Radim

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by Radim 10y ago
First, cost/benefit analysis to see if it's worth the effort (mental, financial, time). If so, I commit to the project publicly and preferably make other people dependent on its success, because: Fear of failing others > fear
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by Radim 10y ago
Ping me as well please, radim@rare-technologies.com. Love your no-nonsense pragmatic attitude :)
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by Radim 10y ago
Have you considered that if you find yourself debating for 8 years without success, you're debating the wrong side? :) Yes, Python 3 is an improvement over Python 2. I like Python 3. No, Python 2's unicode support was fine, contra
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by Radim 10y ago
Ah, the 80s & early 90s, when you had to implement everything yourself and every byte and instruction counted :) The demo scene these days feels somehow less satisfying. The demos definitely look better, but they can plug into such a
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by Radim 10y ago
"With dynamic typing, the runtime will not warn you, which means you won't know until some crap data comes and your code chokes. With static typing, you are forced to explicitly Do The Right Thing, so entire classes of bugs are
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by Radim 10y ago
I'll bite. I'm outside of the US and Python 2 has worked wonderfully for ages. Its unicode support is good. You work with strings as unicode, then at I/O boundaries (and exceptions) you convert to bytes. What specifically do
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by Radim 10y ago
The stranglehold that large "chaebols" (large family conglomerates) hold on the Korean economy and politics here is frightening. And it's still such an "honour" to work for them, a sign of social prestige, which mak
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An awesome iTerm2 back end to Matplotlib(github.com)
2 points by Radim 10y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
Agreed, AlphaGo's moves are definitely unorthodox. And yes, humans with their "narrative" style of playing and "intuition" can barely scratch the surface of reading-heavy perfect-information zero-sum games like Go.
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by Radim 10y ago
I don't know about that. I'm a mere 1 dan, but I fail to see this marked "difference in normality". What specifically looks "much less human" to you in these newer games?
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by Radim 10y ago
You mean, like these three AlphaGo self-play games from September? ;) https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/alphago-games-english/ (analysis by Gu Li and Zhou Ruiyang, two top pros; standard komi)
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by Radim 10y ago
In my experience, that "tropical island" trope goes hand in hand with the "4 hour week" BS. I lived in tropical Thailand for 2 years (wife had a job there; now we live in Korea). And let me tell you, you'll get bore
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by Radim 10y ago
Same here! But since I run my own business, this has actually been a liability at times... What I found to work is grow a beard when I need to appear older, then shave it to appear younger :-)
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by Radim 10y ago
I run a company that specializes in design & implementation of kick-ass ML solutions [1]. We've had successful projects in quite a few industries at this point: LEGAL INDUSTRY Aka e-discovery [2]: produce digital documents in legal
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Prof. Jordan Peterson on Gulags, SJW and True Speech(youtube.com)
8 points by Radim 10y ago|1 comments
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Analysis of a Python performance issue(haypo.github.io)
4 points by Radim 10y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
"Meh" news because we had a higher profile match just recently: AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol (both much stronger than DeepZen or Cho). I mean, it's mildly interesting that DeepZen uses fewer resources (just ~40 CPUs and 4 GPU, compar
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Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (2014)(moderncrypto.org)
180 points by Radim 10y ago|45 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
License file missing, but setup.py seems to imply MIT.
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by Radim 10y ago
There's no question about it! If you take OPs argument of "only consider the individual, never groups of people" one step further, there is no such thing as "one woman" either. She's a collection of trillions o
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Time Might Only Exist in Your Head. And Everyone Else’s(wired.com)
2 points by Radim 10y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 10y ago
You mean, imagine another government agency receiving a budget of $600B a year? shudders If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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by Radim 10y ago
And if you see the universe as "a sort of code", the network is rewiring the universe! How's that for a bombastic editorial title? (To be clear, I'm 100% agreeing with gcr here. Parameter optimization is a tremendously p
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by Radim 10y ago
Let me offer an opposing point of view. In all the people I ever hired and worked with over the years (data entry, devs, bizdev, sales or otherwise), attention to detail was the single most predictive trait for good performance. "Consc
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by Radim 10y ago
Everything has to be such a spectacle, so black-and-white and binary in the US. The forum discussions, here and elsewhere, give outside observers this impression: |=============================X=| Candidate X: some minor flaws, but over
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by Radim 10y ago
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett I see this as "two steps forward, one step back" kind of progress. Something you'd expect from an evolutionary process --
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by Radim 10y ago
I'm not from the US and don't know the US employment law, but you generally don't have to ask permission from your employer on things you do in your free time . Unless you signed a contract that specifically forbids you from
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by Radim 10y ago
Passion is a bunch of factors (including your hormonal responses) conspiring to better explore the evolutionary mutation/branch that is YOU. Yes, putting energy and "passion" into your unique abilities may enable you to reach
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by Radim 10y ago
No need to travel back in time; still acceptable in many places and cultures around the world TODAY.
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by Radim 10y ago
Right! These pesky free markets. If only we had a government, things like this couldn't possibly happen. Oh, wait...

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