albacur

7 ms·

31.
by albacur 6y ago
By that logic, if they saw a surge of interest in white-owned businesses, it would be justified adding a “white-owned business” label. I think we can say “segregating people based on skin color is wrong in principle,” or “segregating people
32.
by albacur 6y ago
And native peoples don’t get labels on their businesses, despite centuries of mistreatment. Growth of Hispanic-owned businesses has been slow In the US, and it’s likely caused by socioeconomic conditions. Should these groups get a special l
33.
by albacur 7y ago
We already receive many rich and many destitute immigrants. Maybe we should start immigrating in a middle class.
34.
by albacur 8y ago
#1 held: we defined the tasks required to solve the problem at hand, and focused in on them. #2 held: the teams were fairly small and homogenous. #3 held, mostly. The project lead would occasionally withhold potentially-useful information,
35.
by albacur 8y ago
I’m surprised that they put toy example, imagenet, and RL results in the body of the paper, but object detection results are relegated to the appendix. Is their object detection result significant? If so, why not give more attention to it?
36.
by albacur 8y ago
I’ve seen flat organization work well at one organization, essentially a consulting firm where we worked on short-lived projects. Teams had to assemble and disassemble within a span of two or three years. It really worked well, in retrospec
37.
by albacur 8y ago
The 100 GPUs remark is an aside, but still somewhat significant. It’s a tremendous amount of computing power to show a negative result that the authors don’t even really acknowledge as a negative result. There is a common issue with deep le
38.
by albacur 8y ago
I took finasteride for about 4 years. I didn’t experience any immediate side effects but gradually I lost interest in sex and got sexual side effects. Things did not go back to normal after discontinuing the drug. This was in my late 20s. I
39.
by albacur 8y ago
This has typically been my experience. If I ask for a raise, my employer does not have the resources, their hands are tied, there’s absolutely nothing they can do. Then when I find another job, suddenly they find money, can match any offer,