ma2rten

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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   I don't think it's a very common expression, but I think I might have heard it before.
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   I think what Thiel is referring to is that advances in computer vision which are published in scientific papers enable others to build better surveillance systems. This criticism doesn't just apply to DeepMind. The reason that he is me
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   I think they do ask you what you are planning to use the resources for, what your qualifications are and make a decision to allocate and how many tpus based on that.
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   That is not the origin of the term. It was coined by Jim Cramer for fast growing stocks.
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   I completely disagree I think that those people are extremely hard to identify, because they are able and willing to game the interview process. I also don't think that people like that deliver positive value to the company.
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   I thought that was conventional wisdom.
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   Employers don't prefer university graduates because universities offer better vocational training. Universities teach scientific thinking which makes students better employees. Universities don't teach specific skills but they tea
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   There is also an online version here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/
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   by ma2rten 5y ago

   These small patches create some overhead for maintainers. He actually said in the follow up message that grouping them together is fine. Please at least merge all those small fixes into a larger patchset, and with a good cover letter to ex
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    The talk wasn't part of the main conference but it was part of a workshop, which was just one out of tons of workshops. http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/workshops-schedule
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    According to this random Spanish website I found and translated using Google translate, it's done for plural words. https://definicion.de/rrhh/
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Can you be more specific? What advice did he give you that was wrong? Was there any reason he stopped communication other than the application being rejected?
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    "Hasekamp stated that several countries took steps to curb cryptocurrencies [...] The Netherlands is lagging behind. " It seems like The Netherlands would be the first western country to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    I'm more in Yann LeCun's camp who called unsupervised learning the cake, supervised learning the icing and reinforcement learning the cherry on top of the cake.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Maybe, but that is not helpful in the sense that it doesn't guide research in how to get there.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    The useful thing would instantly become useless because people would start gaming it.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    According to the scaling laws it scales on a log scale.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    When I initially read the headline I thought for a second that it meant storage capacity is getting smaller. But then I realized that that doesn't make sense and it's referring to process size.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Keep in mind that the former president of YCombinator is the CEO of OpenAI. That might help explain a move like this. Also recently a lot of people left Open AI at the same time. There was some speculation that they are going to start a new
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Similarly, Peter Thiel once made a case that if Google ever paid a dividend it would be an admission that they are no longer a technology company and are instead a bet again innovation in search. That seems silly to me. Google is not payi
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Scale brings different challenges but most of them have been solved already and been abstracted away (at least at Google). From what I have seen most people work on implementing some kind of business logic.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    You can also pay for Google One to get human support.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    I actually don't know if the crime rate in SF is higher than elsewhere, but if it is I think cause is the opposite. It's what happens when capitalism goes unchecked. Cost of living is on the rise while wages are stagnant. Crimes a
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    That reminds me of a story where in 2009 some rouge youtube employees put up a warning that IE6 would be deprecated: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    I think an Amazon datacenter is going to have a few more people than that because it's so huge. I just looked at the satellite image of their Ashburn datacenter in Google Maps. I saw maybe like 50-ish cars.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    They would likely notice once they fire up a disassembler or debugger.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    Or maybe people need to have more formal meetings because they can’t have informal conversations like they would in the office.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    That’s already the case. You can file a foia request.
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    I think it's worth exploring multiple approaches to a problem. Maybe this neural network approach can be improved upon and it will also generate photorealistic looking images but have other advantages such as less effort on behalf of t
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    by ma2rten 5y ago

    I've been reading HN for over a decade and I've seen comments from people with a huge variety of backgrounds. Many people switch fields later in life or they might just be interested in technology/startups.