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by mlazos 8y ago
This is such a typical response that I would expect from any product management team. "We hear you, we're making small inconsequential changes to make you feel better, but the decision is final." I still love the rationale fo
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by mlazos 8y ago
This is similar to the word hashing used in deep structured semantic models. [1] This works by representing a word as k-hot vector of trigrams that form the word - it is able to generalize better to unseen words than one-hot whole word embe
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by mlazos 8y ago
One would think, but at the same time knowing the bureaucratic garbage that happens at tech companies (and I would think communist party HQ is a bit worse), I imagine their system is likely a giant mess and it probably took a number of mont
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by mlazos 8y ago
Yeah I felt like barfing when he said “Good ideas usually win out at Google, and we were convinced this was a good idea.” It’s like dude you’re using an anecdote about running into a VP on a shuttle ride and saying this? Google is such a ma
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by mlazos 8y ago
This is why I enjoyed a computational probability class in college - the professor introduced all of the concepts starting with a problem in physics, a lot of methods in modern stats were built to explain physical behavior of particles with
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by mlazos 8y ago
I struggled on the exact same problem on leetcode - It took me over three days of obsessive coding to finally get something that worked (even then it was so hacky that it was non-deterministic, but somehow it passed the tests) In the end m
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by mlazos 8y ago
From my personal experience having been in both offices and open workspaces I notice that when we had offices people would go in, close the door and have a conversation. With an open space either people wanted to have private conversations
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by mlazos 8y ago
In addition to Microsoft’s evolving attitude toward open source I want to add that I’m surprised at that tweet because Microsoft Research is extraordinarily open and has contributed a lot of freely accessible basic research to society now a
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by mlazos 8y ago
yeah it’s unfortunate that the “price of gas” is so often referred to as a proxy of how good the economy is for the average person. If that weren’t so it would be more politically feasible to have a higher carbon tax.
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by mlazos 8y ago
This paper was really interesting and it's awesome, but I'm tired of everyone saying that this means parameter counting is a useless heuristic for the complexity of a model. The more parameters you add to some ML models (for insta
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by mlazos 8y ago
That’s my whole point. Without the part about deleting your account and the unnecessarily long introduction to what github is this article is a bullet point list of what Microsoft did in the 90’s. (With the exception of the telemetry and sk
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by mlazos 8y ago
TLDR; the 90’s happened. Delete your github account because Microsoft is evil. I’m surprised this article got this far because it really doesn’t add anything unique to discussions that are already happening.
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by mlazos 8y ago
So I would agree except judges are even elected in some places in the south. The judiciary is not always insular.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I feel like a large number of businesses already use software for scheduling but it’s a matter of having an API that can be exposed to customers that isn’t really supported. So it might be easier than you’re leading on.
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by mlazos 8y ago
So I disagree with the thesis that debate doesn't bring us closer to truth. I think it does, just astronomically slowly . For example, I often get in arguments where I vigorously debate one side, and then realize I might be wrong, and
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by mlazos 8y ago
Tbh I don’t agree that this is amazon specific, generally at any big tech co you will feel this way unless you find your way into something more specialized. For instance, I have a friend at G who was on a front-end team for maps for a whil
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by mlazos 8y ago
This is what I’ve observed in ultra liberal (mostly white cities) on the west coast especially: all of the local residents are for helping the poor, until they realize that helping the poor implies they have to do more than discuss social i
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by mlazos 8y ago
This needs to be said, and I’m glad Vox is finally saying it. The nearly 100ish nuclear power plants in the US generate almost 1/5 of the total electricity output. It irks me beyond belief when environmentalists try to close them down
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by mlazos 8y ago
So I thought about that scenario, I just don't think an EE can reasonably say that circuit design is necessary to understanding assembly programming. Further, by the time CS departments were created, it was definitely obvious that CS w
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by mlazos 8y ago
This prompted me to check out his blog. There's enough rant there for a few lifetimes.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I really like Microsoft Visio for this purpose, it has all of the nice auto alignment draw features you’d expect and it can really be used for anything from ultra formal process designs to sketching an idea.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I think that the way computer science emerged from EE is totally distinct to what’s happening right now. CS eventually abstracted away all of the electrical engineering aspects of the discipline and as a result you need no knowledge of digi
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by mlazos 8y ago
For me this just looks equivalent to adding a new major for every sub field of electrical engineering. Signal processing, digital circuits, analog circuits ... truth is a CS major could go take the same classes and a computer engineering st
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by mlazos 8y ago
Yeah I love this, 8x PFlop improvement per pod, but the pod size has increased 4x. That 8x speed up is now mystically halved.
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by mlazos 8y ago
Yeah when I started working at a big tech company I had the illusion that everyone knew what they were talking about and would have a nuanced opinion about hype/buzzwords of the time. (They must! They're technical people) I quickl
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by mlazos 8y ago
This is awesome. It also makes me really excited that finally there's a language that's catching on (I consider Haskell, OCaml and the like to be niche) where the subset of the language that is used for a formal semantics is very
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by mlazos 8y ago
So I think another factor that hasn't been mentioned is that at a large company there is often an aversion to two things: breaking existing services and duplicating work that another team already "owns" (the second part is no
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by mlazos 8y ago
I think this article unfairly paints small companies as some nirvana which is obviously not the case. I have plenty of friends at small companies who feel like their c-suite is filled with sociopaths and because the company is under the rad
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by mlazos 9y ago
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/the-most-dange... This cites some numbers from the CDC, looks like in America farms are dangerous, can’t imagine what it’s like in China. It says farmers are
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by mlazos 9y ago
This reminded me exactly of that Dropbox design page at dropbox.design - it was the exact same frustrating experience. If this is a trend please make it stop.

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