bjoernbu

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by bjoernbu 5y ago
For me there is one thing that works so much better than anything else: new goals. To the end of my PhD, that meant to just suckt it up and finish the work despite low motivation and frankly also workweeks far below 40h. Later in life, moti
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by bjoernbu 5y ago
If I think of myself as a user, that is spot on for information/entertainment, but far from the truth for products. The most extreme examples being everyone using "$THING Wikipedia" but nobody I know using "$THING Amazon
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by bjoernbu 6y ago
How exactly could this be done reliably? With shorts you have to commit to a timeframe for not only finding evidence to reject the claim but also for the news to break and convince other investors. Meanwhile you can be targetted by financia
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by bjoernbu 6y ago
There may be a lot of uncerntainty in Data Science and ML projects. However, recently I started feeling like I actually have it better than someone from pure software engineering sides of things: For either, there is often a function from t
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by bjoernbu 6y ago
I really wonder about the charging infrastrucuture. I guess it is doable and a necessary transmission, but I am a bit afraid it may be the next thing some countries are sleeping on. As a German, there are serious subsidies for home owners t
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by bjoernbu 6y ago
Zalando seems really nice. I have no connections at all, but they really won me as a loyal customer because I really prefer the experience over all alternatives (especially including Amazon and local stores for everything except really pric
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by bjoernbu 6y ago
Mostly doing several kinds of NLP: My actual setup is a Windows Laptop to SSH into Linux machines w/ tmux session. However, I really appreciate WSL for working offline, etc. My main reason: It is the most convenient way to have Unix to
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by bjoernbu 7y ago
While there may be several things missing for many productive use cases (especially inserts/updates), I think QLever ( https://github.com/ad-freiburg/QLever ) fits that description very well. There's also a pub
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by bjoernbu 7y ago
We're actually using fastai in production and will happily switch to v2. Sure, there are serious questions about long-term stability and we know these projects will be high maintenance. However, they would be anyway: Core models and al
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by bjoernbu 7y ago
We have had "good" (maybe not BERT/XLNet'ish levels of quality) results using ULMFit. I.e., on almost all problems we got better results than our previous best approaches (mostly LSTM/CNN and self-attention à la ht
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by bjoernbu 7y ago
Imho it has gone further. In a way, all the things described as not actually AI now "are" AI, because the term AI has been used in that way so many times. I don't think we'll ever use a better (more accurate) term for th
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by bjoernbu 8y ago
> The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race. I would expect that this will remain a per-task question for a very long time, maybe even forever. For example, I w
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by bjoernbu 9y ago
Serious question by someone who's not into this kind of stats too much: What would happen if you took a big set of Facebook profiles and train some (the same if you wanna) CNN to classify picture->f for each f in profile features. S
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by bjoernbu 9y ago
Imho, it's more typical of machine learning. Sure, both can be very similar and are often signs of a lack of deeper understanding. I'm no ML expert by any means, but I've seen several bachelor/master thesis and even ML c
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by bjoernbu 11y ago
As a user that probably contributes a lot to the trends observed in the article, I think I can explain my user-behavior pretty well. I really need about ~5 apps on my phone (browser, mail, alarm, somehow whatsapp managed to become one of th
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by bjoernbu 12y ago
Yes, that was what i was looking for, thanks. I was interested in details on the evaluation and why the Stanford parser is still widely accepted as state-of-art, especially by non-NLP researchers that want to try some NLP features to work w
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by bjoernbu 12y ago
I couldn't find any publication on the RedShift system that is part of the author's current work. Any pointers?
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by bjoernbu 13y ago
as someone who does very, very little on the side of frontends, i think your time is still invested into a transferable skill that i miss out on: (frontend) framework design, paradigms and trends. If the stable point you mention will eventu
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by bjoernbu 13y ago
So which hit should google show for a query like "the fox lyrics"? Of course, it should be a page that contains the lyrics, but which one? The most popular one? The one shown by google will be the most popular one. From an IR pers
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by bjoernbu 13y ago
I'm currently a C++ programmer that does not intend to change to go because I want to have exquisit control. However, this is not because of my views or something like that but because I'm only a C++ programmer at the moment, beca
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by bjoernbu 14y ago
The HN headline is somewhat misleading. It is different from the original article and I was expecting some neat techniques to overcome the typical memory issues: Everything is an object, generics need wrapper classes, padding everywhere. Th
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by bjoernbu 14y ago
While peer review is flawed in so many ways and neither all papers accepted at top conferences are good, nor all good papers get accepted, it has still some meaning. When deciding which paper to read, it can be a great hit where it was publ
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by bjoernbu 14y ago
My peers often work from home. Personally, I rarely do it because I like the different environment for productivity. At home there is always distraction. While it certainly is a good thing to allow and support working remote, I cannot deny
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by bjoernbu 14y ago
Why is this supposed to be such a big deal? The second example uses the language's features to be able to use shorter code. Usually there are countless possibilities for the exact same thing in every program. Personally, I would never say
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by bjoernbu 14y ago
let's say you write a search engine, a route planning system, a database, rule-based NLP (for most ML-based approaches fast, native math libs + python may be great enough because nearly all the time is spent in the math part) on HUGE datase
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Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now)(panarmenian.net)
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by bjoernbu 15y ago
... is as incomplete as most lists are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths is missing, for instance.
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by bjoernbu 15y ago
Since the price is not proportional to the number of passengers, I assume there are only x seats at the displayed price. Still misleading but not es "evil" as otherwise. PS: I kinda take the word "algorithm" in teh lheadline as link bait. W
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by bjoernbu 15y ago
Really awesome writeup. Easy to understand, very clear and full of valueable information. However, I really wonder aout one thing (not just because of this artcle but it reminded me): When exactly are move semantics and rvalue references us
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by bjoernbu 15y ago
Since I don't use torrents at all (unless if software uses it for updates but I am not aware of anything I currently use that does), it might not be too interesting. However, the next time I share WiFi with someone, this may be quite useful

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