brandonb

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   by brandonb 15y ago

   The really great thing about deep networks isn't that they're more accurate. It's that they're radically simpler. Current speech recognizers are basically layer upon layer of tricks discovered by researchers over the course of decades. Chop
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   by brandonb 15y ago

   Sometimes you hear people say "we're like a startup inside of a big company." This is a great example of why it's hard to make that work. In a big company, you have one source of funding, and they can pull the plug at any moment--sometimes
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   by brandonb 15y ago

   There's a concrete reason you see very few Googlers working part-time with startups. Google has a conflict of interest policy that disallows employees from working on competing products; since Google has entered so many areas of technology