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by rspeer 9y ago
The use case really speaks to me, but I'm not convinced that decentralization is going to help datasets not to get lost. I spent a while trying to download recent updates to the Reddit comment corpus [1], which is hosted on BitTorrent.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Well, thanks for telling me what I do, that was very informative, except for the fact that it's all nonsense. You are posturing.
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by rspeer 9y ago
"All organizations which already have a Hadoop cluster are adopting Spark" is not a very interesting claim. Here's how I would leverage Hadoop infrastructure to use Pandas: delete Hadoop so I've got more disk space to ru
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by rspeer 9y ago
No, "all organizations" are not adopting Spark. You do not need Spark to use dataframes. And distributed computing is terrible for machine learning. Maybe you've worked at a job or two where nobody can comprehend not using
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by rspeer 9y ago
I have a similar key binding set up. One option is to press a key that doesn't do anything in between.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm aware of this principle, but I don't find it boring at all that more people on HN are willing to downvote accessibility than upvote it. It's horrifying. People with zero empathy are influencing the future of technology. I
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by rspeer 9y ago
The fact that this comment is starting to fade due to downvotes makes quite a statement about HN.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Oh, I apologize for misinterpreting you. So many of these threads end up with people who think they can replace government with Bitcoin, and I read it in that tone. Incidentally, I believe that there is also a considerable amount of private
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by rspeer 9y ago
Are you expecting gasps of horror in response to your simplistic statement? Oh, no, not the state ! Not everybody here is an anarcho-capitalist.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> In that case, mining cryptocurrency may be the highest value thing you can do with it. Wow, how convenient that the thing you like is the single "highest value thing" that anyone can do with energy. You are in a filter bubble
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by rspeer 9y ago
Heavily trained on SQuAD questions. There are lots of models out there that are very good at recognizing SQuAD questions, and reverse-engineering the predictable ways that the Turkers who wrote the questions pulled the information out of th
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by rspeer 9y ago
An address I used to live at was in an unincorporated area that the county had put basically zero effort into giving addresses. The street had a sensible name that everyone who lived nearby called it. Let's suppose it's "That
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by rspeer 9y ago
I hear cryptocurrency fans defend taking the entire name "crypto" for their hobby because "it's not confusing in context". Here's a headline where it's confusing in context. The business case he leads with
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by rspeer 9y ago
I wouldn't assume it's malice either, but I'm glad it's being mentioned. There's a trend right now where researchers and reviewers have no respect for data, even as research uses more and more data. They don't
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's perhaps thorough, but it's not particularly organized or edited.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Nobody is going to look for SaaS on the black market, unless the service they're looking for was illegal to start with.
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by rspeer 9y ago
So living off of Bitcoin and the black market in Venezuela is your idea of what we should aspire to? Even if a few people in Venezuela manage to use Bitcoin (propped up by the US dollar, nobody's selling their Bitcoin for Venezuelan cu
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by rspeer 9y ago
A society without contracts, police, or jails is a failed society where you will not be able to reliably power your computer, and where you will be too busy fending off looters to care about blockchain anymore. Bitcoin doesn't even try
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by rspeer 9y ago
So many Bitcoin fans, so many "whatabouts". I would say the burden is on you to show that producing and moving cash requires ludicrous amounts of energy like Bitcoin does. It sounds unlikely.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I do not believe that Bitcoin Cash is 1000x more efficient than Bitcoin. It is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I mean, I understand why, it's because often you want to relate it to cost, and electricity is priced in $/KWh, not in ($/sec)/watt.
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by rspeer 9y ago
If it's so easy, please describe how.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Apparently "terawatt-hours per year" is a unit that people use in public policy, but it strikes me as strange. Converting 16.22 TWh/year to a "more metric" unit, that's a sustained power usage of 1.85 gigawatts
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by rspeer 9y ago
US News still publishes rankings, that's why every college has three Vice-Chancellors of Gaming the US News Rankings. (See Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of Math Destruction", where she blames US News rankings specifically
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by rspeer 9y ago
Which predicted we'd meet a bunch of milestones of general AI by 2009. Why is this post about a specific machine-learning task even referencing Kurzweil, anyway?
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by rspeer 9y ago
It goes to a signup popup. I'm interested to see if anyone's offering a large-scale graph visualization that's not the "pulsating rainbow hairball".
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by rspeer 9y ago
The world of algorithms that run well on a CPU is still much, much bigger than the world of algorithms that run well on a GPU, even in machine learning. And even if you're fortunate enough that Nvidia designs their GPUs to solve your p
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by rspeer 9y ago
Luminoso, a natural language processing company in Cambridge, MA.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> All of us would have been diagnosed properly if Watson was being used on the doctors office, using its data crunching capabilities and symptoms as input to find out what problem we had. No, unfortunately, I don't think there'
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by rspeer 9y ago
True, that is an important clarification. I hope nobody's reading what I said as "there are certain people you are not allowed to not hire", but given the last few days on HN, of course someone's reading it that way. Oh

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