dbhattar
Joined 11 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Not sure why you would create a throwaway account to post this invaluable information.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is good to have insurance. I have one. But when I was trying to reach a doctor during the weekend because I had bad cough and was very worried, I couldn’t get through. The line was overloaded. At that time it hit me that, in case of emergency, different set of rules apply. Having insurance becomes almost irrelevant.
Comment · 6 years ago
My point is no matter whether you have insurance or not, if hospitals are overloaded, you will not be treated. Just look at situation in Italy.
Comment · 6 years ago
I know it is politically correct nowadays to diss US healthcare system. But in the current pandemic, it is more about government preparedness. If you let an exponentially infectious pandemic run wild without any curtailing mechanism, no matter how sophisticated the healthcare system is, it is bound to get overwhelmed.
Comment · 6 years ago
I came across this tweet from Stephen Schwartz which he posted after the global health security team was disbanded by John Bolton:
https://twitter.com/atomicanalyst/status/994696175575068672?...
“When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of US citizens and others, this decision by John Bolton and Donald Trump will be why.”
And he links to the following article.
The tweet is creepily prescient.
Comment · 6 years ago
I only see the ‘Buy’ option. How do you get the free access?
Comment · 6 years ago
Even though it says it supports 100 languages, I cannot find the list of supported languages. I am mostly trying to find out if it supports Indic languages.
Comment · 9 years ago
I am going to have to go through [1] referenced in the post.
[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.6...
Comment · 11 years ago
I would also add http://mmds.org/ in the list. Link to the book is 'http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf.
Comment · 11 years ago
I have found http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/ to be very good. It uses Python and Theano.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is indeed a very courageous decision on AA's part to leave a secure job at Facebook to join D Foundation. But I am pretty sure, if at some point in future AA decides, FB will be very happy to have him back.
Comment · 11 years ago
I didn't see anything definitive in the article. Didn't go through the videos though. The takeaway seems to be if you can play music to the point of causing pain ('musician's high', may be), then your brain probably is different.
Isn't that true for any field, musical or non-musical?
Comment · 11 years ago
When a report comes out purely based some unnamed sources without any hard evidence, I am always suspicious irrespective of whether it is about US, European, Russian companies.
Comment · 11 years ago
We have started seeing a lot of bad publicity and innuendos targeted toward Kaspersky after they uncovered and published about hacking attack against their infrastructure in recent past. Feels suspicious to me especially with comments attributed to 'former employees'.
Comment · 11 years ago
My attitude had always been "if it is grades people want, they will get it" i.e. to get good grades that will help me go up the ladder academically while at the same time keeping in mind that the grades are not going to help me in the real world.
This pushed me to learn continuously because at the end of the day, it is what you know and what you can do that counts rather than your grades.