svdad

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by svdad 3y ago
The human-assisted aspect of AI development in general seems to be getting a lot more (well-deserved) attention recently. Google along with everyone else has depended on cheap human labor for data labeling for many years. The fact that Crui
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by svdad 10y ago
Congrats on your launch! Seems like a really slick product. Have you taken a look at https://cloud.google.com/ml/ ? I assumed you would have but didn't see anyone mention it in the comments. Do you see your product
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by svdad 13y ago
Not my experience at all. Video quality as far as I can tell is equivalent, and the Skype UX is miles better. Full screen with the little self-view monitoring window at the bottom -- great experience. My parents-in-law still can't figu
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by svdad 13y ago
LeapMotion might be the missing piece. Doesn't have haptic feedback, obviously, but it would be better than trying to type.
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by svdad 13y ago
What are you talking about? I have never been in a car that did have this little arrow. I just thought it was something you had to know. (Now I'll have to check my car tomorrow morning to be sure I haven't just been ignoring it
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by svdad 13y ago
Great point about not hiring jerks, and those are some excellent ideas about how to avoid it. Having worked with, and currently working with, that kind of jerk I've seen how destructive they can be.
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by svdad 13y ago
I barely even have time for the 3-6 technical interviews most companies want to do, let alone multiple days/WEEKS of "try out" period.
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by svdad 13y ago
No, it isn't. Unless you're saying you gained weight again while still eating the same diet , you solved the problem, you just failed at implementing the solution.
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by svdad 13y ago
Ok, let's read this closely. It doesn't seem to me like Larry and David are really denying much of anything. "Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data ce
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by svdad 13y ago
All the older people are, in fact, at Google. The average age of software engineers there is much higher than you might think.
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by svdad 13y ago
Nice pivot. I had the same idea myself about two years ago, and saw swole.me but thought it looked way to focussed on weight training users for a general audience. This looks much more widely useful.
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by svdad 14y ago
No. This is something you have to stop. Speaking from experience I know it is hard not to define yourself by the people around you, but it's deadly. What helped (and continues to help) me is this question: Do you want to be that person? As
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by svdad 14y ago
Yeah, that's awesome. What's so unusual about it to me is that when he was discouraged she didn't tell him to do something easier that would make him feel more immediately satisfied (by making money, providing for the family, etc.); she tol
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by svdad 14y ago
"See it through to completion" != "iron out bugs"
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by svdad 14y ago
> Put another way: for self-direction to work, the culture needs to rank improvements as highly as novelty. Possibly higher. Which it never does. At least, I have yet to experience or hear of a (software) engineering culture in which th
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by svdad 14y ago
> It's more about using previously tested blocks of language. Here's a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_clause Right; there's some cargo culting in legal writing. Until a particular form of words has been tested in
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by svdad 14y ago
There's no "right" or "wrong" about NK doing nuclear testing, although for convenience we might phrase it that way. We don't want them to have nuclear weapons because we believe they're a belligerent, unstable regime. Yes, we opened the can
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by svdad 14y ago
Absolutely. The alternatives -- OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Docs -- are all broken in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways, especially if you're a long-time Office power user. There really is nothing comparable to the Office suite when it comes
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by svdad 14y ago
> Do any of you have any experience with this? Um, YEAH. And just started seeing a counsellor about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with me (or you) but I want someone to talk to about it. I disagree with "Efforts taken at this
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by svdad 14y ago
And showing data for the week ending Jan 11 2014. CDC staying one step (year) ahead of Google.
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by svdad 14y ago
I hope his analysts are better than he is. This is shockingly insubstantial analysis coming from the CEO of Stratfor.
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by svdad 14y ago
I have to say, I think asking someone as deeply depressed as the OP to find the perspective to hear the stories of struggle amid the trumpeting of success is asking an awful lot. That's tough for anyone to do, never mind someone who is stru
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by svdad 14y ago
I thought it was just me. Really bugs my wife when she's trying to read something over my shoulder.
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by svdad 14y ago
Seconded. 20% time is still real, if you ask/push for it. If your idea fits somewhere under the broad umbrella of your group's mandate, so much the better. I have to disagree a little with one of the earlier points, though. Through start-up
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by svdad 14y ago
I think we'd all be better off if energy, rather than space or water, were the limiting factor.
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by svdad 14y ago
The feeling of seeing a sequence of random, unfamiliar locations, followed all of a sudden by a familiar street is really amazing. Especially if you type in the address of a street you haven't lived on for a long time.
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by svdad 14y ago
I must disagree -- in my experience, the jet/mud/arm analogy translates precisely into real life results. Also, should you find an additional paper pass to be necessary, you'll find it complicated by the fact that the area to be wiped is no
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by svdad 14y ago
> The pragmatic reason for having compulsory voting is to provide a better sample of what the population wants. In effect, to dilute the crazies. Yes. It forces the expression of weak preferences which otherwise wouldn't be expressed.
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by svdad 14y ago
Whether the race was close has nothing to do with how likely one side was to win. If there are 100 voters and I know with absolute certainty that 51 of them are die-hard republicans and 49 of them are die-hard democrats, I'm probably justif
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by svdad 14y ago
I think you're confusing probability of winning with winning margin. His 79.4% number is his estimate of the probability that Obama would win Virginia by any margin . I don't think it's correct to say he's "a little bit right" -- either hi

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