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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I'll chime in from the other side as a maintainer of a mid size project at a foundation (eclipse foundation, 8k stars, 4k forks) We get a ton of drive by contributions of people scratching their own itch. That's most of the 3rd
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
If folks are interested in this, I figured some folks might like our c++ version of this (been around for 5 years ish now): https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp Also comes with tons of pre cooked projects already ready
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Thanks will pass it on!
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Right so like my other replies, I don't claim that alternatives won't come up eventually. I also don't claim that this is exactly how nvidia can unseat themselves. What's wrong here with many of the guesses people are ma
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Oh I agree that GPUs should be more commodity. We might see alternative ASICs rather than GPUs come out though. I'm personally more interested in seeing that succeed than just confining the solution space to gpus and discrete gpu compe
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I'd expect competition to heat up in 2018. Re: AMD/Intel. We've been waiting for them to get their act together for years. Nervana could be great but I'm going to wait on that one. So far their "launches" have
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Nowhere did I say it's never going to happen. These things take time to evolve. I even talked about the market forces and what's currently plausible. There's always big companies that get disrupted because they kill good will
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Just going to say, just because tensorflow supports it won't mean much. The ecosystem as a whole is still largely cuda. This includes the database tech(kinetica,mapd), the resource managers (mesos/yarn), not to mention HPC. There&
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I appreciate this. That's a lot of what we focus on now. We make sure that there's redundancy in communications. We also make sure folks understand that mistakes are allowed, not communicating is not. It helps we hired a ton of fo
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Java itself is worth learning, but one thing to consider as a bonus: if you can learn java and some of the associated tooling, it also gets you access to an onramp for learning scala, clojure, kotlin, other JVM languages. You might not use
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
We're distributed in 8 timezones and 10 countries. My cofounder and I started in SF, but I moved to Japan partially for this reason. I force remote first (and we've been like that since the start) the horror stories in this thread
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Disclaimer: I write competing software to tensorflow and compete with google cloud which commercializes tensorflow. So let me turn this on its head. Why does it matter? Use what you find works for you. If you already know the concepts, what
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Agreed :). Workflow matters a lot more than the hype Sandhill road and google's marketing team are perpetuating. Good on you for making it work in the real world for something outside of vision/speech!
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
A lot of people make money with deep learning with images ;). I guess what I wanted to do was add a bit of nuance. It can help reduce the amount of feature engineering needed. Of course you still need a baseline representation though. Mor
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I would take both. deeplearning.ai focuses more on math fundamentals, fast.ai takes a more coding oriented approach. It also has 2 classes: a beginner and advanced one. I personally prefer the fast.ai approach.
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I both make most of my money from time series data and use deep learning and work with data with no labels. Here's a recent presentation I did on some of this work and a companion presentation I encourage people to read on how to use t
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I'll give you that it's not considered "polite" but I guess I should say it's "expected"? Let me correct myself a bit. I guess what I should have said was public places? For example cafes or mcdonalds you
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I'm just going to say (my own experience only: disclaimer), SF is significantly worse. I've lived in tokyo a year now and SF 2.5 years and I don't regret my move at all. The guys lying in the street like that (even if not hom
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Been coming to singapore for the last 2 years, had one customer, came to Japan in equivalent amount of time and Japan won. I had 3x the customers coming from Japan, it might have been a better network upon landing, but in general the recep
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Oh no not at all! It was a fair point. I plan on getting perm residency and using it as my base in asia. I also fly a lot as well. Japan is by far the place I feel at home which is why I advocate so strongly for it. You're right that y
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Depends I guess? I identify more as an expat right now because I don't actually have permanent residency? It really depends on what your definition is I guess. I also don't really feel like I've integrated with the culture. I
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
I've talked to some folks from Fukuoka and it definitely seemed that way when I talked to them. FWIW, JETRO is like that too. A lot of the process happens in Japanese (it's basically only foreigner friendly in name) It's stil
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Great info thanks! My experience comes from MUFG. Other data points are helpful.
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Yes the bank account is hard. I still use my foreign account. I setup my company and then got my bank account. I still don't use it. I'm assuming anyone in this thread looking seriously at japan will be hiring the right operations
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
It can be yes. The govt agencies have their downsides. We worked with jetro (skymind): https://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/topics/companies-chosen-global-i... While it has not been too bad, the paperwork and initial start
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Can confirm this is true. It was easy enough for me to sponsor myself after the company was setup. In my case my first hire helped us set it up, and then he handed director over to me. You obviously have to do this with someone you trust. W
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Silicon valley -> Tokyo expat here. It took me < 2 weeks. This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound. Just like anything, there's right and wrong ways t
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Great response thank you! I won't lie: We definitely have similar issues (I think any infra company runs in to this) Re: Kinetica. They are doing visualization as well as things like machine learning. I like your guys' approach a
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
Indeed typo thanks!
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by agibsonccc 9y ago
This actually looks pretty useful. I'm adjacent to you (DL on hadoop/spark competing more with the just launched amazon sagemaker among other things) and was curious about your go to market strategy. Like us you're kind of st

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