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by vonnik 11y ago
It's one thing to publish writing online. It's another to get attention for it. Distribution means getting in front of your audience. Posting on a blog doesn't inherently solve that.
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Art is a hobby unless you get paid for it.
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The word "should" shouldn't be applied to the question. Writing words is like writing code: some people are paid to do it, and some do it for fun. Both professionals and hobbyists can create good or bad writing, and they have
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speaking of whom... have you read this? http://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/how-walter-scott-started-the...
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I don't think it's entirely ad-hominem. This is actually a fairly accurate description of his output: "...He has been a reliable producer of out-of-touch, tissue-thin pronouncements on the perils of our secularized, technolog
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Anyone who refers to David Brooks as "the insightful New York Times columnist" has lost me as a reader. I can't remember the last time he had an original, or even accurate, thought. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com
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are you questioning the existence of toxic workers? or the validity of the study?
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by vonnik 11y ago
Bigfoot hunting in montana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfD7_J6lZY The believers are everywhere...
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Deep Visual Analogy-Making [pdf](web.eecs.umich.edu)
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TLDR: Give people honest feedback, but make sure you have proven that you care about them first. Unfortunately, this post's strong no-bullshit language is contradicted by the substance and form of the message given (magic quadrant warn
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A Roadmap Towards Machine Intelligence(arxiv.org)
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> That's your evidence that WSJ is run by a bunch of conservative shills? No, that's my evidence that the article contained sloppy reporting which conveniently aligns with the WSJ's anti-China bias. There is plenty of othe
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> Could you give some examples of the journalists who have left? There have been successive waves of departures, many of whom have left for the WSJ's rivals in financial news: Reuters and Bloomberg. I was a journalist for years, and
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Ever since News Corp. bought the WSJ in 2007, the nutjob conservatism of its Op-Ed page has permeated and corrupted its formerly excellent and fairly objective news reporting. A lot of the best journalists have left, and the rest know which
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It should be Iliad with one 'l', as the author spelled it in the post.
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Really impressed with Flink and the Data Artisans team. If I had to bet, I'd say they're the future of streaming.
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I stand corrected. Thank you. A terrorist attack killing more than 100 happened in 1961, during the Algerian war for independence.
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It's really important to understand the Muslim community in France, and not evoke false connections. We don't know if the attackers had anything to with the flux of Syrian migrants moving across Europe now, but my guess would be:
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by vonnik 11y ago
It takes 4x as long as CuDNN on AlexNet due to lack of in-place ops. What is up with that?
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TensorFlow looks amazing, and the Google team deserves huge kudos for open-sourcing it. It may well become one of the best supported OS DL frameworks out there. People have been asking about its fundamental differentiators. I'm not sur
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^^ so this ^^ I was a tech recruiter for about a year (hate mail can be sent to dialogue@dessourds.com). the skills gap in america is so huge. there's so much demand for coding talent. anyone who has ever mastered a programming languag
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Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine(wired.com)
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Orbital Insight http://orbitalinsight.com/
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Former reporter here: One of the things many people don't understand is that news organizations exist for themselves as much as they do for their readers. They are drama queens crying out for attention. Now imagine putting 10 drama que
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Notre Dame, in Paris, broke ground in 1163 and was finished 182 years later. Gaudi's ahead of schedule...
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While I'm sure some great hackers worked on Smart Reply, I don't think it's the result of the process you imagine. Smart Reply is using really sophisticated machine learning to advance one of Google's core goals, which i
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Thought Vectors, Deep Learning and NLP(deeplearning4j.org)
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Speeding Up Spark with Native Binaries(deeplearning4j.org)
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Telcos are using deep learning to cluster and classify users, and model and detect ab/normal behavior for everything from ads to fraud detection. Some are using us: http://deeplearning4j.org
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Facebook’s AI Can Caption Photos for the Blind on Its Own(wired.com)
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