Radim

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by Radim 6y ago
As one more datapoint, I do this (=barely ever "compile" / run) even in dynamically typed languages. My primary is Python. Definitely a leftover from when I was a kid, in the early 90s, without ready access to computers. I re
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by Radim 6y ago
You missed the preface: Bob's manager: Here's Bob. You paid a gazillion dollars for him, and he can translate whatever you want. Any language, whenever – the true revolution everyone's been talking about. Your life and our e
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by Radim 6y ago
No, "company A" makes more sense from the context. It's a matter of personal mental space: some SW engineers like to build things that work and solve problems in the "outside world". For which you invariably need de
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by Radim 7y ago
Truly capable people rarely want to be “scooped up by some big firm”, much less “no problem”.
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by Radim 7y ago
> their revenue has increased more than their losses But "net loss" already takes revenue into account! "Loss" is not the same thing as "expenses". The revenue increased substantially, but so did expenses
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by Radim 7y ago
I actually agree with you. Perhaps the confusion stems from my too-vague use of "we". Your "we" (understandably) refers to humans, who indeed stand much to lose by dramatic CO₂ swings. At least on a suitably mayfly time
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by Radim 7y ago
> invert the problem and see if it's solvable by retracing from solution to the start This last bit I personally find tremendously useful. It works best on hard conceptual blocks (though not necessarily Shannon-hard). I start by
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by Radim 8y ago
And that's perfectly fine, as long as the people paying the price (here, VCs) are the ones bearing the responsibility for their eventual losses. It only gets disgusting when such "musical chairs" scams get too popular, becomi
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by Radim 8y ago
> …a system that protects from accidentally logging secrets… That ecosystem exists. There are SW tools, both on-prem and (less interestingly) cloud/SaaS, that sit in the middle and look for personal and sensitive data. You plug into
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by Radim 8y ago
Nice work jalammar! Author of gensim here. Quotes from Dune are always appreciated :-) Here's some more layman reading "from back when", for people interested in how word2vec compares to other methods and works technically: -
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by Radim 8y ago
And how does that change the explanation, "People have their own, often highly idiosyncratic ideas about what's worthwhile and how they want to spend their money." , one way or another?
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by Radim 8y ago
The typical argument is that "tax incentives", whether positive or negative, ultimately come from other people's hard work and money. And those people may not agree with you (the benevolent distributor of incentives) on what
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by Radim 8y ago
The "sunk cost" fallacy :-)
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by Radim 8y ago
Labwork with as loosely defined goals as life ("reproduce", "accelerate rise of entropy") is costly. It's a robust, deep objective long-term, but extremely inarticulate with poor ROI short-term. A species of spider
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by Radim 8y ago
Yeah. On some devices, even the "power-off" button is software (talk about powerlessness!). I dread the day this growth-at-any-cost marketing machine takes over politically, and these half-assed over-hyped systems (self driving ca
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by Radim 8y ago
I subscribe, too. People are surprised that a techie nerd like me, with a PhD in ML, immersed in the IT world for the past 30 years, has an aversion to tech gadgets. Have I heard of the latest fad X? Do I like the last AI-powered Y? But t
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by Radim 8y ago
In a mature market, the two extremes eventually balance out: * Companies that hire only cheap starry-eyed love-my-latest-fad youngster crash and burn due to poor execution and short-sighted design choices. * Companies that hire only experie
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by Radim 8y ago
Nobody made a claim to the contrary (or even in agreement; no claim in that direction at all). You're going on a tangent, off-topic.
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by Radim 8y ago
I don't know about Germany; my understanding is it's quite a specific country in many ways (rich and orderly). But at least in Romania (this thread), in my home country CZ, and I suspect in the rest of East Europe, "close coo
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by Radim 8y ago
Let's be honest: Romanian (and other country) taxpayers contribute loads of money to the EU. Then some entities in that country, namely: * those well-connected to politicians, or * those able to push through the red tape of market-wa
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by Radim 8y ago
Thinking about this some more, such federated training will require more careful differentiation between two training modes that have been traditionally clumped together: 1. Model development, improvements and tuning (choosing correct prepr
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by Radim 8y ago
On one hand, updating ML models without seeing the data sounds like madness. It puts seemingly impossible constraints on QA: Meaningful model improvements typically come through careful error analysis, discovering entire classes of errors
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by Radim 8y ago
Beware! You entered the "cutesy animals, let's save the planet, everyone's cool man" territory with nuance, humour and wider perspective. People don't forgive that easily. If you want to be fun at parties, you can a
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by Radim 8y ago
That was my immediate reaction too. If a team promotes some of these values, I'd want nothing to do with them. Is there an explicit filter for negation? "Want / Don't want / Don't care", as opposed to just
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by Radim 8y ago
A surprisingly well-written and lucid article (given the woo-woo topic), exploring the memetic nature and evolution of stories. Selected TL;DR quotes: "As a psychic creature simultaneously parasitizing and nourishing the human mind, n
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by Radim 8y ago
Timely! We just added a super-efficient implementation of Online Non-negative Matrix Factorization to Gensim. Jupyter notebook tutorial: https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/blob/nmf_speedup... What&#x
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by Radim 8y ago
Wikipedia is a decent start. Including the (inevitable) discussion of democracy-vs-populism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism#Democracy_and_populis...
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by Radim 8y ago
This is how we see privacy breaches play out: 1. GDPR… who cares? Give me a break, sick of that shit. 2. OK, let's do the bare minimum to comply. 3. Hey, you, IT guy! You know where we're storing all the data, right? Good. Put tha
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by Radim 8y ago
On what grounds should an unrelated party ( furyg3 ) force their will on two voluntarily trading parties, blocking their (presumably mutually beneficial, since voluntary) transaction? That's a strangely oppressive, i-know-best-what&#x2
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by Radim 8y ago
Hidden in your questions is a presupposition of a well-defined "you", a human essence that decides/benefits as an indivisible whole. As that EA Poe story skilfully anticipated, and as our modernity puts more and more into pra

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