pmorais

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by pmorais 6y ago
Why? None of what he said suggests to me than an incompetent women would be hired over a competent man. The outrage over incentivizing minority hires is ridiculous to me. You’re more likely not to get hired because of random noise in the in
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by pmorais 7y ago
It’s actually much worse than that because of reflected inertia. The inertia of the first gear as seen from the last gear is proportional to the square of the gear ratio
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by pmorais 7y ago
The US government DOES have such a fund though. It’s called DARPA/ONR/whatever other military research wing. They all invest heavily in startups.
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by pmorais 7y ago
That’s not really true. The other 3 “fundamental” forces are irreducible yet still entirely explained by the standard model.
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by pmorais 7y ago
I don’t think this kind of insight even exists into deep learning stuff (yet). One of the main reasons people even care about SVMs is that they have nice analytical properties
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by pmorais 7y ago
You’re not the intended audience. This is meant for small research labs that are just starting up and want to enter the RL/Robotics research space and can’t afford a $400,000 PR2 or $150,000 shadow hand.
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by pmorais 7y ago
You realize you have to pay an employee to do that right? Odds are it’s still more cost effective to just buy ads.
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by pmorais 7y ago
I mean, once you hit a certain salary more money doesn’t even appreciably increase your quality of life. And I think most good software engineers are already close to that asymptote
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by pmorais 7y ago
That’s revisionist nonsense.
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by pmorais 7y ago
Basically of modern convex optimization is heavily dependent on SNOPT. Deep learning research is heavily dependent on cuDNN
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by pmorais 7y ago
I feel like this hubris is why almost every google product I use is riddled with horrible bugs. The cursor move functionality on Gmail for iOS has been broken for TWO YEARS. It’s also why the tensorflow API is a horribly over-engineered abo
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by pmorais 7y ago
Still missing Hangouts, Chat and GChat
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by pmorais 7y ago
I have never heard of a tech company that doesn’t require that you explicitly give up ownership rights to software written on the job, so good luck with that
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by pmorais 7y ago
Internet 1.0 didn’t have video...
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by pmorais 7y ago
I’d argue that until C++11 C++ was /objectively/ a terrible language and the only reason people used it (and continue to use it) is because it’s nearly 40 years old and therefore ubiquitous. C++ is a language that is literally fam
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by pmorais 7y ago
Disappointing that the majority of the comments here are conspiracy theories about nefarious short-sellers somehow influencing coverage (including this article) and not a single person is discussing the seriously damning allegations of 1) m
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Iterative Gait Design for Cassie [video](youtube.com)
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