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by madenine 10y ago
Depending on what you're doing - deploy a webservice with Azure ML?
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by madenine 10y ago
Getting started from 0 with ads on facebook is hard. If you don't have good email lists, have the money to throw at ads to figure out your ad groups / demographics (just because purple fish people are your #1 customers doesn'
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by madenine 10y ago
> 100X reduction in training time compared to GPUs Sounds great, when will it.. >Intel loosely laid down plans to eventually integrate the unique Nervana architecture with Xeons this week, but was hesitant to put a year stamp on when
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by madenine 10y ago
Fake news site are just the latest symptom of the two fold problem of anyone being able to put anything on the internet and people tending to like things that validate their existing views. If its not news sites, its images with some text o
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by madenine 10y ago
> 'I wasnt even manager level but I lost it and yelled at the CTO.' Bold strategy.
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by madenine 10y ago
The term comes from the games community - its what they call it. For example, in DotA: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Pseudo_Random_Distribution
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by madenine 10y ago
My web scraping toolkit (Python): -Beautiful Soup -Requests Lib -JSON Lib -Selenium -Urllib2 -Cookielib Handles 99% of things I encounter. With dynamic sites, you're often better off simulating the request than controlling the browser.
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by madenine 10y ago
Their monetezation strategy is advertorial content posts. People are so used to clickbait as a way to get impressions and clicks from display ads that many don't realize there isn't a single 'traditional' display ad on B
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by madenine 10y ago
I think some formatting got lost. The context: – we invented Digital Hub concept – PC as hub for all your digital assets – contacts, calendars, bookmarks, photos, music, videos – digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to clo
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by madenine 10y ago
Check out Rodeo[0] from Yhat. Its not RStudio, but its an IDE with data science in mind. Been getting better and better each release. [0] http://rodeo.yhat.com/
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by madenine 10y ago
I wouldn't discount the ThinkPads so quickly. I use a T460s for work - its a great machine. I prefer it to my 2013 MBP.
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by madenine 10y ago
On a second look, seems like a combination of Alice not being good at encrypting (in a sense that it had to encrypt in a way that makes decrpytion possible), and Bob needed to get up to speed on decrypting (even with the key). As soon as th
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by madenine 10y ago
Really interesting that for the first ~6500 steps Eve was better at decrpyting the messages than Bob, which had access to the key. Would be cool to see a setup like this in which Eve is a cohort of decryption tools, otherwise your Alice net
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by madenine 10y ago
Great article, but what on earth is the point of the huge wheel chart? Its pretty, but I'm not sure what conclusions it helps me draw, other than sorting sources of bias by group/subgroup in a difficult to read manner.
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by madenine 10y ago
My bootcamp was for data science, so not exactly comparable to software/web dev camps - but it cost me about $9k + living expenses.
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by madenine 10y ago
As someone else in the thread said, spaCy is my 95% solution; its what I use first to get me going. The biggest benefit you'll see right off the bat is speed. SpaCy is much faster than most other NLP tools out there.
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by madenine 10y ago
I did a bootcamp program. In-person, 13 weeks, 9-5, 5 days a week, plus HW/Weekly projects/Capstone project. If I had locked myself in my apartment could I have learned the same things in the same amount of time? Maybe. Going thro
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by madenine 10y ago
Most people who use/consume mass-market, popular technology have grown accustomed to user-friendly environments and devices that just work right out of the box - so they have an expectation that things will just work. In my experience,
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by madenine 10y ago
Its frustrating when people assume any reference to AI means AGI or strong AI.
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by madenine 10y ago
> "NVIDIA is a member of the OpenCAPI consortium, at the "contributor level", which is the same level Xilinx has. The same is true for HPE (HP Enterprise)" Awesome.
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by madenine 10y ago
DC resident here - diagonal boulevards sure looks pretty, but 5+ way intersections are always a mess. All I saw from the road-map of this city was waaaay to many 6+ way intersections of major (perimeter or axis of triangle/hexagon area
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by madenine 10y ago
> "However, for black boys growing up in the very poorest projects, the benefits of housing assistance when they entered the labor force were also indistinguishable from zero." So public housing/vouchers slightly raises in
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by madenine 10y ago
Loving Power BI. Dashboards, reports, etc are a pain - but its what the clients want. They don't really care what we're doing in the background, they just want their metrics and analytics reports. Power BI has made that part of my
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by madenine 10y ago
Only thing keeping me with Atom is Hydrogen[0], which lets me have all the things I like about jupyter notebooks without some of the things I don't like about jupyter notebooks. I've tried VS Code and liked it - if anyone knows of
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Pretty much. It uses their P100 HPC cards instead of consumer grade cards (8x P100s), plus two Xeon E5v4 chips, half a TB of RAM and 7.5 TBs of SSD storage - all wrapped up nicely configured for you with their CPU-GPU speed up stack. I beli
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by madenine 10y ago
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your "crappy dumb phone" is already telling someone about your every move with a degree of accuracy ranging from an area around the closest cell tower to within a few feet. The courts are sti
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by madenine 10y ago
Her PR team seems to have been doing a great job. Can't go more than a day or two without seeing something about this book.
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by madenine 10y ago
If you want to do Andrew Ng's ML course, but want to do it in python: https://github.com/icrtiou/coursera-ML
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by madenine 10y ago
Microsoft has gone all in on R, excited to see where things go. Some cool stuff out of Ignite this week.
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by madenine 10y ago
doesn't Bloomberg have a custom, in-house R IDE?

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