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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
Your suspicion is correct. I worked on such a dataset paper and worked to "beat" other methods on well-accepted benchmarks with dubious accuracy scores. One fundamental issue is that outside of POS tagging, there isn't a noti
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
I think it's the DSL aspect. For anyone who's every try to write a language, it's not trivial. The people who do PL research in academia are typically mathematicians in the comp-sci department, whereas those who do machine le
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
ok this is really helpful. And overall def one of the most valuable threads in HN that I partook in. Thank you! Also, glad to see a Haskell (correct?) project in the wild. If you're ever in NY def visit Hack-NY, it's a great place
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
yeah that's good to hear, I feel like Zoom is just strangely efficient. On the momentum note, did you feel a sense of less interest from the investor-sphere after no's from certain investors? The implicit assumption is that invest
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
Ok this is very helpful yeah, there's this strange dynamic where people want to come by to take a look ( as if we're a vendor on the side of the street which we kind of are in this context ), but then no one wants to be the first
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
@matijash what was the content of the follow up email you sent, was it updates on WASP, more data on traction, fundraising, ect? What did you say to prompt people to act? And did you ever pre-empt by just sending a SAFE (assuming the round
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
Could you expand on this? At your university, are there annual reviews on the efficacy of these administrators?
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
ok this is very helpful thank you! How much does the lead matter in the seed stage in your experience?
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
In the middle of fund raising right now and talking to many associates, as well as some partners. So an informed discussion would be very helpful. For example, what should we say to VC associates so they can pitch the deal favorably to the
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
This is exactly what I hear from people who have ran their own funds. In particular, the person who ran a HFT in the late 90s through the early 2010s said he rarely used anything more complex than linear regression with at most two variable
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
I worked on robotics, and I have to say this is sad.
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The Freeman Mirage(acoup.blog)
2 points by xiaolingxiao 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Silicon Valley's Asian Americans still feel like a minority(bloomberg.com)
3 points by xiaolingxiao 5y ago|0 comments
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
I experience multiple bouts of burnout where I said I would never code again, in fact my head hurt just looking at code. Presently, I'm writing code and launching a company. In hindsight, for me burning out wasn't really about bei
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
There was a professor at Penn that would keep a light bulb on his shelf. He took it out once and asked us what it is: none of us could answer it. It turns out, it was a bit from the Eniac! The lightbulb is connected to a magnet so that when
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
See this: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/69018/merkle-roo... , for another explanation for the setting in which Merkle Trees are efficient at proving the existence of a vertex.
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
I recall visiting the Yangtze river by boat tour around 1997. This was before the dam was built and the place was beautiful. Imagine the grand canyon but it was covered with lush vegetation. We visited a center where there were models of t
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
What's interesting is that the government had to step in and break the movie theaters from the movie studio in a famous anti-trust case. I wonder how it'll play out in this case. Presumably Amazon may still license Bond movies (fo
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
also explains where godzilla comes from
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
What are the geopolitical consequence of a de-coupled chip supply chain? Recall TSMC is headquartered in Taiwan, which has been a point of contention in US-China relationship since the 1950s. Please discuss civilly.
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
I recall being exposed to OCaml in an intro to programming language class in college. Learning recursion was pretty mind blowing but ironically, it puts everyone in the class on the same footing: many who have programmed in OOP were just as
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
There's a lot of truth in this. Can you go deeper, what does: "they didn't have a good funnel because the top influentials were too high stakes, and it creates the incentive for arrivistes to knock the ladder away behind them
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by xiaolingxiao 5y ago
This is so cool! Also love how easy it is to verify my identity and pull up the graph. it's interesting to see how many people in my CH are people I went to school with, even though most of them signed up later.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
so much freedom!
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Has anyone purchased from this vendor? What has been your expreience(tailwindui.com)
1 points by xiaolingxiao 6y ago|0 comments
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
"Investors for software startups are not that great if you want your business to be self-sustaining without becoming a unicorn or a Ponzi scheme. " - can you elaborate on this? Gut check wise this feels correct, but I'd like
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
> The Huafu Textile Company is located on the edge of a grey industrial estate in the city of Huaibei, in China's eastern province of Anhui. I more or less grew up in the states, but this is the exact town I was born in, and grey co
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
> Something I've noticed and take this with a grain of salt as this is a sample=1 observation is that the better researchers (more publications, better funded labs) were generally also better teachers. In engineering/math, I&#x
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
It's an awesome idea. The color the epaper might go better with stainless steel, or even glass. But as it stands the gray/black/brown combo looks a bit like an Ugly Tie, it could work in the right room/wall, but may need
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Yeah I'm using Agora for my project, as for real time update I find updating a state in firebase on one end and adding a listener on the other end to be "realtime" enough. So i'm trying to figure out what I'm missin

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