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by ericjang 11y ago
Cool, thanks again for your great post. Big fan of your articles. > The functional graph becomes more complicated Indeed. I once tried to come up with a "higher order function" that takes in a feedforward network and computes a
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by ericjang 11y ago
I really liked the mention of the "three narratives" of neural networks: 1) human brain 2) nonlinear "squashing and folding" of the input space 3) probabilistic / latent variables. Seeing different ways to look at s
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by ericjang 11y ago
The software engineering quality of FB's open source projects is simply amazing. I used to think that a lot of their projects were trying too much to re-invent the wheel, but now I see it as an uncompromising attitude towards having th
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Ask HN: Which would you prefer for ML: Torch or Julia?
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Waifu2x: Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style-Art(github.com)
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Actually, I'm pretty sure a lot of security professionals don't use Kali Linux because 1) they only need a subset of the pentest tools, 2) many companies' internal monitoring systems trigger alerts if they detect someone is u
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by ericjang 11y ago
It helps to be a student studying at an elite american university - pedigree opens a lot of doors, for better or worse. Also, I had a shit ton of luck with interviews and recommendations.
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Link is down due to Github's rate limiting. Mirror anyone?
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Yeah, one of my favorite reasons why I like Pixar films is that their central conflicts are inspired by some deep-seated adult fear: fear of being replaced or forgotten (TS1-TS3), of children growing up and leaving (Nemo), midlife crisis (I
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by ericjang 11y ago
One example: TS and many hedge funds manage portfolios for large charities, university endowments, and pension funds, among other clients. This means more money for clients who do good for the world.
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by ericjang 11y ago
ok! thanks for the info ;)
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All I had to compare Google to were my limited experiences in the other two. I thought Google was the most laid-back of the three. No doubt you've heard about dinner cafes opening late to keep employees at their desks, but the reality
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by ericjang 11y ago
Hi all, author here. thx for the upvotes. Webpage is back up.
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My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma(evjang.com)
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This is pretty neat! However, Apple can bypass this by simply rejecting apps that bundle the AppHub framework, with the claim that apps whose feature updates bypasses app store approval present a security vulnerability. A more useful approa
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by ericjang 11y ago
yeah, the person mentioned in the article trades a $200K pot with 3 others.
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by ericjang 11y ago
Sorry, it was not my intention to suggest that trading is not productive, or that it's truly a zero-sum game. You probably know this already, but I'll provide some more context for the interested: In reality, two parties can walk
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by ericjang 11y ago
My guess is that they use http://www.nvidia.com/object/virtual-gpus.html
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One clarification - these mom & pop prop shops aren't necessarily competing against big baskets of MIT PhDs. If your book size is only $200K, the big players (i.e. scores of MIT PhDs) won't even bother competing with you on t
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by ericjang 11y ago
I'd recommend a local custom build over EC2. EC2 GPU instances are virtualized via a Hypervisor, which dramatically reduces performance on multi-GPU networks. and this doesn't take into account the large amounts of disk space need
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by ericjang 11y ago
Great video. I think this should be shown at the beginning of every introductory computer graphics course. For a nice overview of Disney's proprietary Hyperion renderer that implements this light bundling technique (and a whole lot m
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by ericjang 11y ago
This video has given me a newfound respect for Facebook. Many engineers at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. report that they feel overqualified for their work. I imagine many yearn for the chance to work on moonshot pro
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by ericjang 11y ago
As of 10:30 EST, there's no server-side validation, so it's possible to vote multiple times. I guess this is an allegory of the modern financial system, huh?
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Why do you think so?
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I spent a nontrivial amount of time researching my comment. What do you find hyped?
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by ericjang 11y ago
Awesome post. I'm not sure I understand the estimates of computational power of various brain parts (does that even make sense?) but overall I think the author has the right idea on how far we are away from simulating the brain. Not on
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by ericjang 11y ago
Andrew Ng gave a keynote at GTC in which he talked about bringing Baidu's Deep Speech technology to phones (for accessibility). You betcha they're working on it!
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by ericjang 11y ago
Well said. Furthermore, data on the joy of writing a birthday card (to borrow one of your examples) can be useful in other tasks (such as determining what to write). Typical machine learning problems deal with isolated training sets and i
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I can imagine a near future whereby an RNN is trained to have an especially lovely reading voice. A large number of people might actually become convinced that the RNN is a person and develop empathy towards it.
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by ericjang 11y ago
Mechanical vs. Cognitive are good adjectives! Maybe cognition is more mechanical than not.

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