spongepoc

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by spongepoc 6y ago
The market economy in fact solves many problems of 'helping other people' that we have just become so used to that we don't appreciate its complexity. The fact that food is produced in abundance and is distributed in time to
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by spongepoc 6y ago
I think this analysis is completely spot on. Personally, I have had the same thoughts for about a year and I have just switched from a 'pure' ML/DS' to exactly the hybrid engineering style role you describe.
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by spongepoc 6y ago
People placed a lot more 'art' into their speech than people nowadays. You hear it in the old English of England as well with the particularity of enunciation. Speech was the main interface of communication compared to today&#x27
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by spongepoc 6y ago
>Rewriting history is the power of China's censorship system and media control. It's a pretty scary thing actually. Circling back to space, this is a fundamental reason why China will struggle to make advances in space once the
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by spongepoc 6y ago
>Maybe someone knows the history? You'll need to look up shinjitai, which consists of the simplified characters adopted in Japan, which are different to the ones used in China.
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by spongepoc 6y ago
It trickles down by the fact that we all get to enjoy the fruits of technological advances without having to redo the hard work of inventing it. But there's no inherent reason why it should tricke down in income terms.
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by spongepoc 6y ago
We are facing record unemployment so people are having this happen to them across the board. The people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic but are struggling to find work because of the abundance of H-1B holders also "haven't
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by spongepoc 6y ago
The market always prevails over the state. Private schools can only charge as much as the demonstrated quality of their product while the state as the default option is not accountable to anyone because those who can afford better can escap
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by spongepoc 6y ago
That wasn't really my point, but go off I guess
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by spongepoc 6y ago
In that case, you should read about this hilarious map called the Mercator projection...
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by spongepoc 6y ago
The assumption that China will become the world's most important market is extremely wrong-headed. Their government is incredibly fragile and the world saw this with the outpouring of dissent on WeChat during the COVID outbreak. China
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by spongepoc 6y ago
If you've been following the field at all (i.e. who the paper is aimed at), the sentence is obvious and non-controversial. There have been many tasks where deep learning has even exceeded human performance (a stronger claim than that s
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by spongepoc 7y ago
Trump's shutdown of Huawei is a tactical blinder. I can see no move China can make in response that won't end up harming them more than it will the US. China's mercantilist trade policy of the past 40 years is coming back to
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by spongepoc 7y ago
>I work in this field and I flatly reject that the purpose of a ‘business intelligence’ team Good job the article is about data science and not business intelligence then. Cool the feigned indignant outrage please.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
Oh look it's the daily 'look how inadequate you are for not doing this unnecessary leet thing' post.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
TensorFlow isn't a DeepMind project
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by spongepoc 8y ago
This comment exemplifies everything wrong with Hacker News today. 1. It's smug and self-indulgent 2. It doesn't add anything new or informative 3. Boring standard whining
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by spongepoc 8y ago
>CLT talks about sampling from the population infinitely. It doesn't say anything about diminishing returns. I don't get how you go from sampling infinitely to diminishing returns. Yes it does. It even implies it in the name &#
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by spongepoc 8y ago
Because it is becoming apparent that China is now the main threat to the West.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
The west has culturally moved into a kind of foodie Epicureanism in the past 15 years. This can be seen as a response to economic pressures that young people are facing. When you can't afford a home or a car, you give up on it altogeth
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by spongepoc 8y ago
The US doesn't wish to overthrow the democratic west, however.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
We need to weaponise our education system against them. Full tuition for humanities; total restriction of access to science and technology programs. This will cultivate liberalism, democracy and dissent amongst Chinese students which would
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by spongepoc 8y ago
>From the plot we can see that the real stock price went up while our model also predicted that the price of the stock will go up. This clearly shows how powerful LSTMs are for analyzing time series and sequential data. Yes I've not
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by spongepoc 8y ago
High quality talent are attracted to elite cities because other high quality talent is already there. It's easier to hire and retain the top 1% of engineers in an elite city because they're already working for other top companies.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
If Obvious hadn't been successful with their goals, Robbie would not (and did not) care a bit that his work was being used. It only became contentious when they were able to raise a lot of money. It's funny.
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by spongepoc 8y ago
It's hard to see where anyone is being 'taken advantage' of here. If you put your code on github with an open license, you are letting people to have their way with it. This is like if Tim Berners Lee were mad that Google &#x