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by karpathy 15y ago
Exactly. Imagine one day just browsing Facebook casually and enjoying the free services they provide when all of sudden you see an ad on the side that is about an ukulele star throwing a little concert in your home town. Except, you only ev
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by karpathy 15y ago
Pinterest is a compelling story. As mentioned in the article, the main source of their monotonic growth early on was that their users loved the product, and personally recommended it to their friends. Seeing a product grow all by itself wit
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm auditing the class as well and I like it quite a lot. Make sure to not get TLDR discouraged and at least scroll all the way down for the (very amusing) video that was played in class. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FO
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by karpathy 15y ago
Genetic algorithms, heuristic hill-climbing, simulated annealing, etc, etc, etc. These are all basically equivalent ways of tackling an optimization function that can only be point-wise queried efficiently, and they are all subject to same
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by karpathy 15y ago
10pm-2am, by far. There are so few distractions, and the entire internet goes quite. I don't get 10 new RSS items per minute anymore, people aren't @ messaging me on Twitter, tagging me on Facebook, emailing me about things, knocking on the
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by karpathy 15y ago
Nice, this is one of those 'duh, that makes a lot of sense' apps. I would have liked to pay for it.
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm not convinced that a more intelligent discourse is necessarily better. One major reason I like Reddit AMAs is that they are so informal that once in a while the host answers some pretty outrageous questions or feels free to joke around
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by karpathy 15y ago
"He's a blatant apple fanboy, but unlike most others he's not a stupid fanboy." Very nice. I think tikhonj's comment from below applies better here instead.
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm patiently waiting for the meta moment when a 3D printer can fully print a functional copy of itself in one piece. At this rate, it's going to happen. But more seriously, seeing all this happen gives a very clear glimpse of the future. S
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by karpathy 15y ago
This post very eloquently expresses what I've believed for a long time as well. It really hurts me to see newbie programmers in first year classes going through Java, writing getter and setter methods for a monster Object Oriented cash reg
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by karpathy 15y ago
That's false. For example, I've done some work on computational models of the visual cortex. Researchers in this area have in the past made testable predictions about the structure of the visual cortex regarding for example, distributions o
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by karpathy 15y ago
Computer Science as a field has evolved since then, and I doubt he would insist on the same view today. It is very common for Computer Scientists to work in close collaborations with e.g. biologists, physicists, etc. to study natural phenom
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm not sure about the haptic feedback rumors. Apple doesn't have a strong history with risky, new, experimental technology. I think their style is more that of waiting for a technology to mature a bit before integrating it thoughtfully int
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by karpathy 15y ago
It does not. The email that was sent out was sincere. As far as I know, there are some legal hurdles that are taking longer to resolve than was originally anticipated, relating for example to accessibility issues etc.
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by karpathy 15y ago
Nice! I do a fair amount of scientific computing in MATLAB. This looks to have a lot of the powerful array syntax / functions of MATLAB, but with the neat feel of Python, and all kinds of extras.
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by karpathy 15y ago
Just to clarify, "Both course and our research are separate from OCW or MITx."
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by karpathy 15y ago
Wow that was good! I'm very happy to have found this. I've had very little luck finding good tutorials for experienced programmers who just want to pick up JavaScript. Most tutorials I found either assume very little prior knowledge and wri
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by karpathy 15y ago
It would be unwise for Apple to change the size of the iPhone. Not only because of all the practical problems with gadgets like these, but I also think they got it right the first time. Specifically, I'm reminded of this post by Dustin Curt
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm with you. I think an equivalent post could have been written on how programming in GUI is much better. What it comes down to is pretty boring and unsatisfying-- both have strengths and weaknesses, and these depend on the specific applic
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by karpathy 15y ago
I complained about this exact same issue on G+ a while ago: https://plus.google.com/100209651993563042175/posts/FjQ8DpMa... Indeed, it's backwards and it's a big problem. I find myself sharing less because I constantly have the thought o
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by karpathy 15y ago
The what's hot section is just as lazy and useless as Twitter trending topics. I almost never find globally hot topics hot. Twitter occasionally has some semi-relevant content there, but Google+ hot topics are dominated by funny pictures an
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by karpathy 15y ago
I use my iPad all the time in my day to day life, several times a day. In the morning I flip through my Flipboard and catch up email and news while I eat breakfast and sip coffee. I take it with me to class and look through PDF's while the
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by karpathy 15y ago
it's simple! You just need to search "define: spyw" Definition for spyw: Web definitions: (SPYWS) Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. www.health.am/acronyms/s7/ you're welcome! (edit: to be fair though, the first link is a good one and
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by karpathy 15y ago
I'm currently enrolled in Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models, which will be offered later this quarter as online class. The sentiment among my friends is largely positive. First of all, personally I embrace the entire philosophy
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I wanted to read the tiny white text but the PDF froze my computer for almost 10 seconds while it loaded. An image with a larger font could have been more effective.
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by karpathy 15y ago
Exactly. As I'm reading over all the aftermath I get the feeling that this is overblown. With organization of this size there will always be some black sheep at some point in time. Google should be judged not by what happens, but how they r
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by karpathy 15y ago
A lot of success can come from creating simple apps for undeserved niches. I've made about $10,000 over last two years selling an app that is literally 5 images in a tab view. It took me one weekend to make. I know it's not too much, but it
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by karpathy 15y ago
It's somewhat intuitive, but I feel like there is some cool math or attempt at explanation behind this that was left out. Why is this better than just broadcasting messages that always contain a single block? What do you gain by forming com
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by karpathy 15y ago
Excellent idea. As a meta-comment I'd love to see a similar list made for Twitter. I'm sorry if this has already been done and I missed it.
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I found the live feed of Jots fun to watch: http://www.jotly.co/jots (potentially NSFW of course). Also, I rated my evening at the computer as a B- and the founder commented and suggested that I try to watch some TV. And that's just hilar

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