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fund my new simulated annealing accelerator startup where we etch your model onto an aluminum flake and then hit it with a blowtorch

Housing development is one of the highest on the ripe-for-disruption list, maybe second after higher education. Virtually none of the money these people are going into debt to spen…

The only reason to join a startup is if you know the founders and you think working with them would be fun enough that you're willing to give up hundreds of thousands of dollars to…

"How is this better than TensorFlow" is the new "How is this better than Hadoop". I wonder how their distributed training setup compares to mxent ps-lite (in terms of performance a…

I'm probably going to turn this into a blog post but this is the outline of my take on what federation is good for: * different people have different needs from social networks * s…

Taking time off between jobs is very common and future employers won't think anything of it. The only question is whether you can afford the opportunity cost of not bringing in a s…

then write some. there's also not that much code here so you could port it to java in a day or two.

Yes, but "cash-flow positive" is the relevant milestone if you're worried about whether the company will be able to stay in business if there's a freeze in the private equity marke…

There is no such thing as objectively squicky. I find it squicky.

General rules aren't good for very much other than arguing with people on hacker news.

That's all true, but that doesn't make it less squicky.

Forget abstractions for a second; there are people whom this makes uncomfortable (we know because they said so), and the cost of that is much higher than the very small benefit of …

Also if you don't know what your target palette is you can do k-means clustering over colorspace, and the palette is the cluster centers (each point you're giving to k-means is an …

For small distances, yes. If you plot a 2d projection of a dataset that doesn't have much structure you're going to be reading patterns into whitenoise (though this data has some p…