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by vonnik 8y ago
That's good context. We can be sure the omission in the review's title was deliberate.
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I'm not objecting to foreign nationals doing publicly funded research in the US. And I was not the first to bring up his nationality. Personally, I don't care what his nationality is. The initial irony I noted was that a US univer
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A Chinese national whose project was backed with US public funds. Triple irony.
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Powered by Caffe, an open-source framework developed at Berkeley. The irony.
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David Foster Wallace wrote a review of an Updike book in 1998 that also shed some light on Roth: http://observer.com/1997/10/john-updike-champion-literary-ph...
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The Last One (programming language)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Writers have been despairing about writing in America for the last couple decades, maybe longer.[0] They are right to note that serious writing has been eclipsed by other media, like television, gaming, movies and the Internet. It's ha
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by vonnik 9y ago
Here's another good quote, this one from A.J. Liebling: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." We're definitely living that. One of the great lessons of 2016 for me was how much power is held by
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by vonnik 9y ago
You are missing something, but it's not your fault. I'm referring to information outside the article. Natalie Caula Hauff, one of the journalists cited, says on her LI page that she works in PR. https://www.linkedin.co
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Pulitzer Prize winners are rare. The fact that two recent winners had left their jobs in journalism between the date they did their prize-winning work, and the date the prize was awarded, is telling. This flight of reporters from journalism
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I respect the point that Steve is making. I also respect the fact that he was honest in answering his wife. If he had valued other things more than his job, I wonder whether we would know his name or read his posts.
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Software Used to Make “Life-Altering” Decisions Is No Better Than Random(motherjones.com)
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We first incorporated under a CA LLC. It was worthless. If you ever plan on raising money in the US, form a Delaware C-Corp through Clerky. It’s cheap, fast and easy, and it will allow you to raise from VCs or any other outside investor. On
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Silicon Valley’s Astronomical Housing Price Creates a Problem for Startups(observer.com)
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I think the key point here is: If you have to ask whether you have product-market fit, the answer is "no." Product-market fit, when it occurs, is an overwhelming, white-knuckle ride. Google and FB figured out monetization after th
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by vonnik 9y ago
Sam Altman, sama, is president of Y Combinator Group, which includes more than the accelerator. Michael Seibel is CEO of Y Combinator, the accelerator. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwseibel/
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We Watched a Rocket Leave the Atmosphere(medium.com)
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The head line should not be in the present tense. This is not something Google does now. It should use a modal verb like “could.”
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David did a great job with ScalaNLP. It happens to depend on Breeze. I would point out that Breeze does not support n-dimensional arrays (most tensors), although that is necessary to do in deep learning. We wrote ND4S and ScalNet to solve t
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Actually, I'm suggesting that their behavior dominating new business lines for software applications be examined. It's not only infrastructure, although infrastructure is where they started out. They shouldn't be required to
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The article seems to be focused on Amazon's retail operations, but there may be a stronger case to be made against AWS. While AWS makes it easy to store and process data, it is essentially distributing open-source software. You could a
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One of the twists, when you're considering African nations, is that most of them had their borders drawn by empires, and almost all of them (maybe all) encompass more than one and often many peoples as different from each other in cult
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by vonnik 9y ago
jdoliner is right to mention kubeflow. There's also Polyaxon: https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon Fwiw, our free data science platform is also Dockerized, and also bundles TensorFlow: https://docs.skym
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Coherence is the main measure I'm proposing. It's true that the Soviet Union and the British Empire did not cohere. They no longer exist, and in that sense, they failed. If the Union had not won the Civil War, the US would have be
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by vonnik 9y ago
Those are all real problems, and they are also real problems that everyone who works with AI knows about. This type of article is a nice corrective to the hype, but it faces a similar risk of being too one-sided: in this case too critical.
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I think a more accurate headline would be "China's perception of the Opium Wars shape its view of the West." Why were the Opium Wars fought? One narrative says the Qing were trying to protect their population from the harms o
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I have to say I'm disappointed by the mild boosterism that runs through Steven Levy's coverage of large corporations. For example: > Amazon’s product recommendations had been infused with AI since the company’s very early days,
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When I see this I think of the future of human robotics interfaces. A robot with a screen for a head, will be able to express anything we do, and tailor its responses to the environment. That, in turn, will probably make them much more acce
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A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Reinforcement Learning(deeplearning4j.org)
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