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by argonaut 10y ago
My guess is that's cheaper to ship via containers (over sea).
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by argonaut 10y ago
How does my post make it sound like a bad thing? My tone is completely neutral. I was explaining why there are so many employees.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Valve does not rely on advertising, and therefore does not require hundreds of salespeople, marketers, and ad account managers.
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by argonaut 10y ago
The poster's wording is deeply vitriolic. If you can't see that points to some abnormal issues (either with them or with their particular company) then I'm not sure what to say. Out of curiosity, have you ever worked at a c
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by argonaut 10y ago
Airbnb was 2 designers, 1 technical.
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by argonaut 10y ago
It's one thing to say "parties aren't my thing," "I don't like talking to lots of people," and so on. It's another thing to talk about a "carefully crafted image is being presented to manipulate
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by argonaut 10y ago
That is valuable for advertising. It is of marginal value for users. Being able to stalk someone's history is not the main use case for Facebook/Instagram. My point is that the same friend network effects that Facebook/IG emj
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by argonaut 10y ago
If they have zero user lock-in, then Instagram/Facebook have zero user lock-in too.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that Twitter ads are not very valuable. Empirically, advertising is the one area of Twitter that's growing (total revenue, revenue per user, etc.). Its their user growth that has st
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're both right and wrong. No credible machine learning researcher will tell you that deep learning has totally solved "generalizable" computer vision. The only people claiming such a broad statement are usually the media o
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by argonaut 10y ago
Not just POTUS. You'd also need Congressmen/women, non-profits, journalists, etc.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I mean, that's exactly what they're talking about. You can't just exclude one of the most impactful topics of global discussion (US politics). The fact of the matter is Twitter has a tremendously disproportionate impact on US
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by argonaut 10y ago
This isn't an example of Braess' paradox.
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by argonaut 10y ago
But in many areas of medicine, solutions have existed that outperform humans for years (not related to current deep learning wave). Yet they were not implemented for regulatory/legal reasons.
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by argonaut 10y ago
It doesn't explain why it learns anything in the first place (e.g. why it doesn't just overfit from the start; or learn some weak signals, then start overfitting).
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by argonaut 10y ago
> I believe the reason this is happening is that given training data composed of structured images, the convolutional architecture heavily favors learning filters which reflect geometric features, as opposed to random filters which can
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by argonaut 10y ago
I'm curious what background you have in ML. "The difficulty in machine learning was always in the noisy and unstructured datasets like images" is truly a baffling statement to make.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I don't think they're just listing the top 3 conferences. It seems they're listing the conferences that are considered " top " tier conferences - e.g. venues that would "count" for graduation as a PhD stud
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by argonaut 10y ago
It's unfortunate that this might seem esoteric / insider-baseball to non-academics, but researchers in CS know exactly which are the top conferences. There is actually very little ambiguity. Looking at the list, the entries for
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by argonaut 10y ago
As someone who went to a top-4 CS uni, there is nothing wrong with this. The professors who are co-authors on over 40 papers head their own labs. They have multiple groups of grad students / postdocs working under them, mostly indepen
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes, but using an SVM or whatever at the end of a deep network only really works for the same domains that deep networks work well in already - typically audio/visual data and some language datasets.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Completely wrong way to think about it. In fact, those companies are cases of fraud and lying , and we generally do not assume companies lie. When Google releases their quarterly earnings, we assume the numbers are correct, unless there
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by argonaut 10y ago
Whatsapp was also never profitable either. They almost didn't even bother to make money (the subscription thing is a misnomer since they waived it left and right). And by their own admission, they intentionally tried to slow user growt
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by argonaut 10y ago
1. There are also stories (last 24 hours). These are often video clips. 2. Like Whatsapp, server has to store the message until the receiver is online again (until they open the app). 3. Whatever systems they use for advertising, tracking,
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by argonaut 10y ago
If you use shampoo, it's not idempotent. Over-shampooing hair dries out your scalp. A nontrivial number of guys with dandruff could benefit from shampooing less often.
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by argonaut 10y ago
No, that's not the tl;dr.
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by argonaut 10y ago
> virtue signaling via acquisitions though. This makes no sense.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Not sure why the other comment is being downvoted. You are looking at a talk given at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing . I'd be more worried if there wasn't any math. If I wanted a newbie intro to operating system
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by argonaut 10y ago
I've been on HN for years. Scala has been widely criticized with these exact same criticisms for years. These are all legitimate issues people have, even if you don't think they're valid.
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by argonaut 10y ago
> I studied Scala and FP > Bi-weekly we have a book club where we take turns presenting a topic from functional programming in Scala, functional reactive domain modelling and others. I think this is precisely why a former eng director

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