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A Quick Puzzle on Filesystems and APIs(bavarian.dev)
1 points by nora4 7y ago|0 comments
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Optimistic Concurrency and Write Contention(bavarian.dev)
2 points by nora4 7y ago|0 comments
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Open Source as Business(bavarian.dev)
8 points by nora4 7y ago|1 comments
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Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey(terrytao.wordpress.com)
2 points by nora4 7y ago|0 comments
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by nora4 8y ago
Deep Learning is currently an empirical science guided by intuition of practitioners. A main principle in experimental sciences is that a theory without predictive power is not considered a full-fledged theory. As such, unless they are inte
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by nora4 9y ago
What people make is ultimately what demand & supply dictate. On the other hand, for one-off cases where the market is super small, people make what they can negotiate. Of course, even in that one-off cases there is data about the pay o
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by nora4 9y ago
See the references I give below; if he is talking about general trends in AI and is giving an estimate of 7 or 8 years for emergence of AGI, where is he basing it on? Is he basing the estimate on unseen breakthroughs (i.e. unknown unknowns)
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by nora4 9y ago
I assumed akvadrako downvoted that since the vote and the comment appeared very close to each other and both right after my comment. But of course, I surely could be mistaken. And anyways, downvoting is not a big deal and they have the abso
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by nora4 9y ago
See e.g. Smerity reporting on Elon's talk in NIPS 2017: https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/938994837323259904 as well as https://goo.gl/trX8SJ & https://goo.gl/aTMqv6 Wh
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by nora4 9y ago
Except for Elon Musk, who with all due respect, I believe does not count as an informed person in DL. It really bothers me that he (who is clearly an excellent entrepreneur and human being in general) makes such strong statement on a topic
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by nora4 9y ago
To summarize your points AirBnB has these effects: 1) more supply & cheaper options for travelers/short-term renters 2) higher rent and less supply for long term renters. 3) More income for property owners (A more varied demand) 4)
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by nora4 9y ago
So the question is are laws sacred things that should never be broken. I don't think so. I think there are cases that people should break the law so we progress. In other words, our laws are not the word of God (so to say), they are th
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by nora4 9y ago
Hotels/hostels are not supposed to not list on AirBnB I thought. (I stayed at a very low-end hotel booked from AirBnB in, and I was very disappointed. When I book an AirBnB I hope for a real host, conversation, see how they live and w
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by nora4 9y ago
Very good points; I'm in general though space skeptic in the following sense. Human race as a whole always seeks more, bigger, further, faster as solution its problems. I don't think space is the solution to our earthly problems.
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by nora4 9y ago
I wonder if they start somehow "cracking down" on that. For now, it might not be worth it but eventually?
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by nora4 9y ago
Well, I hadn't heard of them till this minute. If they did bizarre things so they start getting mentioned more in HN or TechCrunch I guess it'd help their cause :P
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by nora4 9y ago
AirBnB is such a great business. No significant competition for now among startups. Primary (initial) market is different from the incumbents (hotels) and it can gradually chip away from their market share too. It also has better network-e
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by nora4 9y ago
I guess purely logically, you are right. But I would be against the underlying theme behind that general type of thinking. If you take that line of thought and extrapolate it, it starts getting close to a socialistic/anti-economic prog
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by nora4 9y ago
That's a great point. Hip, cool, modern entrepreneur types can easily work as agents of gentrification which as you pointed out can lead to massive increase in wealth for nearby properties owners (at the expense of previous occupants&
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by nora4 9y ago
I feel like for WeWork style business, it should be a race to the bottom (in terms of prices). Once the idea is validated, there would be (as there are) lots of local clones that would try to make a more cool indie version of WeWork. The re
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by nora4 9y ago
I wonder what will happen to the Facebook the company as this progresses. It would be quite funny if the main product of Facebook becomes Instagram -- and the original product fades. One thing we might be discounting though is other nations
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by nora4 9y ago
I don't think so. A/B testing is like gradient descent which is a greedy algorithm. You move in the direction that locally looks best. Evolution on the other hand allows for suboptimal species to persist for enough time to let the
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by nora4 9y ago
Just look at his profile (a click away). He is the founder of Skymind.
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by nora4 9y ago
Maybe. Part of me thinks it's somewhat of a small money grab. (hope it's not.) What I will bet money on though is that no massive success will come out of this. The key to AI is data & hardware (and not algorithm or method
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by nora4 9y ago
In my view philosophy is important in and of itself, because these are natural questions about our existence which many brilliant people have thought about and written on for centuries. And these are very worth reading. Second, because it i
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by nora4 9y ago
"In his view, AI businesses are also different from regular startups because you generally get a closed feedback loop that allows you to quickly see what works (and what doesn’t)." What is he talking about here? First of all, this
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by nora4 9y ago
I mean these are great stuff. But do you plan to be a venture-backed company (i.e. looking for hyper-growth and an exit, e.g. acquisition or IPO) or are you planning on being some sort of LLP? The problem is that though the above may curren
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by nora4 9y ago
Like H2O and carbon and stuff?
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by nora4 9y ago
That's right. It definitely helps hiring. In the executive level by fancier titles (rather be one of thousand VPs or CFO of Waymo, it's not even a comparison), but also at more junior levels. The usual marketing spiel there is we
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by nora4 9y ago
In general I think separating brands is a good idea. And I think, at least from technical perspective (not legal perspective) you shouldn't blame Google in case something goes bad, and rather Waymo. After all, the set of people running

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