kylevedder

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Applying to CS PhD programs for Machine Learning: what I wish I knew(vedder.io)
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by kylevedder 3y ago
Related: I recently wrote a blog post about using docker to containerize my ML research dev environments -- I've never found another way to make properly reproducible dev environments. http://vedder.io/misc/researc
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by kylevedder 3y ago
It's stupid sour grapes comments like this that make me hate HN commenters. Meta and Google have both contributed an enormous amount to open source (creating PyTorch, TensorFlow, Chromium, contributing to clang/LLVM, Linux kernel,
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My ML research development environment workflow(vedder.io)
1 points by kylevedder 3y ago|0 comments
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by kylevedder 3y ago
Using the existence of regulation as proof that the regulation is needed is circular reasoning.
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Humans give explanations that other humans find convincing, but they can be totally wrong and non-causal. I think human explanations are often mechanistically wrong / totally acausal. As a famous early example, this lady provided an un
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by kylevedder 4y ago
What? They want their bottom line to decrease, not increase. The fastest way to increase their bottom line is to cut costs.
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Are you trolling?
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by kylevedder 4y ago
I've spent a significant amount of time playing with the variety of Diffusion models available and DALLE 2 tends to produce much better quality images. The other killer feature is DALLE 2 has support for in-fill.
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>without government intervention you end up usually with a monopoly or oligopoly. I would love to hear your explanation of how government intervention is the only thing preventing a monopoly or oligopoly of plumbers, electricians, pet gr
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by kylevedder 4y ago
I don't see why you can't add guardrails to things like subpoenas -- it's not like they are allowed to engage in aggressive subpoenaing of non digital info without a due process procedure, just make the digital one more rigor
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by kylevedder 4y ago
There's a free market of platforms without subpoena power, and people time and time again choose the free platforms powered by ads. I'm in the overwhelming majority with my statement when you look at people's revealed prefere
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Copy and paste from elsewhere because it's the same talking point over and over: big tech is not the government , and your complaint is with the government. The FBI could just as easily setup a StingRay network [1] and capture all cel
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by kylevedder 4y ago
People continue to flock to new, free, targeted ads powered platforms. Look at the enormous growth of TikTok in the US; it has exploded well after the discussion on targeted advertising entered the American zeitgeist (Cambridge Analytica ha
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Your complaint is with the government, not Google. The FBI could just as easily setup a StingRay [1] and capture all cell information. The only protection against that is robust digital civil rights legislation protecting Americans from gov
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>nobody can compete with free Yes you can, just make yours also free and put up ads like DuckDuckGo. >the amount of money being earned by said advertising is private. Google is a publicly traded company with a legal obligation to disc
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by kylevedder 4y ago
They already did. People vote with their feet and attention, and people continue to flock to free services powered by targeted ads, systematically out competing services that had other models. If you don't like these services, don&#x27
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>It all goes into profiles that most definitely have an impact on you in real life Such as? I might add the initial discussion was about Google tracking ads but I'm curious to hear what you have to say about these down market tracke
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Google making ad auctions more efficient and "state surveillance" aren't the same thing. Did you legitimately not know this or are you being intellectually dishonest in your argumentation?
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>wholesale sale of data to anyone You know Google doesn't do this, right? Besides being against their own terms of service (and outright illegal), they're economically incentivized not to ; they use the data to make their ad
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>But that just means the novel representations are a step forward, just not the whole solution. No. The part where people argue Google is collecting a lot of data is sound. The part that's missing is why is this bad . No chart, no
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by kylevedder 4y ago
>If you couldn't make money from ads like now, there'd be way less SEO This is just nonsense. If there were no ads, hyperoptimized SEO would only be more important because it's the only way for you as a web admin to surf
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by kylevedder 4y ago
And you think that complaining about tech companies , companies owned by share holders who have no particular obligation to satiate the complaints of non-shareholders, is a more rational strategy to achieve the outcomes you want? Let'
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by kylevedder 4y ago
A lot of AV companies bootstrapped their maps off of OpenStreetMaps -- it's great anything is free, but they kind of suck. The "cost" of a company using info about me to run more efficient ad auctions is totally worth the b
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by kylevedder 4y ago
I wholesale reject the following: 1) Big tech colluded with government, and got nice advantages for their participation with the surveillance system -- they're getting raked over the coals at dog and pony show anti trust hearings. 2) c
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by kylevedder 4y ago
The police asked for stuff and the company complied and now you're upset that the government has it, but somehow it's actually Google's fault? Pass laws so your government can't do things you don't like. >If you
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by kylevedder 4y ago
You're asserting that's not how they work, but you're also asserting they're illegally subsidizing their search and maps business with... the revenue they generate from selling ads space on their search and maps business
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by kylevedder 4y ago
The Snowden leaks were about NSA data collection. Last I checked the NSA was not a tracking ads powered big tech company. Also I hope you realize pointing me to an entire metaverse of memes is not an argument. If this corpus is so massive
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by kylevedder 4y ago
Their other businesses being what search or maps? Those are ads properties. You could setup competitors that also serve ads.
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by kylevedder 4y ago
The target audience for my comments are the hundreds of people reading and not commenting. If you're casually reading the comments, without a foil of reasonability, I think it's easy to get sucked into implicitly accepting the pre

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