orthoganol

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by orthoganol 9y ago
I believe it's possible YC has overextended themselves such that top AI companies - the most valuable companies in the future - are going to first try Gradient Ventures or more specialized funds, and it may cost them their future. I un
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Well, I don't assume the Cartesian cogito or the rational, centered world of Logos. I just assume that consciousness is this thing that flipped on about 70,000 years ago, which brings its own rules or structures that impinges on any se
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, as your response is typically true of any A v. B discussion in philosophy, there's always grey lines. Rationalists can still claim categories of knowledge coming primarily, or even onl
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by orthoganol 9y ago
It's also a problem that our culture is so damn obsessed with cars, which we have in part to thank the auto industry shoving itself down consumers throats, lobbying, and running into the dirt other viable modes of transportation for al
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I understand - I never claimed equivalence or even a comparison. I don't believe its wrong to acknowledge other parties also affected, especially when designing an ideally lasting and widely adopted solution.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
With Cuckoo filters visualized too: https://bdupras.github.io/filter-tutorial/
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Oh c'mon, it's a thread about solutions too, which was the focus of my original comment; I intended it to be "Thanks for a solution that is helpful to guys anxious about all of this," not a detailed discussion about the
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Sorry but the rules aren't black and white like that, "Too much eye contact" "Your vibe get flirty" (or conversely "Your vibe gets weird") gets thrown in; it's anxiety inducing when you have to worry
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I like it - the all or nothing approach is terrifying as a guy, and defining levels of inappropriateness with exact descriptions of actions is very helpful for those who are freaked out they are going to unwittingly harass someone they are
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by orthoganol 9y ago
It's really just bothersome in as much as the accusations cross into involuntary territory when in the presence of someone you are attracted to. Lingering eye contact, vibe change, getting in a cheery mood that makes you want to crack
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by orthoganol 9y ago
The version I responded to lead with "Asking out coworkers is a huge no-no," which is pretty clearly gatekeeping.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Give us a break, it's not a huge no-no. One of the most lasting TV series of all time was based entirely on co-worker romances (The Office). I know multiple girls and guys who met their SOs as coworkers. You may think it's lame (I
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I think it's because he wanted to pepper in details like "It was over drinks and I thought it was social", aka actually defend his actions while renouncing them on the surface. The "upcoming discussions" with 500 as
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by orthoganol 9y ago
No point in talking about China from the lens of traditional communism. China is an authoritarian capitalist country, 'capitalism with Asian values' as is said with Singapore arguably the architect, so being upset about Chinese co
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> be confident enough to start purging negative people Except at 18 it's often your own raging insecurities that instantly label people as bad. More so, the main thing to tell my 18 year old self would be to just relax and open up a
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by orthoganol 9y ago
How can it be that there are not decades of thorough, prioritized studies on the connection between air pollution and cognitive impairment?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Uber being more mainstream has nothing to do with quality comparison. Even so, tell me again which is actually the crappy toilet paper in this comparison... I use Lyft primarily because of the grossly offensive scandals surrounding Uber, I&
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You're excluding brand dilution as a function of class size. Knowing you are going to be one of 100+ companies going through the program each semester makes you less enthusiastic to join if you already have a very promising or successf
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by orthoganol 9y ago
? There's a difference between explaining something complex to a layman and explaining something complex in simple terms. You can always do the latter, and if you can't you don't understand the topic; this is a different ex
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by orthoganol 9y ago
At least the proposal allows for full apartment rental any x months of the year, it's just you can't be an AirBnB landlord and snap up a bunch of units you don't live in. Still true to the spirit of AirBnB without housing mar
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Bootcamp marketing methinks? I have never met a recent bootcamp grad who seemed even remotely qualified to work at Google as a SWE. Just don't buy it (keep in mind none of them had CS degrees or worked in industry before). I'd l
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> Instead, each word should have a vector based on context, for disambiguation and nuance. You do realize even under vanilla Word2vec, each word embedding is a sum of both the word vector and a vector of a surrounding window of words? Ea
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I think Github is a tremendous resource, but while Github profiles can give a positive signal, they are not sufficient for negative filtering. Many, especially older developers it seems, only begrudgingly have a profile for tickbox judgment
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> the playoffs weren't very exciting this year. You do understand why, right? Your solution is "The other teams will improve!" and you're citing the Cav's improbable record setting game as evidence? Sorry, but it
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by orthoganol 9y ago
To be clear, this is what happens when your commissioner lets one of the league's top 3 superstars join an already 73 win historic team, even after that superstar took the 73 win team to 7 games in the conference finals right before. I
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Seeing as people I know who don't even know or care much about Silicon Valley talk about Elizabeth Holmes like she's the next Jeff Skilling (something about Houston I guess), it seems, at the minimum, highly likely, given lawsuits
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Well yes, - they don't publish, they don't have a reputation (no teams like FAIR, DeepMind, MetaMind, MSFT AI, etc.), they don't attract the top AI talent, and anecdotally, they don't even even know how to hire for AI (h
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Well, my professional experience has been completely different, maybe hardcore research in images is different. At any rate isn't TF already the Rails/ magical framework of DL, in some sense?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Interesting to see that the Google Brain Residency isn't that much more advanced than other graduate work or fellowship programs out there. I disagree with him about needing a "Rails for deep learning," I think it's quit
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by orthoganol 9y ago
IMO YC depends on its branding as the exclusive, "Harvard of incubators," and if they keep funding so many startups they are going to lose that edge and create the space for a new YC. Each class is like 130 startups now, right? I

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