chimtim

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by chimtim 1y ago
Uber currently doesn’t maintain a large (or any) fleet either. I wonder how much the marginal gains from not paying drivers is shaved off by fleet maintenance of expensive cars.
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by chimtim 4y ago
I've been working in the SW industry for around two decades now, and I see a distinct difference since the last 5 years, which is that everyone is optimizing all their actions towards their next promotion. Prior to this time frame and
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by chimtim 5y ago
Unfortunately, one in 10 times is far from good enough (and this is with good prompt engineering which after using large language models for a while, one starts to do). I feel like the current generation of AI is bringing us close enough to
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by chimtim 6y ago
caching a computation result is called memoization.
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by chimtim 8y ago
For anyone not from Scandinavian countries or not used to the low sunlight and mostly cold weather, the downsides from the long-term side-effects of living in Sweden such as depression, low vitamin-D state significantly outweighs any short-
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by chimtim 8y ago
I am glad I cancelled my subscription early this year and never bought its stocks.
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by chimtim 8y ago
This may appear to "work" but I doubt it is better than a 300K FPS camera by any means. It will not work perfectly across all scenes, it cannot interpolate uncommon movements and finally, it cannot interpolate many low-res cases l
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by chimtim 8y ago
Have an expectation that the work-life balance is a circle i.e. it is zero
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by chimtim 8y ago
I went through all of them and I did not see any regret minimization background. If you think there is, please point me to it and clear my misunderstanding.
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by chimtim 8y ago
is it just me or these are really poorly designed courses? I took the RL course and it first started describing papers in RL with little context (under applications of RL). The course then jumped to bandits and I was hoping it will describe
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by chimtim 9y ago
I actually have worked with lots of customers in deploying ML. This was my perspective. Thanks for sharing your perspective at Google.
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by chimtim 9y ago
Exactly, most non-IT companies have very limited skills in this area. This is why they outsource. As an analogy, when I want to furnish my office, I look for an interior decorator who takes care of ordering furniture etc., within a budget.
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by chimtim 9y ago
This does not sound very useful. The entire market and AI consulting is for that last 5% of accuracy. Is there a reason why Google is investing so heavily in this space? Perhaps a simple model/UI is a good starting point for many custo
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by chimtim 9y ago
Then what is "Auto ML"? It sounds like just another cloud service.
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Linus merges the kernel page table isolation patch for Linux 4.15(git.kernel.org)
2 points by chimtim 9y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Learned Index Structures(arxiv.org)
6 points by chimtim 9y ago|0 comments
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by chimtim 9y ago
So much buzz/hype with multiple articles even though the early results are only on MNIST.
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by chimtim 9y ago
these are not random, raw youtube video datasets. they are hand curated dataset in specific classes (like using mechanical turk). youtube has really diverse videos with different lighting, and real world scenarios which makes it an excellen
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by chimtim 9y ago
this is what makes this dataset poor. other datasets mentioned in the blog are based off youtube which is more realistic. movie based datasets have perfect lighting, center the subject are almost never useful (e.g. HMDB)
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JAXA probe finds 50-km cavern under surface of the moon(asahi.com)
2 points by chimtim 9y ago|0 comments
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by chimtim 9y ago
1) managing an office building is a lot of hassle. 2) startups are always growing or shrinking. no point putting so much significant capital unless it is an established in for a long haul at a location where talent is surplus. 3) if you ind
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by chimtim 9y ago
All this raw compute/parallelism is great but it does not really help the algorithm output in terms of efficiency. The CPU/GPU difference is much smaller than nvidia would like you to believe especially for more complex networks w
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by chimtim 9y ago
Intel needs to double or quadruple their processor's AVX width, add 8 bit instructions and make it slightly more power efficient (for AVX) and it will easily beat many of these TPUs. Of course this is easier said than done but I am rea
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by chimtim 9y ago
re-write it in C++
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by chimtim 9y ago
The demand is quite low. I think if you want a good low-level code implementation, you can easily find one on github. For example, you can easily find a good compression algorithm for your CPU budget or other application needs on github. So
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by chimtim 9y ago
Low level programmer here. This is great but the job market for low level programmers is very small. Recently, while interviewing, I described a thread safe, concurrent queue implementation to a hiring manager and he asked me -- "so ho
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by chimtim 10y ago
The linked press release shows an animal is detected -- tiger etc. It does not say tiger running or hunting, which is where the time component would have been used.
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by chimtim 10y ago
what is the "video" bit here? This is just running image recognition on a bunch of frames.
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by chimtim 10y ago
Do you plan to meet every week?
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by chimtim 10y ago
or buy an umbrella

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