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by brianchu 10y ago
Note: users with enough karma (like myself) can click "vouch" on flagged posts. My guess is if enough users do this, that will unkill it (like it did now).
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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots’ Stupidity(technologyreview.com)
2 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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CVPR 2016 keynote: Autonomous Driving(youtube.com)
2 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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Comey: Hacker Guccifer never gained access to Clinton server(thehill.com)
2 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: Part One(youtube.com)
4 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016(xeniaschmalz.blogspot.com)
332 points by brianchu 10y ago|137 comments
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My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation(motherjones.com)
40 points by brianchu 10y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 10y ago
This is a popular undergrad course at Berkeley. To be clear, it's mostly focused on GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) - things like tree/graph search, constraint satisfaction, logic, some basic graphical models, and a bit of RL/M
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Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.5B for New Fund(fortune.com)
77 points by brianchu 10y ago|35 comments
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by brianchu 10y ago
Theoretically. In practice, simplex is competitive with and often beats, interior point methods.
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Alibaba Undergoing SEC Investigation Over Accounting Practices(bloomberg.com)
2 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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Coding school 42 plans to educate 10,000 students in Silicon Valley for free(techcrunch.com)
13 points by brianchu 10y ago|7 comments
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by brianchu 10y ago
UC Berkeley only has a single EECS department. The department offers an EECS degree and a CS degree, but that is very misleading because the EECS degree only requires 2 EE classes while the CS degree only requires 1 EE class. Their curricul
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by brianchu 10y ago
Here is a great, very accessible video where the CTO of MobileEye (which provides some of the components for Tesla's "autopilot") explains his views on the challenges of end-to-end learning for autonomous vehicles, and why it
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Joe Lonsdale's response to “Inside Palantir”(quora.com)
5 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 10y ago
Nope. And why would I bother learning when I can just click a few buttons to get Slack? I'm pretty lazy and have no interest spending the weekend learning all the features of IRC. Also: > This is all on the free plan obviously, but
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by brianchu 10y ago
I'm at UC Berkeley right now. Most the college organizations I know use it (including the hacker's club I was a part of). Almost every computer science class uses it for internal staff communication, which is pretty important cons
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Fidelity's 'Unicorn' Valuations Were Just Proven to Be Bogus(fortune.com)
1 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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Stemcentrx VC takes shots at Fidelity, Andreessen Horowitz after mega-sale(bizjournals.com)
3 points by brianchu 10y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 10y ago
There is nothing human about chatbots. They are glorified menu-in-text-form delivery mechanisms. NLP technology isn't at the point where they become even slightly human-like when off-the-rails.
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by brianchu 10y ago
Great read. I found particularly insightful the idea that conversational UI is like skeumorphism - trying to shoehorn analog forms (conversation) into a digital app, bringing along a bunch of details and actions that don't serve any pu
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Uber Settles Cases with Concessions, but Drivers Stay Freelancers(nytimes.com)
1 points by brianchu 10y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the swiss roll specifically. Big gains in neural net performance have been made through better initialization schemes (not dataset specific, just in general, e.g. an initialization scheme mi
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Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks(wsj.com)
19 points by brianchu 11y ago|15 comments
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MetaMind acquired by Salesforce(metamind.io)
60 points by brianchu 11y ago|19 comments
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College Board gave SAT tests that it knew had been compromised in Asia(reuters.com)
1 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
Here's a really good Quora answer talking about how engineers get promoted at Google. I think Google is a good example to look at for promotion (but not necessarily for every issue) because they're known to have a very well-define
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by brianchu 11y ago
Okay, I agree in the abstract that "intense immersive study" is a better form of education than any other. This is really obvious. But the breadth and depth of knowledge required in the areas is huge. (e.g. for distributed systems
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Google Self-Driving Car Will Be Ready Soon for Some, in Decades for Others(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
I study CS as UC Berkeley. If you want to be a web developer, a mobile developer, a product engineer, or something like that, go to a bootcamp. That, and then getting 2-3 years of work experience is a much better deal than studying CS in

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