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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   AWS is expensive if you are an extremely heavy user. Checking out whether the pricing works for you is an easy exercise. A p3 instance costs $3.06 per hour at the time of writing. It runs an Nvidia V100, which costs around $10k. So you&#x27
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   Would definitely have been nice. But if you're thinking about scientific programming, it's not so much effort to use AWS GPUs. I do that, and don't think I would buy an eGPU even if it was CUDA capable.
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   Serious kudos for him braving Okinawan typhoons by himself like that! They can be intense, and there can be several in a year.
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   Ah, perfect. Thank you for the clarification!
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   I don't believe I would ever discourage anyone from using any particular framework. The skills learnt from one are highly transferable, so it doesn't matter too much which framework you start with. Also, with eager execution, Tens
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   While open sourcing the model is nice, it would be better still to open source the data set for the wider community to make more meaningful contributions. Their GitHub repo states the following: "You need to apply for data access, and
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   "Given how much poor coding practices resemble machine learning (albeit in slow motion), it's hard to hold too much hope about what happens when you automate the process." Your whole argument seems to be based on your persona
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   I am willing to work on something if and only if either of the following holds: 1) I find it interesting 2) It is important to my family.
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   by phonebucket 8y ago

   "When/If your project fails - TBH - its more like the death of a child." Thankfully, I have neither suffered from the loss of a child nor a failed major project. However I would expect someone making a statement like this to
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    Is it really a bait-and-switch? Advertisers can be pretty scientific about their use of FB. It’s standard practice to balance the amount made from acquired users against their cost of acquisition.
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    Minimal Newton Solvers for Deep Learning(arxiv.org)

    5 points by phonebucket 8y ago|0 comments
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    Very cool. I hadn't come across this before. News does appear to be one year old, though: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/16/3d-printed-o...
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    Refreshing that they use an OpenCL backend instead of CUDA. Would love for OpenCL to grow more to challenge CUDA’s dominance in scientific computing.
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    '"Technology" for the company has been coming up with a mobile app to connect drivers and potential customers - something hardly groundbreaking.' While I don't care much for the company, Uber's efforts in AI re
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    great stuff. what is consciously learnt and discovered by one generation can be intuitive to the next, precisely because of teaching. also, i love the idea of experimenting on your own children and then writing blog posts about it :)
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    by phonebucket 8y ago

    "The bigger issue here is that they reacted to this event, rather than proactively managing it." They may well be proactively managing it, but you don't hear about it when those actions are taken?
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    This stuff should be taken down promptly by a platform, and then the perpetrators tracked down where possible. Isn't it thus beneficial to have a tangible platform that can be regulated accordingly? That would make this an argument for
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    Is this news? Facebook had already stated that it wasn’t applying GDPR to non-Europeans. Also, the headline is misleading: it makes it sound like FB is trying to get around laws. Really, all it’s doing is applying laws in the required juris
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    To echo the comments before this one: a) lots of people do have an intuition for Venn diagrams. Just look at the number of Venn diagram gags on xkcd. b) it is a great mental image to have if you move on to measure theoretic probability.
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    My first thought before reading the article was: "What is targeted advertising anyway? I could choose to target a specific demographic by placing my billboard in a certain spot, or choosing which magazine to take my ad out in." Th
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    "Why can't it be both?" In fairness to the OP, the notion of someone being next is coming from the headline, not the comment.
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    "It looked like he had something to hide, not like Google had made the mistake of highlighting false information." That quote explains a lot of the misunderstanding. Google's service should to be help a user find what they ar
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    "“But Facebook is essentially a 14-year-old design that for all its evolution is still founded on the ideas of 14 years ago. So no, the answer is it will not survive long term.”" author of that quote will likely just increment tha
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    by phonebucket 9y ago

    This cropped up several months ago on here, see here for the comments from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060417