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by vonnik 10y ago
> why the focus on "new research"? Is "old research" not good enough? Because the NYT is a newspaper and they need a reason to publish a news article. This is known as a "hook." The hook in cases like this w
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That's why we built deeplearning4j and datavec, fwiw. https://github.com/deeplearning4j
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Every serious lib was written in C/C++ under the hood long before TensorFlow came along.
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Torch is a great library, and Lua a fine language, but they are competing against ecosystems built on the world's largest languages.
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It's important to distinguish between the API language and the core language used for large-scale computation. Every single deep learning library exhibits that division. The API language(s) indicate the communities the lib seeks to ser
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If only we had an central organization that collected taxes to solve issues of public concern.
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Quentin Hardy of the NYT on Bostrom: His career amounts to: "Assume hummingbirds will speak French. Let's discuss their novels." https://twitter.com/qhardy/status/806003812431319041
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Every time I encounter Bostrom's writing, I think of this Von Neumann quote: "There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about." Bostrom is one of those medieval cartographers drawing fanta
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I've worked remotely for years, I've worked in an open-office where presence was mandatory, and now I run a startup with a distributed team of engineers on several continents. While working in a shared office has pros and cons, th
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by vonnik 10y ago
It's popular to pick fights with YC and its ideas these days. Easy press. Other examples: Gab, CB Insights, various reporters. The recipe goes: Find someone or something famous. Find a bone to pick. Leverage famous something's nam
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by vonnik 10y ago
This news was already flagged. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198960 One important thing to know is that this concerns Java on the desktop, not on the server side. Also, there are multiple JDK vendo
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I wonder why they thought this article was newsworthy. It's news to no one that most business books are empty of thought. The same goes for many MBA programs. So yes, we should ignore management theory, but for the reasons given in thi
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by vonnik 10y ago
As a former journalist and PR guy, and now a thought leader offering differentiated insights ;), the best advice I can give, which is not mentioned in this piece, is to cut the crap. Speak in plain language. Speak in a way an intelligent ou
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Big data software company Databricks raises $60M for Spark(venturebeat.com)
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And that, my friend, is a pitifully short list given the total number of climate scientists in the world. 97% say that humans are causing climate change. So yeah, keep spreading the BS and start shopping for real estate away from the coasts
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An extremely unhealthy skepticism that is not shared by any scientist in the field. That skepticism is the result of self-interested propaganda from energy companies spreading FUD. Unmerited skepticism is just as dumb as unmerited belief.
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by vonnik 10y ago
We wrote a decent intro to neural nets here: https://deeplearning4j.org/neuralnet-overview
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Aneel makes some good points. Most PR firms serve large companies, who can afford to wait for reporters to come to them. Startups need an active outbound strategy that's focused on reporter needs, and those needs revolve around satisfy
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by vonnik 10y ago
Can we please fix this headline to "further behind than expected"?
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by vonnik 10y ago
Station F is a well-meaning project that may succeed. The French government plays a large, interventionist role in the nation's economy, and infrastructure projects like this are one way it can express itself. I lived in Paris for over
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by vonnik 10y ago
[Disclosure: I work for a deep-learning company.] Robin's post reveals a couple fundamental misunderstandings. While he may be correct that, for now, many small firms should apply linear regression rather than deep learning to their li
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When groups secede, it is usually for nationalistic reasons. I'm saying secession leads to a lot of geopolitical instability and usually violence and loss, for very little gain. I think multiple conflicts would arise if California trie
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It is un-American in the sense that it hurts America, flukus. And by hurting America, I mean it would make the lives of everyone who lives in the US more precarious vis-a-vis this nation's rivals, who would love to see the US be weaken
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There are a lot of responses to a government that doesn't represent your interests. Secession is only one, and it's one of the most violent and the most risky. There are many ways to exercise democratic pressure in America, even w
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I'm saying that in some ideal counter-historical world, Yugoslavia shouldn't have broken apart. The separations that occurred relied on a lot of ethnic cleansing to draw clear geographic lines between peoples. Without that ethnic
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Yeah, and we all know what a model of functional statehood the Balkans offer the rest of the world.
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Actually, reductio ad absurdum is precisely why self-determination is problematic, because it raises the question of where you draw the line between a nation that initiates its own sovereignty and a bunch of wackos who don't like taxes
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This is a deeply stupid and un-American idea, which will harm the US and help its enemies while distracting Americans themselves from the work they have to do to take back their country. As campaigns like this occupy our headlines, we are a
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For those who don't know, Alexievich won last year's Pulitzer Prize for books such as "Voices from Chernobyl" and "Zinky Boys", an account of Russia's war in Afghanistan. She writes something close to non-
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I'm not sure what "it seems like a PR stunt" means in this context. It's a post I wrote for a blog, so in that sense, it is a PR stunt. But the post reflects our experience, so in that sense, it's not an exaggerat

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