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by fnbr 10y ago
NYU estimates med school costs at $80k per year [1], for four years. Toss in $80k for undergrad and bam, you're at $400k. [1] http://www.med.nyu.edu/school/admissions/fees-and-financial-...
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by fnbr 10y ago
The key quote here is this: > “When you try to build a system for understanding natural language, and you don’t have many examples of the kind of understanding you want,” Pereira says, “then you have to prescribe, you have to write—essen
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Google: Our assistant will trigger the next era of AI(backchannel.com)
3 points by fnbr 10y ago|3 comments
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by fnbr 10y ago
That's a fantastic tool. As a consumer, I love that. Good luck- I'd love to see that on the sites that I shop on.
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by fnbr 10y ago
That's insane. Gfycat [1] is based in my hometown (Edmonton, Alberta), and I always thought it was a dumb idea with no potential for monetization. Looks like I'm wrong. [1]: https://gfycat.com/
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by fnbr 10y ago
I suspect that was when they began to concentrate their efforts on ads & the associated tooling.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Yup. It kind of made sense in the short run (kill competitors, steal & re-implement their ideas), but in the long run, condemned Twitter to only be a short message platform (albeit a very very good short message platform). Interestingly
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by fnbr 10y ago
Sam Altman has given a speech a few times (I heard it most recently in "How to Start a Startup") where he uses the same equation, but adds luck, where luck is a random variable going from 0-1000: Startup = idea * execution *
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Inside Palantir’s War with the U.S. Army(bloomberg.com)
6 points by fnbr 10y ago|1 comments
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by fnbr 10y ago
Do you remember the book? I'd be interested in reading that.
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by fnbr 10y ago
I believe that the article is spot on. The problem facing the developed world today is that there are only so many productive skill sets. I have a BSc in Math. There's very little value [1] in someone who has a math degree with poor gr
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by fnbr 10y ago
No, I haven't had the right project come up (I'm a statistical consultant, so my projects are largely determined by my clients). I've heard really good things about it though. It's supposed to scale well. It's on th
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by fnbr 10y ago
This reminds me of the incident with the Norwegian newspaper posting the "Napalm Girl" photo. Facebook is trying to automate the detection of illegal/unwanted images, and it seems extremely difficult to detect the context of
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by fnbr 10y ago
Microsoft has been doing an incredible job lately. With the announcement of native support for Ubuntu binaries, I've been excited to try Microsoft products for the first time. Additionally, as someone who writes a lot of bash scripts,
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by fnbr 10y ago
> Isn't this hackernews?? This level of negativity is typical for HN. Look at what happened when dhouston announced Dropbox- the second comment was about how any Linux user can trivially replace it for themselves: https:/&#x2F
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by fnbr 10y ago
Do you have any idea why that is? Are they all acquihires?
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by fnbr 10y ago
Smart move by Apple. I'll be following their moves to improve Siri closely. The fact that they're hiring researchers as strong as Ruslan makes me feel that they've got real potential to drastically improve Siri going forward.
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by fnbr 10y ago
I was thinking you could approach it as a document classification problem, where you extract the text from the HTML and work with that. I had a lot of success finding duplicate bug reports by comparing the text from the bug reports with ref
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by fnbr 10y ago
You could absolutely do it. Here's a few things you could do to get started (feel free to email me if you need more specific help, or have any additional questions- my email's in my profile): 1. Get as much data about each site as
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by fnbr 10y ago
> If automatic grading works well, could you also automatically assess the effectiveness of the question/answers themselves? That is an absolutely fascinating idea. I would love to see someone run with this as a company, or as an in
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by fnbr 10y ago
Why would the first dimension necessarily represent the quality of the student? I don't see why that should be the case. Note- I'm not challenging you- I don't see why it shouldn't be the case- I just don't follow
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by fnbr 10y ago
Not trying to nit pick here, as my experiences with Edmonton police have been similar, but my fiancee, who's black, has had different experiences with Edmonton police. Nothing as negative as this, but experiences that left her disheart
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by fnbr 10y ago
I was travelling in Eastern Europe with a friend last summer, and we noticed the phenomenon independently. We were searching for good espresso by looking for cafes that had the industrial aesthetic- bare wooden tables, vaguely scandinavian
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by fnbr 10y ago
Yup. I'm pretty bearish on tricky corporate structure. I think a lot of the existing norms evolved for a reason, and exist to prevent people pulling these sorts of shenanigans. Board oversight isn't always a bad thing.
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by fnbr 10y ago
On the one hand, hopefully not long, as she can't provide any effective leadership with this in place. However, my understanding is that Theranos has an unusual corporate structure that gives Holmes control of most of the votes, so if
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by fnbr 10y ago
I have no sympathy for her. It's incredibly irresponsible to do what she did- play marketing games with medical technology. Theranos' unethical behaviour has made it much more difficult for future innovation in the medical field,
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by fnbr 10y ago
The idea that people respond to incentives is completely unsurprising, except, apparently, to people at the top of government/academia. If the university receives a substantial portion of the rights to my work, I'm going to do les
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by fnbr 10y ago
What do you mean by this? Do you have any references? I'd love to read more about how DARPA used AI for the gulf war.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Wouldn't that change the distribution but not the randomness?
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by fnbr 10y ago
You're right, of course. However, I am extremely selfish, and while I agree with you, I can't help but think "yes, but not me." Society might need death, but I still want to live forever.

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