throwaway_bob

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by throwaway_bob 8y ago
FAIR, DeepMind, Brain, MSR and many others all employ large numbers of people working on pure research with no immediate business application, and with at least as much freedom as their academic counterparts.
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by throwaway_bob 8y ago
honestly, then y'all are mostly responsible. If you are going to have a younger student do a guest blog post, you should make sure that the project makes sense technically, or at least is not silly. What if the student tried to trai
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by throwaway_bob 9y ago
I think you are missing the parent's point. A CNN is a more complicated model, not a simpler one- it is better to try simple linear classifiers on bags of word or bags of bigrams or trigrams before breaking out the more complicated ne
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by throwaway_bob 10y ago
The exact phrasing matters too, I guess. There are lots of ways to find a good packing, and even good bounds on how far your good packing is from the global optimizer. So a reasonable question to your interviewer would have been "d
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by throwaway_bob 10y ago
Note that the fact that this can be easily accomplished in VW doesn't really take away from the message the authors are trying to make; namely, simple models done carefully are nearly as (or more) effective in these sorts of problems a
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by throwaway_bob 10y ago
I lived on henry street for a while, and I can't say that I know anything about the back end of the distribution network, but I can say this article is missing a lot of things about the front end. The produce is cheaper than a stand
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by throwaway_bob 11y ago
You do realize that these things were already being studied in the 90's, right? The Grefenstette paper mentioned in this article makes use of an architecture from Das et al. in 1992. More generally, people have been talking about fu
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by throwaway_bob 11y ago
when he says "probability", what space does he mean? This analysis does not seem very careful.
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by throwaway_bob 11y ago
any visualization of these algorithms in 2 dimensions (with cubic feature expansion!) is completely misleading if you intend to work on any real problem with many dimensions. Also, for those asking for execution times, these would be horri
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by throwaway_bob 11y ago
Just because wired says something doesn't make it true. Whatever other accomplishments he may have, Le was not a contributor to word2vec, and he did not originate the idea of mapping words to vectors.
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by throwaway_bob 11y ago
pacman already takes place on one of these tori
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by throwaway_bob 12y ago
the fact that random noise can be classified as strongly belonging to some class, and the fact that classification results can be unstable, is simply a result of the fact the input space is very high dimensional, and the output space is