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Learn MXNet machine learning library – 6 part guide(medium.com)
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by ranman 10y ago
Having recently spent some time in India where labor is absurdly cheap I do not believe the incentive to automate exists in most places. At least... not yet. I believe automation will eventually take place at a large scale but I don't
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by ranman 10y ago
If you want email updates try something like blogtrottr
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by ranman 10y ago
If you want to email me I can connect you with the rekognition team: randhunt at Amazon dot com. You cannot currently count objects other than faces and bounding boxes for non face objects are not currently provided. For the time being exis
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by ranman 10y ago
Rekognition doesn't currently support OCR.
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by ranman 10y ago
The keep warm time isn't static AFAIK but some frameworks like Zappa have chosen 5 minutes (I work for AWS). If you raise an issue with support there may be other ways around this. There are also other reasons for not relying on functi
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by ranman 10y ago
>As for costs, sending 1 TB out will cost $90,000 in S3 transfer costs, before any other discounts. 1TB out would be closer to $0.09 * 1024 == $92.16 (still expensive) -- think you may have misplaced a decimal there.
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by ranman 10y ago
KLM has an interesting feature where you can bid on Business/First seats.
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by ranman 10y ago
I'd pass on reading this if you clicked through to the comments first. There's very little detail about how self driving cars work. This is a very basic survey of brands. Remember the Murray Gell-Man amnesia effect. Does anyone ha
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by ranman 10y ago
FWIW I don't think most of it goes towards trading. They do a lot of other analysis and tool building... as well as operational stuff. I imagine there are a very large number of poorly payed staff classified as "IT"... and a
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by ranman 10y ago
>In other cases, the bank will actually update the vendor with your new card number so that subscriptions are not interrupted. That's apparently a feature: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/mercha
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by ranman 10y ago
This story oozes elitism. It's also rife with misinformation and misleading tangents. The claim that various government organizations are solely responsible for AIDS elimination and cancer research is ridiculous. How many NGOs research
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by ranman 10y ago
TBH I think you have a point there: the hot new thing is serverless and lambda so everyone I know really wants to work on those teams. I see where you're coming from for sure. There are still a lot of talented and passionate people at
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by ranman 10y ago
(I WORK FOR AWS)(Thanks for fixing the time OP!) I'll be talking about all the updates from the past 2 days and we might have some special guests. Yesterday werner showed up randomly... unscripted... and it was a little nerve wracking.
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by ranman 10y ago
FWIW those were not submitted by AWS employees (to my knowledge) -- we're not trying to take over HN. (I WORK FOR AMAZON)
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by ranman 10y ago
(I WORK FOR AWS) Each service has it's own dedicated service team. I've used some (not all) of the new services and I believe there is room to improve but I didn't think they were unstable or anything like that.
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by ranman 10y ago
I'll be talking about this on the https://twitch.tv/aws stream at 12:30 pacific if you guys want to ask questions / learn more. (I WORK AT AWS)
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by ranman 10y ago
This blog post has more info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-you... I'll be talking about this on the https://twitch.tv/aws stream at 12:30 pacific if you guys want
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by ranman 10y ago
(I WORK FOR AWS) >Pokemon Go was able to scale to facebook level user engagement in a mere month time period with 4 backend engineers (and of course with lot of help from Google). I mean... did they? I was trying to play for weeks and I
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by ranman 10y ago
Do you have any references / examples of people underestimating the effort of working with snowball? I've actually only heard positive things about snowball. I would be very interested in negative feedback. (I work for amazon)
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by ranman 10y ago
Still not fixed. I'all reply here when it is. Might be a few days because of reinvent stuff.
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by ranman 10y ago
If you guys are curious about these announcements I'll be recapping them and going into more detail on twitch.tv/aws at 12:30 pacific
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by ranman 10y ago
I disclosed in the parent post and the linked post. Not sure what more you want me to do there sorry.
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by ranman 10y ago
If you guys are curious about these announcements I'll be recapping them and going into more detail on twitch.tv/aws at 12:30 pacific
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by ranman 10y ago
Actually I do think that GCE offers cheaper instances, but the 50% overall price reduction claim is unsubstantiated. The author compared completely different instance types. Monthly discounts does make GCE cheaper but for many instance type
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by ranman 10y ago
yes.
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by ranman 10y ago
If you guys want to see an example of this in action I made a stupid little demo. You can tweet @AWSCloudNinja a selfie and it will replace your face with a ninja mask. I'm waiting to post the code until the new boto models are out but
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by ranman 10y ago
That article had a unique relationship with reality. A few of my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998170 (I work for AWS)
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by ranman 10y ago
I have a physics background but not an EE background. I found verilog pretty easy to grasp. VHDL took me a lot longer. To get some basic ideas I always recommend the book code by charles petzold: https://www.amazon.com/Code-
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by ranman 10y ago
Yup, sorry -- working on fixing that now. Check back in a bit.

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