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by stochastician 7y ago
https://library.gv.com/how-google-sets-goals-okrs-a1f69b0b72...
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NeurIPS Accepted Papers 2019(neurips.cc)
16 points by stochastician 7y ago|3 comments
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Canopy: Differentially-Private On-Device Recommendations(canopy.cr)
1 points by stochastician 7y ago|0 comments
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by stochastician 8y ago
Matt Levine has an excellent explanation of why this isn't as big of a deal as it seems (read down to Heartbeats) [1] > On the other hand I am not convinced that one should look at the transaction in isolation here. My view of the s
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Amazon Scout – autonomous delivery(youtube.com)
3 points by stochastician 8y ago|0 comments
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by stochastician 8y ago
I actually agree with many of the suggestions in the paper, but of course am biased as these are my colleagues and we disagree on some of the interesting capabilities of modern serverless architectures (see https://arxiv.org&#x2F
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by stochastician 8y ago
Sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I knew some prolific visually-impaired developers in my youth, and never had the wherewithal to ask them questions about their toolchain. 1. what can we as engineers without visual impairme
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by stochastician 8y ago
On that note, the Toyota museum in Nagoya was the most amazing science/technology museum my wife and I have ever been to. We made a specific stop in Nagoya on our honeymoon to see it, and were not disappointed. The first half is an inc
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by stochastician 8y ago
Exactly this; this is also why people with multiple PhDs are incredibly rare (and viewed as odd ducks). The expectation is you've been trained to do "science" if you have a PhD, and thus a second one is redundant.
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Rewiring Plankton and Reality [YC Request for Startups](blogs.sciencemag.org)
3 points by stochastician 8y ago|0 comments
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by stochastician 8y ago
This is fantastic news for projects like PyWren!
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by stochastician 8y ago
"The Prize" is fantastic, as is the associated (7 hour!) PBS-produced documentary that's available in its entirety on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1stQW6i1Ko The actual in-person interviews with
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by stochastician 8y ago
I do not think this is what the piece is arguing. Rather, the concern is that by creating these 80/20 splits, the core values of the university are compromised. There's nothing a priori wrong with industrial research, it's th
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You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation(argmin.net)
255 points by stochastician 8y ago|79 comments
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by stochastician 8y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions! Always a pleasant surprise to find stuff you do making it to HN.
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Policy gradient is a bad algorithm(argmin.net)
2 points by stochastician 9y ago|0 comments
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by stochastician 9y ago
Hi! Pywren project lead here, we're working on more and more fun HPC-style projects! We're also interested in expanding to more and more backends, so please feel free to reach out if there's something you'd like to see.
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by stochastician 9y ago
Could you point to where this number comes from more precisely? I'm incredibly curious, given that it is an order of magnitude different from what I've seen. For example, there's the Tufts study: http://csdd.tufts
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work (yet)(alexirpan.com)
45 points by stochastician 9y ago|2 comments
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by stochastician 9y ago
Can you explain by what you mean w.r.t. "NSF and DOE funded projects, you are increasingly being told to use supercomputing centers"?
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The House That Spied on Me(gizmodo.com)
1 points by stochastician 9y ago|0 comments
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by stochastician 9y ago
You can actually just place a random diffuser directly on a sensor -- this is work from some colleagues at UC Berkeley which I (surprisingly) didn't see mentioned in this article https://www.medgadget.com/2018/01&
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by stochastician 9y ago
Author of that PlosCB paper here, I love these plots! This is such great work, and I've been telling everyone I know to check it out.
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by stochastician 9y ago
See https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08292 from our group
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by stochastician 9y ago
Original paper author here. I think we are in vehement agreement! 1a. we don't run big systems. Well, I don't, at least -- my coauthors wrote spark and similar systems, so they're certainly aware of some of the challenges, bu
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A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI(www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
3 points by stochastician 9y ago|0 comments
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Did a Bail Reform Algorithm Contribute to This San Francisco Man's Murder?(npr.org)
1 points by stochastician 9y ago|0 comments
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UK gave Google’s DeepMind access to patient data without legal basis(arstechnica.com)
3 points by stochastician 9y ago|0 comments
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Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO(blog.sfgate.com)
178 points by stochastician 9y ago|155 comments
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by stochastician 9y ago
Yes please elaborate, this is fascinating! Can you recommend any good undergraduate textbooks on the subject, especially for someone with a quantitative background (PhD in ML-adjacent field)?

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