karmacondon

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by karmacondon 11y ago
The slight danger of this "post your salary" trend is that it's really difficult to make comparisons out of context. Someone is going to go to their supervisor and say, "Hey, it says that a senior dev is getting paid $20
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by karmacondon 11y ago
What would be the advantage of binarized gradient descent?
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I have a hard time believing that Google sold Boston Dynamics because they didn't want to be associated with military applications or with "evil" AI. Boston Dynamics had deep relationships with the government and clear milita
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by karmacondon 11y ago
There is one clear benefit to global trade: It makes things cheaper. The problem is that it only makes things a little bit cheaper, and it's difficult for most people to see the effect in their daily lives. In broad strokes, free trade
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by karmacondon 11y ago
It seems like IBM is using the Watson name to re-brand itself in an attempt to turn their business around. So that "using Watson" is now synonymous with "hiring IBM consultants". Ten years ago this headline would have re
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I understand what you're saying and I agree with you. Human learning is based almost entirely around feedback and trial and error. But by comparison, machine learning requires a lot of implicitly labelled data, and that's what I t
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by karmacondon 11y ago
What do you think RTB is? There are websites that will sell demographic information from user profiles, but that's relatively rare. The overwhelming majority of the billions of RTB impressions are based only on location and website aud
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by karmacondon 11y ago
It is their data. What they sell is essentially their http access logs, the ip address and time of every page request. While that information may pertain to you, it's not yours. They own it and can do what they want with it, includin
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Where this analogy breaks down is that the people sent to track you are invisible and can't be seen without the aid of special technology. So what you end up telling people is that they are being followed everywhere by invisible ghosts
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I would be all for banning submissions from zerohedge.com outright. It's just noise that makes it harder for me to skim headlines for actual content.
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Relevant web comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3540
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by karmacondon 11y ago
You compared the current state of deep learning to the early internet. Can you clarify that in any way? I'm having a hard time seeing how deep learning could improve exponentially from where it is now.
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Do you know of a previous case that's similar to what you're describing here? Because I'm having a hard time understand this. Unless Apple entered into an agreement with Uber, I don't see how Uber would have an expectati
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I have a question for the lawyers on HN. Why doesn't the judge in the case hold Apple in contempt of court until they modify the OS, in the same way they would hold a reporter in contempt until they revealed a source? In both cases, yo
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by karmacondon 11y ago
What's the killer app for AR? speadsheets:computing, email:internet, ____::AR?
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by karmacondon 11y ago
That's brilliant, you should try it. I'd kind of be surprised if someone hasn't done it already.
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by karmacondon 11y ago
It's interesting that all of the numbers in your post seem to be significant, but really aren't. The US "owes" China a trillion USD because the Chinese, investing on a national scale, need a safe investment that can supp
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I was wondering exactly how the NSA trained models to detect terrorists, and was surprised by the level of detail in this article. So the NSA performs classification using a Random Forest and about 80 input features? Huh. That actually soun
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by karmacondon 11y ago
My favorite quote about Watson is "If Watson is so smart, how come it can't figure out how to stop three years of declining sales numbers at IBM?" More than anything, this ad makes me think of how long of a way we have to go
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Big Data Is Dead. All Aboard the AI Hype Train(medium.com)
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You could research the funding of startups. Or more broadly, how should capital be allocated? Admittedly I have no idea how something like that could be quantified, and the study of economics has been trying to figure it out for decades. Bu
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Completely subjective, but I'm very drawn to the timeline. I would be interested in a site that was organized entirely around that, with the videos and pictures displayed chronologically and by importance.
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by karmacondon 11y ago
This seems like someone saying "I don't agree with the direction that BitCoin is heading in" and then taking his ball and going home. A bit dramatic yes, but not uncommon in open source projects. It's like someone saying
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by karmacondon 11y ago
This is expected. As the parent comment said, it's common for people to be "too lazy" to unsubscribe from meetup groups. It cost nothing to be a member (though I understand that group owners are charged a fee based on the num
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The internet is difficult to describe to someone who has no experience with it. It's like "There's this flibity divit called Google that lets you search for hurgfbr and find veruhryhr written by people you like." If some
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Hey mattmaroon, I just noticed your comment here. I was thinking of you specifically when reading this article. I could have sworn you were talking about daily fantasy 7 or 8 years ago, back before it was "a thing". I'm curio
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I've never had any of these experiences when riding in cabs. The cars were always ok, the drivers were polite and well spoken, they took direct routes and never demanded cash. I use Uber for one simple reason: It's 30% cheaper tha
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Something bad would have to happen to random citizens as the result of government surveillance. Something like "Private Citizen X criticized the government and embarrassing information about his life was revealed as a consequence.&quot
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We both made the mistake of discussing the US government like it's a single entity. We're talking about hundreds or thousands of individuals spanning multiple generations. I'm not going to worry about government metadata coll
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The problem with drawing historical parallels is that they never apply exactly. Saying "A thing happened in the past" can be instructive, especially to people who didn't even realize that the thing was possible. But what&#x27

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