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by vonnik 10y ago
The traditional recruiting and hiring process is broken. I say this as a former technical recruiter. I wrote about the problems of recruiting for a closed-source startup here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvnicholson
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by vonnik 10y ago
Google's hiring process is famously painful, and they lose a lot of great candidates that way. I wouldn't trust their insights to build a hiring pipeline.
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by vonnik 10y ago
A YC founder is claiming that ICE is raiding SV startups and asking for emails, work product, and pulling people out of meetings. Can we get confirmation please?
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by vonnik 10y ago
Automating diagnosis goes too far. Deep learning will largely be used for decision support; i.e. surfacing and indicating possible diagnoses for a medical professional to choose from. Most machine-learning companies have misunderstood the r
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by vonnik 10y ago
Science, by definition, challenges itself. These "red teams" -- the name itself is telling -- are a ploy to give industry-funded skeptics the rhetorical props they need so they can continue to deny climate change and the large-sca
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by vonnik 10y ago
Every medium has a tendency to create work about itself, the subject its makers understand the best. Hollywood does La la land. Buzzfeed covers Techmeme. Novelists write novels about novelists writing novels: Misery, The Sportswriter, half
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by vonnik 10y ago
The headline for this piece is clickbait. AlphaGo is AI, it's just not strong AI. No AI is strong AI for the moment, but that doesn't mean that the AI we have is uninteresting or a dead end, as the author seems to think. The aut
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by vonnik 10y ago
In SV, the old chestnut goes: "If you want money, ask for advice, and if you want advice, ask for money." ;) So basically, never ask for money...
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by vonnik 10y ago
Word vectors are great. We've also written about them at length.[0] But any one interested in word vectors should also be looking at newer ways of applying neural nets to text. Specifically, convolutional nets with pooling for time are
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by vonnik 10y ago
Just curious: Where does the computation happen? Is it all Javascript?
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This is one of the stupidest things ever published on WaitButWhy. The Civil War killed more Americans (~750k) than WWI and WWII combined. Think of it as SouthExit. There are powerful forces binding this union together, and they will not all
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I'll bet you're right, now that you mention it.
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by vonnik 10y ago
I highly doubt that Tony Robbins' "Money" was on David Bowie's list of his 100 favorite books. I had to read "Money", and it was crap. And David Bowie was a man of discriminating taste. Money was published in l
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by vonnik 10y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Please let us know if there's anything we can improve. The community's active here: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j Why doesn't DL4J get more love? It's pa
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by vonnik 10y ago
Don't forget Deeplearning4j! https://deeplearning4j.org/
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This list is woefully incomplete. It should be titled "A Review of Some Tools". Those it doesn't include, or does not give proper mention to in its top table, are: Chainer, DyNet, Paddle and Deeplearning4j.[0] Even Keras, the
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by vonnik 10y ago
nothing against haskell, but this is funny: http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/143847262458/hask...
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This may be helpful, too: https://deeplearning4j.org/word2vec
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It's fundamentally hypocritical of Thiel to stick America with a maniac from whom the vast majority of citizens can't escape, while he has a perfect backup plan. One of his many hypocrisies.
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The title of the piece is slightly misleading. It's really more like: Roundup of startup advice based on one person's journey. There's decent advice, but it's not really structured to support the title, which would seem
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by vonnik 10y ago
The job market and hiring processes for software engineers are screwed up. One problem is that it's hard to get good information about which candidates and which companies are the ones you want, since the bad ones also pretend to be go
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by vonnik 10y ago
Fair enough. Wim Hof and his organization have warnings on every single page of their tutorials telling people not to do the exercises in a swimming pool, like the guy did who died. Below is a screenshot of them. Saying that people die foll
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I support skepticism about things like this, but I will say: Wim is not scamming people. He's showing them how to do something that works to lengthen his breath retention underwater and the regulation of his body heat. What he does is
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Any one interested in how changes in breathing affect their mood and physiology should check out Wim Hof: http://discover.wimhofmethod.com/sq/31699-welcome-to-the-wim...
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I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. I'm talking about what has worked for the confidential sources I had, and the means they chose to communicate with me, which in fact prevented me or my org from knowing who the
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[Former reporter here] I have worked with confidential sources, and there are a number of things you can do, as a whistle blower, to protect yourself. Phone calls are better than files, generally speaking, and you should be calling from a b
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by vonnik 10y ago
and then this piece lands: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...
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ArxivML: An Alexa skill to read latest machine learning papers from arXiv(medium.com)
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Oxfam and Inequality(fusion.net)
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Unrecognised Simplicities of Effective Action(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
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