Radim

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The Greatest Juggler Alive, Now in Concrete Construction Business (2014)(grantland.com)
1 points by Radim 11y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 11y ago
Your comments are excellent; I think dang is just hinting at the fact that such religious discussions are not welcome on HN, which is a private domain he gatekeeps. Bad for business, you see :-)
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by Radim 11y ago
Excellent question, goes straight to the heart of it. Does a public declaration of strong allegiance to religious views say something actionable about a person or not? Do people feel that strong religious beliefs are a direct threat to them
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by Radim 11y ago
Interestingly, this also goes toward explaining the attitude of many south-eastern European countries toward the current immigration waves. Most countries in the Balkans (not just Slovenia) have fought the Turks for extended periods of time
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by Radim 11y ago
Case in point: Nassim Taleb, The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
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by Radim 11y ago
Enough to be the next in line for the Nobel Peace Prize. A worthy successor to president Obama there.
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Realistic-Looking Images via Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks(github.com)
10 points by Radim 11y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Tookit(github.com)
2 points by Radim 11y ago|1 comments
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by Radim 11y ago
Agreed. We support gensim (a Python machine learning library) entirely through commercial projects and consulting. We never asked users for money, while keeping the lib 100% open source. BUT you have to realize a lot of OS development is su
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by Radim 11y ago
I like how you just reiterated GP's last "point of irony" there, in a roundabout way. Because that's how much of the rest of the world feels re. USA/"the west". One-percenters... complaining about their ow
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by Radim 11y ago
Even worse: "Let's add another function API parameter (to the list of two dozens already there!), which will take care of this particular use case". Now the opaque black-box "framework solution" works again! Also
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by Radim 11y ago
Some nice material for a sci-fi novel you've got there :) To answer your question: I want to live in a world where humans continue to evolve, yes. I don't want to live in a world where armchair philosophers and do-gooders decide w
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by Radim 11y ago
TL;DR: article claims Ritesh lied about his "bestseller book", lied about his "Asian Science Camp invite", lied his way into an incubator, lied his way into the "Thiel Fellowship" programme. And screwed a bunch
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by Radim 11y ago
For a great, accessible intro talk on this topic, check out Geoffrey West's "On Complexity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
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by Radim 11y ago
If I see correctly, this is essentially an online version of Halko's algorithm for truncated SVD, applied to the domain of anomaly detection? (with some cool additional error analysis) If so, there has been an efficient implementation
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by Radim 11y ago
We're in violent agreement. It makes me sad to see neat, focused libraries have their mission blurred, API expanded, code base obfuscated... Until they satisfy everybody's use case, which is to say, they're useless. Some feat
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by Radim 11y ago
Very relatable post. Isn't NLTK primarily a teaching / demonstration tool though? I just checked their website and the claim of "NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data... a
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by Radim 11y ago
Very nicely written -- as usual for Chris :) One minor nitpick: near the end, Chris recommends LSH for similarity retrieval. This may be a bad idea. That implementation seems to perform very poorly: [benchmarks]( https://github.co
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by Radim 11y ago
It can be hard when people attack your baby publicly :) For a company of TopTal's size, I guess they could (should) give their C*Os a training on PR, or at least a damage control manual!
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by Radim 11y ago
The Czech republic, for example: For you to bring home 2,000 EUR net, your employer has to dish out 3,740 EUR. That's about 46.5% taxation -- very close to OP's 50%. (and that's not counting VAT and other consumer taxes, we&
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by Radim 11y ago
Awesome! Like I always say: when these guys go public, I'll be the first in line to buy stock :) Great team, great vision, great execution + no-bullshit, bottom-up approach.
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by Radim 11y ago
Yes, there is plenty of backend freelancing work too (such as data science/machine learning, as in my case). Slides from my talk at this year's Berlin Buzzwords on this topic: "So you want to be a data science consultant (or
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by Radim 11y ago
"44% said Not enough actual coding" and "75% said Freedom to work only part of the year" ...these guys would be disappointed with freelancing :-) First one is obvious (so many ancillary tasks and worries when freelancing
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by Radim 11y ago
Well if you start out by assuming you know the secret message already, then there is exactly 1 possibility and "cracking it" takes exactly 0 seconds.
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Smart_open: stream S3 files from Python(github.com)
1 points by Radim 12y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 12y ago
Fair point. "Hatred" is too strong a word. Confusion about "why on earth would somebody NOT want to give away their software for free, for any use whatsoever?" is better. (Hey, it works for them!)
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by Radim 12y ago
I generally find that the GPL hatred comes a lot from academic circles. Lots of university-produced software prefers BSD or MIT, and looks down on GPL/LGPL. I guess when you're paid from other people's taxes, you don't c
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by Radim 12y ago
My new home came with "smart features", like heaters controlled by a smart central hub with remote sensors, remote light dimming etc. Took more than 3 months to have all the annoying gadgets replaced by dependable, manual solution
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by Radim 12y ago
(tutorial author here) Good answer, and I can only recommend Ian's book! I cut the marketing speak down to minimum in my articles and tutorials, but if you're interested in cutting edge machine learning & no-nonsense data mini
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by Radim 12y ago
Indeed, but that sentence applies equally to either side of the contract! Which is why I wonder what the "accepted standard" & "cost of giving up IP" is. I assume it varies greatly across domains -- OP's is &quo

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