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marshallp
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About marshallp
Freelance developer
rickpon@gmail.com
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Comment #4925687
self-programming software = machine learning
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Comment #4799522
That's really pushing it PG, it's quite clear what your actual intent was. You dislike arguing on the net because you don't want to be called out on your mistakes.
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Comment #4799418
You had a really biased sample, you only ever took on teams right from the start so how would you know. And secondly, there's only a few outstanding companies and they seem to be e…
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Comment #4787218
Totally agree. It's like medieval times. There's a pretty simple solution to the israel-palestine problem, offer either one of them a bribe to relocate to some empty part of Africa…
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Comment #4786823
I assume you're referring to indians. They have a special culture where the best students go into medicine, second is engineering, and only third is computers.
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Comment #4784037
There is something wrong with Evbn. He's being trying to get at me since I corrected him once a few weeks ago. The guy keeps grudges like a loser.
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Comment #4782231
The new distbelief paper doesn't explain some things. Why are "receptive fields". An earlier paper claimed better than 15% results on imagenet and so does this, what changed. Why h…
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Comment #4782190
Yeah, it's such a simple thing that nerds don't seem to get. Put out ads on craigslist, adwords, indiegogo. Whatever sells, do that. The biggest problem is having more ideas than t…
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Comment #4782167
Telecommuting high def video. Upstreaming dozens of security cam/robot videos from your house. Caching data. Google can cache much of youtube and web right on your internet router …
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Comment #4781957
Success as in what earns their profits.
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Comment #4781886
You are a douchebag. There are billions of other web pages you could visit. I'm on a few others as we speak. This isn't a small room and I've cornered people in it, it'a public dis…
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Comment #4781804
I mean in their data center. Also, I'd be more impressed if they actually got the self-driving cars out to the world. It's been 5 years now. Google has a problem executing, they're…
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Comment #4781723
Like I said earlier, a luxury tax. The capitalist utopia of singapore has them. Tax the rich and give it to NASA or create multi-billion dollar seed fund for immortality hacktivist…
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Comment #4781717
As much as I like google, I doubt they're as good as that. Their search and advertising is essentially a monopoly because they have such a data lead over anyone else. That's why fa…
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Comment #4781605
Maybe you should visit your local cancer ward or rat-eating homeless indian peasants and then decide what's what.
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Comment #4781506
He's helping the poor by making energy cheaper indirectly through kickstarting an electric car industry. The tax issue can be resolved by luxury taxes. If people decide they'd like…
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Comment #4781485
What if it's a relative you'd like to see live another 10 or 20 years because they're too young to die? Yeah, we need more playboys. The kid with cancer or malnutrition and his fam…
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Comment #4781410
That's why I said government maybe needs to redistribute wealth if these rich folk genuinely don't give a shit about poor people. They can keep their money if they invest in societ…
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Comment #4781291
Why should he keep building nice UI's. He's proven himself as a can-do hacker and has millions in the bank. He could spend his resources saving lives instead of polishing what's a …
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Comment #4781160
DHH needs to get off his high horse. He's hacked his way into providing a tiny service for artsy folks but he's not exactly hacking on immortality tech or AI like some of us. The g…
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Comment #4771716
That's what people said about driving cars as well. until a serious effort showed it was possible.
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Comment #4771707
What were the things an autopilot couldn't handle. If more engineering effort were spent, couldn't those also be automatically handled. Plus, couldn't airplanes be remote controlle…