netvarun

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That's my alma mater! ;)
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Shoot. My apologies about any confusion on the sign up process. I have reached out to you on email.
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Can concur. I managed to get all correct, but that one question that almost tripped me was the PHP question. As an ex-perl dev, (looks at self) shrugs in disbelief!
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It'll be great if all the theorems from this are loaded in for practice ;) - https://www.mccme.ru/~akopyan/papers/EnGeoFigures.pdf
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Singaporean here. Wow, I've never seen nor heard about this before! Thanks for sharing. Did some digging in on our local newspaper: http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/more-locations-for-sch... Looks like the pr
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by netvarun 9y ago
My startup Semantics3 works on this problem - https://semantics3.com/ We have a standardized taxonomy and ontology to which we map all our products to. It's a garbage in garbage out problem but as long as the product h
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by netvarun 9y ago
You can try [1]FloydHub (more akin to Heroku) or [2] Paperspace (more akin to Digital Ocean) [1] https://www.floydhub.com/ [2] https://paperspace.com/
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This document was also mentioned yesterday on the 'Why is the quintic unsolvable?'[1] post. The post also has some additional interesting references in the comments. Worth checking out! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by netvarun 9y ago
Of late I have been enthralled by this show called 'Life Below Zero' (It's on Netflix and I really recommend watching it) - it's a reality TV show which profiles folks living in the Alaskan Bush. It primarily revolves ar
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by netvarun 9y ago
Off-topic: The plover.com domain caught my eye. He is the author of 'Higher Order Perl'[1][2], which is to this date, one of my most favorite programming language books I've read and my first (and imho, best) introduction to
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Shameless Plug: I work at Semantics3 [ https://semantics3.com/ ] - an API for product and pricing data. These 4 digital assistants should partner with us to help their users find the prices for a pack of Lays chips, iphone, e
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Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child's Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale (2005)(nytimes.com)
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You forgot to put in the link. I am guessing this is the link: https://moz.com/blog/mozs-18-million-venture-financing-our-s...
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The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of DL in Natural Language Understanding(hackernoon.com)
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Tldr: it's built using Dhingra et al.'s Tweet2Vec system - https://github.com/bdhingra/tweet2vec to convert tweets into word vectors and then looks at the cosine similarity to find similar tweets of yore
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by netvarun 9y ago
On a related note, you should check out this article which was trending earlier: "How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh UI" https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-got-1-500-git
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I can't recommend this series highly enough https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec...
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Random thought: Marissa Mayer (who hacker news informs me, just quit her previous job) could potentially be their COO
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Mark Cuban-Backed 'Zillion-Dollar' Startup UBeam Finally Unveils Its Technology(inc.com)
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This link worked: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/maveric...
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Is this related/a commercial application of the 'Deep Learning for Program Synthesis' post[0][1] from Microsoft Research on HN a month ago? [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/deep-
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[2013]
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For those wondering - here are the list of the papers being retracted: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13277-017-5487-6
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Could you confirm/cite a source that didi owns shares in uber? My understanding was that uber got ~20% of didi shares in exchange for ceding the Chinese market.
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Title is obviously a little click-baity. But I can attest that Chris Fralic practices what he preaches. Back in 2013, yours truly was a fresh college grad, fresh off the boat, to play the SV lottery. He took an hour long meeting with us, an
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This book is a masterpiece with some amazingly lucid writing. I have spent many hours reading this book just for the prose. Fun fact: The author is the dean of the University of Texas School of Law - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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I was watching the penultimate episode of Halt and Catch Fire Season 3 this morning while doing my morning run at the gym. Towards the end of the episode, Donna faxes over a document about this great new invention, she recently encountered
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Show HN: Dial-A-UPC – A barcode telephone directory service(blog.semantics3.com)
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I was one of their earliest beta customers. Despite the initial quirks, the experience has been nothing but magical. It allowed me to go from code to training/model generation in one command, without any of the devops nonsense to do de
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There was a shown hn about 3 months ago for a project somewhat similar to what you are describing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12848917

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