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RIP Aravind Joshi(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
3 points by incan1275 9y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Ng unveils Landing.ai(venturebeat.com)
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Summary on Interpretable AI Debate at NIPS 2017(twitter.com)
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by incan1275 9y ago
This feels more the fault of local government that just lets large tech companies have their way. If you read this: https://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=52550473 you'll see that their post does not mention the housing situat
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New Android phone crushes iPhone X in speed test(bgr.com)
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by incan1275 9y ago
It was for us. Things we use it for: - Using it as a timer for cooking in the kitchen. - For music at home. - Listening to weather reports and news in the morning before we head out for work. Before Alexa, we used our phone for all the abov
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Deep learning and differential privacy(github.com)
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by incan1275 9y ago
Happen to know that is the work of the eBay team in New York. Really great engineers in that lab.
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MIT Turing laureates propose creation of School of Computing(thetech.com)
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A Formal Semantics of SQL Queries, Its Validation, and Applications [pdf](vldb.org)
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by incan1275 9y ago
He has some great points about SIGMOD/VLDB reviewing - they emphasize far too much on "algorithmic novelty", instead of impactful simple systems. However, in terms of graph processing, I too think in many instances, single ma
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by incan1275 9y ago
Seriously, using Google search trends isn't the best way to analyze usage or popularity. GitHub stats (assuming they are publicly available), would be much better.
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Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona(uanews.arizona.edu)
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by incan1275 9y ago
Currently halfway through: Emperor of all Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Amazing portrait and biography of cancer. It outlines the history of cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries and the drugs use to treat so many patients who gave their liv
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by incan1275 9y ago
Such bad journalism. Creating one's own language is not even trivial, and it seems Facebook did it in a flash. For more perspective on what the engineers intended: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296&
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by incan1275 9y ago
I would say don't be too hard on yourself. It's difficult to find something you're passionate about and have it practically used by many people. The best thing you could do is actually work on side projects related to your pa
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Expertise vs. Punditry(crookedtimber.org)
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by incan1275 9y ago
I share the author's frustration with wikipedia sometimes - people usually go to wikipedia for a distilled, comprehensible description of the subject matter. What he quoted was certainly not comprehensible, even to someone well-educate
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Silicon Valley Wants to Reinvent the Democratic Party with a Group Called “WTF”(fortune.com)
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by incan1275 9y ago
Yonatan Zunger posted a really awesome piece about the origins of insurance, that complements this nicely. https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...
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by incan1275 9y ago
To be fair, they are upfront in the beginning about not being able to adhere to an exactly-once model. "In the past three months we’ve built an entirely new de-duplication system to get as close as possible to exactly-once delivery&quo