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by neilc 6y ago
Congratulations to the Grid team on the fundraise and the announcement! Exciting stuff. It seems like there is an emerging consensus that (a) DL development requires access to massive compute, but (b) if you’re only using off-the-shelf PyTo
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How to train BERT in 30 minutes(determined.ai)
3 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Deep Learning Is Still Too Difficult(medium.com)
1 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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YogaDL: A better approach to data loading for deep learning models(determined.ai)
1 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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TensorFlow Datasets: The Bad Parts(determined.ai)
1 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 6y ago
> H1B holders pay taxes for benefits they cannot receive like Medicare, social security, and a sleuth of federal gov programs? H1B holders can actually receive social security benefits. See https://www.ssa.gov/internation
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Determined: Open-Source Deep Learning Training Platform(github.com)
2 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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Determined AI makes its machine learning infrastructure free and open source(techcrunch.com)
9 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 7y ago
> Let's not forget that Enron, Theranos and WeWork propagated a form of corporate fraud What aspect of WeWork was/is fraudulent?
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by neilc 8y ago
> In code that truly embraces "Lispy" lists, you cannot switch to an encapsulated list representation without making substantial changes to the code. I think changing the list representation made sense in part because the rest
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by neilc 8y ago
Yeah, we replaced the old Lisp-style List implementation with a different implementation a while ago: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/d0b4399d81f39dec... You can still see the Lisp heritage in a f
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by neilc 8y ago
"Insurance policies for extreme weather-related losses -- especially for floods and for coastal wind damage associated with hurricanes -- are not priced to reflect the real risk ... as a result of government intervention in property in
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by neilc 8y ago
Determined AI | San Francisco, CA | Remote (SF preferred). We build software to make deep learning engineers dramatically more productive. Founded by leading experts in distributed systems and machine learning, our product is a complete ML
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by neilc 8y ago
Determined AI | San Francisco, CA | Remote (SF preferred). We build software to make deep learning engineers dramatically more productive. Founded by leading experts in distributed systems and machine learning, our product is a complete ML
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by neilc 8y ago
Determined AI | San Francisco, CA | Remote (SF preferred). We build software to make deep learning engineers dramatically more productive. Founded by leading experts in distributed systems and machine learning, our product is a complete ML
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Toward the Jet Age of Machine Learning(oreilly.com)
19 points by neilc 8y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 8y ago
Ireland is not "enforcing" anything; the European Commission are the party that ruled that Apple received unfair tax treatment. Both Apple and the Irish government are appealing that ruling. https://www.reuters.com&#x
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by neilc 9y ago
Apple's clang supports thread_local as of XCode 8: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28094794/why-does-apple-...
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by neilc 9y ago
> Amazon and those workers will still consume city services. City's don't make a profit on average I'd be very surprised if an Amazon worker making, say, $160k consumes more in government services than the sales/prope
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by neilc 9y ago
Can you link to some of the things you've read? What exactly is the "known issue"?
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The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix(techblog.netflix.com)
1 points by neilc 9y ago|3 comments
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by neilc 9y ago
Interesting -- do you have a link on this?
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by neilc 9y ago
> Linking is inherently mono threaded. This is actually not the case -- modern linkers (e.g., lld) can take advantage of multiple cores. https://lld.llvm.org/
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by neilc 10y ago
Postgres hash indexes use linear hashing, which effectively means that rehashing/expansion is done incrementally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_hashing
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by neilc 10y ago
PipelineDB (YC W14) has a lot of similarities to the technology described in this paper, and is open-source: https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb Disclaimer: I worked at Truviso; I know the PipelineDB guys but I&#x
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by neilc 10y ago
It seems to involve the ethical dilemma of a radar detector. It is similar, but I think an important difference is that Uber, as an organization, was deliberately flouting the law and also building tools to avoid suffering the consequence
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by neilc 10y ago
NOTIFY is transaction-safe: if the NOTIFY-ing transaction rolls back, the NOTIFY will not be delivered. See the discussion here ("NOTIFY interacts with SQL transactions in some important ways..."): https://www.postgresq
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by neilc 10y ago
Channels are not network sockets; select cannot be used to wait on a set of network sockets. (Early versions of Go had a "network channel" concept, but that was removed from the language: https://softwareengineering.sta
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by neilc 10y ago
From TFA: > The results [of a previous study], published in October 2014, showed that some patients developed problems that adversely affected their day-to-day lives, such as difficulty driving at night or in sunshine. But it was such a
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by neilc 10y ago
Sure: something can be both overpriced and blue-collar. Think of the food you get at a typical football stadium, for example.

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