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by oneshot908 7y ago
And even as an employee, if you tell them over and over again that customers keep asking for that feature, they disagree with you over and over again.
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Time is the only nonrenewable resource. And you just lost some reading this response. Act accordingly.
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by oneshot908 7y ago
I know of a team at an AI-oriented company that uses Reinforcement Learning to find cheats and exploits in 2600 games as their happy hour activity. No need to work late (though one could), just start that training run and hope for the best.
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Not remotely true. TPUs and GPUs are neck in neck with each other right now w/r to overall efficiency, check out https://mlperf.org/press#mlperf-training-v0.6-results for more details. GPU advantage: more refined ecosy
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Also agreed, when hedge funds don't silo their quants, instead of seeing 50 different strategies from 50 quants, they get 50 variants of the same strategy, source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119482089&
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by oneshot908 7y ago
You might want to look into the story of Harris Fogel. He was a tenured professor who was unceremoniously terminated for seemingly correctable or even unintentional behavior. He's suing. https://www.insidehighered.com/
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by oneshot908 7y ago
I think your understanding of the tech industry is rather unlike mine. I have been a manager previously and there is quite a bit of documentation and process involved in terminating anyone, so much so that a lot of really bad apples can ju
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by oneshot908 7y ago
That business card is wildly inappropriate I agree and I love the bit about the plants. Is there a story I'm missing here where complaints were filed and nothing was done? That would change my viewpoint 180 degrees here if so. Becaus
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by oneshot908 7y ago
That's one of the purposes of HR. Watch any corporate harassment training video if you don't believe me. TLDR: the accusation of harassment is 100% determined by the accuser. The determination of whether harassment occurred OTOH
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by oneshot908 7y ago
You assemble the evidence before as impartial a committee as you can, and you let them make the decision. I think in this case Stallman is an offensive personality who says offensive things on company time using company equipment. That&#x
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Without "due process" Trial by Twitter(tm) is going to end like the Reign of Terror at the end of the French Revolution. Stallman had said more than enough to merit his termination IMO, but he still deserved due process before suc
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by oneshot908 7y ago
The California Assembly recently passed AB-1482 which will lead to statewide rent control if signed by the governor. I personally believe more in increasing the supply than attempting to control the existing supply, but no matter what, sig
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by oneshot908 7y ago
That discussion was reasonably settled a very long time ago and court cases established reasonable laws around it. Then one side demanded a do-over, in much the same way they are seeking do-overs for a lot of previously seemingly settled i
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by oneshot908 7y ago
I quite enjoyed the cognitive dissonance of the PETA director being a Type 1 Diabetic. https://www.humanewatch.org/person/mary_beth_sweetland/
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by oneshot908 7y ago
That's what robot lovers are for silly goose!
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Yes, you got it. I made up the "Dark Tower" remark because they sat the Google+ team on the top floor of the only semi-highrise on the main Mountain View campus. This separated them both literally and figuratively from the rest
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by oneshot908 7y ago
I was an IC6 at Google when Google+ launched... From my perspective, I think partitioning the Google+ team into their own Dark Tower with their own super-healthy cafeteria that was for them and their executives alone was the biggest problem
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by oneshot908 7y ago
Imagine a world where low information sorts interpret a sampling of possible hi-res reconstructions from low-res security videos as ground truth. That to me is far scarier than the OpenAI and MIRI fear-mongering about GPT-2.
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by oneshot908 7y ago
I relocated out of the bay area in 2016-2017 and it was the happiest year of my adult life. I think Silicon Valley has a zero sum culture and having returned here for personal reasons but otherwise against my best judgment, I cannot wait t
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by oneshot908 7y ago
On the contrary, I think this is one of the biggest emerging blockades to progress in ML/AI research, especially in academia. It has always been more cost-effective to run ML algorithms on consumer HW such as GeForce GPUs and gaming
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by oneshot908 8y ago
In my experience so far, "Amazon's Choice" is rarely what I'd choose. So I'd guess by now that its value (probably calculated using some sort of ML model trained on sales data) has been gamed to death by motivated
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by oneshot908 8y ago
Who's going to connect this to CleverBot and let the hilarity ensue?
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by oneshot908 8y ago
How do sponsored products now topping organic search results, comingled fulfillment centers mixing real with counterfeit items, and dropping keywords to add inaccurate results to spearfishing queries serve to put the customer first, especia
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by oneshot908 8y ago
Sure, that's a nice approximation, and it will reduce performance somewhat IMO, it'd be nice to quantify how much, no?
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by oneshot908 8y ago
The failure rate of GeForce is higher than Tesla (though it's not that much worse in my experience these days). OEMs worked around this by burning the GPUs in for a couple days running HPC or DL code before sending them out to custome
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by oneshot908 8y ago
Indeed, off-topic, but I find it fascinating that I can buy a year of Kosher, Vegan, Gluten Free Survival Food on Amazon from ~$1469. https://www.amazon.com/NorthWest-Fork-Gluten-Free-Emergency-... That drops to $1149 if I
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by oneshot908 8y ago
What are those performance limitations, really? Memory? Because if you can spread your model across multiple GPUs, and you've implemented Krizhevsky's One Weird Trick to switch between reducing the smallest of either parameters o
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by oneshot908 8y ago
It's been this way since day 1. NVLINK remains the only real Tesla differentiator (although mini NVLINK is available on the new Turing consumer GPUs so WTFever). But because none of the DL frameworks support intra-layer model paralle
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by oneshot908 8y ago
In 2007, I had an architect design the outside both for aesthetics and to smooth negotiating with the Santa Cruz mafia planning department, but his floor plans were abysmal, and I would have hated life, stubbing my toes daily. So I took ove
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by oneshot908 8y ago
1. Yes 2. No, what are you smoking? I want some. A "viable" Holodeck is a technology sufficiently advanced compared to the present day so as to be indistinguishable from magic. Ergo, no Holodeck anytime soon. No Arnold Judas Ri

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