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by bcaine 4y ago
Do you know how to publicly comment? I couldn't find a way on the press release or their website.
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by bcaine 5y ago
It's actually not linear, its a power law. That means we need exponentially more compute, data, and model parameters to see linear improvements in performance.
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by bcaine 5y ago
Not to pour too much cold water on this, but the claim of 100% accuracy has a huge caveat. In the paper (Page 4) they state: Interaction. The original question may not be a prompt that synthesizes a program whose execution results in the c
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by bcaine 5y ago
It looks like this is just Pilocarpine, which has been used for decades to treat glaucoma, available at pharmacies everywhere, and is commonly used (perhaps off label) to shrink pupils. I wonder what if anything they changed compared to the
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by bcaine 5y ago
While I sort of agree that machine learning will end up as an experimental science, it's way, way too early to say whether the theory relating deep learning to kernel methods (e.g. Neural Tangent Kernels) will be useful or not. As an e
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by bcaine 9y ago
Another absolutely fantastic resource is this Jupyter Notebook based textbook on Kalman Filters and related topics: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt... An addition to your correction: there
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by bcaine 9y ago
Was there any statistically significant changes in compensation at each level based on more unique skills or more granular classifications of engineers? In particular I'm curious about Machine Learning/Data Science, Robotics, Dist
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by bcaine 10y ago
My first ever internship in software engineering (in 2012) was in the MUMPS world! I worked on a project for a contracting company building an automated testing framework (in python) to interface with and allow the VA to refactor their mass
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by bcaine 10y ago
In this specific case, it was probably further from the strike zone than the pitcher wanted. That said, pitchers throw balls often to see if hitters will swing at them, and some hitters are more apt to swing at bad pitches (and therefore pi
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by bcaine 10y ago
No, the position most definitely had absolutely nothing to do with longest path or combinatorial optimization. Anyway, my larger point is that what I've been seeing interviewing is that these tests are becoming much more common at US s
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by bcaine 11y ago
I think that's fair. I've had both the former and the latter, but unfortunately most of my experiences fall into latter case, where it's simply been hoop jumping. Most of my friends (all about to graduate, so a good number of
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by bcaine 11y ago
I agree that this is "better" than the alternative, but it can be absolutely exhausting for candidates actively searching for a job. I feel like it's recently become much, much more common (from my small-ish sample of me and
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by bcaine 11y ago
Two courses I've found are very good for Neural Networks & Deep Learning are Karpathy's CS231n from Stanford[0] and Nando de Freitas's Deep Learning class from Oxford[1][2]. Been through parts of both and they seem really
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by bcaine 11y ago
Is the Boston team and office part of The Echo Nest's in Somerville, or somewhere new?
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by bcaine 11y ago
If you design the system correctly, flickering should not be visible to the human eye. Obviously that depends on factors like clock rate of your transmission and your coding technique. As long as your signal is reasonably DC balanced and yo
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by bcaine 11y ago
Fun read. Topic modeling can be fascinating to work with. Curious how they measured performance of their model, and whether they found a "best" number of topics for LDA where their model stopped getting much benefit by having more
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by bcaine 11y ago
How is this different from Covester ( http://covestor.com/ ), which has been around (and seemingly struggling) for awhile?
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by bcaine 11y ago
Nice read. I did something sort of similar with the same dataset about a year ago. I compared LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to TF-IDF as tools to find similar beers based on their review text. Lots of intuitive and funny topics discover
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by bcaine 12y ago
The problem is that it's near impossible for a student to pay attention during longer classes. I think you're trying to measure accomplishing things by the amount of material you work through during a given class, instead of by th
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by bcaine 12y ago
I also experimented with it a few years ago trying to build an automated GUI testing framework, and it turns out that its way too fragile and non-portable to be usable for that use case. I remember running into issues as soon as anything ch
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by bcaine 12y ago
Here is a video from a year ago showing the virtual shrink in action (it may be an older version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejczMs6b1Q4
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by bcaine 12y ago
I'd be curious how the study measured 40 pages of reading each week. My guess is that most, if not all of my classes (Computer Engineering student) have > 40 pages of reading associated with the topics taught each week, but for many
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by bcaine 12y ago
It depends what kind of students you want to get. A lot of start ups can make that same argument and pay for the top quality talent (with more than a few thousand dollars). What I would look at is teaming up with universities and professors
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by bcaine 12y ago
I would argue that a good portion of snapchats use happens in extended conversations (for example, flirting). Adding the ability to quickly drop into video to share something will feel pretty organic and add to the experience. It may not ad
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by bcaine 12y ago
This sounds like a great program, I just wish it was offered year-round. Even though I think Northeastern University and Waterloo are the only schools with a completely integrated, well defined Co-op program, it seems like its a growing tre
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by bcaine 13y ago
Awesome,thanks for the reply. I'll keep an eye on it going into my last Co-op next Winter/Spring.
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by bcaine 13y ago
Any chance this will be an ongoing program not limited just to summers? I ask this because there are a growing number of schools (including mine) that have full time Intern/Co-op programs in during the Fall and Spring semesters that I