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by hooande 11y ago
Least successful YC batch of all time? Harsh. Probably true, but harsh. Still miss you guys though <3
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CodaLab: Accelerating reproducible computational research(worksheets.codalab.org)
15 points by hooande 11y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 11y ago
Yahoo started as a couple of people who said "This internet thing has a lot of content now, let's try to organize it for people." They should go back to doing that, and throw 20 years worth of technology and cultural growth a
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by hooande 11y ago
There are some very interesting techniques in the linked paper, particularly the moving average alternative to bag of words and the use of RankSVM. But this generated sample (verbatim) isn't rap, it's just rhyming words: You&#
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by hooande 12y ago
YC believes in the advantages of their current model. There is something to be said for face to face interaction between founders and other founders, and between founders and mentors. It's possible that video or tele conferencing could
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by hooande 12y ago
With these criteria, how does anyone make any statement about their own abilities? If you went to a job interview and they asked "What is your biggest strength?" would you say "Well, humans are prone to overestimate their abi
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by hooande 12y ago
Only because you have so much karma... Automation won't destroy jobs because technology and society change faster than automation can keep up. Think of all the job titles that didn't exist 30 years ago (social media marketer, seo
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by hooande 12y ago
This article was fantastically well written and comprehensive. Worth reading if you're interested at all in the topic of automation and its potential effects on the future of employment. The narrative that machines will "eat"
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by hooande 12y ago
Machine intelligence does pose an existential threat to humanity. The question is, how does that threat compare to all of the others? Is it greater or worse than climate change, the possibility of a bio-engineered virus, growing income ineq
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by hooande 12y ago
"Art" is a concept that obviously has no one definition. For many people, art is synonymous with beauty. If they look at it and like it, it's art. I wasn't personally moved in this way by google maps or the iphone, but I
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by hooande 12y ago
The correlation between software and large scale loss of jobs is far from proven. The US unemployment rate fluctuates wildly based on many factors [0], but ~30 years or so into the software revolution it isn't too much higher than it h
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by hooande 12y ago
AI isn't a clear threat in the SkyNet sense. It's possible that super intelligent machines will go all science fiction and decide to kill all humans, but that's no more likely than any one of hundreds of fictional doomsday sc
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by hooande 12y ago
I don't think it's the education that matters. It's as another commenter said, it's the ability to "visit the right clubs and (therefore) know the right people". Studying at Harvard isn't going to make you
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by hooande 12y ago
> I'm doing fine, I'm not broke in terms of money. I would say from the materialistic side, I have good life. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy
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by hooande 12y ago
I think you're misunderstanding something fundamental about how AI research works. The techniques, tools and ideas can be applied to anything by anyone. If google releases a deep learning framework, it can be used for cancer research o
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by hooande 12y ago
If this product develops successfully and gains adoption, it will be a huge deal. I've heard repeatedly that scheduling is one of the biggest problems that executives have and it's one of the main reasons that they get personal as
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by hooande 12y ago
Napoleon was indeed a very good general, rightfully considered as one of the greatest of all time. This very well written and insightful article takes his legend down a peg or two, which is certainly justified. The invasion of Russia was on
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by hooande 12y ago
I think the lesson here has been evident for some time: There is no one best classifier, only classifiers that perform better on particular problems. Random Forests work well because as ensemble methods they can be optimized to explore many
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by hooande 12y ago
A lot of people are building things [with big data] hoping that they work, and sometimes they will ... Eventually, we have to give real guarantees. Civil engineers eventually learned to build bridges that were guaranteed to stand up. So wi
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by hooande 12y ago
There's nothing corrupt about it. The voting citizens of Michigan like the auto industry the way it is and they have an understandable fear of disruptive new technologies. It makes good sense that someone representing a state known for
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by hooande 12y ago
Every time someone says "I have nothing to hide" the downvotes pour in, and it's unnecessary. "I have nothing to hide" is a perfectly valid and reasonable response to privacy concerns. A lot of people feel that way,
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by hooande 12y ago
Sure wish there was some way that I could help fund this research. I don't know if kickstarter campaigns are cool at Harvard, but they would have no shortage of backers. This does reinforce my idea that medical technology and research
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The Open Source Data Science Masters(datasciencemasters.org)
132 points by hooande 12y ago|36 comments
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by hooande 12y ago
Any task that could become automated could be maintained during sleep, he said. So someone who is highly trained could continue to work while they are asleep. ie, an expert stock broker could classify market data (as interpreted by EEG re
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by hooande 12y ago
This was a fascinating look not only into the modern newsroom, but into the mind of Jeff Bezos: The origin of many of the hires could be traced to a phrase Bezos had used several times during his visit to the Post in September, when he sai
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by hooande 12y ago
If you were correct then soccer oddsmakers would have gone bankrupt a long time ago. The fact is that the average outcome occurs the majority of the time. High profile surprises like this cause people to question statistics, but this line o
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by hooande 12y ago
This is moving the wrong direction. We want to use automation to reduce the number of jobs, not to create makework for it's own sake. This is the key statement: There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between hum
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by hooande 12y ago
I read a more detailed explanation of the star trek economy. I can't find the link now [1] but it answered some of the questions raised in this post. Since I can't find it I'm not sure if it was canon or just fan theorizing,
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by hooande 12y ago
So the problem with traditional buy and hold investing based on fundamentals is that it's very slow. I don't mean slow in terms of latency and distance to servers, I mean that financial returns accumulate slowly. Investing in the
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by hooande 12y ago
Wikipedia. Put onto a device with a nonmechanical hard drive using technology that will last for at least 1,000 years. Said device would have to be powered with kinetic energy so that someone could press a pump with their hand or foot to gi

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