orthoganol

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by orthoganol 9y ago
I really appreciate that series, but my one criticism is that it does not connect concepts to how they are used. Maybe it's just me, but I get a much stronger intuition if I imagine what's happening when I apply the concepts, and
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by orthoganol 9y ago
So the gist is laws were upheld protecting homecare givers - minimum wage and overtime pay - and new mandated increased minimum wage, ultimately led to their decision to abandon their supposedly successful model. Their own internal "su
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Hey Smerity - I really appreciate your and MetaMind's work, and since you linked NMT, I wonder if you could shed light on a question I've always had about Seq2seq models. Does the decoder side/ phase backprop all the way thro
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I too am sitting here waiting for a TensorFlow language model to finish training :)
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You're also at an organization that selects for personalities susceptible to that. So many people want to work at companies like Google because they care more about the recognition for working at a company like Google than the actual w
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I experience intense moments of deja vu probably 2-3 times a year. I'm 90% sure it's connected to dreams for me, because even on one occasion, waking up, I made the mental note "remember this intensely specific dream, and see
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by orthoganol 9y ago
And I'm considering moving to Barcelona and I'm happy they aren't letting all the vacancies in the good parts be snapped up by full time AirBnB renters.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> Joining a series B startup and waiting a couple years is the easiest, risk adjusted way to make a bunch of money. Sorry, what?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Yep, IMO unless you are a founder, if your company isn't one of the top companies of the decade your 4-6 years of pay-cut toil as an early employee will likely just not be worth it, at all. The expected value of working at an early sta
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> Better for my ego to believe I'm a unique genius due to my own efforts and inherent superiority; than to believe I'm a replaceable cog Other than your own projection going on in the first part, I'm not sure what you&#x27
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> you can thank the cheaters and fakers, and the fact that our industry doesn't have the will to root them out. Isn't this in every industry? You don't apply for the job you are most qualified for, you shoot for the next
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by orthoganol 9y ago
So this is a platform which aggregates datasets, and then you can share your work in a community managed by FaceBook? Is this a "we do AI" branding move, or do they expect scrappy innovators to engage in a platform managed by a la
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by orthoganol 9y ago
People always claim this but it's not true for the majority of companies. Yes some, including a small number of big brands, ask leetcode algorithm whiteboard questions, but most interviews I've ever had are more practical, prove y
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Those practices also speak to the general openness of opportunity of being a developer - your actual skills matter most, so they screen to assess your skills. Other industries focus more on degrees or names of past employers, etc., and I pr
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Same age, everyone is different, but my experience is at least in your 20s when you're getting your first tastes of cohabitating relationships: 1) Starting cohabitating relationship: First a transition period where you lose sleep, but
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by orthoganol 9y ago
At the same time martial arts in the age of firearms has become relegated to the fringe, and running in the age of automobiles (probably even starting with the age of horses) is also kind of silly to take too seriously, and few people care
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I always find myself explaining to new arrivals that the Tenderloin is not the dangerous, violent area despite (non violent) crime rates, it's absolutely the Mission. Widespread misconception for some reason, and now we have a map to p
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by orthoganol 9y ago
This is sad because Sprig had just won me back. There were the dark days of Sprig where, with limited options, it was mostly $13+ airplane food (pre fees, tax, tip etc.) - they literally hired a guy who led mass food production for airlines
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I thought this was satire, especially looking at the team page. You help people get addicted to apps and then with the other hand you help them cope with their addiction so it doesn't get to a breaking point where they actually quit th
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You've cherry picked to say "worthless projects" vs. "exhilarating open source", yet someone could easily cherry pick "world changing projects" vs. "pointless open source." There is no more nobil
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Am I doing that? I don't think "I wonder how a sea-turtle thinks" is necessarily on a different plane than how our machines today 'think', on a high level. Or by biological NN did you only mean humans? If you only m
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Probably something like "I've been trained on many similar past situations, these are possible moves that worked out well, let's simulate a few of them internally, OK, here's my move." Full disclosure, I really don&
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Isn't paying burning man $500+ to go have this experience in the desert, and often hundreds more on costumes so you look the part, the epitome of "buying a thing to be a person"?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Maybe in the next 50 years, but not the next 5. There's about a 10-1 marketing to actual breakthrough ratio for AI changing our economy. I agree it will eventually, and has made some inroads, but it won't anytime soon to the exten
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by orthoganol 9y ago
If you think about it Google is used in a weird way these days, that's completely different from its early years, so it does make me wonder why "replace Google" wouldn't be reasonable. I rarely visit sites out of a band
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> tldr; The problem people are having is figuring out input and output for domains other than image processing. This and some of your other comments in this thread lead me to believe you are unaware of how DL is being used in NLP. I woul
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I'll be a contrarian, I actually really like this. I can take cues visually - like seeing it's github, a blog, a service, or an atlas obscura-like piece - and a lot more quickly determine if it's something I feel like looking
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by orthoganol 9y ago
And once again you're contradicting yourself by saying their right to shut speakers down has something to do with their ability to figure out if its actually a Hitler or not.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
This is a strange comment. On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label - and clearly that is problematic - look at the name calling (not to mention riots) for peo
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Probably because they trained an LSTM model to learn conditional probabilities between words and then sampled using markov methods to actually generate the sequences. It's actually pretty standard and not particularly innovative, techn

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