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by epberry 8y ago
One implication for products, if this work pans out, is that the systems which "adapt to you" (learn your voice, your schedule, what your face looks like) won't have to change the weights of their network. I believe this coul
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by epberry 8y ago
Sticking with a project in college out of interest, despite pressures from family and friends to ditch it or not work as much on it.
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by epberry 8y ago
I had to do it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by epberry 8y ago
I didn't realize all the pieces of the cloud stack that CNCF was working on and how each piece gives you more flexibility to move between cloud providers. Kubernetes and rkt replace servers and orchestration of course but you also have
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by epberry 8y ago
Part of me feels like a hidden motivation for doing this was so Google could continue to ask their “implement a BigInt class” interview question :). Cool write up though - I enjoyed it.
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by epberry 8y ago
Same here. Redirect from http -> https works fine tho.
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by epberry 8y ago
Interesting, I wasn't familiar with bitonic sorting.
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by epberry 8y ago
It's late and I may not be thinking clearly or be well informed enough but... I wonder if this type of thing - implementing algorithms on GPUS that have been the bread and butter of CPUs for generations (parsing regular languages?) - b
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by epberry 8y ago
Same here. This is one of the major opportunities to slow the effects of climate change.
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by epberry 8y ago
That lecture was exactly what I needed right now - thank you.
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by epberry 8y ago
I'm all for this. I work with two engineers who are just like this and they do a fantastic job. It doesn't bother me or our CEO at all that they might not buy into the culture or the mission as much as our younger folks.
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by epberry 8y ago
I’ve experienced some of these same things. But more than that, I applaud you for experimenting!!
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by epberry 9y ago
Great overview with lots of links. I came across quite a few concepts I barely know - or know them in a different context. I did trip hard over this sentence: > Distributed systems often have to store a lot more data, than a single node
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by epberry 9y ago
It did take me a minute to actually find Parameter Store. There's so much stuff hidden away in the EC2 menus.
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by epberry 9y ago
Besides the secrets rotation how is this different from EC2 Parameter Store? I’m genuinely curious and will move away from parameter store if this provides some benefits.
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by epberry 9y ago
Yeah the variable depth-of-field not working well at < 1 ft is a just a property of the hardware sensors. I guess I don't know exactly what they are but if it's time of flight or stereo then they could make it work better at cl
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by epberry 9y ago
Very cool. I shudder to think of the GPU costs to run these models though. Perhaps they're using TPUs to be as efficient as possible. If you imagine a room occupied in the evening by people for several hours and you have any decent fra
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by epberry 9y ago
The author stressed that this was in NYC in which case I totally understand. $10 per drink actually seems on the cheaper side.
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by epberry 9y ago
Love seeing this stuff on here. Maybe this reflects poorly on my schooling but I've learned more about literature and philosophy from HN than from anywhere else.
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by epberry 9y ago
I think the CTOs role here would probably be to make sure a process or team is in place to do this but not actually do it themselves? (For a company the size of oculus)
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by epberry 9y ago
Agreed. I have never had as good of an experience with IRC or XMPP as I have with slack. Open protocols are still great for open communities, internet discussion boards, etc. but when you're a multi-billion dollar messaging platform an
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by epberry 9y ago
I used to be surprised when people came across these bugs. I would think: a kernel bug! They must have truly hit an edge case for something like that to skip into production. But then I read Showstopper: The Race to Build Windows NT, specif
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by epberry 9y ago
Ah this is cool too! I assume no neural networks are involved here? EDIT: why the changing colors in that gif?
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by epberry 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link. I tried a few published methods for doing this a year or so and I found they were quite slow. As in, you'd rather just use a stereo camera to quickly generate a decent pointcloud than use a single view
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by epberry 9y ago
Interesting - I did not know about their history with gay rights.
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by epberry 9y ago
Agreed that pytorch feels “pythonic”. I think tensorflow doesn’t because it’s really a C++ API with an extensive set of wrappers and it shows. Pytorch feels like they started with python and added in the C extensions after the fact.
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by epberry 9y ago
One feature I miss in navigation services is an ability to choose the “easy” route. For example, I live in the Midwest and usually I’d rather take the interstate, even if it’s 5 minutes longer, than a series of country roads. Obviously you
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by epberry 9y ago
> The Beats are boring. Hear hear. I was always confused about what they offered. Every generation has some pushback against mainstream culture but the best movements are accompanied by something greater. I never got the feeling there wa
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by epberry 9y ago
A sense of community even while living far from the valley. Thanks HN, don’t ever change.
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by epberry 9y ago
One of my favorite technical books. The sections on dynamic programming and heuristics were a revelation for me working on some of my first non trivial algorithms.

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