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by bluishgreen 11y ago
Fellow transplant here, if anything the US immigration system actively discourages people with options (smart folks who can focus and work hard for 5-7 years) from coming to the US. What brings/keeps them here is the network effect. Th
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by bluishgreen 11y ago
Holy negativity batman! This is a great collections of essays, I'd say bed time reading for the budding entrepreneur and/or VC. Ignore (or misunderstand) at your own peril.
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by bluishgreen 11y ago
Based on the two kids shown in the video being black, I did a quick google search. Seem's to be true in general.. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/15/in-pool...
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by bluishgreen 11y ago
Can I make a script out of the learned transform operation? Ideally it will be a function that I can paste into some script, and call map on each row.
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
SVDs are as basic as hash-tables are to programming. That would probably be the second thing people learn right after learning how to do some basic regression analysis.
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
To all the naysayers, I say this: Think of this as a data forensics effort rather than just some kind of look up table. When you have massive amounts of data, you can do simple checkpoints like amount of money flowing into any point in the
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
I see what you did there, mentioning uber and tesla in the same sentence.
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
"ethic-neuveau-ghettos .. insulating themselves rather than assimilating" Usually the kids assimilate pretty well, and thats mostly how it works, has always worked with non-europeans. You can't expect these people to wake up
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
Autodesk is hiring across the board at the San Francisco office. Look here for details: http://careers.autodesk.com/san-francisco,-ca-jobs (currently site is undergoing maintenance, check back in a bit) You can email me dir
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
About libdeep: Would be very useful if you had the man page inserted into the README. This way I can make a decision as to if I need this library without having to download/install.
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
Do you know of any other system that gets ~14% error rate on the IMAGENET dataset? The next best system as recent as 2012 was doing ~26% error. That is a pretty big gap, especially considering IMAGENET is a million image data set. (btw did
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by bluishgreen 12y ago
Just a friendly note, a lot of you are using external links from paste-bin or with a google link shortner etc. HN automatically marks posts with these links as dead.
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
You could say the same thing about immigration, and infact you should. That comparison I feel, brings out the explosive politics that is behind these kinds of policies.
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
"Knowledge dominates IQ" - along this lines, recently I have come to accept the idea "Speed dominates IQ": To explain it briefly, some one who can build fast and deploy can learn more as they come into contact with unkno
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
(keywords: Intern, Data Science, Scientist, Statistics, Machine Learning, San Francisco, AUTODESK, will relocate ) Come join the Emerging Products & Technologies group at Autodesk. Our new cloud services are revolutionizing how every b
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
Feels like the article was an afterthought written around a nice title.
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
It looks to me like this is going to put pressure on the window size (currently 3 weeks). Folks can now wait for 3 weeks if they really want the YC signal to kick in, unless other forces are working to counter act the waiting. Think of it a
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
Everpix photos are private by default, it is waay more difficult to build private by default companies in general.
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
oops, thanks. that works much better.
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by bluishgreen 13y ago
netiquette: downvote must be followed by a comment.
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by bluishgreen 14y ago
Can you give me bit more technical background. Tell me how this is better than for eg. out of the box openCV filters.
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by bluishgreen 14y ago
Not sure about just typing, but working thru things for yourself helps, even if it a repetition. This is how I taught myself mathematical problem solving (and math as a side effect). I would read the problem statement, instead of looking at
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by bluishgreen 14y ago
Another angle of human relationship to pain: Agatha Christie wrote a book “Elephants can remember”, a detective story structured around people recollecting events that happened long ago. Years later, a group of researchers discovered that s
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by bluishgreen 14y ago
My 3 year old nephew sometimes slips, falls down and cries. His parents wiggle a colorful toy sometimes and he forgets he fell down, forgets he is still hurting and runs behind the toy. This ad reminds me of the toy. Fast food is bad. I am
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Mapping Global Friendship Ties.(facebook.com)
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by bluishgreen 15y ago
Before Sublime I was using emacs. Sublime Text 2 is really well done. You have to try it to understand. If you want a characterization, I would call it the balsamiq of text editors.
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by bluishgreen 15y ago
This is the original article that coined "leaky abstractions". http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
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by bluishgreen 15y ago
When I talk to people who have language problems (I was a TA at a US university, so I meet a diverse set of language skill levels in my students), I notice that I sometimes copy the amount of broken-ness in their language (involuntarily). T
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by bluishgreen 15y ago
For any base use the formula: (log base b) a = log(a)/log(b). For eg. google for log(x)/log(2), lg(x), log(x)/log(3)
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by bluishgreen 15y ago
After listening to his speech, hearing him say "Keep looking, don't settle", I quit my job and started out on my own. He din't just indirectly affect me through technology, he influenced me directly. Anyone could have said those words, it w

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