chronic6l

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by chronic6l 10y ago
> I wonder how labelling would work with news like saddam hussain's weapons of mass destruction - reported by cia, backed by the goverment as truth, but turns out it was all fake. There's no need to talk technical about graph n
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by chronic6l 10y ago
> Basically, I've come to the conclusion that college is not for all. Of course college is not for all. It is not something everyone just "does" because of "jobs". High schoolers and college students feel entitle
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by chronic6l 10y ago
> Basic income. Free tuition. An outright grant, no repayments. Literally zero barriers except ability for anyone, for any level of academic achievement in anything. Result: a culture with a lot more understanding of the real world, and
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by chronic6l 10y ago
You want him to handhold you and tell you exactly how to make a quick dollar? Ha.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
> try to do something non-trivial and 8gb vanishes and you start swapping like crazy. Perhaps you should stop trying to do all your intensive college assignments on a machine optimized for portability and use a proper workstation or des
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by chronic6l 10y ago
So you would rather us directly fund oppressionist governments around the world, just so you can feel better for the 50 people living in the town next door to the oil fields? Ok.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Of course AI will increase inequality... AI will be baked into more expensive products which the poor cannot afford.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Assuming a $400/month engineer, 1 month.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
> Also, you can always use any number of partners that provide this functionality. Like AWS?
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Maybe you should make a business? But I guess working for someone else is just too damn easy to feed your family...
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by chronic6l 10y ago
The Amazon "thing" is most definitely enabled on the sidebar by default in 16.04.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
You realize that deep learning is such a small market and will be small in the context of GPUs?
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by chronic6l 10y ago
You think someone in debt would be smart enough to prod half the country as sheep into voting for him? Ha. America got trolled and was given the middle finger. We get it, you're upset. But listen to what the Democrat thought leaders ar
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Oh, come on. A major reason people buy Tesla vehicles because they "want to do their part" for the environment.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
I voted for Trump. I'm also a distinguished engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
I can assure you that the 59-60 million people who voted for Trump do not all live in the countryside. The Trump voters also live right along with you, including in Silicon Valley. As mentioned before, they don't say anything because l
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by chronic6l 10y ago
The world is a scary place. Did you not know that? Bullies, liars, and cheaters win. That's the unfortunate truth.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
The computer doesn't even know what a kill is.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
I'm probably one of the people you hate. Global warming is real and is accelerated by humans. I still don't give a damn. I will throw all my waste in the trash and drive gasoline vehicles. I'll let someone else fix it.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
They record every second but it is not written continuously.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Did you not see the Who is Hiring thread yesterday...?
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by chronic6l 10y ago
That's the problem with college kids and new grads. The truth is not always respectful. And given the recent poll numbers, they are in for a disrespectful awakening.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
People on HN like to complain (expected from the 18-25 year old crowd). But at the end of the day, they realize business is business and will do what's necessary to survive. Boycott Thiel in front of your friends (a public position) bu
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Furthermore, Overleaf has a history of occasionally losing people's data. That's bad for college and university folks.
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Would "by Berkeley" make you feel better?
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by chronic6l 10y ago
I'm a medium-name in deep learning (10K unique visitors to my personal website each day) and I have never heard of any of the Skymind founders. Sorry but this all seems like a PR stunt for Skymind since nearly everyone is using Python&
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Yeah, we're not allowed to use high signal attributes because it tells the truth and makes people feel bad. Might as well select people randomly since they won't work for it...
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by chronic6l 10y ago
> To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals. No, they aren't. Your original premise is incorrect. Those Chinese
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by chronic6l 10y ago
Spot on. This is exactly how the HN crowd thinks. In fact, this extends to most people between 18-25. "It's okay if I do it, but not if others do it to me." "It's okay for me to ask brain teasers and textbook algori