jtmcmc

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by jtmcmc 9y ago
most classical AI research was in fact around symbolic logic which is basically if statements.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
I mean it's totally AI in that it's an example of weak AI or more precisely it's a type of machine learning. Neither it or anything else we have is any other type of AI, however.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
Urban areas are beautiful.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
Of course that is a huge caveat and even then there is still significant degradation to the quality of your life.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
There are specific 'model animals' that the scientific community uses however https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_model_organisms
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
yeah I recently deleted my reddit account for this very reason.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
The current litigation is civil, however, he or uber could be potentially criminally liable as well...
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
Training can happen asynchronously and in batch - inference needs to be low latency and have massive parallelism because it's powering millions of android devices voice to text recognition - for instance.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
christ - reading through this person's website he seems like a parody of the 'arrogant engineer' stereotype.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
I found out about SA via playing a norwegian real time browser strategy game planetarion. I remember the day AYB was discovered in much the same way I remember 9/11.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
ah nmp3s was great for so long and IIRC oink grew out of it as well.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
right - this was my high school life.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
I've known several people on the abuse teams for ad revenue at Google and I can tell you they work very hard and care deeply at preventing malware. It is, however, an extremely non-trivial task.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
anecdotally most people I know who have gone through bootcamp have had major issues getting hired and the ones that did were hired into support/saleseng rather than software engineering.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
The OP is amortizing the entire cost of a worker not just their salary.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
IIRC but this is what 23andMe used to do before their FDA smackdown.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
Silicon Valley has a pretty drastically different feel from San Francisco at both an industry level (lots of large companies there vs. largely smaller startups in SF) and culturally (San Jose is a largely suburban community while SF is an u
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
legalizing drugs would cause the collapse of the cartels and help to end this violence.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
In part because you can't use google services in China so you don't get all those parts of Android...
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
they don't have 70 billion in cash. They have raised 8.8 billion so far and have spent a fair chunk of that as is.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
This seems great - I've bought a subscription and look forward to trying it at the office. I hope it's as good as you say so I can try and convince our ops folks to order it at work. Curious - have you considered doing coffee tast
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
Definitely can't buy a pour over in the bay area for under 4 dollars so this is a better price than that - also I can just put this into hot or cold water and instantly have high quality coffee? That's pretty nice.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
as a tech worker this is my concern as well. A contraction of the tech market due to funding drying up is bad for all tech employees...
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
yes but their apps seem pretty terrible on average...
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
seriously? NYC has one of the best taxi networks prior to uber. Try taking a taxi in the bay area to understand a truly dysfunctional taxi system. I attempted to use a similar system to the one you described in vancouver where there is no r
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
what is patio11?
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
yeah prop 13 was a fucking trainwreck
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
If they're expecting actual technical support staff (people who have a technical ability as well as client facing abilities) to work for 15-18/hr they're insane. Again outsourcing that sort of support is equally difficult for
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
I don't understand why there is such a huge salary difference between Toronto and SF. I'd love to move to Toronto but really don't want to take that huge salary hit.
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by jtmcmc 10y ago
It was also one of the first metadata rich photo sets that was publicly available. Prior to every large company seeing data as their primary source of income Flickr had their open data API and a lot of interesting science was done using Fli

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