jwilber

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by jwilber 3y ago
Love these. I’ve also made some visual explanations for ml for Amazon, available at https://mlu-explain.github.io/ Big fan of your early work, Jay, a big inspiration for me!
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by jwilber 3y ago
Very happy that they did. They offer a diverse array of movies (some great, some terrible) that are a breath of fresh air when compared to the typical Hollywood blockbusters. (Different audience, sure, but definitely less formulaic).
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by jwilber 3y ago
Why post at all if you don’t know?
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by jwilber 3y ago
Your compensation has very little to do with the profit margins of your well-established employer. (Tesla is profitable. Uber is not. Who pays their software engineers more?)
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by jwilber 3y ago
You’re completely ignoring the customer (people like you) in favor of the (already mega rich) corporations. What a mindset.
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by jwilber 3y ago
There’s definitely more to the picture than that - it’s really about how models in the interpolation region behave (see https://mlu-explain.github.io/double-descent/ or https://mlu-explain.github.io/dou
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by jwilber 3y ago
In case you need a refresher, I made a very visual introduction to Double Descent here: https://mlu-explain.github.io/double-descent/ (There’s a math-ier follow up linked as wel).
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by jwilber 3y ago
This has been done a few times in the past few months, here’s a nice one: https://creativity.ucsd.edu/ai
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by jwilber 4y ago
I honestly don’t believe R would have any sort of user-base at all if the tidyverse didn’t exist
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by jwilber 4y ago
When compared to the stress it causes for those impacted, I’m going to disagree and claim that it’s entirely meaningless. Given that most of his compensation comes from stock, losing a few 100k at most in salary is nothing.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Lol. A 25% cut and “my revenue is at risk” is meaningless when you make more in a year than most of your employees will even retire with. It’s crazy we don’t hold CEO’s to the same rigorous standards as employees, despite their importance (
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by jwilber 4y ago
When’s the last time you attended university?
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by jwilber 4y ago
No. They mentioned what happens upon dropping affirmative action. Standardized tests still exist.
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by jwilber 4y ago
You can wax philosophical all day, but nobody is mentioning the downfall of Salesforce. People aren’t arguing against the merit of advertising. The argument is against the specific case of a massive, already well-recognized and widely-int
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by jwilber 4y ago
Ah yes, anyone upset that their employer’s layoffs cite financial reasons while objectively wasting money is “shockingly” ignorant to capitalism! Luckily the enlightened fdsg has brought it to our attention! Without knowing what any of them
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by jwilber 4y ago
I’m sure they are, though probably pretty rare. But my comment isn’t about the occurrence of them, it’s about the muddied waters when a vehicle repo’s itself with no driver. Who’s at fault if the vehicle crashes? The purchaser of the vehicl
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by jwilber 4y ago
Yeah these comments are awful. Someone even wrote, “take my upvote.” Not a good look for HN discus quality. Back on topic: I find this hard to believe, what happens if it repossess itself by mistake? Gets in an accident on the way home duri
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by jwilber 4y ago
No, but - and you may find this crazy - you can go look in Manhattan and see for yourself!
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by jwilber 4y ago
Hotels are always cheaper than Airbnb nowadays, and a much better experience. I can’t think of a single positive thing about Airbnb anymore.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Almost every tech company will have some sort of commit hook using isort to force correct import ordering at the top of the file.
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by jwilber 4y ago
“Elon is going to do Elon things, why get mad?” Quite the patronizing tone to say basically nothing. But I’ll add: tech forums (like this) are built for discussions about tech stuff (like twitter), so of course you’ll hear people floating t
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by jwilber 4y ago
Awesome stuff. Here's a short video talking about DriftDB at Browsertech SF (I believe this is an put on by them ("Drifting in Space"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRv3MImcqM
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by jwilber 4y ago
Any new consensus on chocolate milk? This was the post-lift craze a few years back.
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by jwilber 4y ago
At first you say: “No one reads resumes” Then follow up with the age-old advice: Your resume should talk about results. Don't say "Created a new CMS for the company". Say "Created a new CMS for the company in Python that
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by jwilber 4y ago
The inequality in our country is astounding.
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by jwilber 4y ago
The fact that this confusing distinction even exists is testament to how unnecessarily complicated agile is.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Twitter has been objectively worse since the layoffs. I get tons of sex-bot accounts liking my posts that never existed before, the app constantly refreshes itself, there’s a few second loading message every time I view my timeline that did
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by jwilber 4y ago
Svelte stores.
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by jwilber 4y ago
If it’s the case that it’s driven by some organism/parasite/virus, it’s interesting that there’s a prevalence for certain age groups to get it over others (or rather, it is much more rare to get after certain ages). Maybe some com
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by jwilber 4y ago
I appreciate the response but I admit I'm a bit confused - maybe it's the case that you're not familiar with the need for modern forecasting? Some of your 'defense' is just flat out wrong. A few points: - You write:

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