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I was recently swindled by a custom framing store (and by that I mean they delivered their advertised service at highway robbery prices). If I ever frame anything again, I will loo…

It's a pretty solid resume, but I've seen a dozen better ones that don't belong to billionaires... Unless... Sorry, gotta update my LinkedIn.

After having a little patience to digest the stuffy academic language I realized something: This is one of the craziest articles I have ever read. It is like the premise of a sci-f…

In my mind, the next big step will be the machine perception, specifically full scene understanding in vision. Computer vision has advanced very rapidly recently in sub-tasks like …

"You won't believe what the data about Buzzfeed clickbait reveals!"

How can someone be a "secret" genius if they are one of the most famous mathematicians of the 20th century and received the field's highest honor? I do not think that word means wh…

Even if his criticisms of coveillance are correct, I still think the world is headed that way. Simply put, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. We passed a similar threshold…

I use and enjoy the services that uber offers. That said, it uses dubious loopholes to evade the (misguided, anti-competitive) regulations taxi companies operate under. Letting ube…

I feel like I get this advice all the time. "Invest in Indexes" is ridiculously popular advice. I've also been exposed to portfolio theory in lots of academic literature. It's not …

Needs better transit for that to happen.

I'm calling his work on LeNet in 1998 pioneering. I'm not trying to disparage his current work.

Lecun's work on LeNet was pioneering, and basically set the template for deep learning. However, it's not as simple as him being "right all along"; incremental advances in neural n…

It was fought over states' right to maintain the constitutionality of slavery.

Where is the design?

You mean like https://angulardart.org/

The true value proposition of deep learning is not to avoid hand-coded features, but to make better use of scale in data and computational resources. More specifically, adding SIFT…

VCs deal in illiquid, information-asymmetric markets where prices are directly negotiated, capital is locked up for an extended period, and deals are large enough that investment i…

I guarantee the amount of time spent on traveling salesman problems at Uber is a miniscule fraction of all development time.

I know someone who intereviewed at Vicarious and came away unimpressed. That said, any company with an investment by a guy who can make his company buy it out is a good one to inve…

If Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt announced tomorrow that they would do everything in their power to prevent GOOG from EVER paying dividends, buying back stock, or sellin…