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by brianchu 11y ago
According to the paper, the parameters fit on one GPU (or at least that one GPU was able to train the model). It was just too slow, so they trained on 8 GPUs in parallel. But those GPUs were still on the same machine (one node, multiple GPU
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Pondering Homejoy’s Failure(medium.com)
82 points by brianchu 11y ago|41 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
It's only single node, multiple GPUs, though, which already exists in other frameworks.
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Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure(nytimes.com)
16 points by brianchu 11y ago|3 comments
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Statement from Theranos(theranos.com)
2 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
Doubtful. I was a student during that time and I can't recall any math or CS (or STEM) classes that cancelled a class session because of the strike. The most that happened was some teaching assistants cancelled their section for one
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by brianchu 11y ago
I think the stakes are quite high. If he is truly a superior lecturer, at stake is the calculus education of over 800 students per year at one of the top schools in the nation, many of whom will be future scientists and engineers.
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by brianchu 11y ago
Here's a radical opinion: obsessing over frameworks is counterproductive; you most certainly should not be evaluating a class on a subject that is so math/concept-intensive by the class's choice of implementation coding fra
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by brianchu 11y ago
Interesting hearsay on Reddit (via Twitter) https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/631630506300448769 , claiming it was spun off because it wasn't considered valuable.
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Read Resumes Backwards(medium.com)
5 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa(nytimes.com)
168 points by brianchu 11y ago|103 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
We're discussing what freshmen in CS should be learning, not what sophomores/juniors/seniors should be learning. Getting people hooked on cool, albeit superficial, things they can build is the right way to get a broader range
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Google Glass is Alive(techcrunch.com)
65 points by brianchu 11y ago|54 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
I think the grass is always greener on the other side. I started with SICP in Scheme (Racket) in high school (our teacher had taught at Berkeley over the summer, I think). I don't feel any special reverence for Scheme, and don't
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by brianchu 11y ago
I think this move serves to weaken the political cover for the Eurogroup refusing to continue negotiations with Greece (they can't say "we refuse to negotiate because of Yanis"). I'm starting to think that this was his p
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Felicis Ventures by the Numbers(felicis.com)
1 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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Five ways to build a $100M business (2014)(christophjanz.blogspot.com)
1 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
Some of the best responses to this article are on Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Silicon-Valley-think-of-the-... I really hope you can see past the fact there is a login requirement. There is a lot of really great c
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by brianchu 11y ago
I know a few of the people here. Before going to college I was definitely tempted to work at a startup and not to go to college. The tech industry in SF is overflowing with money, so I'm not surprised these people are making this choic
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Peter Thiel on what works at work (2014)(washingtonpost.com)
143 points by brianchu 11y ago|92 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
They're all in C now, using Pintos (I'm in the class right now; the switch happened last semester, AFAIK).
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Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL(engineering.pinterest.com)
8 points by brianchu 12y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 12y ago
At UC Berkeley I'm seeing a lot of student groups switching to Slack. For example, several CS classes (including one of the largest ones, Data Structures) are using Slack for internal communication. A lot of student clubs (including on
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The Discovery of Magic(brianchu.com)
1 points by brianchu 12y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 12y ago
Here's the argument I've heard: Let's say you found a company. A VC invests $1M for 20% of the company, for a $5M post-money valuation. Then you immediately sell the company for $3M (less than $5M). You make $2.4M. The VC ess
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by brianchu 12y ago
FWIW, UC Berkeley's intro CS course sequence goes through the following languages in order: [Scratch (in an optional gentle-intro CS course)], Python (with an emphasis on using it for functional programming), a tiny bit of Scheme, a ti
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Instacart (YC S12) Scores $220M Investment(recode.net)
59 points by brianchu 12y ago|21 comments
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by brianchu 12y ago
In the long run. IIRC labor supply is a lagging indicator, so in the short run (e.g. 1-2 years) it would be a bit closer to a zero-sum game.
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by brianchu 12y ago
The kind of training necessary for becoming exceptional is entirely possible, but not scaleable , thus it's not a practical solution to the problem. I think the example you give supports that - mentorship tends to evolve organically f
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Ask HN: Spend a Sunday afternoon helping Berkeley students with open source?
2 points by brianchu 12y ago|0 comments

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