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by karpathy 14y ago
I feel that this is one of the major reasons I find myself using tablets more often. The UX on PCs has turned to crap. All programs want to run in the background, they all compete for my attention every 30 minutes, they all want to be updat
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by karpathy 14y ago
This is what I'm most afraid of. Ads are starting to quickly plague the internet. They've already screwed up TV and made it completely unwatchable and internet is next. YouTube is already extremely annoying to navigate. I've recently gotten
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by karpathy 14y ago
Flickr already had at least 10 wake up calls over the last 5 years. They're not answering.
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by karpathy 14y ago
Can someone comment on whether or not he is actually breaking any laws? Especially when simply recording on public streets? At least based on this article "Know Your Rights: Photographers" ( http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-
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Ericsson Networked Society documentary on The Future of Learning(ericsson.com)
2 points by karpathy 14y ago|0 comments
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by karpathy 14y ago
Yes, but just as with normal feature engineering, don't make the mistake of thinking that these methods are fully automatic work by magic. There is no free lunch. A common criticism with these methods is that they merely shift engineering f
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by karpathy 14y ago
I welcome this change if they implement it well. I sometimes keep two gmail windows open so that I can compose in one while I reference emails or search in the other.
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Q&A with Elon Musk on SpaceX, from Wired(wired.com)
6 points by karpathy 14y ago|1 comments
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by karpathy 14y ago
I'd like it to be richer in information, even if I won't understand all of it. I'd like to see diagrams of the engine, description of how it works, discussion of pros/cons of various technologies, how this one is different, etc, etc. For ex
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by karpathy 14y ago
Oh, I should have addressed this part :( In the sentence you quoted, I was referring to my voice recognition example, which is usually trained in supervised fashion. Unsupervised pretraining has been thought to help things, but some of the
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by karpathy 14y ago
Lets go easy on the virtual brain parts and hype. These approaches basically all consider some simple, fixed function f that is parameterized by some unknown numbers W, and everything comes down to finding the numbers W that give some desir
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by karpathy 14y ago
Here's the problem: There is no silver bullet in Machine Learning and many of these approaches (SVMs, Neural Nets, Random Forests, PGMs, etc.) have their pros and cons that depend on many variables, for example: - How much data do you have
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by karpathy 14y ago
I took CS229 here at Stanford and I was also one of the TAs for the online version last year (I was one of 2.5 people involved with making the programming assignments). First, the Stanford CS229 version is definitely much more difficult tha
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by karpathy 14y ago
I'm a student at Stanford, my personal recommends: - Walk around Stanford because it's nice (esp. Quad area). For food, check out the commonly-admired Ike's place, and CoHo is an ok place to sit down and have a sandwich/coffee. - Consider t
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by karpathy 14y ago
Ah! Definitely not using Dropbox app to do the syncing for me automatically. Again, too much magic for something too important. I can't be guaranteed that the Dropbox app maybe somehow loses authentication and silently stops syncing, or may
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by karpathy 14y ago
I have a flipped perspective of this. In my experience, Apple tries to be too clever and does many unintuitive things behind the scenes so that "it just works". I went through a horror scenario that scared me when I bought a new iPhone and
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by karpathy 14y ago
I was going to post something like this but you did a much better job of it. In some sense, TLDR: "Imaginary number" is a misnomer that confuses people. 1+2i is also just a convenient but potentially confusing notation to those who don't kn
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by karpathy 14y ago
To be honest, at least for me, the best welcome email is no email at all. It clutters my inbox and I really don't crave the feeling of being your very much appreciated customer. It usually annoys me more than it helps. If I have a problem a
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by karpathy 14y ago
I do something very similar but with my research. Ithink Scientists have basically known about this for a while, and it is one of the primary reasons we are encouraged to keep a research journal. It is essentially a diary of all the ideas f
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by karpathy 14y ago
Great post. I hope that by "idea", what is really meant is a more general notion of "some kind of weighted average of the idea, the context, the team dynamics, and an estimate of how capable they could be in the execution".
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OnLive lost: how the paradise of streaming games was undone by one man's ego(theverge.com)
4 points by karpathy 14y ago|0 comments
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by karpathy 14y ago
I've experienced something similar from the other point of view. I was one of the 15 guys in class and sat next to the only girl in the class. I remember the teacher giving us exercises and I would type up the code in few minutes, while she
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by karpathy 14y ago
Actually, Walter Isaacson spends a few paragraphs in the Steve Jobs biography describing how Apple, in contrast to most other companies, was never afraid of cannibalizing its own sales. He also speculates that this was one of the main drivi
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by karpathy 14y ago
Clearly there is a gradient of people and how much misinformation they spread around themselves. Few never lie, some will occasionally slip a word here and there to exaggerate a truth, some will lie from time to time about small things, and
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by karpathy 14y ago
One of the links hidden away in the article is actually quite amusing: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/bike-thief.html?_r... It is a video if a guy stealing a bike a few times with saw/crowbar etc. (Except it's actually a hidde
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by karpathy 14y ago
This exceptionally annoying trend is not even limited to Techrunch but is becoming more common on other sites too. I started to avoid Techrunch links for this reason as well. In addition, does anyone have an issue with font resizing on Tech
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by karpathy 14y ago
Elon said in a video interview that he's hoping he can convince Neil in the future because he was a large hero of his. It's slightly sad that it looks like he won't get his chance. Edit: it was his CBS 60 minutes interview that can be seen
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by karpathy 14y ago
Hopefully we can do better than taking a quote out of context, interpreting it literally and drawing false contradictions. When one takes a whole idea and distills it into a short phrase like this, it ends up sounding short and sweet but
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by karpathy 14y ago
The relationships on Facebook appear boolean, but they are hardly treated as such by Facebook. They have many ways of determining how "close" I am with any one of my friends by looking at the number of times I interact with them, view their
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by karpathy 14y ago
Indeed, it seems that, cocky and scared, they decided that since they are so big and popular, they don't need 3rd party developers anymore, or at least not as much as they used to. It is a case of digging your own grave by optimizing for sh

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