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by ar7hur 6y ago
Yes, Yann and another machine learning celebrity: Leon Bottou!
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What GPT-3 thinks of what Yann LeCun thinks of GPT-3(twitter.com)
13 points by ar7hur 6y ago|6 comments
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by ar7hur 6y ago
In some cases the line is probably thin between "wealthy Chinese trying to park their money outside of China" and "money laundering"
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Yann LeCun on GPT-3(facebook.com)
277 points by ar7hur 6y ago|241 comments
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by ar7hur 6y ago
Alternative title: "How one line of code made our build time 100x what it should have been"
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by ar7hur 6y ago
I'm also wondering if it's more strategic to have the top level (navigation etc.) in SwiftUI and lower levels in UIKit, or the reverse?
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VC Speak(twitter.com)
33 points by ar7hur 7y ago|5 comments
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Why Did Microsoft Fund an Israeli Firm That Surveils West Bank Palestinians?(twitter.com)
2 points by ar7hur 7y ago|0 comments
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by ar7hur 7y ago
I had at few meetings with Zuck at Facebook after Wit.ai was acquired in 2015. To me, the real version is at least as impressive as the movie version. Then, of course, maybe was I biased by the movie and everything else I already heard abou
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by ar7hur 7y ago
The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sente
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by ar7hur 7y ago
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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by ar7hur 7y ago
Also: https://github.com/facebook/duckling
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Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager(a16z.com)
2 points by ar7hur 7y ago|0 comments
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by ar7hur 7y ago
The current Clojure version is quite stable, we used it at wit.ai/Facebook for several years before moving to Haskell. I'd love to see somebody taking over and resuscitate it! One interesting direction could be to remove Java depe
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by ar7hur 7y ago
It's exactly how we used it internally for wit.ai (Very small correction: Duckling is rule-based but uses a super simple Naive Bayes classifier to prioritize between the many potential parses produced by the rules -- we see it as a hyb
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by ar7hur 7y ago
Yes all the training data is in the repo. Duckling is relevant to parse very structured language, typically temporal expressions (dates and times...). It relies on a mix of rules and machine learning. Rules and datasets for many (human) lan
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by ar7hur 7y ago
Hello HN, I'm the original author of Duckling (with @blandinw). As usual, always happy to get feedback and suggestions.
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by ar7hur 8y ago
a16z ("our" partner was Chris Dixon) led our seed round at Wit.ai. Working with them on a day-to-day basis was an incredible experience. They never asked for anything, but were always ready to jump in instantly when we needed anyt
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by ar7hur 8y ago
... or so says Durov, CEO of Telegram, without providing any way to fact-check his affirmation. I admire the PR stunt.
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by ar7hur 8y ago
OP was quoting Alex.
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by ar7hur 8y ago
[Shameless plug] My own take on the birth, evolution and Mao's simplification of Chinese writing: https://al3x.svbtle.com/on-chinese-writing-1
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YC Interviews for Foreign Founders(al3x.svbtle.com)
3 points by ar7hur 8y ago|0 comments
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by ar7hur 8y ago
Self-promoting our own Duckling https://duckling.wit.ai/ which has rules, but "prioritized" by ML -- and BSD license.
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by ar7hur 8y ago
+1 for Fastmail with my own domain, I've used it for 4 years.
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by ar7hur 8y ago
From the terms: By applying to Yellow, you agree to irrevocably waive any legal claim you may have against us under any theory of law in any territory, including, without limitation, copyright infringement or breach of implied
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GoPro quits the drone business(theverge.com)
135 points by ar7hur 9y ago|60 comments
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by ar7hur 9y ago
I would do something like this: 1. Get a few thousands book titles that are "long enough" so that the probability they appear in a sentence without meaning the book is low 2. Search these spans in HN comments and use this corpus t
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by ar7hur 9y ago
Author here: you're absolutely right. My tone when I wrote "weirdness" was supposed to be 2nd-degree :)
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by ar7hur 9y ago
Author here, I just discovered this was posted on HN. Please note that it's episode 2 of a "series", the first episode is https://al3x.svbtle.com/on-chinese-writing-1 Thanks for your interesting comments!
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The long game towards understanding dialog(research.fb.com)
1 points by ar7hur 9y ago|0 comments

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