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For me there is one thing that works so much better than anything else: new goals. To the end of my PhD, that meant to just suckt it up and finish the work despite low motivation a…

If I think of myself as a user, that is spot on for information/entertainment, but far from the truth for products. The most extreme examples being everyone using "$THING Wikipedia…

How exactly could this be done reliably? With shorts you have to commit to a timeframe for not only finding evidence to reject the claim but also for the news to break and convince…

There may be a lot of uncerntainty in Data Science and ML projects. However, recently I started feeling like I actually have it better than someone from pure software engineering s…

I really wonder about the charging infrastrucuture. I guess it is doable and a necessary transmission, but I am a bit afraid it may be the next thing some countries are sleeping on…

Zalando seems really nice. I have no connections at all, but they really won me as a loyal customer because I really prefer the experience over all alternatives (especially includi…

Mostly doing several kinds of NLP: My actual setup is a Windows Laptop to SSH into Linux machines w/ tmux session. However, I really appreciate WSL for working offline, etc. My mai…

While there may be several things missing for many productive use cases (especially inserts/updates), I think QLever ( https://github.com/ad-freiburg/QLever ) fits that description…

We're actually using fastai in production and will happily switch to v2. Sure, there are serious questions about long-term stability and we know these projects will be high mainten…

We have had "good" (maybe not BERT/XLNet'ish levels of quality) results using ULMFit. I.e., on almost all problems we got better results than our previous best approaches (mostly L…

Imho it has gone further. In a way, all the things described as not actually AI now "are" AI, because the term AI has been used in that way so many times. I don't think we'll ever …

> The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race. I would expect that this will remain a per-task question f…

Serious question by someone who's not into this kind of stats too much: What would happen if you took a big set of Facebook profiles and train some (the same if you wanna) CNN to c…

Imho, it's more typical of machine learning. Sure, both can be very similar and are often signs of a lack of deeper understanding. I'm no ML expert by any means, but I've seen seve…

As a user that probably contributes a lot to the trends observed in the article, I think I can explain my user-behavior pretty well. I really need about ~5 apps on my phone (browse…

Yes, that was what i was looking for, thanks. I was interested in details on the evaluation and why the Stanford parser is still widely accepted as state-of-art, especially by non-…

I couldn't find any publication on the RedShift system that is part of the author's current work. Any pointers?

as someone who does very, very little on the side of frontends, i think your time is still invested into a transferable skill that i miss out on: (frontend) framework design, parad…

So which hit should google show for a query like "the fox lyrics"? Of course, it should be a page that contains the lyrics, but which one? The most popular one? The one shown by go…

I'm currently a C++ programmer that does not intend to change to go because I want to have exquisit control. However, this is not because of my views or something like that but bec…

The HN headline is somewhat misleading. It is different from the original article and I was expecting some neat techniques to overcome the typical memory issues: Everything is an o…

While peer review is flawed in so many ways and neither all papers accepted at top conferences are good, nor all good papers get accepted, it has still some meaning. When deciding …

My peers often work from home. Personally, I rarely do it because I like the different environment for productivity. At home there is always distraction. While it certainly is a go…

Why is this supposed to be such a big deal? The second example uses the language's features to be able to use shorter code. Usually there are countless possibilities for the exact …

let's say you write a search engine, a route planning system, a database, rule-based NLP (for most ML-based approaches fast, native math libs + python may be great enough because n…