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Elon Musk in 2016: I consider autonomous driving to be solved problem [video](youtube.com)
18 points by theCricketer 8y ago|5 comments
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by theCricketer 8y ago
Elon Musk has constantly underestimated the difficulty of autonomous driving. This video ( https://youtu.be/wsixsRI-Sz4?t=1h18m28s ) shows Elon Musk, two years ago, saying the following: "I basically consider autonomous
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by theCricketer 8y ago
Might be worth noting that this is old [1]. I think either in 2016 or 2017, the same document was posted in PDF form. [1] http://martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf
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John Hennessy on the current state in evolution of processors(youtube.com)
1 points by theCricketer 8y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 8y ago
For people that know more about web security than I: Is there a reason it isn't good practice to hash the password client side so that the backends only ever see the hashed password and there is no chance for such mistakes?
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OpenAI pays top researcher $1.9M(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by theCricketer 8y ago|0 comments
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Google TPU outperforms competition on ImageNet training performance benchmark(dawn.cs.stanford.edu)
2 points by theCricketer 8y ago|0 comments
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Google Patents “Processing Sequences Using Convolutional Neural Nets”(freshpatents.com)
1 points by theCricketer 8y ago|0 comments
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Uber acquires dockless bike share startup Jump(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by theCricketer 8y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
I've mentioned this on HN before but I think its still relevant to people interested in learning ML who feel they are behind on the math. If, like me, you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text and instead prefer that a
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Google Cloud AutoML: Predicting restaurants from Ramen bowl images(cloud.google.com)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nice. Here's what I did: I got a Chrome extention[1] that unfollows all my fri
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by theCricketer 9y ago
Plus Codes is a "system is based on dividing the geographical surface of the Earth into tiny ‘tiled areas’, attributing a unique code to each of them. " The original blog post: https://india.googleblog.com/2018&#x2
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RIBs: Uber's Cross Platform Mobile Architecture Framework(github.com)
4 points by theCricketer 9y ago|1 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
For people interested in a bit more technical background, this paper by the authors featured in the NYT article has some good introductory background: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45826.html
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Google AI Residency Program(research.google.com)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber passes 30,000 autonomous trips(twitter.com)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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Khosrowshahi Says He Will Accept Uber CEO Job(wsj.com)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
Note how Uber doesn't even mention plans for an Android app in 2008. Fast forward 10 years, 80% of smartphone shipments are Android phones.
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Grab gets $2B to defeat Uber in Southeast Asia(techcrunch.com)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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OCCAM AI Research Institute(occam.com.ua)
1 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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ImageNet 2017 Challenge Results(image-net.org)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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Judge sides with Google in its battle with the Labor Department(techcrunch.com)
3 points by theCricketer 9y ago|2 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
An interview with Maryam from 2008 when she was a Research Fellow at the Clay Mathematical Institute -> this is inspiring: http://www.claymath.org/library/annual_report/ar2008/08Inter...
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Scarily convincing fake video tool puts words in Obama’s mouth(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
I don't think they want it to be a different service from Search (like Google Flights is). It's more that when you search for something like "jobs near me" you get these job results, just like the custom restaurant searc
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by theCricketer 9y ago
If you find it easier to keep at it and learn from lecture videos instead of from textbooks, here's a math curriculum of lecture videos I've curated. This covers calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, convex optimizati
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Patreon gives creators CRM and Snapchat Stories clone just for fans who pay(techcrunch.com)
3 points by theCricketer 9y ago|0 comments
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by theCricketer 9y ago
The recommendations weren't leaked. It was made publicly available by Uber. It is even on their website: https://newsroom.uber.com/covington-recommendations/
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by theCricketer 9y ago
The author might be suggesting that you could have surge priced compensation for the drivers to incentivize them to move to the demand but also amortize that cost for the consumer.

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