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by naturalgradient 9y ago
The GP is likely referring to this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman... I am just now realising that this
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Have not used the product but have highly enjoyed reading their tech blog, great stuff.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I think the situation is not comparable at all precisely because Facebook did not have a larger network strangulating their growth. I wonder if there is any precedent for a social network (or any large application for that matter) having th
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
So I have briefly played around with this and it seems quite neatly engineered. Quick search. I just have a hard time seeing how this will turn into a sustainable business. One way of looking at this is that it is a high-end competitor to a
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Not worth the click. TL;DR: Freelance, build a website like this one and monetise it, build apps.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Thank you for the response - I appreciate the complexity, I had just been wondering if there was actually a full time team on it. From my limited insight (we collaborate with Google Brain), it was my impression that the core problem around
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
One thing I keep wondering as a daily TensorFlow user: If Google is staking its future on TensorFlow, why is there such slow development on the Java/C++ version, which would be relevant to lots of enterprise users? Namely, full support
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I have always thought there is an optimistic version and a pessimistic version of this. The optimistic version is that technology creates enough wealth to provide a basic income for everyone when the value of most human labour is diminishe
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
No, this is not what this is about at all. We have reached a point where reviewers of reputable conferences will ask why a paper is not referencing unreviewed work that has been uploaded on arxiv a day before the conference deadline. This i
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Curious question: Why does it say CC Christopher Poole at the bottom of the letter? As in, the founder of 4chan?
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
It seems hard to accept but at this level there are actually only few people even being considered by virtue of a) name recognition in the industry b) past experience managing large companies Whether they failed or not is almost irrelevant.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Not to be flippant, but ever since LinkedIn has become unbearably slow and buggy to use (since the UI update), any pressure to improve is welcome.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
There is this interesting phenomenon that in some regions, Twitter activity is not particularly high (e.g. Germany), so according to an analysis I read a while ago, a few hundred tweets within a few hours are enough to get a topic trending
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
What I am really looking forward to is to hear how Marissa Mayer will frame her time at Yahoo in hindsight. Will she show humility for failing at turning the company around? Will she claim success for a coincidental share price increase she
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I have noticed that with any type of money processing service (stock broker, bank, ..), whenever any irregularity happens, I end up losing money no matter whether I was at fault. The asymmetry between me as a customer and a large organisati
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Regardless of what specific reasons he has or hasn't for accepting this move, this is fascinating from an organisational perspective. With a significant part of senior leadership replaced, what will happen to Uber's work place cul
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Would be interesting to see a breakdown of your spending vs the 30k household here. After all, if you always adjust your spending to your income, you will never be rich in any 'cannot be ruined' sense. Consequently, it would be un
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Reasons are given in the recode post linked within: Michael, as Recode also reported, was also involved in an incident where an Uber executive he managed directly named Eric Alexander obtained the medical records of a rape victim in India.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Leading somewhat off-topic, but this has also sparked a rather frank debate on r/machinelearning about some of the things discussed in the review, in particular arxiv flag painting: https://www.reddit.com/r/Machine