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by stephensonsco 10y ago
If you: - have good problem solving and coding skills - spend a month or two learning how to build networks using good libraries Then you will be able to get a good result with the Twitter task I pointed out. It takes being able to work inp
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
For the people who want a job in deep learning, they are definitely around and they will be for a while. It's true that DL will probably become just-another-library, but that will happen only once computing becomes extremely cheap on t
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
If you've got a lock on calculus, programming, and linear algebra, then you've got the skills to understand deep learning. Most time spent working on DL is not in the megamath part, it is in finding good network structures to opti
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
These are definitely great points. Most companies looking for DL/ML talent aren't interested in setting up HR hoops for the applicant to jump through. They want to see if you did cool stuff before you applied for the job. If you d
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
If you are a great software engineer that can solve hard problems yourself, and then you add to that real experience solving your own nontrivial problems with DL, then people will hire with no questions asked. The reason is that not many pe
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
You're definitely right that most ML jobs aren't DL all day everyday. But if you are working with data that is rich and fairly homogeneous but hard to model (like recorded speech) then you'll probably benefit a ton if you us
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
good catch. fixed it
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
just wrote a blog post that I think a lot of folks will like if they are looking for a job in ML/DL. Would love to hear if I missed something!
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How to Get a Job in Deep Learning(blog.deepgram.com)
316 points by stephensonsco 10y ago|86 comments
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
Thanks! I'm glad we got __something__ to play with. This is about a day of crawling + processing.
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
Glad you are having fun with it! That's why we put this version out. Have fun collecting flair ;P
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
What?! You don't like click bait-y titles that point to POCs?!! You are totally right, it's a POC. <<slink away>> Just a project we put out really, really early but hope it's fun/interesting. Indexing the ent
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
It's about the same in topology — process audio, search through that, get back timestamps — but we don't rely on transcribing the words correctly.
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
Bummer. The index size is pretty small right now but we're working on increasing it right now. What were you searching for?
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
The sexy part refers to the looks — sorry if our sense of humor is not translating well :(
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
Yep, we use deep learning to generate an index of audio features and an approximate search to look through it all. We've done lots of testing on both clear and average/noisy audio. With standard transcription matching you get ~alr
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by stephensonsco 10y ago
We started indexing gobs of Youtube videos and made the world's most luxurious, diamond encrusted video search engine. The audio is stripped and digested with Deepgram (that's us—hi!). When you search, you're brought right to
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Show HN: World's Sexiest Video Search Engine Hits the Streets (YC W16)(hoogley.com)
19 points by stephensonsco 10y ago|19 comments
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
Apply now. Then immediately resume working on it. If you don't get in now, then apply with your awesome prototype that you've built over 6 months to the next batch. :)
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
The important difference is that DeepGram is a fuzzy search that can find matches even if a text transcript is wrong. This is what ups the accuracy very significantly. I'm the other cofounder of DeepGram. I'm glad we're getti
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
Glad you like it. We're curious to see what contraptions people come up with.
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
This is really cool!
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
We made a python module to run complicated non-python code in python (like stuff that needs ridiculous environmental gymnastics). It's called sidomo (Simple Docker Module) and it's used to easily make python modules that are actua
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Show HN: Import Docker in Python and Run Anything(blog.deepgram.com)
142 points by stephensonsco 11y ago|29 comments
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Show HN: Mashily – Make Donald Trump Say Anything(mashily.com)
7 points by stephensonsco 11y ago|2 comments
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
Bummer about the alien-speak! The problem should be fixed now ;).
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Show HN: FreshCandidate, Search Through Speeches from Presidential Candidates(freshcandidate.com)
5 points by stephensonsco 11y ago|2 comments
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
I think the point is the assembling of random photos/videos into a convincing representation of textures and animation (without devoted hardware, bringing the person in for a scan, etc), not that 'this is bleeding edge visuals&#x2
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
Yes! I have lazily been waiting for something like this to come along and hopefully bump out metapost. Maybe this has already happened and I am out of the loop on that though.
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by stephensonsco 11y ago
I love the idea -- whisperer, meal and all. Did you punish the disobedient GoPro?

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