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by dhruvp 8y ago
Hey! Author here. Really appreciate the kind words. If you have any feedback on what I can do to improve the explanation further, I’d love to hear it. Also, if you’re interested, I’ve written some other posts on explaining concepts in Math
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An Intuitive Derivation of Eigenvectors(dhruvp.netlify.com)
209 points by dhruvp 8y ago|26 comments
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by dhruvp 8y ago
This is a common problem in healthcare and I think it comes down to these issues: 1. Pharmaceuticals have natural monopolies on these drugs (due to regulation, market power, etc.). 2. The public and end consumers are largely unaware when th
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by dhruvp 8y ago
If you want to read more on this topic, I highly recommend An American Sickness ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31253737-an-american-sic... ). It's written by the current Editor in Chief of Kaiser Health
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The Intuition Behind Matrix Algebra(dhruvp.netlify.com)
2 points by dhruvp 8y ago|0 comments
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The Intuition Behind Matrices(dhruvp.netlify.com)
6 points by dhruvp 8y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 8y ago
Wow this essay is fantastic. The idea that the amount of people who "need" financial aid has stayed constant while tuition prices have increased 170% (way outpacing wage growth) is unreal. Conrad if you wrote a book about this I w
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by dhruvp 8y ago
I think the more interesting point here is how easily people are manipulated by coordinated marketing/information campaigns. And I think this may be not be a flaw of facebook but rather its ultimate business value. At the end of the da
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by dhruvp 8y ago
Theoretically, the argument against tariffs stems from the idea that a market increases the net surplus for everyone involved in the trade. This is because each individual in the economy would be able to focus on their 'comparative adv
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by dhruvp 8y ago
If you're interested in learning more about this stuff the head of the Pixel team (Marc Levoy - Prof emeritus at Stanford) has an entire lecture series on this stuff from a class he ran at Google. They are here along with lecture notes
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by dhruvp 9y ago
Pretty cool idea to go to private, well constrained areas so that it scopes down the problem and allows for quick iteration. Good luck! Excited to see autonomous vehicles in these environments.
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Immunotherapy – An overview of translating research into patient outcomes(blog.athelas.com)
5 points by dhruvp 9y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 9y ago
If there's one thing to learn I think it's that men can do far far more (like the intervening guys in the article) to step in and be far less tolerant of such grotesque behavior. Most men here (of which I'm one) have all prob
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A Friendly Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning [video](youtube.com)
4 points by dhruvp 9y ago|0 comments
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Sebastian Thrun Defends Flying Cars to Me(backchannel.com)
1 points by dhruvp 9y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I feel as though research papers are not always the easiest way to communicate ideas with a non-research focused audience. I think there's room for more people (like distill.pub) to take the main ideas from t
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by dhruvp 9y ago
Hi! We are indeed using CNNs in some parts of our pipeline. You can read more about the general idea of how we use them here: https://blog.athelas.com/classifying-white-blood-cells-with-...
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Self Driving Taxi service Voyage hints its rides will be free(qz.com)
1 points by dhruvp 9y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 10y ago
I love how Stripe does so many things that provide value to the developer community from their awesome blog posts to their open source retreats and now finally to this magazine. They're a model to me of how to earn the good will of you
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Stripe and Lessons on Team Building(hackernoon.com)
1 points by dhruvp 10y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 10y ago
If you're interested in this field check out this talk by Bharath Ramasundar from Prof. Pande's lab at Stanford: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sntikyFI8s8 . He's also the author of http://deepchem.io
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by dhruvp 10y ago
Hey OP! I've been using it extensively and it's definitely more than good enough for most tasks you'll be doing. If you're going this route, I'd highly recommend following the Keras' authors guide on how to set
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Voyage – Autonomous taxi service startup spun out of Udacity(businessinsider.com)
4 points by dhruvp 10y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 10y ago
I think it's really useful to see the MD's view of such changes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/61sgfw/ai_versus_... . Obviously not necessarily representative of how all MDs th
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Stripe and Lessons on Team Building(medium.com)
4 points by dhruvp 10y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvp 10y ago
Hi! Author here - I'd love to hear your feedback on how we can improve and answer any questions you have. Thanks HN! Dhruv
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by dhruvp 10y ago
Hi! Author here - happy to hear any feedback on what we could've done better and answer any questions. Thanks HN!
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Classifying White Blood Cells with Deep Learning (Code and Data Included)(blog.athelas.com)
18 points by dhruvp 10y ago|1 comments
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by dhruvp 10y ago
Thanks for your feedback. - I state the caveats that the voice sample published for Deep Voice are using ground truth features. That being said I can make it clearer. - Andrew Ng runs the Baidu AI team. He may not have supervised it but he&
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Baidu's Deep Voice Explained: Deep Learning for Text to Speech(medium.com)
6 points by dhruvp 10y ago|0 comments

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