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by avinium 8y ago
There's always a trade-off between exploration/exploitation - in any optimization, we're incapable of enumerating every path to our intended goal or the associated cost. We need some time to experiment, fail and learn - and u
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This looks really interesting - but I have to admit it's gone completely over my head. Can someone break this down into simpler terms?
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by avinium 8y ago
Great article and spot on for anyone who's ever dipped their toe into the waters of selling to enterprises. It's a draining and frustrating experience. The problem - as the author mentions - is that it can be so incredibly lucrati
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by avinium 8y ago
That looks great - must have overlooked that last time I checked.
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by avinium 8y ago
Yeah, this has been my experience. I haven't had a build agent disappear, but lack of build caching is very frustrating. The hosted build agents are slow to begin with, let alone needing 5 minutes for every build to restore packages. A
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by avinium 8y ago
Searching from Melbourne, Australia. Screenshot here: https://imagebin.ca/v/4UYChGqqIEQy (The ad is geolocating correctly, but the first actual search result is "Melbourne Brevard County Florida")
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by avinium 8y ago
Not quite. Unsupervised learning implies that there are no human-annotated labels whatsoever (in this context, meaning that the model had no paired translations at all). Zero-shot learning (usually) means that the model can generalize learn
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by avinium 8y ago
It's a catch-all term for "learning to solve a task without seeing any specific training examples for that task." In this context, it's learning to translate from (say) Czech to Urdu, without ever having been explicitly
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by avinium 8y ago
I think most ML-derived languages strike the right balance - functional languages that incorporate enough OOP principles to get things done in the real world. I increasingly advocate F#, and many people recommend Elixir for these purposes t
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by avinium 8y ago
FWIW, I do recall DDG regularly giving me results for Melbourne, Florida (when I actually want Melbourne, Australia). E.g. if I search for <a href=' https://duckduckgo.com/?q=melbourne+restaurant&t=ffab&atb=v1
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by avinium 8y ago
In your view, why didn't it work out?
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Said tools exist, though they're not particularly successful. Word is just too easy to use - even if the replacement is 5% better (which is unlikely), that's not enough to prompt a shift.
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by avinium 8y ago
Oh wow - wasn't even aware of this. Will check it out :)
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by avinium 8y ago
I've been slowly migrating from C# to F# for our automation assistant ( https://lexico.io - not yet usable yet but will be soon), and like the top comment here, my only regret is that I didn't do so sooner. Functional l
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by avinium 8y ago
Tensorflow, I can understand - I imagine the rampant popularity of pytorch shows we're not alone. What's your issue with Golang though?
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by avinium 8y ago
> IMHO F# has the potential to be WAY more friendly for prototyping and more. It's all a matter of the libs. Yeah, I've been dropping down to Visual Studio's F# console regularly to test things in a REPL-like environment.
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by avinium 8y ago
Microsoft's deep learning "train/inference" framework is CNTK, which exists alongside ML.NET (although as it's sorely lagging other deep learning frameworks and I'm convinced it's not a priority for Micros
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by avinium 8y ago
Nice to read about building an MVP, but A) the edit at the bottom of the article disproves his point. The competitor managed to get back online and increase to 2m users. Tech stack was irrelevant B) 2.5 years later and there seems to be no
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by avinium 8y ago
Spot on. It's such a fascinating dynamic - on the one hand, you've got large players with incredibly deep pockets, coasting on market inertia despite utterly dysfunctional internal structures. On the other, you've got small,
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by avinium 8y ago
You didn't read to the end. The author recognizes this as patently bad advice, and was glad to have received it so he was conscious of what not to do.
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by avinium 8y ago
> Once you know something will work, there’s a HUGE amount of groundwork to get social traction for a change. Without it, you’ll get the change but not the “team progress”. You're not wrong, but equally I'd argue that if you ne
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by avinium 8y ago
FYI the Slack trigger -> Add Slack integration page seems to be broken (at least in Firefox), I get a blank page with the following console error: https://pastebin.com/uRAuLuB9
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by avinium 8y ago
> Unfortunately after writing this, I realized it's all about the customer base so never mind. Actually, can someone create Customer Base as a Service (CBaaS) to facilitate connecting startups with customers? Someone did. It's
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by avinium 8y ago
The poster children of the dotcom boom certainly were - pets.com, webvan, etoys.com (though I can't say with 100% certainty they were all specifically listed on NASDAQ). It was the IPOs that drove the boom (and subsequent bust). Public
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by avinium 8y ago
As far as I know, there are no "AI" companies listed on the NASDAQ. Of course, there are listed companies with significant AI investments. But I'd argue their valuations are driven by their existing/conventional/ad-
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by avinium 8y ago
Wow, I had no idea that this was the origin of DeepMind. Intriguing background.
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I'm not saying Facebook mobile, I'm saying I think the iPhone made a huge impact in driving internet consumption into the public consciousness.
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by avinium 8y ago
I always saw Facebook's enormous success as very much "right place, right time". I feel that 2007 was a massive shift in internet consumption habits/demographic. Prior to this, it was still relatively young/geeky -
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by avinium 8y ago
Great article and appreciate the transparency/honesty. FYI the link in your profile (www.reboot.love) isn't working - outdated?
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by avinium 8y ago
> You still have a boss, the fact that it is you helps with fewer things than one would think. Worse yet, you now need to satisfy customers. Not that that's inherently bad. In hindsight, though, it certainly lets you appreciate the

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