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by tziki 9y ago
Since the post is framed as a gender issue, let me offer another view that I think is evidently good to remember in the conversation: according to studies, men are more likely to experience online harrasment [1]. [1] http://www.p
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by tziki 9y ago
Perhaps because according to studies men are actually more likely to experience online harrasment? http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017...
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by tziki 9y ago
Compared to what? Seems like the fairest comparison point would be Google's TPUs.
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by tziki 9y ago
You think Google doesn't rely on deep learning?
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by tziki 9y ago
>Not to mention that AI vision systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks ... The situation is dire. That's like saying a human driver can be blinded with a bright light so the situation is dire. New world, old rules. You'l
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by tziki 9y ago
I think that's a really good question. IMO this is an essential part of any pipeline aiming to do that, but there's a bunch of hurdles with neural networks that's haven't been crossed yet. The first one that comes to min
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by tziki 9y ago
The IQ rise of 3 points per decade has stopped and even reversed in many countries, like UK and Norway. That seems like a very big point to leave out, hopefully it's mentioned in the book.
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by tziki 9y ago
The algorithm looks nice. However, the comparison to Bayesian optimization doesn't really hold as-is. The slowness of naive O(n^3) Bayesian optimization is well-known, and while I've never personally needed a faster solution, ther
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by tziki 9y ago
> Perhaps the reason people don't feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an "old school" company that will hire them. We have not had that lux
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by tziki 9y ago
It's pretty common airline ethiquette to put your seat upright when the food is being distributed and people are eating.
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by tziki 9y ago
Since this is around 18 months old, does anyone know what's the current state of the art?
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by tziki 9y ago
The Flynn effect (the rise in IQ scores) has mostly stopped in western countries, and even reversed in some.
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by tziki 9y ago
> Damore's diatribe was that Google's combating of social bias was wrong No, it wasn't. In fact, the exact opposite: he literally says "I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that ... we shouldn't try to
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by tziki 9y ago
>Artificial neuron (aka perceptron) These aren't synonymous, a perceptron is a type of artificial neuron. Also confusingly, 'multi layer perceptrons' might not contain perceptrons at all.
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by tziki 9y ago
Nothing you say contradicts.
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by tziki 9y ago
I thought he gets shit because he patented his approach instead of making it available for everyone (please do correct me if I'm wrong).
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by tziki 9y ago
This seems not similar at all.
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by tziki 9y ago
Do you plan to take into account the developer cost? BigQuery is more managed than Redshift so that definitely factors into the "real world" cost analysis.
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by tziki 9y ago
I haven't read these particular books but normally I have one "huge" CS book under progress at any time. It's usually a topic I want to know more about and get a basic fundamental understanding of, so mostly driven by th
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by tziki 9y ago
Android was in development far before iPhone was released.
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by tziki 9y ago
Serverless is probably far too immature for companies like NYT.
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by tziki 9y ago
The main story here is probably this line: "The system is generally at that peak traffic for only a few minutes a day". AWS charges by hour. Google by minute. If your peak traffic only last a few minutes, hourly billing is inflexi
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by tziki 9y ago
One thing I always find chilling about stories like these is the description of work - specifically, how easily it can be automated. Very few people in western countries depend on jobs like these, but your average Chinese doesn't have
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by tziki 9y ago
They could always do what Google did and abandon China.