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Until yesterday I was using a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 running Ubuntu 22.04. It was an awful combination (microphone didn't work, nubbin stopped working, touchpad had to be replac…

I used to work as a SWE at Google, and we sometimes "joked" that the process ("here's a list of computer science topics, we expect you to know all of them, take as long as you want…

I dropped out of PhD school, and I have a more interesting life than most of my friends who stayed. :)

I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.

The language model is GPT-2 (small). The underlying library is called "pytorch-pretrained-BERT" because initially it just contained an implementation of BERT, but now it contains i…

AllenNLP dev here. We're going to do a "PyTorch 1.0" release of AllenNLP next week, and then after that we're planning to investigate how to incorporate the new "production" aspect…

You can find people pushing back against this in America. My daughter, for instance, attends a Sudbury School, where the kids make the rules and decide how to spend their own time:…

I went through this same thought process a few years ago. I basically gave myself a crash course in CS and engineering and "reinvented" / positioned myself as a software engineer. …

I interviewed at Amazon (bad experience), got rejected (long story), and then TWO MONTHS LATER got contacted by an Amazon recruiter: "We need people like you!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, I made it about 5 days in this year and then quit because I wasn't having fun. Too many of the problems had the structure: * here's Part A * submit solution for Part A * OK, …

So "political detox week" lasted like an hour?

I think it looks like a cool series of books. I also hate that you describe it as "free to read" but then require me to give you access to my Twitter account in order to read it. I…

I also hate slide decks that do that. I literally went through this one left to right and thought "wow, that was a really high level overview". Only then I realized I had to hit do…

Yeah, secretly I was surprised that it worked as well as it did!

As will clicking any of the links on one of the generated page.

Confession: I am guilty of this. Well, sort of. I actually did write a book, and it did sell more than 3 copies, and now I put "best selling author" on my resume, on account of my …