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ponderingHplus

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About ponderingHplus

Artificial Intelligence Graduate Student at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia

personal website: http://cole-maclean.github.io/

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    Nice article, lots of good tidbits and insights. The thoughts on indirect encoding seem like an especially interesting area of research. I actually just finished up a project that …

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    Hi HN, This project was my first go at using the pySC2 API recently released by DeepMind and Blizzard. It takes data scraped from 25,000 human played SC2 replays to build a RNN seq…

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    Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, USA or Canada preferred Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, MongoDB, d3.js, sklearn, TensorFlow Résumé/CV: http…

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    Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, USA or Canada preferred Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, MongoDB, d3.js, sklearn, TensorFlow Résumé/CV: http…

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    Location: Canadian studying in Barcelona, Spain Remote: Prefer to relocate Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, MongoDB, d3.js, sklearn, TensorFlow Résumé/CV: h…

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    Location: Canadian studying in Barcelona, Spain Remote: Prefer to relocate Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, MongoDB, d3.js, sklearn, TensorFlow Résumé/CV: h…

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    Comment #13851393

    Ethics can be a tough thing, and it can take more than just a spine to refuse unethical work. Identifying something as being unethical in the first place can be a challenge for som…

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    Comment #13851300

    I'm not sure that I fully understand your comment, but what I mean to say is that the intent of regulating the specific word is so that everyone has the same understanding of what …

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    Comment #13851176

    Exactly, having the backing of a profession that expects and mandates you uphold its Code of Ethics is a very powerful thing. Refusing to do work you deem unethical is much easier …

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    The term "engineer" is regulated in Canada, and only Professional Engineers (PE) awarded a licence by their provincial regulatory body can call themselves as such. Someone who grad…

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    Comment #13847690

    Depending on your comment history, this recommender can suggest some pretty weird ones. A warning, some of them can be NSFW. http://ponderinghydrogen.pythonanywhere.com/

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    Location: Canadian studying in Barcelona, Spain Remote: Prefer to relocate Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, MongoDB, d3.js, sklearn, TensorFlow Résumé/CV: h…

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    Comment #13615591

    Hey HN, this project was done as part of a course we had this semester. I wrote up a quick blog post for it, and posted the final report for those interested in the details. Note t…

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    Comment #13590583

    A good read, thanks! This technique largely inspired a project we did for school this year, a subreddit recommender system with an RNN learning an embedding space for subreddits. I…

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    Comment #13413276

    Agreed, but the linked paper was one of the more talked about ones during the conference, and has a fairly accessible discussion on the topic, including a history of related work i…

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    I attended my first NIPS this year, and found Juergen to be a very engaging speaker, with the RNN symposium organized by him and his colleagues being my favorite part of the confer…

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    Comment #12807532

    I'll throw mine into the mix. Not sure about employers thinking "I need to hire this person", but for me, my personalized dashboard is a nice way to monitor things I'm working on a…

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    I was in a strikingly similar position as you at the beginning of this year. In December 2015, I setup a plan to quit my job and take some time to self-learn Artificial Intelligenc…

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    I'm curious what the interest would have been had I linked to the article over the graphic. Unfortunately I'm not sure how I could test that without having a time machine. Thanks f…