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by neel8986 9y ago
Entire benefit of globalization in India has only reached the top 10% (or maybe 1%). If you think about Indian exports it is mostly concentrated in IT and high skill crafts like jewelry. Only a few Indians can take benefit of that. What we
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Awesome python 3 features you are missing in python 2.X(asmeurer.com)
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by neel8986 9y ago
Nice algorithm. I am curious what happens when the dimension becomes really large (more than 100). I have heard about kd tree but as far as I know the performance becomes really bad for d > 16. What should be the strategy of finding near
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by neel8986 10y ago
We at least have an option of not buying TV. Internet addiction is far worse. The sad part is I can not even avoid my laptop as it is where I do all my work. The device on which we work is slowly the biggest source of our time sink
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How to compete in the era of Amazon(bloomreach.com)
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Big data, Google and the end of free will(ft.com)
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Top 5 most valuable public companies all tech companies(businessinsider.com)
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by neel8986 11y ago
Some background in Linear Algebra and calculus will be really helpful. If you want to implement backprop from scratch just look at the segment around https://youtu.be/I2TfdXfSOfc?list=PL05WXsDr_SWRGcuy5LA5eNjCq... He explai
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by neel8986 11y ago
+1 for CS224d. Richard Socher is a great teacher and you can understand almost the entire class with very little background in NLP and Deep learning. However basic matuarity in LA will be helpful. Both CS224d(NLP) and CS231n(vision) provide
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by neel8986 11y ago
I agree with some of the points you made. But saying that indian government has completely failed and it was better under British rule is not completely correct. Some of the achievement of independent India are 1) Fully functional democracy
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Recurrent Neural Network trained on Donald Trump's speech and debate transcripts(twitter.com)
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by neel8986 11y ago
There are lots of good startups with scala/play framework as their stack
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Academia vs. Indiustry(pgbovine.net)
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by neel8986 11y ago
It is in their schedule for december http://singa.incubator.apache.org/develop/schedule.html
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication(engineering.bloomreach.com)
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by neel8986 11y ago
On a side note currently three biggest companies by market cap are Apple, Google and Microsoft leaving behind the likes of exxon and berkshire. This is truly a rare event when all top three are tech. Either a glimpse of a bubble in making o
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by neel8986 11y ago
Those who are interested edx is featuring a course on quadcopter https://www.edx.org/course/autonomous-navigation-flying-robo...
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Online course for programming quadcopter(edx.org)
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Hacking India's biggest cab service(thenextweb.com)
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Tech billionaires have a lot in common with previous capitalist titans(economist.com)
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Ask HN: What can be some really unconventional use cases of Apple Watch
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Music and visualization of 15 sorting algorithms(youtube.com)
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Median of medians algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
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A crowd-funded project aims to build the world's first virtual lifeform(economist.com)
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Bret Victor's favourite books(worrydream.com)
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by neel8986 13y ago
Uber surely is a great app. But if we think in terms of harnessing computing power i really don't think it falls into the same category as early GUI or OOPs. They definitely have to work real hard for managing the non computing side. B
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Ask HN: What are the problems that computing industry will try to solve in 2025
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Though a bit obnoxious i really liked the talk. Alan talked about 2007. If we look back it was the time when first iphone was announced. We all knew that in a timespan of seven years the processor will be much faster( Now it is almost 20 t
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Finding Friends with Mapreduce(stevekrenzel.com)
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In Kota, teachers are rockstars(livemint.com)
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