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dbecker

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About dbecker

I help companies use LLM's.

Formerly: Data Scientist at Google, VP Product at DataRobot, ran consulting engagements for 6 companies in Fortune 500. Created `Kaggle Learn`

Recent public activity

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    Comment #38666067

    > These ML-compilers are being overhyped. It's all the same trade-off as a traditional compiler Funny you should say that. Because traditional compilers have been incredibly useful…

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    Comment #37606604

    The people who build this all leave on October 15? What could possibly go wrong with that?

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    Comment #37410446

    Were you using the base model or the conversational model? The post says: The base model has no prompt format. Remember that it’s not a conversational model or trained with instruc…

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    Comment #36084129

    I've tried AutoGPT agents about 10 times for tasks that seem like they'd be a good fit. That meaning they need to scrape current data, but otherwise they'd be possible for a person…

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    Comment #35630470

    I tried this a few times about a month ago. It sounded cool, and the experience of using it was even better than I expected. I'm glad it was reposted so I get another chance at dev…

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    Comment #28156764

    > That’s actually exactly how vegetarian buffets work. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you don't visit many restaurants that advertise vegetarian buffets

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    Comment #26727997

    Streamlit is awesome. It's nicer than sending someone static results, and it isn't much more effort. And vastly better than sending a notebook to someone unless you expect them to …

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    Comment #25125556

    This is really nice work. If you had a mechanism to subscribe for future updates, I'd do it. Either way, this is cool stuff.

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    Comment #23723388

    The author starts with The data science world may reject me and my lack of both experience and a credential above a bachelors degree More likely the data science world will reject …

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    Comment #20518694

    If you send me an email (dan@kaggle.com) I'd love to set up a time to show you some mockups that may be the solution you are looking for.

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    Comment #19280388

    spaces.dev is still available, in case someone wants to buy it and redirect to something like tabs.com

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    Comment #16603817

    I haven't worked for an employer that's held that view since high school (when I bagged groceries). I'm skeptical any successful business treats high-skilled employees that way.

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    Comment #16483078

    But it's much cheaper than in-person lessons.

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    Comment #16247744

    I'm the lead on the Kaggle Learn project, and the author of the deep learning track. I'm happy to answer questions here. I agree with the commenter saying you need to do your own p…

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    Comment #16158399

    People make them (and even race) self-driving cars. Check out donkeycar.com

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    Comment #16117756

    It's disappointing to see links to the abstracts on the front page of HN (given the paper itself is behind a paywall). In this case, the find some non-zero effect, but call it zero…

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    Comment #16025943

    This article is talking about diversification to reduce risk, which is unrelated to "timing the market" and which can be consistent with passive investing.

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    Comment #15981812

    Yes and maybe.

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    Comment #15648169

    From tensorflow import keras Trivially simple example here: https://www.kaggle.com/dansbecker/transfer-learning-scratch-...

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    Comment #14895135

    This list seemed to miss almost all modern deep learning tools... with the exception of theano, for which the version info here is years out of date. But this small detail at the b…

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    Comment #14847575

    The host guarantee on AirBnb isn't as great as most people assume. We ate $1500 in damages on one of our first visitors, and we're off the platform now. The whole experience was a …

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    Comment #14781815

    Economic research can be roughly divided into three subfields: Macroeconomics, Micro theory, and Empirical Micro. The first 2/3 of an undergrad curriculum at most universities is a…

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    Comment #14614046

    The myth that you can build a billion-dollar business without some shady dealings needs to die Do you have an explanation for why Uber has been outed with so much more shadiness th…

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    Comment #14597912

    Wow, borrowing a Holocaust quote. You just compared good customer service to the largest genocide in human history.