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by m_ke 7y ago
> We keep getting ads for the thing we bought yesterday, ads for dating sites after we got married and had kids (continously, for ten years despite my utter lack of interest), search results keep getting worse[0], obvious spammers keep o
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by m_ke 7y ago
You're wrong. Machine Learning is driving all of the ad placement on major ad platforms, personalization on all top social/media apps, search ranking for google, translation, speech recognition, finance, fraud detection. In the ne
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by m_ke 7y ago
Sometimes with products like this one the value that it provides to the customer varies significantly depending on a use case and it's hard to put up pricing without either cutting out a long tail of smaller users or losing money on th
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by m_ke 7y ago
These systems can be trained on more data than any doctor will see in their lifetime. This means that it can pick up on discrepancies between doctors and has room to outperform most doctors. I'm working on a similar system but for diet
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by m_ke 7y ago
That's how all sensible machine learning systems are deployed, as assistive tools with a human in the loop so that they can improve with usage. This stuff will be used to do initial screening to prioritize cases and provide an initial
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by m_ke 7y ago
There's a ton of deep learning startups working in this space already. Hardest part for most of them is getting access to training data. Because of that we'll probably see most of the commercial innovation coming from China and ot
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by m_ke 7y ago
Radiologists get second opinions all the time. I've seen radiology projects where the radiologists gave a different reading almost 40% of the time. (example of this: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148&#x2F
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by m_ke 7y ago
Static typing is useless for exploratory data analysis and data wrangling. Once you get to the modelling step all of the data is in typed arrays. Static types start to shine once the project grows and the new type annotation syntax works gr
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by m_ke 7y ago
But wasn't open source till the end of 2015 ( https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34 ) Kotlin was open sourced around 2012 and people were using it in Android apps before Google officially started suppor
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by m_ke 7y ago
From what I remember Kotlin came to Android before Google embraced Jetbrains and Android Studio.
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by m_ke 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they went with Kotlin before Swift was open sourced, but I agree with you that the likelihood of them doing it is very low. Swift for Tensorflow hasn't gotten much traction because the overlap between programmers w
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by m_ke 7y ago
With Chris Lattner's move to Google and the state of Java it would interesting to see Google embrace Swift and add official support for it to Android.
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by m_ke 7y ago
Software is eating the world and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Chips are getting cheaper, 5G is coming and machine learning is opening up a ton of opportunities for automation. It's very likely that the next decade
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by m_ke 7y ago
You should check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vsTxzmorE https://openteams.com/initiatives/2 > "We will create an embedded domain specific language (DSL) using the Python language
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by m_ke 7y ago
> How do you calculate this? Sure if you were just you with car, you could - but not sure this is exactly a workable business model without uber - if it was then people would presumably not use uber. I'm not a 100% sure if I underst
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by m_ke 7y ago
Yeah I know what they do and know a few other people working on data annotation tools for autonomous vehicles. All of the data annotation startups pivoted to that space because of the money involved. I just used them as an example because t
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by m_ke 7y ago
An open source API compatible alternative to CUDA / CUDNN would be great. Nvidia owns the deep learning ecosystem due to CUDNN.
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by m_ke 7y ago
I wonder how much this shift to enterprise software is due to YC having a large portfolio of enterprises now. It's a lot easier to build a B2B business when you can get an intro to all of the unicorns that came out of YC. A company lik
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by m_ke 7y ago
That's because they're buying growth. Their last quarter revenue was almost $4 billion, you can definitely serve millions of daily rides for way less than that. My point is that you could have an open source version of these servi
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by m_ke 7y ago
Expressing liberal or conservative opinions will also get you a ton of accusations of being a communist or a fascist, that's how the internet works.
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by m_ke 7y ago
Uber and Lyft take 35-40% of each ride, that's the number that multiple drivers have told me and this article confirms it https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-take-rates-hig... I also know a few people at food
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by m_ke 7y ago
I'm saying that we could use an open alternative for existing services, not that an open solution should have been first. Uber spent a lot on lawyers and broke a lot of laws to clear the hurdles, making it much easier for someone to co
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by m_ke 7y ago
I'd love to hear what your liberal and conservative leanings are and why they make you so brave.
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by m_ke 7y ago
In some cases they did pave the way and "resolve" legal challenges, which makes it a lot easier for an open platform to come in and take over. All of these companies are following the ridiculous 0 to 1 monopoly model of growth and
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by m_ke 7y ago
Because they're blowing insane amounts of money fueling unsustainable growth to satisfy their investors. This requires burning cash on user acquisition and hiring thousands of engineers to solve problems that they didn't need to h
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by m_ke 7y ago
There are two types of "accidental" moderates in America. Rich fiscal conservatives who are socially liberal but don't want to pay their fair share ("libertarians") and the blue collar union workers who are socially
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by m_ke 7y ago
Uber/Seamless/Postmates/Airbnb or any other middleman service. There's no reason why they should be getting away with extracting 30-40% of the revenue for facilitating a simple transaction.
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by m_ke 7y ago
The most impressive engineers that I've worked with were great at focusing on the task at hand and finishing them without getting distracted by other issues that they came across in the process. They didn't optimize things prematu
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by m_ke 7y ago
Yeah I've been doing that with Spanish and have been tempted to make a music based language learning app where you listen/sing along in the language that you're learning and can pull up the lyrics at any point and see how it
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by m_ke 7y ago
Dale Carnegie has a pretty good book about managing stress. It's called "How to stop worrying and start living". Wikipedia has a summary of it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Stop_Worrying_an

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