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by dhairya 6y ago
> As a starting point for establishing clarity, do you recognize/understand that one of the core ideas of his theme is human agency? ... Eg, the question he discusses in the talk you link to: if AI could (someday) do everything (som
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by dhairya 6y ago
That zizek reference made me chuckle! Derivative works are allowed under copyright law. Though the interpretation is steadily being constrained especially on site like Youtube. His claim is more extreme. Essentially any individual involved
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by dhairya 6y ago
He does. Perhaps not in this article but its position he's had in previous talks and articles. Here's the talk I attended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpB9v-OrAU
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by dhairya 6y ago
Jaron Lanier is a frustrating thinker. In general he's a pessimist and highly critical of AI and technology. I was at talk of his and asked him about open source AI models and suggestions for ethical frameworks to guide AI research. He
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by dhairya 6y ago
in our case, the problem is a highly simplified version of functionality in our code base and is close to being representative of work they'd be doing if hired. i actually don't disagree with the prior poster. Technical interviews
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by dhairya 6y ago
we're not asking programming puzzles. i described our process above. struggling to define a function and basic code comprehension (e.g. tracing a for loop that traverses a json object in candidate's preferred language) is a strong
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by dhairya 6y ago
how did you go from hey this might a common problem to let's build product?
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by dhairya 6y ago
I wish could done it your way. My journey was rather haphazard but one I'm proud of none the less. Sorry for the confusion, I studied creative writing in college. I initially gained most of my tech skill volunteering to build websites
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by dhairya 6y ago
In our case our its based on our actual interview experience with candidates. We've been actively evolving our process and calibrating expectation based on the candidates that have come in. We've actually simplified the interview
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by dhairya 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Honestly we don't check for syntax or even require the code to compile. We let the candidate write puesdo code which usally isn't super far python and javascript implementations of our challenge. We try
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by dhairya 6y ago
Another we'd love to hear opinions on. Based on a recent study where candidates are more likely to succeed if given private space and time to work on the problem, we'll disclose the coding challenge about 15 minutes prior to the i
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by dhairya 6y ago
I agree that code challenges aren't ideal. But we've been struggling with parsing resumes and titles to identify the competency of developers. Our current coding challenge isn't super hard and based on the type of code you&#x
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by dhairya 6y ago
thanks for sharing!
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by dhairya 6y ago
So I actually did that. I transitioned in applied AI research about four years ago (came from an creative writing background and did a variety of other things spanning technical project management, business analysis and data analytics). Ove
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by dhairya 6y ago
Lichess has great variants to play. If you haven't tried crazyhorse or multi-player version bughouse, highly recommend it. In crazyhorse you can put captured enemy anywhere on the board as your own piece. Likewise in bughouse, you play
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Ask HN: How did you turn your PhD into a startup?
23 points by dhairya 6y ago|9 comments
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Best Language Models Don’t Have a Clue What They’re Doing(syncedreview.com)
3 points by dhairya 6y ago|0 comments
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by dhairya 6y ago
out of the box probably not. gpt-3 is pretrained on a much larger corpus and is a much higher capacity model, which is why its been performing very well in zero-shot learning examples like the one above. That being said you should try it. N
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What Is Consciousness?(nature.com)
2 points by dhairya 6y ago|0 comments
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by dhairya 6y ago
That's fair. It's hard to generalize as there is definitely a mixture of good and bad research out there. As a counter point I had to opportunity to observe the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain ( https://alleninstitu
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by dhairya 6y ago
It's ironic as IBM directly provided the census technology to help Nazis run their concentration camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by dhairya 6y ago
This assumes that ML and AI research will continue to be silo'd outside of domain specific research. But it's not the case in academia and also increasingly in industry. You have computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and man
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Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition(theverge.com)
1 points by dhairya 6y ago|0 comments
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by dhairya 6y ago
Posh Tech | https://www.posh.tech | Boston, US | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19) About Us Spun out of MIT's AI Lab in summer 2018, Posh Tech is a Boston-based startup with a mission of powering more natural conv
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by dhairya 6y ago
One thing i think about is what where would NLP and linguistics research gone if another language (other than english) was the predominant language. Granted there is quite of bit interesting fundamental research in other countries and langu
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by dhairya 6y ago
I'm conflicted in responding to this. What you described was not my experience. I come from an underprivileged background and was fortunate to escape my social location. Part of it was luck though which is not replicable. But I agree t
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by dhairya 6y ago
The value of college is not being diluted. It's the signal to employers that college degrees is useful filter that is being diluted. Hiring in general is done poorly and I understand why. It's hard to differentiate between so many
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by dhairya 6y ago
While flattering that's not true in my case. It's fair to point out that my story is not conventional but I disagree that we assume that its intelligence or some other individualistic features that primarily determine success. I w
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by dhairya 6y ago
Very few people I know actually have careers directly related to their undergrad majors. I majored in Creative Writing and interdisciplinary (politics, philosophy, and economics) studies. Currently working as an applied AI researcher and ab
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What machine learning tool that turns Obama white can('t) tell us about AI bias(theverge.com)
4 points by dhairya 6y ago|0 comments

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