Any example of a radically different social structure that has worked for humans in the past? Btw I agree 100% that change is necessary and "natural". Vacuous hippie statements are not "it" though -- rational discourse a
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by Radim 10y ago
Hmm, why does this remind me of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"? The dangerously seductive, utopian naivety of such statements rubs me the wrong way. I wish all the kumbaya nature's-way-is
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Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data(youtube.com)
1 points by Radim 10y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
You may be under appreciating how much effort goes into good old hacking in games, to make things look "natural" but with minimal HW footprint :) Cutting corners. Especially back in the day! It's more of an art. Applies to
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by Radim 10y ago
1. HW resources: games run on extremely tight HW budgets. It's probably the most competitive, cut-through industry in terms of what you can afford to do with a given CPU/memory/bandwidth per frame. While DL is still in the
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by Radim 10y ago
A fundamental sense of fairness -- for reasons given above. I understand that the "social contract" may dictate otherwise in practice (even ignoring arrogant self-declarations of "social value", coming from a communist E
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by Radim 10y ago
Perhaps because in the end, you pay for stuff with dollars, not with percentages? That whole game of playing with abstract fractional numbers is already massively progressive. I think people fail to appreciate how very bizarre this "ac
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by Radim 10y ago
Make money from "specific projects" that are free open source software? O_o I think you missed the part where a vital piece of the ecosystem, namely proprietary/non-free software, no longer exists.
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by Radim 10y ago
Does anyone else do this? I can switch to autopilot and apparently hold shallow conversations with people, even when deeply concentrated. I don't remember any of it afterward, no idea what I said, but apparently it's good enough a
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by Radim 10y ago
I don't know -- photosynthesing organisms that generate primary resources? Which resources are then indirectly consumed by OSS (at least its "free as in beer" variant), acting as a parasite in your analogy :) The money has to
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by Radim 10y ago
It's generally much harder to poo on professions, after you've had to walk in their shoes. Personally, I found that ML consulting gave me a valuable perspective on this process. So many hats to wear: research & development, le
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by Radim 10y ago
cough Go cough
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by Radim 10y ago
Duly noted! In the first episode, I got feedback that people wanted to hear more from me. Perhaps I went too much in the opposite direction here. Converging, slowly :) Btw the aim is 50/50 -- these are not meant to be "interviews&
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John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio](rare-technologies.com)
73 points by Radim 10y ago|14 comments
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[demo] Comment.ai: AI bot for exchanging Reddit comments(comment.ai)
2 points by Radim 10y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
FYI: you can now use fastText directly from gensim (Python) [1]. This allows you to easily test / compare fastText to other popular embeddings, such as word2vec, doc2vec or gloVe. [1] https://github.com/RaRe-Technologie
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Demo: 3D railway in 256 bytes of code [video](youtube.com)
4 points by Radim 10y ago|2 comments
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Saving 80% in 90 Seconds?(blog.lemonade.com)
58 points by Radim 10y ago|56 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
Does anyone remember "Volkov Commander"? An old DOS file manager [1], written in assembly. Super fast and responsive, tiny size -- a fraction of Norton Commander &co's, never mind any modern tools. Whenever I have to deal

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