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by naturalgradient 8y ago
So as someone working in reinforcement learning who has used PPO a fair bit, I find this quite disappointing from an algorithmic perspective. The resources used for this are almost absurd and my suspicion is, especially considering [0], tha
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
An interesting effect I have noted for me when doing research is that even if it only takes one extra click or changing one parameter to generate a plot, or run some extra analysis, I will only do it selectively and start rationalising it t
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Me too, at work (PhD student) I take enormous pleasure in writing end to end fully automated pipelines. Nothing that needs to be done more than once isnt automated pretty much. At home, I would never buy or use an Alexa/Google assistan
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I came here to post this! And of course the (sort-of) French equivalent about life in modern times: In search of lost time.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
This is sort of what the report of the week ('reviewbrah' [0]) is doing, no? Reviewing fast food in a quirky manner. Million+ subscribers on youtube, really interesting to have followed this for 5+ years when he had a few hundred
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
So given the choice of a comfortable, safe, environmentally responsible mode of transportation, you chose to go for the option where you get to burn lots of fossil fuel and move at a speed in a metal box at which you cannot control it any
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I am not predicting anything, this is how it has been implemented. You are aware this law is already in effect and thousands have been deleted/banned? But this debate is pointless because you clearly neither speak German, understand Ge
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
You seem to be completely uninformed regarding the actual implementation of the law. Any criticism of anything can and will be deleted under the scope of the law. Want to criticise any policy? Hatespeech. Criticise religion? Hatespeech. It
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I don't have a feeling anyone wants him to go away, me and most of my peers (PhD) students hold him in rather high regard. Also feeling he is right about the fact that so much deep learning work is just derivative and marginally improv
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and Im sort of anxious because if it breaks, I really don't want to get a butterfly keyboard one. Is there any idea when they will release a successor?
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
From my observation (from knowing a few people there from my lab), DeepMind is still organised relatively similarly to university groups. Professors moving over are made to lead research teams, and while there may be some overall organisati
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
If you are making that argument, you should refer to the ICLR deadline, which is well earlier, but still after July 2017.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
You can play the 'work towards the next prestigious thing' game as long as you want but you will be happier the earlier you quit it.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
At Oxbridge, DeepMind is definitely the preferred employer, alsmost nobody is interested in an academic career, finance is not especially popular but always an option in London, hedgefunds heavily recruit. I would say next popular option af
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
As someone entering the workforce soon, it's very disappointing to see teach leaders who enjoyed the spotlight on their elevator ride up completely disappearing and pretending they have nothing to do with what they brought onto the wor
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
My apologies, I thought from a throwaway this was some additional information and had not read the article yet.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Do you have a source? I am not doubting this, just curious on the connection.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Honestly I don't think I need to do, I have interviewed many people for doing very code heavy research projects and not once have I felt asking them to do a white-board code exercise would have contributed to my evaluation meaningfully
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Love this, although not living in that area. Just to chime in: I'm a PhD student in CS/machine learning with a competitive enough CV to interview anywhere, and I have gone through the motions at many companies previously (e.g. for
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Crypto-exchange Binance traps hackers(trustnodes.com)
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
No I am absolutely certain, I was offered more than 2x for the same position by another tech company. I was so surprised by Amazon's offer I conducted a small survey amongst friends and acquaintances to find which of my offers (there w
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
"The compensation for more experienced employees is substantially higher" Citation needed. Higher than compensation for experienced employees at Google/Facebook? I am not even disputing Amazon pays more later, I am saying Ama
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Well compensated? Amazon pays significantly below other mega cap tech companies, and as a PhD student in machine learning with a lot of friends interning and applying for jobs I can confidently say Amazon is nobody's first choice due t
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
If you can go short on either one, you can create any bet via a weighted + leveraged long/short pair bet. I think bitfinex allows this.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Well, that is the thing right? People historically went to work in any number of unethical organisations, including industrialised mass murder, human experiments, knowingly poisoning or defrauding people..the list is endless, and it was jus
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I think developers and really anyone dealing with Amazon needs to understand that there are no 'win-win' business relationships with Amazon. If you win, Amazon will try to take it away from you eventually.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
It stuck out with me because it made me realise that many students were not at all emotionally well equipped to handle certain situations of adult life. A problem here especially is how quickly anything done by the university is framed as a
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Reporting from Oxbridge: This is a real issue but actually most people have reasonable notions of free speech. It is just that the types that end up being welfare/student/women/minority officers are extremely aggressively att
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I completely agree, the code of conduct has been used multiple times as a trojan horse in the sense that it only contains things nobody could reasonably disagree with (because who would not want a welcoming environment), only to then be use
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
It's not my intention to not work with women. I do collaborate with women. I am just saying if I am being put in a position of power in teaching, and I can choose between male and female undergrads, I would rather not be in a position

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