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by blueyes 7y ago
I think of most in-house corporate lawyers as playing the role of "no men". There job is to highlight risks and stop things from happening. It's a rare lawyer who understands business goals and can balance them against risks.
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by blueyes 7y ago
Public clouds: The new Comcast.
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by blueyes 7y ago
Old news from a major source of AI hype. Here's some previous results https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/11/ai-outperform...
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by blueyes 7y ago
One aspect that's not emphasized here is that _the drones are also tracking the police_. It's a redundant system for body cams.
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by blueyes 7y ago
You could argue that the pursuit of leisure created Silicon Valley as we know it. Atari was a gaming company. Apple's founders cut their teeth there. And the Apple II was largely bought because it supported games. I think this is one s
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by blueyes 7y ago
I have worked remotely and also managed a remote team. There are causes of remote work that I consider positive, and causes I consider negative. The positive causes are that companies have access to a much wider pool of talent all over the
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by blueyes 8y ago
Two additional pieces of information would be necessary to know if the author got a good deal: 1) How long was he there before he cashed out? (The amount of equity isn't just about the grant, it's about whether you stay for the ve
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by blueyes 8y ago
I've read about this before, and I think it's true. But has the phenomenon been examined in context? By that I mean: let's say someone becomes wealthy or powerful, and they are known to be wealthy or powerful. The nature of t
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by blueyes 8y ago
Good point. Maybe that's just as easy. We see companies with on-prem Spark clusters telling us that we're the easiest way to do DL there. Enterprise clients are doing a lot on prem, and their future is probably hybrid for a long t
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by blueyes 8y ago
No. Knock on wood.
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by blueyes 8y ago
DL4J is one of the easiest ways to add deep learning to a Spark cluster. https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/deeplearning4j-scaleo... You can also import Keras models to train them on a Spark cluster with DL4J:
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by blueyes 8y ago
Any one interested in our code can try out a live demo on Katacoda: https://www.katacoda.com/skymind/ Fwiw, the Skymind team built Deeplearning4j, is the second-largest contributor to Keras after Google, and the sole m
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Skymind (YC W16) raises $11.5M to bring deep learning to more enterprises(techcrunch.com)
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by blueyes 8y ago
Some other nice intro to ML pieces on the same wiki: Deep RL https://skymind.ai/wiki/deep-reinforcement-learning GANs https://skymind.ai/wiki/generative-adversarial-network-gan Neural Networks and
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by blueyes 8y ago
Stalin is supposed to have said: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." Khashoggi's murder had emotional force, while the war in Yemen did not, because the media was able to focus on one pe
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by blueyes 8y ago
Unfortunately, we're in a system with asymmetric incentives for product development. Products that addict us get more of our time and attention, and therefore higher DAU, VC funding and ad dollars. Products that help us fight addiction
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by blueyes 8y ago
That's great, but that's not the essential point for us. with cuBLAS, there is no room for an output layout argument. transpose is the only option. cublasStatus_t cublasSgemm(cublasHandle_t handle, cubla
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by blueyes 8y ago
TL/DR In Nd4j, historically, mmuli returns an F-ordered array. If you specify C-ordered result, you'll have F->C conversion underneath, and C -> F assign takes time. ND4J returns the `mmuli` result in F order, and DL$J is aw
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by blueyes 8y ago
Chatbots proposed to solve a problem that current technology is bad at: understanding natural language. Very few experts claimed that algorithms could master the combinatorics of natural language beyond a few very narrow domains. On top of
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E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops (1908)(archive.ncsa.illinois.edu)
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by blueyes 8y ago
Joel Spolsky addressed this, much more insightfully, in one of his early strategy letters: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-... There are real reasons why companies like MoviePass e
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Tech companies try to retrain the workers they're displacing(wired.com)
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Alexis Ohanian Talks Reddit, Serena Williams and Metallica(nytimes.com)
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by blueyes 9y ago
There's a lot of evidence that a large part of the NYTimes revenue surge is a "Trump bump", and that, more broadly, there are way too many media outlets offering free content for the same limited number of eyeballs, and they&
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by blueyes 9y ago
> Starting from 1.6 release, our prebuilt binaries will use AVX instructions. This may break TF on older CPUs.
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Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle(rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by blueyes 9y ago
UBJ requires a huge bureaucracy that UBI does not. The real basic jobs will be the people administering the program, rather than the poor who were initially targeted.
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by blueyes 9y ago
This reminds me of the seasons Gary Snyder spent in a fire tower in the Pacific Northwest: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47182/mid-august-at-s...
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by blueyes 9y ago
You're right, I should have toned down the first sentence a little bit. I hope that young women working in Silicon Valley will read this article and make better decisions for themselves. Each new generation has to learn the ways of the
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by blueyes 9y ago
This is a nothing burger of an article. It's about consensual drug use and sex among adults. It happens to involve rich and powerful people who (gasp) can throw these kinds of parties. In any unequal society, there will be people who a

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