mrmaximus

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by mrmaximus 9y ago
+1 For real world business problems that I most frequently encounter doing consulting, it's hard to beat Random Forests and/or Gradient Boosting. Truth be told, most business problems I encounter turn out to be largely helped by g
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by mrmaximus 9y ago
I'd settle for figuring out how to send an email to a previous point in time. I'd like to email myself in 2009. Something about buying a bunch of ASIC's and mining something for a long-term hold.
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by mrmaximus 9y ago
With a little luck, in about two months we'll finally get to watch Shazam again.
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by mrmaximus 9y ago
Mark is also the that recently tweeted a picture indicating that he as working through an "into to python for machine learning" book. He may have been successful in tech 25 years ago, but I don't place a premium on his opinio
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by mrmaximus 9y ago
This guy is just trying to tout his own product. That aside, Kaggle can be quite useful for learning... at least it used to be. Kaggle got me into machine learning 2-3 years ago and now it is about 50% of my job in consulting. Problem is, K
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by mrmaximus 9y ago
I think this is because at it's core, the math behind deep learning is pretty simple and there's not much of it. Linear algebra, some simple activation functions and gradient descent. Implementing a net from scratch in python is p
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
Short answer is that their employment contracts probably don't allow them to sue. Almost all employment contracts contain binding arbitration agreements now.
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
My "Fake News" comment aside, I think what y'all are doing could be transformational for many reasons. Imagine a scenario where a person loses a loved one, and similar technology is able to allow them to "have conversati
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
>The top two are representative of what it sounds like when doing true text to speech. The middle five are just resynthesis of a clip saying the exact same thing. Gotcha, now I understand.
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
Based upon what little is posted there, I thought they were taking the original recording, then training the model on that recording against the text of the recording... reproducing the recording. I would think next step is to sample enough
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
Interesting. They are not TTS like we are accustomed to, they are replicating a specific persons voice with TTS. Listen to the ground-truth recordings at the bottom and then the synthesized versions above. "Fake News" is about to
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
As already mentioned, they do have Windows VM's but there are some caveats that indicate it's not fully baked yet. 1.) They require that each VM MUST have a public IP address so that Windows can talk to an activation server every
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
czep, even though I don't agree with much of what you wrote (in the article), I do appreciate you taking the time to so thoroughly expound on the ideas. Paul Graham most likely fell victim to projection of a Libertarian ideal when he v
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
And I forgot to add above: I am sorry for the loss of your friend. When a friend dies in a freak accident, there is at least the comfort that you probably could have done nothing. When someone commits suicide your mind turns endlessly looki
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
You specifically asked how you could use your technology skills to help people. First though, there are two kinds (at least) of depression. One is the normal kind where you feel blue when things go wrong in life. This is normal and it shoul
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
> I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me. The only way that will happen is if Point-of-Sale systems become so complex that a developer has to run them, or development becomes as easy as p
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
"Why am I getting reprimanded?" "Because you ran a unit test..." "What is wrong with that?" "It's Brian's job to press that key, not yours. You violated Union rules"
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
Yup, I see 8-10 hours of real use since 10.12.3
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
"Trump's huge unpopularity right now shows..." After watching what happened with the election, I don't think it's safe to say Trump is unpopular. Sure the mainstream media and loud social media voices say so, but th
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by mrmaximus 10y ago
Ask yourself this: Is there a market for database developers that don't have a PH.D in Relational Algebra? "AI" will be democratized very quickly just like data (SQL, Excel, etc.) has and solving business problems with techno