riyadparvez

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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Maybe this is a result of optimizing for most of the population, which probably decreases performance for tiny minority who search for niche things that are hard to optimize for because of lower amount of data.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
The first developer (who was fired) of the startup I am working for exactly presented this arguments. Not having any experience in developing and maintaining any real system and reading some consultants' blog he was confident that the
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Exactly! The same thing could be said about touch-screens. We can do all these things with a keyboard, why need a touch screen. As a matter of fact, that was the argument Ballmer made during the launch of iPhone. I am not saying Soli would
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Is it possible to arrange hackathons outside of USA? That's be helpful to lot of people who don't live in USA or no easy way to get visa from USA.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Yes, exactly! This seems like totally overblown title. It's akin to saying Google open sourced their key search tech Kubernetes, which is an open source rendition of Borg, where all the Google workloads run on top of.
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
Do you have any reference to backup that claim?
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
I think it has some privacy implications. Lot of people will feel uncomfortable if they feel their conversations are being saved in someone else's device or cloud.
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
Being an outsider, the thing that stand out most about North American culture is that it is extremely self-promotional. Granted, self-pormotion exists more or less is all cultures. But what makes it different here is self promotion is activ
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
Is there any single day goes by without a negative article against Google on HN?
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
I think the reason is some political party deliberately erases the line between legal and illegal immigration, then uses skilled immigration as an argument for causes like open border or illegal immigration, while not fixing the broken immi
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
My issue is more with tricky algorithmic questions. I faced these tricky interview questions, where you either have to know the trick beforehand or there is NO way you can come up with a solution in an interview. I never understand the poin
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
Yes, I believe it is more complex than that. This statement is used to exemplify the learning capability of the system, which is understandable for non-technical users.
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
I think you have better chance getting a green card if you're an illegal immigrant than if you're on H1-B.
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by riyadparvez 8y ago
Post-2013 breakthroughs off top of my head are: * Wavenet, now productionized at Google as text to speech * Alpha[Go]Zero * Neural Machine Translation, on production at Google
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by riyadparvez 9y ago
> And although I can't confirm this myself, the article does say that societies with greater gender equity also have greater gender gaps due to the differences in what each gender values. I can only provide my own anecdote. I come f
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by riyadparvez 9y ago
> Just did the wrong thing in trying to tough out a major depression on my own Can you please post what did to tough out
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
I agree. To add more to your point, it would be more worthwhile if the authority and the Muslim community make sure there's no hate preacher in the mosques. As an ex-Muslim living in North America, I find it absolutely ridiculous that
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
This is the question we all should ask. Saudi Arabia is known as terrorism exporter. Why is US administration (both Republicans and Democrats) so reluctant to go after SA?
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
I work for chatbot building platform: http://deeppixel.ai/ . We use state-of-the-art ensemble of deep learning algorithms that try to understand the meaning of sentences by taking the whole sentence as well as bag of words&#
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
"inclusion" is one of the feel-good words which does not mean anything in real-life. Since this word is mostly used by liberals, I would start with the protected classes, e.g., homosexuals, religious minorities. How do you include
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, why can't you uninstall the apps that you deem unproductive or distracting? I have uninstalled all the social, distracting, unproductive apps from my smartphone. Granted, most smartphones don't have keyboard
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
fastText is so fast, you may not need to use the GPU. That was their goal from the very beginning.
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
Did they release any trained model like Google did for word2vec?
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
Well, there is Sense2Vec: https://github.com/spacy-io/sense2vec
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
I never understand the point of these posted quotes. Every time someone posts a reasonable doubt about Apple's new ventures, there's always the classic "iPhone rebuttal." Yes, Apple did iPhone, and during that time, some
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
It's the same story as college dropout entrepreneurs, who became very successful and made million dollars. But, how many college dropouts are out there who are barely earning their livelihoods?
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
Just landed safely.
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
Does the hacker have any religious motivation? As an ex-Muslim, I cannot comprehend how someone in his/her right mind can do something like this. The people whose identities are revealed will be socially rejected in the best case; in t
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
I concur with you. I do not have any allergy towards whiteboard questions. Couple of whiteboards is reasonable, but five of them seems totally unnecessary.
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by riyadparvez 10y ago
I thought MS cloud is doing fine in comparison to Google -- MS is second while Google is third. However, I totally agree with you on others. Particularly, Apple with its closed culture. How many researchers Apple can hire AI researchers whi

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