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Do you know how to publicly comment? I couldn't find a way on the press release or their website.

It's actually not linear, its a power law. That means we need exponentially more compute, data, and model parameters to see linear improvements in performance.

Not to pour too much cold water on this, but the claim of 100% accuracy has a huge caveat. In the paper (Page 4) they state: Interaction. The original question may not be a prompt …

It looks like this is just Pilocarpine, which has been used for decades to treat glaucoma, available at pharmacies everywhere, and is commonly used (perhaps off label) to shrink pu…

While I sort of agree that machine learning will end up as an experimental science, it's way, way too early to say whether the theory relating deep learning to kernel methods (e.g.…

Another absolutely fantastic resource is this Jupyter Notebook based textbook on Kalman Filters and related topics: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt... …

Was there any statistically significant changes in compensation at each level based on more unique skills or more granular classifications of engineers? In particular I'm curious a…

My first ever internship in software engineering (in 2012) was in the MUMPS world! I worked on a project for a contracting company building an automated testing framework (in pytho…

In this specific case, it was probably further from the strike zone than the pitcher wanted. That said, pitchers throw balls often to see if hitters will swing at them, and some hi…

No, the position most definitely had absolutely nothing to do with longest path or combinatorial optimization. Anyway, my larger point is that what I've been seeing interviewing is…

I think that's fair. I've had both the former and the latter, but unfortunately most of my experiences fall into latter case, where it's simply been hoop jumping. Most of my friend…

I agree that this is "better" than the alternative, but it can be absolutely exhausting for candidates actively searching for a job. I feel like it's recently become much, much mor…

Two courses I've found are very good for Neural Networks & Deep Learning are Karpathy's CS231n from Stanford[0] and Nando de Freitas's Deep Learning class from Oxford[1][2]. Been t…

Is the Boston team and office part of The Echo Nest's in Somerville, or somewhere new?

If you design the system correctly, flickering should not be visible to the human eye. Obviously that depends on factors like clock rate of your transmission and your coding techni…

Fun read. Topic modeling can be fascinating to work with. Curious how they measured performance of their model, and whether they found a "best" number of topics for LDA where their…

How is this different from Covester ( http://covestor.com/ ), which has been around (and seemingly struggling) for awhile?

Nice read. I did something sort of similar with the same dataset about a year ago. I compared LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to TF-IDF as tools to find similar beers based on th…

The problem is that it's near impossible for a student to pay attention during longer classes. I think you're trying to measure accomplishing things by the amount of material you w…

I also experimented with it a few years ago trying to build an automated GUI testing framework, and it turns out that its way too fragile and non-portable to be usable for that use…

Here is a video from a year ago showing the virtual shrink in action (it may be an older version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejczMs6b1Q4

I'd be curious how the study measured 40 pages of reading each week. My guess is that most, if not all of my classes (Computer Engineering student) have > 40 pages of reading assoc…

It depends what kind of students you want to get. A lot of start ups can make that same argument and pay for the top quality talent (with more than a few thousand dollars). What I …

I would argue that a good portion of snapchats use happens in extended conversations (for example, flirting). Adding the ability to quickly drop into video to share something will …

This sounds like a great program, I just wish it was offered year-round. Even though I think Northeastern University and Waterloo are the only schools with a completely integrated,…