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by pvnick 10y ago
Nando De Freitas has a great youtube channel with videos that you might find helpful, including this one in particular on unconstrained optimization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOda9mz_yA&list=PLE6Wd9FR--...
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by pvnick 10y ago
This is likely the best answer for those who wish to code within the map/reduce paradigm by hand and would prefer to use python.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Ah, great, thanks for the explanation.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Can anybody offer a TLDR of how this works (or point me to one)? It seems particularly well-suited for convolutional nets with many layers if I understand correctly, but I am curious as to whether e.g. recurrent nets may receive the same sp
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There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care(huffingtonpost.com.au)
110 points by pvnick 11y ago|25 comments
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by pvnick 11y ago
Agreed. Deep learning receives all the hype these days (look at the machine learning subreddit), but in reality it provides very little practical value for the vast majority of data mining tasks that most folks will see. For that, standard
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by pvnick 11y ago
Go for it!
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by pvnick 11y ago
Great article, nice and short, and to the point. This is not news to diet and exercise enthusiasts, however, but it is always nice to see supporting evidence. Strength training, combined with a high-protein diet, is ideal for maintaining or
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by pvnick 11y ago
I just wanted to say that reading your comment was encouraging and made me happy.
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by pvnick 11y ago
Just to follow up on your last point, I have found that folks are often happy to send code, but code written in research labs is generally horrendous. I don't think that the "publish or die" culture and a culture of releasing
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by pvnick 11y ago
Yeah, the teachers at my CC were better I thought too, perhaps because they were there primarily to teach and not to research. That and the classes were so much smaller which is great.
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by pvnick 11y ago
Agreed, that's what I did. The best thing is that in community college you can spend as much time as you want bouncing around and figuring out what you want in life, rather than being rushed to "get in, get out" like in a 4 y
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Ask HN: Language/framework pros and cons for writing a web server nowadays?
3 points by pvnick 11y ago|2 comments
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Congress Slips CISA into a Budget Bill That’s Sure to Pass(wired.com)
3 points by pvnick 11y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 11y ago
Thanks for your reply. > That's going to be heavily weighted based on your personal background Could you elaborate?
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by pvnick 11y ago
I would be interested to hear from you, and anybody else with similar experience, what were some of the most valuable courses you took. That is, for someone with no interest in pursuing an MBA but with the opportunity to take a course or tw
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by pvnick 11y ago
Good point. Pedigree is and always has been a huge advantage. A disproportionate number of execs' backgrounds I've looked into have Yale/Harvard/Stanford/etc somewhere. I wonder if that will ever change. Having work
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by pvnick 11y ago
I'm a big free-market guy, but I agree that sometimes there are items which need regulation to prevent massive environmental damage. CFCs are the classic example, since they were eating a hole in the ozone layer.
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by pvnick 11y ago
You could argue that, but I wouldn't say so. IIRC (I'd need to go back and dig up the research I read) high-calorie drinks appear to lack the satiating effect that solid foods have, even the high-caloric foods. The point is that h
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by pvnick 11y ago
>Can't we stop this consolidation Why? Mergers are not inherently bad, and there seems to be a knee-jerk reaction against them without supporting evidence. Not to say that evidence doesn't exist, but it should if a merger is to
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by pvnick 11y ago
>Their innovations include a sweeping variety of now-ubiquitous chemicals, including ... chlorine Really? That's impressive, to have invented an element. Surely this must be a method of storing and transporting chlorine and not the
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by pvnick 11y ago
> What are the other possible factors? High-caloric drinks
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Keras, now running on TensorFlow(github.com)
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by pvnick 11y ago
François Chollet, the author of keras, made the following tweet this morning: "For those wondering about Keras and TensorFlow: I hope to start working on porting Keras to TensorFlow soon (Theano support will continue)."
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by pvnick 11y ago
Right now Keras is your best bet for most deep learning tasks, and Caffe is best for image processing (i.e. convolutional neural networks). Keep an eye on tensorflow though because it may come to be the gold standard over the next several m
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by pvnick 11y ago
Wealth disparity may be growing, but I think folks disagree about the source. Some point to tax havens which allow the rich to accumulate wealth without a bit being shaved off and redistributed. They say we need to increase taxes and disall
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by pvnick 11y ago
"... the study, led by Alexander Oettl, an economist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta" "... negative citations are most likely to come from other researchers who are ... relatively far in geographical distanc
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by pvnick 11y ago
Didn't a competitor introduce a better version of the $750 pill priced at $1? Isn't that proof of free market efficiency working? Indeed much of the rising insurance costs appear to be government-mandated purchasing of a highly-re
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by pvnick 11y ago
A $10,000 basic income, perhaps the bare minimum to prevent starvation and homelessness in the most rural parts of the country, for everyone in the United States over the age of 18 involves roughly 2.5 trillion dollars in payouts per year,
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by pvnick 11y ago
Thank you!

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