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by kailuowang 10y ago
so, how do you ensure no company patent them?
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by kailuowang 10y ago
> I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was rich Yes, you earned your success, but being from a poor Eastern Europe family doesn't say anything about whether or not you experienced a "white privilege". Try im
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by kailuowang 10y ago
Or, even better, Robot land-pirates. There are many many things out there that you can steal without harming a fellow human now. When robots are doing all the tedious jobs for humans, you either live for free or work for fun. Not much need
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by kailuowang 11y ago
In U.S. culture is being shaped by business more than other countries. Car culture, gun culture are two great examples of commercial cultures in U.S.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Not relevant to your post, but I kept getting asked by data engineers who are interested picking up scala (thanks to spark): how shall I learn scala? Do you happen to have any advice for them?
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by kailuowang 11y ago
The fun part of developing in scala is that it supports multiple completely different styles and paradigms, each has its own strength and weakness. You can pick the most suitable one for the functionality you are working on. On other hand i
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by kailuowang 11y ago
In NYC (or at least in Manhattan), when taxis are readily available (non-extreme weather), Uber is 2x to 3x less convenient than taxi. When taxis aren't readily available i.e. extreme weather, Uber is 3x - 5x more expensive than taxi a
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I think you are thinking a group of things as a group of types. Those two concepts are separate. A group of things has its own type which is not necessarily related to the type of the things in that group. If you want an Everything type tha
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by kailuowang 11y ago
May I ask which language are you mainly using other than scala?
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Yes, scala is big and complex, but IMO, it remains by and large coherent. That might be the ultimate reason why scala developers from all kinds of different backgrounds didn't abandon it even after facing many of its shortcomings and b
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Can someone elaborate the difference between reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning? It seems that I mistakenly think that human learns through reinforcement learning, that we learn by the feedback from the outside world. I mean w
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Would like to see more detailed logic in the original post. For e.g. why specifically the parallel between physical world and digital is flawed.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
My advice is that don't expect that you can "learn" Scala in a couple of weeks or months. Instead expect that you can learn enough Scala to get the next task done. If you like it, you might be pretty happy spending a couple y
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by kailuowang 11y ago
> nobody is actually shipping software What about Spark, Kafka and Akka? I actually think the Scala community is working very hard to improve user experience, it's just that they don't do in the expense of soundness. As a ruby
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Yes the function themselves are pure mathematical functions, but the way to derive them relies on human intuition (not mathematical formula). It's like saying: I know how to do a 1 times 3, I just do 1 + 1 + 1, but I can't tell yo
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by kailuowang 11y ago
> turns Go into a simple game of mathematics This can be claimed to be true when we understand how deep neural networks mathematically.
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Show HN: Henkan, transformation between static and dynamic data structures(github.com)
4 points by kailuowang 11y ago|0 comments
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by kailuowang 11y ago
My understanding is that once the neural network is trained you don't need as much computation power to put it in use.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
> only come from 'greedy wallstreet executives' Not an executive of any kind and can barely afford to raise one kid in a tiny apartment in NYC. According to this calculator, under Bernie's tax plan I will have pay more tax
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I got the 8/10. Style is extremely important in understanding an artist and his work. Without a grasp on the original style, it's hard to see if a painting is genuinely of that style. So a more substantial visual Turing test would
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NYT built this machine to explain what happens when the Fed raises rates(nytimes.com)
2 points by kailuowang 11y ago|0 comments
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Author here, will answer any questions. Kanaloa is a set of work dispatchers implemented using Akka actors. These dispatchers sit in front of your service and dispatch received work to them. They make your service more resilient through the
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Make your service more resilient with Kanaloa – an Akka based lib(tech.iheart.com)
7 points by kailuowang 11y ago|1 comments
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by kailuowang 11y ago
It will be really interesting to see who would be the first organization running automated Taxi. I think as long as Google isn't dumb enough to let go its pioneer engineering team members they are still the front runner. The only thing
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by kailuowang 11y ago
If the car is self driving there is less need to own a car. Selfdriving taxi will be significantly cheaper than current taxi. A privately operating self driving taxi system might be even more economic than building an extensive public tran
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by kailuowang 11y ago
for anyone who is interested in Einstein's ideas/theory and philosophy within the context of social and science history, there is an wonderful mooc offered by Peter Galison from Harvard. https://www.edx.org/course&
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New architecture for deep reinforcement learning(arxiv.org)
1 points by kailuowang 11y ago|0 comments
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Physicists Achieve Quantum Entanglement at Room Temperature(scitechdaily.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
The traditional concept of generics you see in C# wouldn't be a selling point for Scala. There are more powerful "generic" programming tool in the scala world. See this article for an example. https://meta.plasm
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by kailuowang 11y ago
The software industry in U.S. did have a similar experience 5-15 years ago when "outsourcing" is the fashion. What came out of that, it appears to me, is a booming software industry with more local competent and confident software

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