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by nilkn 9y ago
That's fair enough. You should really be using $80k though. It makes little sense to average over the entire state. You're then off by 20%, which is not really a negligible error. You're right, though -- I made a stupid error
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by nilkn 9y ago
My family is not upper middle class but if you try to pay for everyone, you'll find someone else has already slipped their card to the waiter. I've seen relatives almost get into arguments because two people insisted on paying. Ou
903.
by nilkn 9y ago
Not at all. In fact, as far as I can tell, you completely ignored the point I made, so I'll just repeat it: > The state median household income includes high school dropouts working at McDonald's, and it includes folks living
904.
by nilkn 9y ago
The state median household income includes high school dropouts working at McDonald's, and it includes folks living in very affordable rural areas with low wages. It's not a meaningful point of comparison when you're looking
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'm generally not against this particular sort of design, mainly because it doesn't pretend to be a "normal" webpage. It's a very specific sort of guided presentation.
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by nilkn 9y ago
There is actually work being done on this problem, at least to some extent. A DNC, for instance, can accept variable-structure inputs by storing each piece in its external memory bank. This is illustrated in the original Nature paper by fee
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by nilkn 9y ago
I hoped it was clear I was discussing this topic beyond what the article says. After all, that is what comment sections are for.
908.
by nilkn 9y ago
I think it's important to understand that there's a significant amount of selection bias possible here. In general, folks who switch jobs every two years are the folks who are not getting offered big raises by their current compan
909.
by nilkn 9y ago
I'm floored. This is a very significant loss, not just for her family and friends but for the entire field of mathematics. The subject has been set back for years.
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by nilkn 9y ago
This is not exactly what you're looking for, but it's somewhat similar and may be of interest to some readers of this thread. The Google Brain team accepts residents: https://research.google.com/teams/brain&#x
911.
by nilkn 9y ago
He's only going to really see them on the weekends either way with his current schedule. The commenter was suggesting that, given this, it'd be more economical to just stay in SF during the week. However, the funny thing is that a
912.
by nilkn 9y ago
What are your thoughts on newer recurrent architectures like the DNC (or its predecessor, the neural Turing machine)? While the demonstrated results with DNCs so far are pretty limited, it seems that they embody a push towards allowing a ne
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by nilkn 9y ago
I was expecting more discussion of alternatives. For instance, in cases where deep neural networks aren't desirable or don't outperform classical approaches, I'm a big fan of boosted decision trees, due to their accuracy on m
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by nilkn 9y ago
To expand on this: * Prior to officially selecting candidates based on performance in problems derived from programming competitions, candidates who excelled at programming competitions were likely to do well on the job. * That correlation
915.
by nilkn 9y ago
It's just a group of people who've all been already vetted by a respected software company and who are all in a tough situation simultaneously due to no fault of their own. As long as their involvement is voluntary I don't se
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by nilkn 9y ago
I was a math major in college only a few years ago, and lower-level courses tended to concentrate most of the grade in exams for this reason. The exams were always pencil-and-paper only, with no resources of any kind allowed. In upper-level
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by nilkn 9y ago
What are some potential applications of this outside of toy problems like cat pictures?
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by nilkn 9y ago
Gas is actually a loss leader at many/most gas stations. My parents owned a gas station about 10 years ago and one of the reasons they sold it and got out of that business was because competition was so fierce that they had to sell gas
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by nilkn 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but there's some pretty fascinating work that's been done recently on using neural networks for style transfer: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08155v1.pdf http://www.anishathalye.co
920.
by nilkn 9y ago
Perhaps the word should be "notable" rather than "high-quality." A paper that is repeatedly refuted must have had some intellectual impact if others have bothered to refute it in so many ways. PageRank would also take in
921.
by nilkn 9y ago
Blue Apron seems to inspire surprisingly passionate discussions here. Detractors tend to be very negative and even a bit hostile, and I suspect that maybe puts fans of the service on the defensive or makes them feel like they have to praise
922.
by nilkn 9y ago
It's entirely possible for someone to maintain the position that neither of those situations is ideal.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'm glad someone else picked up on this. That line is completely misinformed and is in fact almost propaganda.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Once you take calculus 3, I'd recommend diving right into the Deep Learning book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ It's definitely the best reference on the subject. With only calculus 3 under your belt the math w
925.
by nilkn 9y ago
On the research frontier, this is pretty much true. But, for what it's worth, I'm spearheading some machine learning efforts at my current company, and most of my initial production models have not been deep networks but rather cl
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by nilkn 9y ago
> you're just a selfish dick. This is a lot of aggression, and it makes me think that you are just as closed to alternative viewpoints as those with whom you are discussing this topic. I think you should completely re-evaluate your
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by nilkn 9y ago
For what it's worth, Lyft wasn't even available in my city until very recently (Houston). I've been using Lyft recently now because I have fewer doubts about the ethics of the company. As a customer, it's extremely easy
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by nilkn 9y ago
I pretty much agree with you. I have a bachelor's degree in pure mathematics from a top 15 university -- I even published research as an undergraduate. Deep learning strikes me as an experimental science and even a subset of ordinary p
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by nilkn 9y ago
I think I agree with you, even after reading all the other responses to your comment. The long desks are what kill it for me. That's one seating arrangement that I just don't think I can get on board with unless forced. I worked l
930.
by nilkn 9y ago
I think senior titles in general are given out too easily in the software industry. Compared to many other professions and industries, the idea of anyone -- bootcamp graduate or not -- being senior within 3 years is kind of laughable. That&

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