drongoking

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by drongoking 6y ago
That's an insanely broad brush. The mainstream press includes the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, and NPR. Please explain how they fabricate narratives, how they destroy the lives of those who accidentally
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by drongoking 6y ago
"Direct connections to the KKK" ? Did you read the article or his statement? He was 17 and fell in with white supremacists after/during an abusive childhood. If you want to dispute this account, fine, let's hear it.
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by drongoking 6y ago
Is this worth buying/borrowing if you already know programming languages but not Javascript? Or is there a better approach?
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by drongoking 6y ago
Chemistry, biology, botany, and geology are dead?
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by drongoking 6y ago
This whole article, and your agreement, rests on a false dichotomy. "Fallacy" implies learning about mental models is useless. No one said mental models replace experience any more than good notetaking can replace thought; but
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by drongoking 6y ago
I don't agree. Paisley is a well-known pattern type and some people really dislike it. "Shirt without paisley" is not a common request but its meaning is clear (if you do an image search for paisley you get lots of fabric im
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by drongoking 6y ago
"He developed a philosophy that assumed that the sun was the venerable source of all life, and since the coconut was the fruit that grows nearest the sun, it must be the most perfect food for people." That may sound comical, but I
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by drongoking 6y ago
Mendeley and Zotero are both free, but both have storage limits beyond which you have to pay (Zotero is 300M, Mendeley is 2G). If you only store references and annotations you'll likely never exceed those limits, but if you use them a
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by drongoking 6y ago
Knowledge discovery used to be a big part of ML, and the KDD conference included papers on association rules, clustering, rule learning, interpretable classifiers, etc. In my experience, even with predictive analytics the knowledge discove
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by drongoking 7y ago
My reaction too. They've reinvented genetic/evolutionary programming. They should probably read some of the decades of work that have already been done on it.
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by drongoking 7y ago
The word is commonly misused. What they probably mean is sympathy, but that isn't really right either. The correct word would be compassion or altruism. But /altruism/ is a word that sometimes sets people off.
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by drongoking 7y ago
As opposed to corporate bureaucracies? If you think the free market magically makes everything efficient and free of politics and bureaucracy, try spending some time in a big company. Remember this folks when voting for people who advocate
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by drongoking 7y ago
There's an odd jump in this narrative. PCA is indeed a great technique, but the essay goes from PCA to neural nets without explaining why. PCA was around for a long time before NNs and there are fast incremental ways to do it. Why both
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by drongoking 7y ago
At one point Microsoft would refuse to interview you unless you were their first and only choice. If you ever hinted you were considering other companies---interview over. Probably all the 900-pound gorilla companies go through that period
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by drongoking 7y ago
I'm surprised it's taken this long. There is no peer review to arXiv. If you've ever reviewed for a conference or a journal (10-30% acceptance rates) you've seen the "raw feed" of submitted papers and you rea
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by drongoking 7y ago
Any idea on how this compares with the other deep learning intro courses available?
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by drongoking 7y ago
> I actually do appreciate many forms of art, but I feel that many artist (that I know) are just a mixture of regurgitators and expert salesmen. They make something random, then come up with a backstory that makes it somewhat interesting
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by drongoking 7y ago
Good answers. (And I hadn't realized Apple was planning on getting rid of Python, Perl, and Ruby from default installs! Wow.)
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by drongoking 7y ago
Sure, but you can invoke nearly all languages (and write one-liners) at the command line, e.g.: python -c 'import sys; f=open(sys.argv[1]);print(len(f.readlines()))' .zshrc But I wouldn't recommend python as a good one-liner
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by drongoking 7y ago
As a long-time user of Prolog I didn't find the explanation so horrible. Unification is indeed like variable assignment in the constraint-satisfaction sense: bindings are not stateful. As for equality, I believe the author meant == r
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by drongoking 7y ago
This isn't "evolution in action" in any inevitable sense. This only happens if the consumer values up-front price over TCO. Admittedly, with emphasis on quarterly earnings, this is the path many companies have chosen, but i
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by drongoking 7y ago
You mean like the .excel command? "... causes them to accumulate output as Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) in a temporary file, then invoke the default system utility for viewing CSV files (usually a spreadsheet program) on the result. Th
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by drongoking 7y ago
Arguing that physics students don't understand equations very well is a poor way to make a point about GPT-2. GPT-2 fails at a much more basic level, and that's Marcus's point. Talk to a five year old for a while. The five-y
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by drongoking 7y ago
> it is astonishingly good at recognizing the _kind_ of answer that should be produced. The fact that it usually answers with a language here is a reflection of what it understands. And it behaves similarly for a whole range of different
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by drongoking 7y ago
Isn't this sort of what Glib is getting at? Bringing higher level data structures and capabilities (extendable arrays, hash tables, heaps, etc.) into C. https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-data-types
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by drongoking 7y ago
> So what really mattered was self-promotion, good timing, and luck. Yes. He seems like someone who is good at self-promotion and networking. Well, good for him, but I think he underplays the role these have in his success. > Why does
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by drongoking 7y ago
Sounds very interesting, but is there a more recent book covering similar material? This dates from 1957 and I suspect there is more to say about it now.
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by drongoking 7y ago
Sure, just not the abbreviation. "Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem." I shared the reaction, "wow, must've been glacially slow"
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by drongoking 7y ago
I think this statement satisfies a working definition of irony: about half the audience is in on the joke, and the other half earnestly believes it. I guess that's also true of trolling. Kudos, I suppose.
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by drongoking 7y ago
Whenever I see AI used for something like this, right after thinking "our dystopia is here," I wonder how it could be gamed. An experienced interviewer can tell when they're being told what they want to hear; I suspect an AI

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