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by argonaut 10y ago
Again, Palantir is not an AI company. They are a data visualization and analytics company. So all your perfectly fine points about ontologies and AI winter are not relevant.
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by argonaut 10y ago
They have core tools, but obviously the majority of their code is bridging the core tools and their client's services. Are you kidding me? If that extremely-slick dashboard (I hadn't seen it before) is representative of the qualit
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Quick Facts on the Google Brain AMA(thundergolfer.github.io)
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by argonaut 10y ago
Going off akhilcacharya's point, some of the best CS college classmates I knew went to Palantir after graduation.
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by argonaut 10y ago
> The real money is in the integration, ETL, ontology consulting service bit and so anybody could really build a company around that stuff. Yes, and that stuff takes years to build. You're missing the whole point of Palantir when yo
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by argonaut 10y ago
There is nothing wrong with the ontologies approach. Palantir is not aiming for a fully automated approach. Palantir's core product is a an entity graph mostly used and manipulated by humans for analysis. Basically their software is
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by argonaut 10y ago
Agreed with ufmace. It's more likely than not that the NBT is something nobody on this thread has mentioned. History proves this point over and over again - smartphones were not the clear NBT in 2006, social media wasn't the NBT i
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by argonaut 10y ago
Can you provide any examples of blind (from birth) authors giving convincing visual descriptions from the points of view of sighted characters? That seems hard to believe.
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by argonaut 10y ago
On a meta level, "I've known great engineers who were self-taught and terrible engineers with CS degrees" is a recurring meme in these discussions that really adds no information to the thread - it's obvious, and it&#x27
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by argonaut 10y ago
Security is not a required class for pretty much all CS degrees, including at other top CS schools like MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. And from my experience, academics at these schools know exactly what professional practice is, given how
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by argonaut 10y ago
It's reasonable from several different angles. Economics: The goods are priced lower than the competition. You don't negotiate prices against yourself . ROI: as aianus mentions. Affordability: it's about the same cost as a c
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by argonaut 10y ago
After 3.75 years of work experience, most of them will almost certainly be making more than a recent college grad.
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by argonaut 10y ago
A semester of tuition at a top-50 private university is $20-25k. Seems reasonable.
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by argonaut 10y ago
An ex-Amazon engineer at a top tech company told me he felt that his current colleagues were higher-caliber than his colleagues at Amazon, and that many candidates that were rejected would have been accepted by Amazon. So that's a poss
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by argonaut 10y ago
So a blind person would never be able to understand the different categories of color (other than that they are placeholders for distinct categories of something). Now we are just speculating. We believe a computer might be able to unders
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're reading the table (egregiously) wrong. It says around 2.7 million people work for the executive branch of government. That is about 1.8% of the employed US workforce. 2700 doesn't pass the smell test, anyways.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes they are. However, is a blind, deaf, person with absolutely no motor control, no sense of touch, and no proprioception intelligent? Unclear. They certainly have no language faculties.
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by argonaut 10y ago
What PeCaN is driving at, is that saying something like you "have no doubt that it will revolutionize the entire field," is simply hyperbole that is not supported. We'll see. Nervana didn't really gain that much traction
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by argonaut 10y ago
Funnily enough, Walmart Labs was the result of an acquisition.
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by argonaut 10y ago
The WSJ didn't present the paper as peer-reviewed fact. It's also not like Piketty's book was peer-reviewed either...
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by argonaut 10y ago
My 50-something year-old parents use Airbnb. So no.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Virtually every ML paper is posted on arxiv before conferences.
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by argonaut 10y ago
*completely fail
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by argonaut 10y ago
Most people in this thread are missing the fact that use of your genetic info for research purposes by 23andme is opt-in . And their privacy statements indicate the same would hold for other uses.
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by argonaut 10y ago
> are clearly still abysmal in almost all markets. Obviously we can't take their statements at face value, but Uber seems to be claiming they are profitable in most markets.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You answered your own question? You don't - it's sunk costs.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Then would know that visual question answering performs quite poorly. It makes for a nice demo, but it's trivial/quick/easy to find entire areas of questions where the models completely. The questions have to be worded very c
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by argonaut 10y ago
Playing video games. Even reading HN/Twitter is more productive than playing video games.
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by argonaut 10y ago
This is all good. It justifies a technical report, a blog post, a workshop paper, or publication in venues looking for this kind of owrk. It doesn't necessarily justify publication in a venue looking for totally new ideas.
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by argonaut 10y ago
People avoid ensembles, unless they're trying to squeeze out higher performance on a benchmark (or they're doing research on the technique of ensembling in of itself). I would have thought this would be obvious to you, since you

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