jtmcmc

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by jtmcmc 3y ago
yes noted luddites like yoshua bengio and steve wozniak and elon musk...
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by jtmcmc 3y ago
considering the bent of this publication towards conservatives I think you are in fact getting it, you're just not primed for outrage
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by jtmcmc 4y ago
absolutely not...the amount of homophobia and racism and antisemitism and nationalism etc... was pretty intense compared to what you see in most parts of the current internet. IRC tended towards super edge humor and was a big piece of like
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by jtmcmc 4y ago
if you're already doing a job at a company that does this stuff, can you talk to people about wanting to change teams and learn?
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by jtmcmc 4y ago
This is definitely a take that ignores the massive amount of utility for ML that exists outside of generative images and NLP on the one hand and on the other vastly misrepresents the time it takes to understand a model, assuming one does no
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by jtmcmc 4y ago
This was one of the first books my advisor told me to read when I started my ML phd a...long time ago. The fundamentals of machine learning haven't changed and it's a great book.
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by jtmcmc 4y ago
Community
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by jtmcmc 5y ago
no it does not suggest either of those things
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by jtmcmc 5y ago
at the lower level - detecting senders trying to send spam is a big one as well as detecting sending / deliverability problems I'm not familiar with what mailchimp is actually doing with their marketing automation / analytics
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by jtmcmc 6y ago
makes you wonder why you couldn't just use bicalutamide which is super cheap relatively.
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by jtmcmc 6y ago
given the properly transformed space that may very well be true...
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by jtmcmc 6y ago
ah sigh, I too have some quotes in bash.org qdb.
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Neosensory Buzz: a haptic wristband for sensory expansion(neosensory.com)
33 points by jtmcmc 6y ago|2 comments
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by jtmcmc 6y ago
vacasa laid off a ton of people as well... trying to think of others.
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by jtmcmc 6y ago
It seems like he was just done - he's been CEO for a long time.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
really excellent article! I thoroughly enjoyed it :).
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
I use green text on a black background in my terminal.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
wow posts like this are what make HN still valuable. This was a really interesting look into this situation.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
yes we're supposed to fucking solve homelessness.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
"Liberalism" is the "hipsters" of modern leftist politics...
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
I escaped the south 16 years ago and I never want to fucking go back. Further the bay area is home to many unique cultures that are sadly seriously distressed thanks to the housing situation, yet tenaciously persist as best they can.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
yep yep yep this is very much it as well although if you recall it was also around the time when Andrew Ng at google was doing things with DL on massive amounts of computation on CPU with DL too.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
so you're saying that this study isn't useful because it confirms pre-existing theories? Do you believe that it is wrong because of specific issues with the experimental design or implementation or because you ideological dislike
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
>There is some good modern medicine, but the fixation on genes handicaps certain investigators. This isn't medicine - this is science. This isn't the development of a treatment but an attempt to understand biology. Genes are us
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
there are a lot of other uses for glass outside of this
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
so wanton destruction of the earth is fine as long as there are some positive benefits in the short term to Minneapolis?
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
So I believe it does that at best only imperfectly and further it's neither obvious that compensation should be derived in that fashion nor in my, and many others, opinions is it correct.
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
this boils down to "why should people be helped when _I_ had to suffer!"
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
this is not just synthesizing a chemical - this is using an engineered virus to deliver a newly functional gene. There is a reality here that these therapies are really fucking expensive to produce. If we want them to be cheap or free their
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by jtmcmc 7y ago
You literally bemoan identity politics. The catholic church certainly does not celebrate all kinds of diversity ;)

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