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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
> What would you do in this situation? Chuckle and move on. You cannot build a business on non-defensible stuff like website copy and introduction videos. Time spent worrying about this, or worse, fighting back, is wasted time and will o
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I'm getting tired of these "you don't need k8 posts". Sure, if you have a simple web application with a REST API, don't use k8, unless it's for learning purposes. But nobody does that anyway. If you have someth
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
It also depends on how distributed you are. Traveling to Florida from Texas is a very different experience than traveling to Florida from Europe or India. I've spent several years traveling, and right now I'm at a point in my care
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
For a lot of people the reason to work remotely is to spend time with family/etc, so that's something they probably wouldn't want. Personally, I definitely wouldn't enjoy that. And if someone cannot attend due to persona
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
It signals that you are looking to sell early, which is the exact opposite of what YC and VCs are looking for, which are startups that try to go big to create outsized returns. Don't mention it. That being said, there is a conflict of
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Politics. I found that getting promoted within FAANG depends largely on your ability to navigate politics, not on how good you are at your job. You will move up much faster if you optimize for "Find the right people and get them, throu
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
The error message have always been an issue, even with early releases. That being said, it was much easier to trace errors when there were fewer high-level functions and you had to build the layers yourself. You fully understood what the gr
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I would actually argue that the very first version of Tensorflow was great. I don't quite remember what version number that was, but it was well before 1.0. It was basically just a better version of Theano with a single way of doing th
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
15min of looking through the code and my best guess right now is that it's a reimplementation of higher-level primitives, such as optimizers and layers, found in Tensorflow/Pytorch/etc, but based on a variable backend (you ca
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
You're not alone. Even as an ML researcher at ex-FAANG I have no idea what this is. Is it a collection of well-documented models built on top of jax? I could probably figure out what exactly this is if I spend an hour looking through t
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Reminds me of academic papers. When I first started in academia I thought it was all about merit, results, and following a proper scientific process. Turns out if you want to be successful, as measured by paper acceptances or citations, whi
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
The devil is in the details. I've been working on something similar (looks very different, but similar goals), and I am on my 4th re-write :) I've worked on some very complex software projects, but creating a simple task/habi
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
That's interesting. Thinking about it a bit more, my current image comes from the fact that I never had "positive" interactions with police or government workers in the U.S. The only interactions I ever had with the police we
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
What do you mean by "lockers for umbrellas"? Are you talking about public spaces or restaurants? Maybe I just haven't seen them, but I'm really not sure what you are referring to. An umbrella may be 500 yen, but not gett
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
As someone who lives in Japan I believe this is not a result of "Japanese people being more honest", but rather: - Availability. There are police stations (kobans) and officers on the street everywhere, just a few steps away from
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I stopped watching TV more than 12 years ago and never missed it. I just think it's boring. That being said, I don't think watching TV is fundamentally different from any other kind of entertainment, be it YouTube, reading HN, Twi
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
You can find very similar communities on Discord today. You may argue that Discord is a totally different vibe, full of kids, spam, memes, and rude people. And you would right, but that's pretty much what most IRC channels, especially
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Congratulations, you've just insulted 99% of the population, and probably 99.9% if you are including countries other than the US. I hope you find a way to get "wealth", but you may want to start thinking about how you come of
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've built a lot of sideprojects on Kubernetes and couldn't be happier with it. It's incredibly cheap (basically free in terms of resource usage), low-touch, and abstracts away so many pesky proble
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
There are very few "AI companies". True AI companies are research labs like DeepMind and those AI consultancies. Both of these make money from PR and hype. Other than that, some video/image analysis and processing companies,
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but here we go. It depends on how you define "startup". There are two common definitions, and people confuse them all the time and don't make clear what they are talking about. 1. A VC-backed
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
As someone who has worked as a researcher in one of the big AI research labs, I completely agree with this post. There has been true progress in a few ML subfields over the past few years, most noticeably representation learning for image r
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
No matter how much you comment your code, you are not going to bring people up to speed on an algorithm that requires background knowledge on dozens of scientific papers, hundreds of pages, with a few code comments. This code is aimed at re
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I actually disagree with you here. I don't think the code is unreadable, it follows standard notation used in Machine Learning. If you read scientific papers you will notice that e.g. variable names are the same as those used in mathem
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Realizing how much incentives matter. Everything around you is driven by incentives: Coworkers, your boss, customers, personal relationships. More importantly, everything is driven by "personal incentives" more so than "busin
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Just to clarify, I did use SRS for all my learning materials, including words and sentences. But I also had decks for single characters (you can find a lot of these online). Over time I found these pure character decks to be the least helpf
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
I agree that people with some Japanese knowledge likely already know this. But out there you will find a lot of marketing material/posts targeting absolute beginners promoting some kind of "Top X% Kanji lists", as if they are
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Of course, but you are assuming that you already know the meaning of "kawaii". My point is that if you don't know the word, you can't infer the meaning from the Kanji, except in very simple cases. That's why memoriz
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Afterthought: Kawaii (cute) is actually 可愛い, also containing "可", which literally may mean something like "a thing that can be easily loved", or simpler, cute. But you wouldn't be able to guess that if you just know
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by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 7y ago
Being fluent in Japanese as a second language, I agree with this. It's Zipf's law and sounds great, but 90% isn't as useful as it sounds. You'll mostly recognize a single common Kanji of compound words consisting of 2-3

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