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by nlowell 8y ago
I've taken the course. It's the best out there. Jeremy and Rachel do a phenomenal job and they're taking a contrarian stance to a lot of others in how they encourage anyone with even a little bit of programming experience to
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Show HN: Deep learning to organize your image collection(stowbots.com)
3 points by nlowell 8y ago|0 comments
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by nlowell 8y ago
Hi everyone, Super excited to share this with you all! I'll be in the comments for any questions.
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Show HN: Sort image downloads automatically using Stowbots(stowbots.com)
1 points by nlowell 8y ago|1 comments
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by nlowell 8y ago
This twitter thread has some additional information from Wochos vs Tesla in which twelve different former employees told either Musk or Ahuja (CFO) that their production plans were impossible. https://twitter.com/orthereaboo
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by nlowell 8y ago
I disagree. Many people doing startups for the first time have no experience running a business and no idea what the actual building blocks are. I think YC's library of advice are a goldmine for them, because of the simple lessons like
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by nlowell 8y ago
I don't see any possible way for the fund to actually make use of the "value" here. It's just a pumped stock that's had trading halted 3 times in the past hour or so. They wouldn't be able to sell without crash
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by nlowell 8y ago
I'm interested in seeing if that trend holds while Tesla appears to be taking greater and greater risks in their pursuit of production milestones.
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by nlowell 8y ago
Did he say certain companies? The part I remember was just that people who have been employees for 20 years probably wouldnt be good founders. I assumed the implication is that a founder is someone with too much angst, ambition, or arroganc
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by nlowell 8y ago
Bring over whoever you actually contacted within the previous two years (or some other rule of thumb)?
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by nlowell 8y ago
Source on virtually all shareholders being long-term true believers? How is that quantified?
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by nlowell 8y ago
Do the respondents know they are responding anonymously to the primary service or is that not the case? For some surveys users will respond differently based on whether or not they feel anonymous.
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by nlowell 8y ago
I think distributing the weights will give you guaranteed reproducibility. If your users intend on retraining the network, another idea would be to set performance expectations on a validation set within ballpark. So you could tell them, &q
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by nlowell 8y ago
I am not convinced that git is easy... I believe it's very powerful if you put the time into learning it, but anything with 50,000 separate guides on the internet must be somewhat unintuitive, right?
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by nlowell 8y ago
At least for streamers who are already somewhat established, the metagame is actually to move to whichever game is most popular with viewers.
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by nlowell 8y ago
>I do not want to turn away from this ecosystem for now mostly because I want to learn how to survive in such a political environment, and partly because if this modernization project gets delivered whenever it is, it will be a very good
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by nlowell 8y ago
It could also be good for the brand to be publically helping upset customers. Probably case-by-case.
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by nlowell 8y ago
I've seen companies that maintain open source projects have interviewees work on that actual open source project for 4hrs as an interview.
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by nlowell 8y ago
You might be confusing hedge funds in general with the strategy of high frequency trading. Not all funds trade at high frequency.
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by nlowell 8y ago
Google is not the only company that believes it has a moral compass or has a mission beyond profit.
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by nlowell 8y ago
What don't you like about Kaggle?
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by nlowell 8y ago
I have been out of college and working fulltime in software for two years. I have been spending a large amount of my free time learning DL through fastai. I really want to move to a job that involves deep learning, and I would like to use y
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by nlowell 8y ago
The people in my recent college graduating class who were planning on going to Amazon for software engineering were going there with a plan to burnout after 2-3 years and take their experience elsewhere. It was seen as worth it for the mone
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by nlowell 9y ago
They're not mutually exclusive. And anyways, given the option of improving a tool/legislation vs improving the nature of human judgement, I will always take the former.
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by nlowell 9y ago
The right to be forgotten is meant to protect individuals' privacy. You sound as if you believe that a world in which all knowledge was public forever would be a better world. I disagree with this and think that we have to weigh it wit
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by nlowell 9y ago
I think the people selling anti-depressants would see themselves at helping the person in a weak position, since the medicine could potentially relieve them of some or all symptoms. The line of "abuse" is very hard to draw when so
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by nlowell 9y ago
Not if the claim is to have Berkshire-type success, which is more consistent success over very long timeframes compared to innovation and inventing new markets.
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by nlowell 9y ago
I am new as well. I think the folklore aspect is not because the established people in the field are bad teachers, but because even they don't have much rationale besides "this is what seems to work". It's a new field, t
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by nlowell 9y ago
People act against their morals constantly and all the time. Morals often conflict with each other and a person may have moral ideals that they recognize as impractical to actually enact due to friction either with their other morals or rea
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by nlowell 9y ago
I don't think this story is about a teacher who isn't good at "just" the fundamental actions of teaching. It sounds like their actual skill and respect for the material is lacking. If your math professor couldn't pr

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