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by benhamner 12y ago
As Uber grows in a city, the average wait time should also decrease pretty dramatically. There are more cars on the road, so a pickup from any given location/time should arrive faster on average than it would two years ago. The precise
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by benhamner 12y ago
$400 per second is about $13 billion per year
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Who are the most promising Series A candidates for 2015?(mattermark.com)
2 points by benhamner 12y ago|0 comments
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by benhamner 12y ago
Communication. Excellent and precise communication.
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by benhamner 12y ago
Set a goal of making a bit of progress every day. Even 10-15 minutes a day adds up over time, and it keeps you in the habit of making ongoing improvements.
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Slingshot: Facebook's new app for ephemeral photos(m.facebook.com)
10 points by benhamner 12y ago|1 comments
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by benhamner 12y ago
This is phenomenal & a huge thanks to YC for promoting this. The massive gender disparity in tech is painfully clear to anyone walking the halls of a SF startup, attending a team meeting at a large corporation, or observing . It is a mu
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DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition [pdf](arxiv.org)
4 points by benhamner 12y ago|0 comments
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Machine Learning Trends from NIPS 2014(blogs.technet.com)
7 points by benhamner 12y ago|1 comments
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by benhamner 12y ago
Congratulations! Y'all have had a wild ride so far, for being among the coolest and most practical companies in the data space
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by benhamner 12y ago
This is consistent with our experience running hundreds of Kaggle competitions: for most classification problems, some variation on ensembled decision trees (random forests, gradient boosted machines, etc.) performs the best. This is typica
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What's wrong with statistics in Julia?(johnmyleswhite.com)
132 points by benhamner 12y ago|52 comments
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by benhamner 12y ago
You mean lie on the resume / hide their level of responsibility? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever (beyond being dishonest, it would likely be surfaced in reference checks and stop a hire). I'd see the startup experience
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by benhamner 12y ago
We use C# and F# extensively at Kaggle: kaggle.com is an ASP.NET MVC app on Azure, and a good portion of our data processing is in C# or F#.
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by benhamner 12y ago
Suggestions for improving the API, to make it more valuable for data mining and analytics. This assumes more historical data is available. 1. Provide a way to bulk download the data (that's a click, instead of scraping the API) 2. Add
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You don't have to be Google to build an artificial brain(wired.com)
1 points by benhamner 12y ago|0 comments
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DataRobot raises $21M Series A(blogs.wsj.com)
81 points by benhamner 12y ago|8 comments
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First Steps with Julia: Character Recognition in Google Street View(kaggle.com)
4 points by benhamner 12y ago|0 comments
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Airware Preps Launch Of Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner(techcrunch.com)
2 points by benhamner 12y ago|1 comments
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by benhamner 12y ago
Make sure you do background checks (references + backchannel).
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by benhamner 12y ago
If this is true, who benefits from leaking it & in what way do they benefit?
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by benhamner 12y ago
There's several factors that make this irrelevant. 1) YC's incentives look very different from VC's: they get common shares, not preferred. This means their incentives are more aligned with the founders than with future inves
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by benhamner 12y ago
"They could reassign some of their brightest engineers to write trading algorithms." Unfortunately for that strategy, their last CEO effectively got rid of all their good machine learning guys.
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Machine Learning Gremlins(youtube.com)
2 points by benhamner 12y ago|0 comments
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by benhamner 13y ago
Text content: http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u (Saw comments that the site went down and still had it loaded on my machine)
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by benhamner 13y ago
>don't understand why anyone would choose top end phones from the brands like Samsung or Apple, if half of the cost of a phone goes to profit their shareholders. When consumers spend money to buy products, where the money goes (wh
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by benhamner 13y ago
Ping me (b@kaggle.com) if you're interested in running this competition more formally on https://kaggle.com . We've run hundreds of machine learning competitions & offer a real-time leaderboard to encourage competit
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by benhamner 13y ago
Ha, potentially. The dangers of drawing conclusions from N=2.
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by benhamner 13y ago
This is an interesting case study in how the submitted headline affects the page's rank on HN. I'd originally submitted this earlier today, with the headline "Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013 Proceedings&quot
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by benhamner 13y ago
I made a nicer version of this to browse for the ICML 2013 papers, based on a similar thing Andrej Karpathy did for the NIPS 2012 papers: http://benhamner.com/icml2013preview/#/ Don't believe anyone's do

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