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by fnbr 7y ago
In my experience, most pure python code will be 10 to 100x faster if it’s rewritten in C++. So I just profile it as usual using cProfile, try to make algorithmic improvements (eg caching) and then, if I need another order of magnitude, rewr
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by fnbr 7y ago
In my experience, it's all cars in Canada- I've never seen one that doesn't have it (other than imports). I guess you could probably get away without it on the west coast. Most cars do start though. It’s really a maintenance
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by fnbr 7y ago
Yes!
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by fnbr 7y ago
Yeah, but that's an embarassingly parallel task, so you can recreate it with sufficient resources. If there's a sufficiently lucrative application, businesses will happily pay that.
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by fnbr 7y ago
Yeah, but it's still a gamble. Unless you become a VP/Director it's tough to get to a sufficiently high level to make it worth it. It's rare, for instance, for someone from a start-up to come in as a Staff/Senior St
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by fnbr 7y ago
For Google, that's entry level (L3). L4 (between fresh graduate and senior) makes $250k TC. L4 is ~2 years out of school.
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by fnbr 7y ago
Two examples: - Kenya has a dominant electronic currency, M-Pesa - South Korea rapidly developed into a globally competitive developed country, despite being poor in the middle of the 20th century (same applies to Japan, just slightly less
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by fnbr 7y ago
Presumably they have a supervised model that they've trained on all their labeled data so far (possibly pooled across clients). They'd use this to estimate labels for their data, and then have humans correct it. They're basic
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by fnbr 7y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I could imagine a few things that you could try that might accomplish this, but I'm not aware of any published literature discussing the efficacy of such work. You could do the naive thing, which would be to
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by fnbr 7y ago
I'm not sure about the exact details, but that's my understanding too. It is very exciting. This is directly replacing a week of work (if not more!) of a qualified ML engineer. Additionally, as all of the experiments are cheap (be
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by fnbr 7y ago
(I'm a researcher in ML/DL.) > Anyone know why they used CPUs instead of GPUs/TPUs? Cost and resource availability. They're distributing each computation on a different CPU, not distributing each computation over mult
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by fnbr 7y ago
A recurrent network can with ease. For a vanilla MLP, you'd need to add in a few previous values (ie you'd predict x_{t+1} = f(x_t, ..., x_{t-N}), where f is your neural network and N is some fixed integer).
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by fnbr 8y ago
Ah, welcome to Alberta :) A lot of small towns in Alberta only have Catholic hospitals (which are publicly funded, but run by Covenant Health [0], a Catholic institution). They refuse to provide, among other things, assisted suicide or abor
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by fnbr 8y ago
Assisted suicide has been legal in Canada for a few years now, and there haven’t been many major issues (other than Catholic hospitals refusing to comply with the law). Doctors aren't fools, and won't do it in cases that aren&#x27
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by fnbr 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. I'm an AI researcher, and most of my colleagues just use their desktop computers with a standard GPU to do their work. Of course, long-running jobs get put on the cloud, as do large distributed jobs, but those are surp
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by fnbr 8y ago
It is capped, at $30k.
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by fnbr 8y ago
Thanks! Let me know if anything's unclear :)
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by fnbr 8y ago
Performing well on the interviews is a skill that you can acquire through practice. If you do 100 Leetcode questions, read through all of Cracking the Coding Interview, and suffer through 30 phone screens, by the end of it, you'll be a
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by fnbr 8y ago
My background is that of an econometrician (ie quantitative economist), and I now work as a Research Engineer at one of the FAANG research divisions. I think the advice about getting in as a hardware engineer is solid. At my workplace, ther
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by fnbr 8y ago
The joke that I've heard is "performance (review) driven development". If the way to get promoted is to launch a shiny new product, then your most senior people will be the best at finding shiny new products to launch, even i
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by fnbr 8y ago
(I'm also the partner of someone with severe nut anaphylaxis.) Can you link me to anything? I was pretty discouraged by the result as the article explicitly says that the trial didn't work on adults: "The treatment was not ef
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by fnbr 8y ago
A lot of investors won't invest in companies that don't have large offices in the Bay. Investors also generally advise against having remote offices when you have less than 100 people. As a result, there's not really any reas
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by fnbr 8y ago
I would honestly expect it to be more than 10x easier. In Canada, the idea of raising a 2-3 million round is completely foreign, and in my city (Edmonton) the idea is absurd. I strongly suspect you could raise 10x more much easier in the Ba
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by fnbr 8y ago
Yup, they did. They handed them out at their booth.
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by fnbr 8y ago
I agree, it sucks. I definitely would rather have worked with the rest of the team rather than leave as the core idea behind the company was pretty awesome. Are you in this position currently? Are you trying anything different?
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by fnbr 8y ago
It's tough. I experienced that at a previous job, at a consulting firm, which prized Excel expertise over everything else (eg over data science skills with Python). I just left, as I knew there was no easy way to argue. I think you&#x2
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by fnbr 8y ago
The Open AI solution uses demonstrations though, which is the article's point, that bare DQN can't solve the games, and something like demonstrations are needed.
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by fnbr 8y ago
At work, we have a bunch of vectorized computations that we run in Tensorflow, as it's a convenient way to get GPU-optimized code, so that is still an option (albeit an awkward one). You could also use something like CUDA, or OpenGL to
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by fnbr 8y ago
Technically, it's not a polynomial as you can have nonlinear activation functions, such as the ReLU function. There's no polynomial that's equal to a network with ReLU activations (although, of course, a sufficiently large po
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by fnbr 8y ago
To be clear, it's not obvious that the paper you linked is actually accurate. A lot of researchers consider that paper to be deeply flawed, and to show something other than what it claims to.

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