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by slewis 7y ago
If we can assume determinism, there’s a much better compression algorithm.
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by slewis 7y ago
Cool! Can you provide some real world examples of issues you flag? I poked around on your site and didn’t see any.
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by slewis 7y ago
We always look at number of stars or installs of libraries before deciding to put them in a production project. It'd be cool if there was a "percent unsafe" badge that was commonly used for Rust repos. If folks started paying
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by slewis 7y ago
There's been a lot of thought at Weights & Biases about the tradeoff between competition and collaboration. Competition certainly fosters activity, but it encourages behaviors like ensembling everything to eek out a few more hundre
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by slewis 7y ago
Shawn from Weights & Biases here. We've been working with Github and Microsoft Research on this for just about a year now and we're super excited to launch it today. We've seen huge advances in human language modeling and
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GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge(github.blog)
428 points by slewis 7y ago|93 comments
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by slewis 7y ago
Economies of scale might give the market owner such a huge advantage in food delivery logistics (coupled with ride logistics etc), that it’s worth losing a lot until inflection. The winner forces everyone out, and gets there by spending mor
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by slewis 7y ago
I know exactly who she's talking about! When I was at the unnamed company I worked on a project that he retained control over and said no to a lot. We found that if we sent him a very well reasoned, documented and measured change he&#x
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Intro to Pyenv for Machine Learning(wandb.com)
3 points by slewis 7y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 7y ago
We’ve been using this at my company for a couple months. It’s so important to visually verify PRs for frontend work, but we weren’t doing it nearly often enough, because there is a barrier to checking out and running a branch. Feature Peek
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by slewis 7y ago
Anecdotes dont override the claim of “default” here.
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by slewis 7y ago
Great article showing how easy it is to experiment with probability using Monte Carlo methods. You don’t need any fancy libraries or deep mathematical knowledge. Of course you should always try to have a deeper understanding if you want to
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by slewis 7y ago
This is your company’s fault, they chose the wrong tool for the job.
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Applied Deep Learning Course in SF
3 points by slewis 8y ago|0 comments
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Better Paths Through Idea Space(wandb.com)
1 points by slewis 8y ago|0 comments
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How to Build a Machine Learning Team When You Are Not Google or Facebook(wandb.com)
4 points by slewis 8y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 8y ago
A potential solution is to create a user who has no or limited write access, and modify up so that it always switches to that user. I wonder if there’s a way to do this without requiring the creation of a new system user. Some way to revoke
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by slewis 8y ago
I'd add one more: they need to be able to ship new product at the cadence of Nvidia, Intel et al. Showing wins in the lab is very different from getting that product to market before the next round of improvements from competitors over
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by slewis 8y ago
Interestingly for me, the annoyances of the new MacBook have faded into the background (no escape key, worse keyboard). I learned to hit ctrl+[ in vim, and don’t mind the keyboard until a key sticks for a little while. Meanwhile I can’t ima
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Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later(medium.com)
17 points by slewis 8y ago|1 comments
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by slewis 8y ago
Nothing’s easy with growth at the rate Coinbase has experienced!
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by slewis 9y ago
Equal ownership of something that’s likely to be zero.
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by slewis 9y ago
What do you mean “the same in the grand scheme of things”? By what metric?
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by slewis 9y ago
Can you recommend some reading material, maybe a textbook, for folks who want to get into the details?
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by slewis 9y ago
Brave could return the payment if it’s not collected after some time.
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by slewis 9y ago
Would you pay a monthly fee for a remote?
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by slewis 9y ago
Cliff-hanger! Can you elaborate on why asexual reproduction might perform better?
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by slewis 9y ago
That was my share, the total was $2750. Also, I didn't mention, but I paid $2k for my own one-bedroom for half that time. That same one-bedroom would be $3k today. Salaries at Google have scaled with cost of living, so it seems relevan
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by slewis 9y ago
Here's my counter-anecdote. I hesitate to do this but I think it's nice for aspiring software engineers to have details. I moved to San Francisco in 2006 straight out of college to work at Google as a SWE. I was $27k in debt (stud
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by slewis 9y ago
They've likely spent way more than that, since the article's number is only through the end of 2015: "Between Project Chauffeur’s inception in 2009 and the end of 2015, Google spent $1.1 billion on developing its self-driving

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