bobosha

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by bobosha 6y ago
Again respectfully disagree. "double standards" is in the eye of the beholder. Barring some incendiary comments, this dialogue has been healthy & necessary. My 2c.
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by bobosha 6y ago
I disagree, while there are some unsavory comments, this thread is allowing sunlight into some bad aspects of the Indian-American subculture. We - I am Indian-American myself - need to be serious about such allegations and not get defensive
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by bobosha 6y ago
Indian immigrant to US here (non IIT, but Brahmin). Although I personally haven't seen or noticed casteism in the Indian community here or back in India for that matter. Although there were just a few idiots ... but it could very well
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by bobosha 6y ago
Instead of pushing such voices underground and hoping they go away (they won't!). As unpalatable as it sounds, I feel having a tech platform where posters cannot hide behind pseudonymous usernames, should instead have their full identi
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by bobosha 6y ago
The only way to beat Google is to come up with a whole new paradigm for information access. Perhaps something like Wolfram alpha for the web.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Nice, does this use word2vec or some such word embedding model?
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by bobosha 6y ago
Former semantic web researcher here. The problem with semantic web is that it's way too complicated for the average user (unlike html), with no clear payoff/ I see the need for Machine learning to automate several of these tasks.
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by bobosha 6y ago
I have heard this before as : "Days of doing can save months of thinking"
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Ask HN: Is GPT-3 a glorified Mark vs. Shaney?
1 points by bobosha 6y ago|0 comments
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by bobosha 6y ago
...and then it got worse
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by bobosha 6y ago
You could put this up on biorxiv and invite other researchers to comment.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Both the Irish and Indian independence movements took inspiration from each other.
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Ask HN: Whitespace in US politics for socially liberal and fiscal conservative?
1 points by bobosha 6y ago|2 comments
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by bobosha 6y ago
With due apologies to Winston Churchill: "the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" - NYC
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Ask HN: Do you find working home has fewer interruptions (vs inside an office)?
2 points by bobosha 6y ago|1 comments
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by bobosha 6y ago
Related: I highly recommend The Blue Ocean Strategy[1]. I suspect what you are looking for is the Blue Ocean market space, not necessarily the "least competitive". As others have pointed out, if a sector lacks multiple entrants, i
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by bobosha 6y ago
Perhaps more nuance is called for, by having a sliding scale of rating -1 <---> +1
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by bobosha 6y ago
Isn't this known as the Decoy effect? Having a middle tier makes the pricing more palatable.
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by bobosha 6y ago
BERT, ElMO et al were Sesame street characters, hence they kept the theme going.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Perhaps the government should broker some temporary rent-per-customer or rent-per-$ sales as a way to help both landlords and small businesses.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Hopefully Americans take some heed from this experience.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Of course Humans resemble animal swarms, but not just during protests, during religious gatherings (Hajj, Kumbh Mela etc.), the crowds celebrating sports victories, rush-hour traffic etc. There is a large body of research around Human crowd
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by bobosha 6y ago
I really don't think the semantic web was a "mistake" at all. And as much as Sir Tim would hate me for saying this, it was (is) still AI - more correctly Symbolic AI - to collaborate at web-scale. Mind you, back then AI was a
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by bobosha 6y ago
I wrote my MS dissertation under TimBL at MIT. I was into semantic web technologies in the late aughts and chatted with him few times about the double-slash and web nomenclatures etc. I think this article either exaggerates or misstates his
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by bobosha 6y ago
I didn't know they needed "cleaning".
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by bobosha 6y ago
q: why are crime rates so low in Germany? a: because it's against the law.
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by bobosha 6y ago
Economics, especially Behavioral economics, is Descriptive, not prescriptive.
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by bobosha 6y ago
fundamental attribution error: we judge ourselves by intention, and others by action.
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by bobosha 6y ago
I think you should just report it to the RCMP and leave it be. Vigilante action can have unforeseen consequences and since you are a business owner, it's best avoided. p.s. incorporate stronger authentication mechanisms (2FA) for your
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by bobosha 6y ago
TBH I have attempted to read it many times but escapes my feeble mind. GEB is one of those books ...

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