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by sbpayne 6y ago
In my experience (mostly large tech cos), getting anyone to pay attention to your design doc/RFC (regardless of quality or length) was fairly difficult. Its been a consistent complaint of many engineers at every company I’ve worked at.
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by sbpayne 6y ago
I often see comparisons of traditional software engineering vs machine learning like this where the former is a linear sequence of stages without cycles and the latter is some kind of tight iterative loop. But my work in both building backe
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by sbpayne 6y ago
Instead of fitting the product to the market, he tried fitting the market to the product
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by sbpayne 6y ago
I think this is closer, but perhaps needs a slight change. I don't think it's out of spite; it's not like people are taking _more_ risk AFAICT. So maybe something like: "there's a wildfire and firefighters asked you
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by sbpayne 6y ago
I was mostly referring to this bit from the article: “Notice how the model that has the lowest mean squared error is also the model that causes the most bias between groups for higher skill levels. This increase in bias cannot be blamed mer
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by sbpayne 6y ago
I find it interesting that you said: “Only an idiot would say the output of a model has anything to do with the moral question that of how things should be.” My understanding of the article is that people often share this sentiment, but the
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by sbpayne 7y ago
I didn’t realize this is what I was looking for all my life
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by sbpayne 7y ago
Did anyone one else read "SHA-RNN" as "SHHHAAAAARRRROOOOONNN" in Ozzy's voice?
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by sbpayne 8y ago
Really want to put a +1 on this. I thought it was an excellent, practical treatment of many distributed systems concepts.
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by sbpayne 8y ago
I'm 25 now, so can't really answer the advice question. As for what I'm doing: * Just ended a 5 year relationship that I felt was ultimately going to hold me back in life * Saying yes to more things that scare the hell out of
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by sbpayne 8y ago
The open source alternatives you list seem to only provide experimentation logging. ML Flow seems to support more (such as model deployment). Not to claim that the deployment processes are _good_, just that MLFlow seems more general than th
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by sbpayne 9y ago
I can second the recommendation of notion. It's worked very well for my organization / productivity needs. However, I work at a large company that has adopted Confluence, so I'm stuck with that for organizational knowledge.
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by sbpayne 9y ago
YES. 100x yes to this. I started a new job some time ago where Java / Scala were mainly used (prior C++ background). I can logically step through flow control and figure most things out. Except the amount of "magic" for the s
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by sbpayne 9y ago
Woebot is not for talk therapy; it applies cognitive behavioral therapy. Since it's a skill based approach, I don't think it's crazy to think a chat bot could effectively approximate that type of therapy. It's much less
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by sbpayne 9y ago
I took courses with Eppstein at UCI. I was always impressed with his ability to construct clear example diagrams to explain any question. Glad to see some of these great diagrams were shared with a wider audience :)
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by sbpayne 9y ago
I was very impressed with the quality and depth of the book. I also appreciated how unbiased it felt. I feel that so many books tout approach/technology X as the best approach, but Martin really did a great job at explaining trade offs
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by sbpayne 10y ago
Sure. But at the scale of e.g. Google, Amazon, etc. how often do you think they are performing these lower level computations? From my experience: very frequently. So it's useful at these corporations for all engineers to have this und
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by sbpayne 10y ago
What he proposes here seems to be: Service -> Messaging Broker (Kafka) -> Consumers (Samza) -> View, where writes go to service and reads read from a view. However, I more often see a CDC (change data capture) approach used in pra
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by sbpayne 11y ago
In before Shcmidhuber gets pissed he wasn't mentioned. Edit: To be clear, I mean as one of the people who kept deep learning alive -- as a part of this "trio".
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by sbpayne 11y ago
... Is this thread just filled with stereo types?
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by sbpayne 11y ago
well the idea is that a word's meaning can be derived from its context (those context clues from grade school strike again). The co located words are simply the context. Since "ship" and "boat" frequently occur in s
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by sbpayne 11y ago
I skimmed through, but I can't see any radically different from Facebook's Memory Networks. Anyone else see a big difference?
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by sbpayne 11y ago
My problem is this line: "As a professional penetration tester, Homakov knows better than most people that hackers should never access someone else's computer network or account without explicit permission." He did neither of
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by sbpayne 11y ago
Yeah, this is certainly ridiculous. Student ratings often correlate more with grades than they do actual effectiveness of professors. The professors who inflate grades (and thus are really the ones that are diminishing educational value) ar
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by sbpayne 11y ago
I feel his explanation of activity vectors closely resembles/indicates Hebbian learning rules (due to the dependence on co-occurrences). Pierre Balid from UCI has a paper coming soon about the theory behind learning rules; I think it m