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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
If I'm dismissive it's because we've had a lot of field tests of socialism throughout history, as well as in economic studies, and the results are always poor. It's a dangerous mindset to not examine critically because
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> Modern corporations are run like totalitarian, authoritarian regimes with top-down orders being barked down. If you disobey, you're out. People in Western democracies are no longer putting up with non-democratic control of their p
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The Risk of Discovery(paulgraham.com)
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Charisma / Power(paulgraham.com)
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Quick, someone tell me why doctors won't be obsolete in 20 years! Geoffrey Hinton believe that we should stop training radiologists now: https://twitter.com/withfries2/status/791720748624797697?lan...
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Great summary, I always think it's best when machine learning projects have visuals and videos to showcase what is actually being learned. This simple project is a good example of supervised learning from what I can tell - the network
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Here is how it's going for me. For background, over the last few months I've very quickly become adept in deep learning, being able to understand current research papers, read through textbooks, implement my own models with Tensor
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A lot of employers will list too much stuff just because it's an ingrained habit. In my experience, both as an employee and employer who used to do this to some extent, these requirement lists are fairly 'negotiable'. If you
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Does anyone else think that general programming education (not necessarily computer science) is overrated? I much rather hire people that I know can think in both in terms of fundamental logical principles, and who understand the scientific
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I'm skeptical of the value of this, and I really wonder what their shareholders think. Your mandate as a founder should be to recruit the best people for the jobs you need, not reach some arbitrary split in gender/age/race&
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> The problem with this is, the most successful people in an industry tend to have some of the most valuable insights about it. So you lose a lot when they are silenced. And also, if they keep those insights to themselves, it makes the
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Who's ready for some "Deep Pimping"? http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Pimping ABSTRACT: We explore the adage "pimpin' ain't easy" in the context of deep reinforcement learning in the OpenAI
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Why is everyone so damn cynical about self-driving cars? We know this is coming, and this technology will improve the lives of so many people in the long run. Maybe it's from Nvidia and Audi, maybe Tesla, Uber, Google, that dude who la
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Deep Learning, is in fact, non-convex optimization, or as I've recently taken to calling it, generalized function approximation. Deep Learning is not a technol
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The most ironic part of the whole "fake news" debacle is that those pushing it are just as guilty. It's OK though, fear not, because Facebook will tell you what's real and what's not.
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I think it makes much more sense to go the other way, reduce regulations so that truck drivers / laborers who think their current setup isn't fair can start their own businesses and get paid what they're worth! But no, you&
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This is stupid. Keep your politics out of software, whatever they might be. If you're really so intent on combining the two, go make a separate project for doing so.
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Maybe because you can't force globalism and multiculturalism down people's throats. Maybe there should be actual sensible discussions about the merits and drawbacks of these concepts, rather than name-calling and assumed acceptanc
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is the voting system. I think the voting system ruins online discourse. Let me explain. Within my own social media and online forum bubbles, there are a certain set of norms and beliefs that are e
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Serious question - why doesn't anyone talk about moving to Mexico? It's a lot warmer...
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
What's great about evolutionary biology is that there is a science that explains sex differences and thus traditional social constructs that have existed for millenia. > Because in humans fertilization occurs internally within women
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Ask HN: Advice for finding potential B2B customers that use certain tool?
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Coming from the weightlifting world, I saw this as exactly what it is: re-packaged "mass gainer" with some vitamin, flavor, and ingredient tweaks. So revolutionary... Yeah, a bunch of nerds trying to live off of what is essentiall
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> Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia? > Stuck This already implies a negative connotation of "1950s suburbia". Like we ought to move on, just cause. What about the flip-side of thi
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
I'm sure your temperament would be much better if it was you revealing shady government dealings and having your life constantly in danger.
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This is exactly why as a former independent I am going with the Republicans this time around. Although I do tend to side with them on more issues, it's the way the Dems conduct themselves that has completely turned me off of them: htt
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Shame on Democrats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY Also: > Altman’s framing of Thiel’s Trump support as a diversity issue isn’t just incorrect — it’s a harmful distortion that reveals a deep misunderstanding
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
I am voting for Donald Trump. I have weighed the issues in reference to the interests of myself, my family, my community, and my country. As an independent, I kept seeing the same pattern: people on the right are open to discussing issues,
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> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. Then you're really not gonna understand how he will win by a large margin. Here are the facts: people don't want to vote for Hillary. Trump supporters are extremely p
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Small random quote from the vid: > More details for nerds below I'm not knocking the person who said this fairly innocuous statement (I catch myself saying similar things), but it goes to show our unresolved social biases against te

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