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by teekno 7y ago
> Ambient jungle noises I like this.
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by teekno 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Schwarzman building has unrestricted internet without needing to jump through any hoops--just connect to the wifi and you're good to go. I don't _know_ that the uni is shipping a vpn, but...
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by teekno 7y ago
With high probability, the links on the website are outdated. I'm an international student at Tsinghua, and a lot our lot of English web presence is stale. Both of the official instagram [1] and facebook [2] accounts have posts from wi
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by teekno 7y ago
Let's not use the American police systems as a measuring stick.
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by teekno 8y ago
"Affiliate links to all mentioned AI and Machine Learning books that I could find on Amazon" FTFY
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by teekno 8y ago
> well trained and well behaving dogs Ever dog owner has the most well trained and best behaving dog.
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At least 4500 reviewers needed for NeurIPS 2019(medium.com)
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by teekno 8y ago
Summer 2019 Internships Location: San Francisco Bay Area, USA / Beijing, China Remote: Open to remote work Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS, ... Résumé/CV: https://
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Bayesian Optimization in AlphaGo improves self-play win-rate from 50% to 66.5%(arxiv.org)
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by teekno 8y ago
I'm not sure if it counts as recent, but you should absolutely read The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I also really enjoyed The Nexus Trilogy by Ramez Naam.
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by teekno 8y ago
> referrals, it cuts all the bullshit Referrals get one out of the internet-resume-void, but you still go through the standard interview process, right? I've always seen referrals as a "guaranteed shot at the interviews coding
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Map shows how different neighborhood characteristics predict child “success”(opportunityatlas.org)
3 points by teekno 8y ago|0 comments
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by teekno 8y ago
Woo! Another pi to add to my collection of unused pis.
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Ask HN: How do you read research papers?
2 points by teekno 8y ago|0 comments
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ZhuSuan: python probabilistic programming library for Bayesian deep learning(zhusuan.readthedocs.io)
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by teekno 8y ago
One step closer to Marc's political ambitions
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by teekno 8y ago
I love her music! And that she went to Bryn Mawr. Go Tri Co!
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by teekno 8y ago
I'm very interested in (applied) AI research positions but wasn't quite prepared to commit 5-8 years to a PhD program. In order to validate my interest in research, I've enrolled in a two year Computer Science Master's p
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by teekno 8y ago
I'm moving to China in a week for graduate school and have been asking myself many of these questions :) In past trips to China, VPN services--specially Express VPN--allowed me to easily bypass the Great Firewall. That unlocks Twitter,
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by teekno 8y ago
I'm under the impression that you need to opt-in to any research studies that would use your genetic info (though I'm not 100% sure).
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by teekno 8y ago
> I don't want to spread FUD but why would ANYONE in their right mind give their DNA to a company in Silicon Valley that is explicitely using Google as a model for Data privacy ? My father has Parkinson's and provided his DNA t
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by teekno 9y ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16268152
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by teekno 9y ago
I was shocked to read that the gut microbiome's gene set is about 150 times larger than the human gene complement [1]. I don't know a ton about microbiology, but it seems like that wouldn't drastically increase the time to se
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by teekno 9y ago
I don't follow. Progressivism advocates for the general improvement of society. This applies to both technological advances and social reform. Why not modernize social structure, infrastructure, and technology simultaneously? That shou
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by teekno 9y ago
Tech-driven transplants strike me as a related but slightly separate issue. Yes, they make up a large portion of the recent influx and gentrification needs to be addressed. I don't have a good solution for this and it deserves a lot of
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by teekno 9y ago
After capkutay's and anonfunction's comments, I disagree with me too, haha
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by teekno 9y ago
But yes, it's not particularly beautiful or original
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by teekno 9y ago
I'm neither an architect nor a designer, but my gut reaction is that you can only get so creative at 1,070′. Without any evidence to back this up, I'm going to say that physics will force most skyscraper designs to converge.
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by teekno 9y ago
A recent trip to Hong Kong really highlighted San Francisco's inability to handle a rising population density. As of mid-2014, HK's population was 7.24 million across the Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories [1]. The main Isla
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by teekno 9y ago
"next big thing" == "next pump 'n' dump"

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