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Comment · 6 years ago
Going to prison for not doing your hw? And what does going to see a therapist have to do with anything? People with all kinds of problems go to a therapist.
Comment · 6 years ago
Same! I am looking to learn a low-level language and want to learn Rust due to all the things I have been hearing. However all the backend stuff (python)for deep learning is written in C++and nothing yet for Rust. I would love to avoid C++ as the language seems to have a lot of quirks and bugs that take time to get used (from what I hear) and these days I like efficient languages.

As far I know there aren’t any good computer vision libraries for Rust?

Comment · 6 years ago
This is a great post. Time is limited and you have to make sacrifices somewhere.
Comment · 6 years ago
Being sedentary seems to be really bad for you and programmers are the forefront of this as we spend lots of time motionless.

There seems to be correlations with major diseases as well as muscular skeleton pain. It’s not even 16 hours. Even 8 hours seems to be bad,(especially if it’s not spread out), since we live in a pretty sedentary world now.

I’ve been following these threads on hacker news as I want to prevent as much pain and diseases as I can.

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Comment · 6 years ago
I was looking around for a language to write my own versions of convolution layers or LTSM or various other ideas I have. I thought I would have to learn c++ and CUDA, which from what I hear would take a lot of time. Is this difficult in Julia If I would go through some courses and learn the basics of Julia?

This would really give me some incentive to learn the language.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yes! This is something I have noticed as well and it’s requiring a little rewiring of my brain.
Comment · 6 years ago
Pretty cool. What did use to create it?(currently learning web development)
Comment · 6 years ago
I’m primarily a windows user and am programming to create products. Since I don’t work a programmer job, my learning is unstructured. Is bash the main benefit of learning something like Ubuntu?

I have delayed making the switch because I have lot of things to learn (currently relearning math, testing out different deep learning architectures, and learning JavaScript (second language after Python)) and not sure if should prioritize learning it.

I still need to get better with GitHub which is something I clearly see the benefits of. Also need to get better with a text editor , using Visual Studio Code , mainly just for text completion in Python and JavaScript, so need to learn the additional benefits. Also want to test sublime text.

I see recommendations for vim, but I wonder if that will make me too twitchy and will start to type before thinking.

So due to the amount of things I am trying to learn, I have delayed learning Ubuntu.

I know Windows 10 now has built-in bash capabilities but I wonder if there are other benefits I am missing with Linux and worth learning.

Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks this is helpful to get started.
Comment · 6 years ago
It’s not loading for me on my iPhone so I only saw the image from readme: are you using that remote looking gadget to type? And monitor is the iPhone?
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah thought of this as well.
Comment · 6 years ago
Now I see why Jeff Bezos called him to run for president. Jeff also doesn’t believe in employees having bathroom breaks.
Comment · 6 years ago
Would companies have to worry about their proprietary code being seen and used in a not-so-obvious way?

If some start up is working on some novel ML algorithms, that has some nice demos out in the public showcasing their work, I wonder if these bigger companies would take a peek at the source code and use some ideas from the algos for their ml products. This would prevent start-up from expanding into other areas.

Comment · 6 years ago
I am new to this space but after reading about your goals for this AI, does this mean that most news sites are just copying facts off one other?

Secondly how does fact checking work in cases like this with AI? I would imagine fact checking would get progressively more difficult as more articles become AI generated.

My biggest fear is, we will have one AI generating a fake story and and acting as the root node, then other AIs creating news off those this node and we will have fake stories spread in various forms like branches creating misinformation.

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