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by brutus1213 3y ago
Yes .. got the polite rejection email about 4 hours back.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
No .. will they send an explicit reject for early decision? Wish we got stats on how many groups applied, and acceptance rate. I read the last batch had a 1% accept, which surprised me. Given the high interest in AI, I expect at least 6 gro
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Ismailis are a real faction of muslims (they are extremely modern and a progressive sect). Alamut was a real place. The hashish and Garden part were allegations made in the old days. So I am not sure how much this book was the influence for
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I already bought a home (it is a starter home) and it is nice seeing my home price increase but I can never upgrade (well .. I can but it would be financial suicide to). I think some Canadian home owners get that but your point is actually
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Issue is not just housing. Our health services and infra is crumbling. 401 near Yonge st is jammed nearly 24 hours (yes!!!). We literally have no more space for cars. We have switch to the 407 for as much travel as we can (and it is crazy e
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I'm really curious how Meta, DeepMind and OpenAI make the big models work. The biggest A100 you can buy is just 80GB. And I assume the big companies use single precision floating point during training. Are they actually partitioning th
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by brutus1213 3y ago
To save people the search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h8jqEs_8kA
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Not a lawyer, nor am I American. No horse in this except maybe a citizen of the world. This seems like a weak case to me. For a former president and polarizing figure, you would think the bar on prosecution would be air tight. If he goes to
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by brutus1213 4y ago
This is somewhat solved. I believe this was a test image for Flamingo (from DeepMind).
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by brutus1213 4y ago
This is an excellent topic and I was hoping to find a set of great ideas here (really love the http server example). I was thinking of the concept of Katas in martial arts. What would be the Katas for programming I wonder. Some thoughts: 1)
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by brutus1213 4y ago
a500 was amazing. But why buy one now? Emulators are pretty good.
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Look .. I am one of the working class here. But I gotta point out. Our standard of living is far superior to someone living in 1970 when it comes to stuff/technology. The stuff is cheaper because of China/globalization. The tech i
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Just wanted to add: DL Engineer != MLOps engineer. DL Engineers who deal with scientists have a much harder job IMHO as the scientists ask for 10 different things, each taking a lot of effort to implement. The current DL stacks (e.g. Tensor
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by brutus1213 4y ago
In Canada, was asked to ship back some exercise supplement.
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by brutus1213 4y ago
I'm sorry for your loss and the difficult circumstances your family finds itself in. Not sure what to advise you. This is a very challenging set of circumstances you are in. Two thoughts: 1) You must keep it together as the alternative
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Thx for sharing the link to your work. Interesting idea. A few thoughts: 1) Congrats on the birth of your child. I imagine you have zero time now but as they get older, you start getting your time back. I went through this and now I can sne
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Interesting comment. Curious who you see to be the winning horses, or at least candidates. OpenAI is certainly something special. Not sure who else I'd add to the list. AirBnB has a really strong culture of experimentation and infra fo
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by brutus1213 4y ago
But that's why I have Peloton and other gym equipment at home.
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by brutus1213 4y ago
My take: 1) You have an undergrad degree. The point of the degree is not to teach you knowledge one shot. It teaches you how to learn and problem solve. Your post has a tone of desperation. You need to realize what amazing qualities you bri
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by brutus1213 4y ago
I luckily was not affected (yet) but also keeping an eye on people's tips. Consulting shops seem to be hiring Govt. agencies, especially at the local level Universities are hiring (STEM profs in the US are flush with grant money it see
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Sorry .. what is a "Kelley better"? I'm intrigued.
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by brutus1213 4y ago
I was talking to a CTO at a mid-sized startup (200 people or so; private company; I think ex-YC but not 100%); been there for a decade type concern. Person flatly said no one works in WFH. I am also a manager and responded my team busted th
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by brutus1213 4y ago
How did you get the samples for the song? iTunes allows scraping? Your project is extremely motivational .. how long did it take you? What did you train on? I do DL for work and just play with things like cifar. This is so inspired.
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by brutus1213 4y ago
I've been thinking about this issue a lot. I wish there was a gig worker type role people with autism could play. If they had meaningful employment, it would change their life. Despite some concerns, I think Goodwill does a decent job
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Was telling my little kid that some people still believe the earth is flat. She immediately brought up: - haven't these people used aeroplanes? - we can see how the timezones wrap around - what happens if you go over the edge if the Ea
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by brutus1213 4y ago
I had a teacher in undergrad (over 20 years ago) who said UML and code generation are getting so advanced, 5 years out, you likely won't be coding anymore. In the early 00s, there was tremendous outsourcing going on. Some people said W
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Here you go: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12954 .. not from TikTok but some researchers who reverse engineered some network aspects. Thought the paper is well worth the read. Systems research people are not valued enoug
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by brutus1213 4y ago
What country? What bank???
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Not impressed by the article. The heading raised an instant question .. when did Microsoft kill Cortana? I tried figuring that from the article but it seems to be pointing at tea leaves. The article links to a history of Cortana article but
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by brutus1213 4y ago
Parent said they were joking about that example. Not every STEM PhD is math heavy. CS itself is big field with subareas that may or may not require fluency in topics such as optimization (e.g. HCI, Databases). ML/DL is optimization hea

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