jlelonm

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by jlelonm 8y ago
Jeremy, you're awesome. Thanks for all your continued high-quality work. Slightly OT question: At some point after DL1 pt 2 was released and before DL2 pt 1 was released, I recall you saying it was probably better to wait on starting t
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by jlelonm 8y ago
I’ve heard “understand the platform dynamics of your industry” a lot in various forms but it’s always seemed so vague to me. How do you know when you do? What does that look like?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
What's a reasonable retirement fund to you? (asking out of ignorance, not sarcasm or anything)
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Why is that, economically speaking? If there's a labor shortage, doesn't that mean it's undervalued in the first place? Forgive me if that sounds naive, I'm no economist.
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by jlelonm 8y ago
I asked my girlfriend this, and she said a few things: 1) It looked tedious and frustrating to learn. 2) It's filled with a bunch of dudes, which makes her uncomfortable. 3) It doesn't come "naturally" to her so she thin
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Only desperate people apply to big companies?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Fourthed(?) What's a linear transformation? I get that it's f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) and f(cx) = c * f(x)... but what does that really mean? Why is the dot product equivalent to ||a||*||b|| cos C? I really have no idea, I just know
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Well, I think the difference between developer symbols and math symbols is that developer symbols are lot more google-able. I can google a line of code, but it's hard to google a crap ton of greek letters and summations. Even if I did
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by jlelonm 8y ago
What do you mean: > mislead people into thinking the technique matters more than the compute (like in OpenAI's Glow paper) Are you saying that the results they got had more to do with the amount of computing power they have, as oppo
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Same. It's the strangest thing - I watched porn from around 14 years old to about 4 years ago (when I was 22), and I had intermittent cravings until about a year later (23), when they stopped completely. When I gave up social media (al
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by jlelonm 8y ago
"You're close to the sea everywhere, very strong boost for your your family's immune system" Why is that?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
What's the argument for state inspection being a "glorified protection racket"?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
What're some examples of a "harder latent model"
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by jlelonm 8y ago
"So now I just tell people to read the book and take the test from a management perspective and people look at me like I am crazy, because the test is so hard." Can you elaborate more on that? I'm interested.
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by jlelonm 9y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Preferably not Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Data Science stack (Python, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, pytorch, opencv, R, Matlab) Résumé/CV: https://github.com/joshualmitchell/jo
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by jlelonm 9y ago
Oooh, what might those positions be? Also, is there a list of jobs available on your website somewhere? I couldn't find one.
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Ask HN: What do you do if you're too future-focused?
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by jlelonm 9y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Freedom: https://freedom.to/ It's a siteblocker, except at the VPN level (so you can't just disable it from your browser). Really helps me be productive.
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by jlelonm 9y ago
Check out Freedom: https://freedom.to/ It's a "here's a list of websites I don't want to visit at these times, don't let me visit them at those times" app, kind of like the chrome/firefox
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by jlelonm 9y ago
What's the definition of a processed carb? I'm scarily ignorant about this. I feel like anything in the frozen foods / microwave it 2 mins and eat it isle probably falls into this category, but I'm not sure exactly why.