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   by fnbr 9y ago

   It's very doable to find remote consulting/freelance work. I'm in a region of Canada where the goal freelance/consulting rates for software engineers are well below $100/hour, and I could regularly find remote consu
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   Why would Visa/MC do that? It doesn't seem any different than metering any other service (eg Mailchimp invoicing monthly vs per email). I'm not saying you're wrong- I just don't understand what leverage the CCs woul
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   Exactly. It's also not clear why it's taken VC- seems like it should be bootstrapped somewhere in the Midwest.
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   What's better than Gurobi? I used it at a previous job and we weren't aware of anything better (but it also seemed slow and not great at scaling).
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   I'd love to see that research! Could you share some links?
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   This is basically the stance of every serious practitioner that I've seen (ie the stance shared by everyone who directly works with theory/code to train models, as opposed to those who talk about AI at a high level). Right now, we
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   If you're looking to understand the underlying theory behind deep learning, the Deep Learning book by Goodfellow et al. is awesome. If you're interested in general machine learning, the Elements of Statistical Learning, by Tibsihi
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   I suspect that they were using classical ML techniques, and a lot of traditional scientific computing techniques, but not a lot of deep learning, given how new it is, and how slow government operates. It's also not clear how a lot of t
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   by fnbr 9y ago

   Much, much worse- in my experience, 3-4x.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    This is technically true, but I wonder how close you could get to 100% with minimal size. I would expect that you could get somewhere around >98% with a network that's a few megabytes in size.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    How can you tweak it to specialize?
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Location: Edmonton, Canada, but looking to relocate Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, particularly to the Bay Area, or NYC. I'm a Canadian citizen so I can easily get a TN-1 visa. Technologies: Python (sklearn, Numpy, Pandas, Tenso
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred - Based in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Willing to travel. Machine Learning Engineer, focusing on image recognition & NLP Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Flask, Bash, Linux, Postgresql, MySQL,
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    A lot of probability theory requires it. For instance, ML is largely framed mathematically as a series of optimisation problem, which are then solved by finding the gradient and performing gradient descent; this requires elementary calculus
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    The thing about networking is that good networking is extremely important, but that's not what "Networking" is. In every job I have, I try to grab lunch with people everyday so that I can talk to them and get to know them. I
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Did it work? It sounds like you made all of the correct conditions, but that seems like an incredibly difficult environment for you to succeed in.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred - Based in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Willing to travel. Machine Learning Engineer, focusing on image recognition & NLP Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Flask, Bash, Linux, Postgresql, MySQL,
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    What? Are you promised the 70% interest contractually? This is either a scam or the best investment opportunity, ever. For reference, an 8% annual return is good in the stock market. Why would you lend Bitcoin to someone? What's the us
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Reddit is great. r/MachineLearning and r/MLQuestions are decently active, as is Cross Validated, Stack Overflow's stats site. You could also email me- email's in profile, I'm happy to chat. I currently work in ML as
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Currently reading this. I'm really interested in the subject, as current work is limited by the fact that GPUs can make dense matrix multiplications really, really fast, but aren't great at much else (as far as I'm aware). Sp
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    Submanifold Spare Convolutional Networks(arxiv.org)

    2 points by fnbr 9y ago|1 comments
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Well said. I agree with you. Those exact reasons are why entrepreneurship appeals to me.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    So, this is definitely good work, and I don't have any suggestions on how to do it better, but I'm ultimately not sure how useful I find it. I have no intuition for what the histograms for `t` should look like, and so seeing the d
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    That's a really good idea. I'll try that.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Hmmm. I would disagree with you. It is impossible to visualize the equations as that isn't possible to do in 3 dimensions, but it is possible to develop an intuition. After taking functional analysis, for instance, I began to develop a
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    I built https://bugdedupe.com/ last year- the idea was to make it easy to remove duplicate bug reports by using some academic research I worked on involving machine learning. The system worked well, but I struggled to find
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Yeah, I agree. I lived in London, UK for a while and found the lack of sunlight much worse. Edmonton has a lot of sun, which makes it pretty tolerable.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    I just remember the day in 2009 [1] when Edmonton was literally the coldest place on Earth. You're right that the winters have been getting better, but there's typically at least one week of below -40 weather, which is awful. [1]:
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    I completely agree with that assessment. The U of A is a great school, and summers in Edmonton are fantastic, but the winters are something else.
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    by fnbr 9y ago

    Thanks for the heads up, I fixed it now.