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by singhrac 9y ago
That's fair enough, and I was being a little flippant of a very difficult problem. I guess I was more curious about whether anyone has any insight into their possible upside (i.e. whether they can scale production if demand grows, how
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by singhrac 9y ago
Does anyone know why AMD has dropped the ball so hard on not supporting Tensorflow/PyTorch? It seems like the kind of work 2-5 talented engineers could do (i.e. push harder on HipM, reimplement CuDNN, etc.), and would seriously impac
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by singhrac 9y ago
I think the intended implication is that it's accessible to individual researchers that don't work at Facebook/Brain/DeepMind with gigantic clusters (and the engineers able to maintain those clusters). Unfortunately deep
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by singhrac 9y ago
I'm 21, and have a fair bit of programming experience now (did some internships, have a job, know Python/C++ well and JavaScript/Go/Ruby/Lua reasonably well) and I learned to program using Scratch. I had a lot of
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by singhrac 9y ago
I assume Sigma refers to their SQL-based analytics product [1]. I think (and might be wrong) that most fraud-prevention features are included by default in all Stripe products, including Radar? [1]: https://stripe.com/us&#x2
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by singhrac 9y ago
To offer another point of contrast - while it's true that you often need to spend a year taking courses, in most graduate programs they're very very flexible on what courses to take. And those courses themselves are very flexible
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by singhrac 9y ago
Is there any chance Microsoft will take a strong stance on privacy like Apple? They seem to have strong business models besides ads so they can avoid becoming a data grubbing pile of crap.
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by singhrac 9y ago
The truth is that Excel is easier to learn than programming. Call it 'graphical programming' if you will, but Microsoft did build a very powerful piece of software that performs fantastically great for many data tasks. And many ma
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by singhrac 9y ago
One problem I've found with differential privacy is that no one talks about how to set \epsilon. I've read this book, and it's quite well written and complete, but as the title says it focuses on the algorithmic foundations.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Anyone else notice that they're now rolling out Product Sans / Google Sans on new branding pages (News Initiative, here, etc.)? I personally like it a lot, but I wish I could use it (I guess I can always use Futura and tinker a b
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by singhrac 9y ago
Wow, I never thought about how I was imagining my reader while editing - I should keep this in mind while editing papers for submission.
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by singhrac 9y ago
We understand, you're trying to draw attention to drug price hiking still occurring, and you think that this conviction will blow the whole thing under the rug. I agree with you on the first statement, but I think we disagree that the
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by singhrac 9y ago
This is a pretty stupid article. No one is pretending that they're a genius, but this guy is just full of inaccuracies. Let me break it down to save other people time and energy (I have a little to spare): 1. "but that complexity
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by singhrac 9y ago
There's a (very exciting) PyTorch JIT incoming sometime soon!
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by singhrac 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree about the TF API becoming very cluttered. The entire way contrib is handled seems confusing. While I think TF probably has a better distributed story, it's still not great (several months of experience getting
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by singhrac 9y ago
I definitely agree - I've always felt frustrated by the quality of GUI toolkits in Python. Pyglet and Kivy seem like the best I could see (PyQt is licensed), but everything in the 'gallery' seemed sort of simplistic or On a s
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by singhrac 9y ago
Research clearly funded by rats.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Software is more than just language features. Rob undoubtedly meant that he wanted it to be quick to be understood by a vast majority of Googlers, so that they can focus on writing good software.
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by singhrac 9y ago
His suitability nonwithstanding, I doubt Bezos can afford to take time off from Amazon to run in the next few years. And I'd like to see how he's going to extricate himself from his business interests as most presidents are suppos
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by singhrac 9y ago
That's not entirely fair. There's plenty of reasons why this wouldn't be obvious - if there's limited demand for local broadband because of e.g. bundling agreements (you want TV + internet + phone, but the local broadban
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by singhrac 9y ago
I think the argument is that one would notice that the battery drains very quickly, and starts shutting off at a certain percent. Then they could know the battery is a problem, and pay $79 to get that replaced, instead of upgrading.
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by singhrac 9y ago
By the way, if you're using tikz-cd, you should check out http://tikzcd.yichuanshen.de . It's not really complete enough for a final version, but I appreciate being able to put a quick backbone down and then edit later.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Personally, I'd be really against that feature, because I think Unicode symbols as math juxtaposed with monospace can look awful. If they do implement it, please keep a toggle to turn it off.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Recently, I tried to access a paper I had written in the past to put in my grad school application, and couldn't get it. My current university doesn't have access to it. The irony is ridiculous.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Every morning I make 3 lists: (1) do immediately, (2) goals for today, (3) do eventually. I do (1) immediately. I work on (2) until I need a break, and work on (3) for a bit, then go back to doing (2). All 3 lists live in a single text or m
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by singhrac 9y ago
My guess is that Apple's lawyers are busy enough without worrying about individuals violating their EULA without harming their business (e.g. by selling the Hackintoshes). As long as you're not Psystar I think you'll be fine.
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Pyro: PyTorch-Based Deep Universal Probabilistic Programming(pyro.ai)
189 points by singhrac 9y ago|41 comments
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by singhrac 9y ago
This looks like Edward, but for PyTorch. Does anyone know the differences?
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by singhrac 9y ago
Right? I just '* {font-family: Arial}'ed it and it made it a lot better.
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by singhrac 9y ago
Of course, there are plenty of jobs in the industry for PhDs. Another option you might want to consider if you don't enjoy doing research is a Master's program in the US - which gives you some extra training, access to recruiters,

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