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by bhntr3 7y ago
I agree that the author's perspective is very privileged. The terms powerless and trapped are nearly synonyms. Yet he overvalues freedom and says power is overrated. I think a more interesting statement might be that wielding power i
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by bhntr3 7y ago
Thank you! Yeah, I think Dunbar's number has been proven experimentally. Of course I'm probably guilty of applying it too liberally outside of the limited contexts in which the science has proven it (the pitfall of pop psychology&
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by bhntr3 7y ago
I wrote this paper for a class at university in 2002 that relates to some of what you're saying: https://web.stanford.edu/class/symbsys205/facetoface.html It's funny to read now because it predated socia
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by bhntr3 8y ago
Great points. I agree the critical and biggest innovation is building a secure environment inside the browser. When I explored keyboard/mouse biometrics it was for detecting account theft which is a bit different. If they have a way to
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by bhntr3 8y ago
I haven't seen any mention of keystroke (or mouse) biometrics ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics ) When the checkbox appeared I assumed that was what it was. Keep a history of the biometrics of the
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by bhntr3 8y ago
> the public is skeptical regarding fission for good reason: history has not been kind to the kind of disasters fission reactors have wrought. It's not just that! I was pro-fission until someone educated me how horribly irresponsibl
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by bhntr3 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu... Unfortunately the marshmallow test as a predictor of later success is debunked. It's part of the replication crisis in psychology. Hal
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by bhntr3 9y ago
> There is nothing inherently special about someone who runs a small vs. big company, except for experience. I think the question is, given that someone can do one of those things really well, how likely is it that the same person can do
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by bhntr3 9y ago
import cPickle def transform(data): with open('my.pkl', 'r') as f: model = cPickle.load(f) return model.predict(data)
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by bhntr3 9y ago
About the wireless approach, Monkeybrains ( https://www.monkeybrains.net/residential.php ) in SF seems to do this. I believe I read somewhere that they're planning on replacing the wireless stuff with fiber for areas whe
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by bhntr3 9y ago
Yeah, what's the problem this solves? Here's one it could (but doesn't quite) solve. At my office everyone carries around their laptop and is constantly trying to get it to work with the telecomm and video software. Some peop
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by bhntr3 9y ago
Is life riding a one trick pony?! (Evolution) The title is just clickbait. Finding the simplest formula or equation for a process or phenomenon is the goal of a lot of scientists. Backprop may not be that simplest equation. But actually f
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by bhntr3 9y ago
Yeah. This is showy and really cool. But it seems kind of unnecessary to make it "a map" In terms of solving real problems, I don't see it as functionally any better than a list ordered by distance with a small compass showin
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by bhntr3 9y ago
Yeah. Python is pretty standard now. To implement high throughput scoring on models written in python, I have to run multiple processes with one copy of the python model for each process. For large models like random forests, this can eat u
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by bhntr3 9y ago
This was fun. It's our intern's last day on the ML infra team here. And he happens to be a competitive collegiate DOTA player. We were all crowded around watching the screen, shouting. Couldn't have planned a better send off.
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by bhntr3 9y ago
https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
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by bhntr3 9y ago
Yep. I asked about work life balance when evaluating offers and my future manager told me "Just look at the delta between when breakfast ends and dinner starts. For us, it's 8 hours. For Uber, it's something like 11."
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by bhntr3 10y ago
Best blog I've read in a long time! <3 > By consistently exhibiting a few simple behaviors, one can at least look like a kind and decent person. Maybe someday we all actually will be. The best thing about this is that we will! Mi
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by bhntr3 10y ago
You're getting teased a bit but I think this is a very smart thing to do. The automatic processes of our brain dominate the majority of our behavior. If you're a deep thinker who often ties up his attentive thread thinking throug
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by bhntr3 10y ago
People sometimes tease me for reviewing my own pull requests. But I am a big believer in roles. The reviewer role is different than the creator role. When I mentally switch, through the priming mechanism of my code review tool, I am often
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by bhntr3 10y ago
Yeah, the meaning has shifted. It used to be that if people knew you were trolling, you weren't a good troll. Now a troll is just an asshole on the internet.
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by bhntr3 10y ago
Option 3 is to re-train. Every time we see a woman of color think to ourselves "She's probably a powerful executive" and every time we see a white man in a suit we think "he's probably an executive assistant."
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by bhntr3 10y ago
When I joined Airbnb, we did something similar with PMML on the risk team. The issue I had with PMML is that sometimes the scores would differ in weird ways due to the differences in the model implementation. Also, it limited what models w
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by bhntr3 10y ago
Hadoop and HBase are very different from mysql. Those run on yarn and are designed for containers. > Any regular relational database should be pretty close to automated failover In my experience, most people who work with mysql would not
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by bhntr3 10y ago
I wonder if "took courses" could be a stand in for "prepared heavily". It seems like people with all the other attributes might think they didn't need to study. People without them might think they did and took cour
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by bhntr3 10y ago
> a grey t-shirt cannon would require hardware modifications to work This almost felt like satire but in the best way possible.
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by bhntr3 10y ago
What happened to worst case analysis? Don't we all know the flaws of best case? I think (and I could be wrong) that there are many more cases where conservative driving is safer than aggressive driving. In a lot of the cases mentioned,
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by bhntr3 10y ago
My scuba instructor shared this piece of wisdom: "You don't have to swim faster than the shark. You just need to swim faster than your buddy." People get this stuff wrong all the time. Especially when they're drunk, ti
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by bhntr3 10y ago
I've looked at the code and messed around with arrow. It seems like a performance optimization that solves a small sliver of the problem. It could help with the parquet/thrift version issues they mentioned. But I don't see an
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by bhntr3 10y ago
Seems like a pretty typical set of problems. Dependency conflicts hard. Schema evolution hard. Upgrades hard. The big data space still feels like an overengineered, fractured, buggy mess to me. I was hoping spark would simplify the user exp

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