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by dataker 12y ago
Makes sense. Couldn't Germany/E.U also claim to deny sharing information with the U.S? Yes, the U.S has the best intelligence agency in the world, but Europe is closer to most hostile nations in the world. If EU said 'no shar
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by dataker 12y ago
From a technical perspective, it is gathering data and training models that eventually would make it more affordable and efficient. Also, The "white privileged elite" seema to act as early adopters, willing to pay for the extra bu
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by dataker 12y ago
The title has the assumption students should be applying to 'elite schools'. First, Stanford/MIT/... cannot get as many smart students as needed. If the top 10% of US students deserved an elite school, that'd be nea
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by dataker 12y ago
Any stats on other batches? Has the median age gone up?
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by dataker 12y ago
Analogously , "journalists rely on 'self-correcting' articles - that is, an article that 'debugs' and rewrites itself...".
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by dataker 12y ago
As a contributor to several ML projects, I am happy the mainstream media and 'thought leaders' haven't found out and picked on early projects like OpenCog or DeepDive. We could've seen a tremendous amount of pseudoscienc
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by dataker 12y ago
I must be cursed. I spend my time between San Francisco and Sao Paulo(Brazil). Although Brazil has natural resources, Sao Paulo has been experiencing a severe drought for several months. Many residents only have water between 7am-1pm and it
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by dataker 12y ago
My mom(sales rep) would help buyers working for large companies. Picking up their kids at school in an emergency, lending her car and even help to pay for a surgery. I couldn't understand these things until I interned in a software out
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by dataker 12y ago
Great initiative, but I wouldn't just "copy" the model of PH/HN/Reddit in the long run. Lots of cool new things could be done.
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by dataker 12y ago
I've had 4 semesters of Calculus in my CS program. For me, it only helped to scare many students and made them pursue another degree. We only had more CS classes than others junior year. Fortunately, I'd been involved in open sour
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by dataker 12y ago
They actually burn it to avoid harm to the workers and use its ash to fertilize their land. However, mechanization has reduced the need to burn fields and pollution has gradually been decreased.
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by dataker 12y ago
It has similar issues, such as using fertilizers and water usage. At the same time, one of the main issues is deforestation in the Amazon and field burning before harvest. Still, it probably still makes sense to use it. For example, its ene
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by dataker 12y ago
I thought we were talking about the Startup Visa. In that case, it's very difficult to sponsor yourself or your co-founders for an H1-B
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by dataker 12y ago
Brazil uses sugar cane, so the process is more efficient than in the US
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by dataker 12y ago
Generally, he would have to either: 1)Invest 1M+ of his own money 2)Be a superstar with hundreds of publications and experience 3)Come as a tourist and pray everything works fine in 3 months 4)Fall in love and get married(...in the Valley?)
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by dataker 12y ago
Still, these technologies would eventually come to the masses. It's been happening in almost every vertical you think about.
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by dataker 12y ago
What about Mars?
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by dataker 12y ago
Growing up in a developing nation, it's somewhat weird to see these discussions. Many 'techstarts' never had to see real poverty, so their arguments on automation become somewhat limited. Some American entrepreneurs dislike h
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by dataker 12y ago
If you think in terms of technology, most issues affecting average US citizens come from a somewhat "undeveloped" technology. If they had a better ML architecture and more computing capabilities, "average Joes" would mor
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by dataker 12y ago
Makes sense. From that angle, we'd even see better contributions.
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by dataker 12y ago
Part of the current interviewing process is Github and side-projects. I truly understand the reasons for Starfighter, but are you putting any real value behind it? I like CTF, but it's not quite the same as contributing to open source
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by dataker 12y ago
Related paper: http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/viewpaper.php?id=502415&cf=...
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by dataker 12y ago
There's nothing worse than being qualified and fitting in a company, but hearing "sorry, no visa sponsorship"
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by dataker 12y ago
The ultimate example that the cure of X also come from programmers, not solely doctors.