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by devalgo 6y ago
>Don't these companies usually end up failing though? Not always, it's of course in the VC's interest to push the company forward and secure further VC rounds. You could have a failed initial product but play the "pro
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by devalgo 6y ago
Well I made a bad assumption, guess it wasn't clear from your post.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Steven Miller doesn’t like immigrants. Sure he does, just not Brown ones. Trump has come out and said they want immigrants from places like Norway. Of course your average Norwegian would have to be insane to move to the US.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Ironically, Daedtech is highly highly critical of the typical tech interview patterns you seem enamored by.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Of course you have the other side of the coin where those same ML students take a pre-trained VGG model, fine tune it on a couple thousand pictures of hotdogs or whatever and raise millions in VC money for their "AI" company.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Again, a reasonable person might think the probability of those occurring is either (1) low enough to begin with or (2) not much decreased by the lockdown, that the negative effects of the lockdown outweigh it. If you think your average
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Everyone in the US knows that there are other undesirable outcomes besides death You can't really believe that. Maybe a small fraction of the population seems to be aware of this. The rest parrot some version of: "95% of peopl
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by devalgo 6y ago
You ignored my question. >Show me one field (that does rely on the person's ability not looks) where there are more women in the higher ranked positions and more men in the lower ranked positions. Nursing
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by devalgo 6y ago
All you have done is make the case that the data was biased. A mathematical function is not racist.
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by devalgo 6y ago
You failed the test. The Gradient is not biased, the data is. This was of course LeCun's point... This is pure foolishness
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by devalgo 6y ago
It's virtually certain that Covid deaths are undercounted in the US. Excess deaths are nearly 30% higher than expected. Belgium has used extremely strict counting for deaths, their per capita death numbers are likely the most accurate
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by devalgo 6y ago
Why is there this laser focus on Fatality rate as a talking point for anti-mask anti-lockdown types? Is death the only undesirable outcome? Polio had historic mortality rates around 5% in children, would you want your children to catch poli
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by devalgo 6y ago
The real argument they were making against Lecun is whether a mathematical function can be biased. Care to explain how a gradient is racist?
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by devalgo 6y ago
~80% of the Nurses in the US are Female, this is no doubt due to discrimination and anti-male bias according to your worldview, correct? 87% of Garbage men in the US are Men, are you fighting for better female representation in the Garbage
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by devalgo 6y ago
By that logic it's impossible for him to lose anything tangible so OP's comment is pointless.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>For Zuckerberg it needs to financially hurt, in order to cause ethical decisions. Hasn't he lost ~$6B in net worth because of this?
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by devalgo 6y ago
Isn't this just a misunderstanding of what we mean by intuitive? It's possible to have an intuitive understanding of a thing that's not "intuitive" to humans.
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by devalgo 6y ago
You literally can't understand something if you are confused by it. Your question makes no sense.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>If hate speech was look at with the same level of disgust as child porn, would the above statement still hold true? Of course this is a slippery slope where you rely on Facebook defining what hate speech is. It may seem fine to you now
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by devalgo 6y ago
True generally in Physics as well. What's the point of "understanding" Quantum Mechanics intuitively when you can do computations blindly without it!
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by devalgo 6y ago
>It would be nice if people cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on art for the sake of art True but you generally can't buy groceries or pay your landlord with art.
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by devalgo 6y ago
I think you missed my point, obviously you should get paid for your monthly listens but it's not Spotify's responsibility to drive listeners to your music. You are obviously free to market and promote as much as you can, hitching
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by devalgo 6y ago
Imagine saying this about a CD store a few decades ago. It would be ridiculous to say that a store was responsible for promoting indie artist CDs. If you want to get listens or sales make good music, it's pretty simple.
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by devalgo 6y ago
It's not Spotify's responsibility to make sure indie artists are getting paid.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>What is selfish is to ignore other factors that play an even more significant role than coronavirus, which has an extremely low mortality rate You are just flat wrong, dangerously so. The actual numbers show that Covid-19 is 10s to 100s
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by devalgo 6y ago
>because of a virus that is statistically quite similar yet slightly worse than the seasonal FLU I'm sorry but you must be a troll. The numbers couldn't be more obvious, last year there were 39M - 56M flu cases in the US with 2
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by devalgo 6y ago
>But when the economy, rights, and other major factors are considered, it looks less like a tradeoff and more like a betrayal. This is just crazy. Every other major country in the world has essentially beaten the virus with mask wearing
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by devalgo 6y ago
The profitability claim doesn't have a lot of merit for me. Uber is already priced at a level that many people don't accept, to become profitable they will likely have to charge prices that would drive massive sections of their us
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Not even all medical experts agree on the best course of action regarding herd immunity... This is a dubious claim at best. That being said the real problem is that Musk made the decision about how much risk is acceptable for his employ
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by devalgo 6y ago
Also consider that Uber is unprofitable, has no real path to profitability, pays its drivers poorly and overcharges users. How is that healthy? It seemingly has failed in every possible way as a business yet people continuously prop it up a

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