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Climate Change: Reframing the Problem(samraj.ca)
1 points by dquail 7y ago|0 comments
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by dquail 9y ago
Biometric Auth. My first job out of university in 2003 was with a biometric security company. even back then the technology was shockingly mature. But yet getting deployed was so difficult. I also remember in 2004 going to my favorite wa
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Reinforcement Learning introduction via Multi arm bandit(github.com)
2 points by dquail 10y ago|0 comments
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by dquail 10y ago
Interesting. I've yet to hear a Moores law is dead argument, so perhaps I should watch the video before commenting further. But the fact that most of the chip is turned off, doesn't falsify the fact that most of it still exists.
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by dquail 10y ago
Agree generally. Except being unimpressed unless performance is achieved on sub Google scale hardware. Today's Google supermachine is tomorrow's raspberry pie. No need to artificially constrain our bounds. There is, after all, t
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by dquail 10y ago
Good question. Just one anecdotal data point here ... So take it for what it's worth. I'm a grad student focusing on reinforcement learning but have a lot of interaction with many deep learning folk. I'd have to say that th
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by dquail 10y ago
Yes. Furthermore, neural nets are just one small part of the solution to [edit] general intelligence. A truly scalable intelligence that learns on its own, and doesn't rely on "the right answers" through training data by huma
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by dquail 10y ago
80 years is very conservative. Rich Sutton has a very well articulated argument for achieving human level hardware (using Moores law, and an estimate of the computational power of the brain derived from measurable computations in the eye (r
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by dquail 10y ago
Yes. Be wary. I lived in Vancouver for 3 years, 2012-2015. Those mountains sucked. As did the ocean. And the ability to walk everywhere downtown. Total pain being able to walk to work, shop, dine, etc. kidding aside ... Yes ... I earned l
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by dquail 11y ago
Entrepreneurship is mastering - if anything - "operating" in extremely uncertain and risky conditions. There's no tangible hard skill you're mastering. It's fulfilling - but personally completely void of the feeling
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Back to school because entrepreneurship leads to mastery of nothing(davidquail.com)
2 points by dquail 11y ago|2 comments
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by dquail 11y ago
Fair enough. There are real and powerful emotions at play. But it's a bit of a stretch to suggest an employee at a company founded 5 years ago has "poured their life into." Personally, I'll reserve evocative language of
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by dquail 11y ago
Fair enough. I missed the part where this is an employees perspective. WRT being selfish. It's often the last thing a founder wants. Boards, family members, and even sometimes employees - often pressure a founder into an acquisition th
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by dquail 11y ago
"Surviving," "Trauma," "Shock","Dismay" ? I've founded a company through an acquisition and led mobile for another. Life was definitely much much better before the acquisitions. But the perceptio
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by dquail 11y ago
This is awesome. Well done. Wondering if there was any real time speech to text that could be trained. Seems like these commentators all have their canned lines when the team scores. "He scores", "Goal", etc. etc. Se
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by dquail 11y ago
There's a perception that raising money is "easy" in the current climate. The reality though is that it's simply not that easy and that there most certainly isn't many founders coasting on beaches. I know a lot o
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by dquail 12y ago
If you're a startup CEO and you fail, employees find other jobs. If you're a physician and you fail, people die.
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Ask HN:Best Crowdfunding options for Hardware?
3 points by dquail 12y ago|1 comments
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by dquail 13y ago
Totally agree. I think we're saying the same thing (that was my intent anyways :|
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by dquail 13y ago
I'm a big fan of the "don't worry about your competitor" mantra. But at the same time, it'd be silly not to pay attention and to learn from your competitors failures/successes. Doing so, IMO is quite product
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Ask HN: Facebook Lookback implementation
5 points by dquail 13y ago|1 comments
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by dquail 13y ago
I'd love HN feedback on the deck as well - the good - the bad - for others to learn from.
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The investor deck I used to try to raise $1M(techvibes.com)
2 points by dquail 13y ago|1 comments
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by dquail 13y ago
There's various degrees of mixing family/money or in other words "doing business with family. Quitting your jobs, and taking out a loan to open a Tim Hortons (showing my Canadianism here) franchise together is a lot different
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by dquail 13y ago
Cue (shutdown), Don.na (pivoted), Tempo, Sunrise, Google Now, others. Fascinating space with a lot of competition. But has any of these products gotten close to a revenue model?
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by dquail 13y ago
cool. The rest of the system is Django so that'd be ideal. I'm not against a polyglot ... but prefer not having that level of complexity.
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Ask HN: Stanford NLP vs OpenNLP vs NLTK?
2 points by dquail 13y ago|4 comments
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by dquail 13y ago
I guess that's my point though. That "throwing it away" makes you completely unencumbered. There's value in that. Anything else comes with strings that make it really hard to move on ... even if that's emotionall
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by dquail 13y ago
I buy it. It's never that clean.
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by dquail 13y ago
I'd frame this as: "You get to choose 3 between: work, spending time with your children, exercising regularly, maintaining a house, domestic duties, having a social life." And I'd totally agree ... I choose work, childre

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