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by vecter 7y ago
Based on following the links in the video details, it looks like it's built around something called the OCTA metapixel [0][1][2]. Conceptually, I could see how once you have an "abstract programmable pixel" with mechanisms to
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by vecter 7y ago
Are companies lowering the equity value of their offers currently? They might do that if they believe the stock will recover by 20-30% in 6 months, but I'm not on the job market so I don't know if companies are actually doing this
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by vecter 7y ago
Nice straw man you built and then deconstructed. Nothing about meritocracy prevents old white men from being recognized or successful.
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by vecter 7y ago
I see this trope oft-repeated on HN and I just don't think it's true. I certainly hope that that wasn't your college experience. My experience was incredible, both academically and socially, and it truly changed the way I thi
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by vecter 7y ago
We're not talking about being a great Python developer. We're talking about being a great applied ML practitioner. You simply cannot be good at that without having a firm grasp of the underlying math.
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by vecter 7y ago
That's a very bad analogy. People can become great musicians without ever learning music theory, since being a "musician" is such a wide category. You can be an awesome singer and not know what a diminished seventh is. I lear
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by vecter 7y ago
The Chinese Government is an authoritarian regime. Agree that it's terrible, but of course they won't apologize for anything.
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by vecter 7y ago
This is definitely false. Many companies are going to have layoffs. Supply chains will become disrupted. You can't just hire those people in two weeks and get production running up to 100% right away. If we actually go into a recession
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by vecter 7y ago
People do short or buy put options.
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by vecter 7y ago
Grant Sanderson is a great guy and makes wonderful educational videos, but he isn't a math professor (not that that's relevant to this discussion either).
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by vecter 7y ago
Can you summarize and explain those things (why deep learning works, why over-parameterization is useful, and why deeper is better than shallower) assuming an undergraduate-level understanding of mathematics and computer science?
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by vecter 7y ago
This has been proven false so many times on HN that I can’t even bother to find all of the comments explaining this.
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by vecter 7y ago
Software development never gets that abstract. Yes there are abstractions, but compared to college math, they're extremely simple. The most complex abstractions I've come across in software engineering don't hold a candle to
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by vecter 7y ago
Failed to comprehend which subject, linear algebra? I would argue no, and other people who are more on the pure mathematics side would agree [0][1]. snicker7 said it very succinctly: > However, in mathematics proper, it is absolutely the
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by vecter 7y ago
Great points. I wrote my comment in response to the article claiming to be an intuitive guide to linear algebra , not an intuitive guide to matrices. According to wikipedia: > Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linea
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by vecter 7y ago
This is ok but nothing is as intuitive as 3B1B's series on YouTube that has been posted hundreds of times on HN [0]. Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post. [0]
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by vecter 7y ago
I see it as an IQ test. Official IQ tests are illegal for hiring of course. So they use algorithms instead. Not justifying it, but that’s the only logical answer I can think of.
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by vecter 7y ago
This video explains where the mass of a proton comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls Based on your comments above, though, I don't think watching this would change your opinion about anything. People
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by vecter 7y ago
That's not entirely true. The board has the power to fire executives (that's one of the purposes of having a board, for executive oversight). You're correct in that those three could theoretically vote to change the board, bu
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by vecter 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. The tl;dr is: > I don’t think the correct summary of the above study is: “A large effect was found. But this was a small study, it’s preliminary data, so let’s gather more information.” Rather, I think a better s
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by vecter 7y ago
No way that's true. Missiles are generally pretty small. That fire in the air was BIG, and was lit in the way that a fireball is, not the way that a missile burns. Also, missiles travel incredibly fast, way faster than that fireball is
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by vecter 7y ago
> I don’t remember Anita saying anything to my mother or even asking her husband first if she could give us something, but I remember her packing up her table: the pot roast, the carrots, the gravy, the potatoes. She handed it all to my
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by vecter 7y ago
Total comp ofc. These would be crazy salary numbers (although for Netflix, I believe it might actually be all salary).
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by vecter 7y ago
Total comp including RSUs? Seems unlikely.
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by vecter 7y ago
From the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by vecter 7y ago
I don’t know what level you’re playing at, but at the Diamond+ level, I run into cheaters almost every night. They’re blatant and 30s of spectating will prove that. I also watch a lot of pro streams and they have the same experience.
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by vecter 7y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is
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by vecter 7y ago
If beginning to fix aging was an economically viable opportunity, there would probably be some daring entrepreneurs that would give it a go. There's this oft-repeated trope about "why do the billionaires make apps instead of fixin
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by vecter 7y ago
I don't doubt that. I'm not a mathematician, just a guy who took some classes in college. For a noob like me, this is all cool to see for the first time.
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by vecter 7y ago
One of the aspects of math that I find beautiful is the deep connection between often seemingly unrelated topics. Connecting PDEs, which is a branch of analysis and what I consider "continuous" mathematics to something that seems

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