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by mljoe 9y ago
Based on conversations with people who have worked with Masayoshi, I don't think he does this for PR. It's a very genuine sentiment.
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by mljoe 9y ago
Ditto. It almost felt like Google got its nerd cred from being featured on Slashdot multiple times. BitCoin too (waaaay before it was "popular"), and probably Linux itself.
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by mljoe 9y ago
I can trace almost everything that helped me professionally and even many of my tech opinions to something I read on Slashdot. Really the site that influenced me the most.
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by mljoe 9y ago
Sure, there is no other way for computer science to go. AI always been the last and most important frontier. There may be more AI winters, there may be more AI summers. Ultimately people will continue working on this problem until it is sol
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Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god(theguardian.com)
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by mljoe 9y ago
A student and faculty congress. There is precedent for this, many such bodies already have authority over millions of dollars.
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by mljoe 9y ago
I think it's worth trying. A 100% faculty based university, with student employees and contractors doing the more low level administrative work. The faculty would take on the high level admin work, e.g. the IT or CS departments managin
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by mljoe 9y ago
I don't understand how what you described is ADHD and not average human behavior. If people were not easily distracted by Twitter and Facebook, they wouldn't have a functioning business. There are entire business models that rely
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by mljoe 9y ago
The recording industry was very hardline with DRM, until one day Apple decided they won't support DRM anymore in the iTunes Store. Thus no music is purchased with DRM from any of the major e-tailers. If the choice is no DRM or literall
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by mljoe 9y ago
I wouldn't say that. If it between having no DRM and having no web presence, I think broadcasters would pick no DRM. DRM really doesn't do very much to protect against piracy. It's just a way for C-level execs to show they ar
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by mljoe 9y ago
These libraries leave most of the actual day to day work for ETL. ETL happens to be highly data and problem dependent, so it can't be easily automated or reused. For this reason I think the best thing to be a good applied ML person is
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by mljoe 9y ago
IgG is usually implicated in fighting off pathogens like viruses and bacteria. It doesn't typically cause an allergic response. IgE is usually implicated in fighting off pathogens like parasitic worms or mosquito bites. It's the a
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by mljoe 9y ago
It's hard for people to get their head around this but you are exactly right. A company has value tied into their market value and accumulated assets even if they pledge to never pay dividends. Berkshire Hathaway is a notable example h
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by mljoe 9y ago
There has never been anything quite like the patent situation around HEVC. Using HEVC legally requires signing four different license agreements at the minumum[1]. The license agreements with Technicolor and Velos Media are actually secret.
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by mljoe 9y ago
Fundamentally this is related to the induction fallacy. The doge meme image actually illustrates it pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction Another closely related thing is the No Free Lunch The
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by mljoe 9y ago
I feel like CA has been for awhile an "almost acceptable" place to incorporate for startups. Maybe this will finally push it over the edge. Unseating Delaware would be good in the long term. They have taken advantage of their posi
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by mljoe 9y ago
To be fair, China is a AI powerhouse in its own right. China is investing a lot of its money domestically on this problem as well. Lots of legitimate papers come from purely Chinese teams. ResNet was developed by a purely Chinese team. A lo
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by mljoe 9y ago
If an HMO got stupid amounts of marketshare it would probably fix the system naturally. It would also improve stuff like allowing HMOs to be able to better take advantage of medical data and provide better care through understanding the pat
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by mljoe 9y ago
Does this often happen? Saving money on lunch might delay a company's failure for a week at best. My perspective is most startups will maintain all benefits until the bitter end explicitly to avoid giving their employees this kind of i
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by mljoe 9y ago
>And if you work in Congress you often get an accelerated schedule so one year there counts for several years toward your pension. That's true, but the only real people who benefit is the Member and maybe their CoS. Congress staffer
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by mljoe 9y ago
In DC/NOVA area $60k a year qualifies you for rent subsidy and other welfare benefits. That said $60k is not what federal employees in the DC area start at, nor is $140k what they normally end at. It's more around $80k - $155k ($1
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by mljoe 9y ago
The pension has been slowly getting worse and worse though. With the newest version of FERS we are at 1% per year at service annuity partially financed with a 4.8% employee paycheck deduction.
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by mljoe 9y ago
They won't necessarily look for pipe bending jobs either, they'll try to get any job they can get. So entirely unrelated and non-automated fields can become devalued due to the increased supply of labor.
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by mljoe 9y ago
It's very black and white right now (no knowledge or very constrained knowledge). The same problem exists with just plain old parameter learning, with DL models having so many free parameters it can make training more computationally e
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by mljoe 9y ago
Often these metalearning systems have to pick from a library of already understood building blocks to build novel structures from. This limits the flexibility of their hyperparameter space. It's a bit like having a robot building a bui
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by mljoe 9y ago
Yes, I know it seems silly now, but this was a very real scare that CS would be a worthless degree in the future. I was dissuaded from majoring in CS during the height of this, but ultimately changed my major back to CS when I realized that
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by mljoe 9y ago
Right $100 billion dumped all at once into VC would basically destroy the whole ecosystem. The saying is VC can't work when there is too much gasoline (capital) and not enough fire (talent/innovation). Despite the headline success
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by mljoe 9y ago
It seems super sketchy. I mean the valuations based on current P/E aren't even terrible except for the fact that gaming especially doesn't seem an enduring business. That E is probably going to go down as people move on to ot
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by mljoe 9y ago
It's illegal, at least in the United States. Why? Because venture capital is considered too risky to be marketed as a public security. There are VC ETFs sold on the Hong Kong market.
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by mljoe 9y ago
That makes sense and all, but the definition of accredited investor is tied to net worth and not knowledge. Which means that maybe you can't scam poor people, but there are plenty of gullible rich people with net worth over the $2 mill

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