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>not bc of performance, but bc I hate OSXs Cmd-Tab ordering That's a trivial but surprisingly reasonable reason for using two browsers. OSX has some annoying quirks sometimes.

The 20,000 for advanced degree holders already holds in the current system, and it already over-subscribed. So this would not reduce the number of H-1Bs issued.

The above commenter probably spoke a little too hastily. "Building Machines" is indeed not a paper about a neural network method, but a survey of problems that we should expect neu…

Could you guys elaborate on the relationship between PyText, torchtext, and AllenNLP? I've briefly used the latter two, but with how quickly things are moving it'd be nice to have …

>I grew up in a place practicing one-candidate votes (i.e., you choose between "in favor" that in the end will show 95+% and "against" with no alternatives) so acquired immunity to…

I want to commend you for trying to learn more about the immigration process. More often than not, I find that Americans tend to not know hoops and travails that internationals hav…

"Evidence suggests that the heat death of the universe is unavoidable."

To put a futurist spin on it: advertising is the commercialization around the information bottleneck in the information age.

ULM-FiT and OpenAI's Transformer* are quite different. Both are pretrained language-models, but ULM-FiT is a standard stack of LSTMs with a particular recipe for fine-tuning, where…

Self-documenting code base, right?

I guess I was a little unclear in what I meant. I meant that everyone (prior to the much later 2DS) had to pay for the 3D tech that most people didn't really want. I absolutely tur…

Just a gamer here, but there's something to be said about the success and failure of the 3DS and PS Vita. The 3DS, based on hardware/system alone, should have failed. It was tremen…

Agreed. I think it comes down to the presentation/interpretation of results. The response to "My classifier gets score of X" can be either "wow, that's a good score for a classifie…

This thread is a microcosm of this whole issue of overhyping. On one hand, we have one commenter saying he can train a model to do a specific thing with a specific quantitative met…

Ah, I was under the impression that RFs choose from a subset of features, not just one feature. In any case, I agree with the thrust of your original comment that the specification…

I believe the formulation of random forests requires you to find the optimal split, albeit over a subset of features. What you're talking about, where you simply generate a set of …

A funny thing about decision trees (or random forests) is how conceptually simple they are, but in terms of implementation they're very non-trivial. There's always a point in the l…

Mortal Kombat is very, very fun. I'm not sure I'd call it a good film, but I enjoyed it a lot. Another good example is the Phoenix Wright movie (in Japan). Both are excellent love …

To this day, I'm still trying to understand why my freshman calculus class (proof-based), was as effective as it was. It was 30 students, 1 lecturer, and a whole bunch of black boa…

>Facebook run fun psychological experiments to see if they can manipulate their users - without calling for volunteers first or anything I recognise as ethics. I've always wondered…

On the other hand, these criteria seem like they would encompass a good deal of all fiction.

Is this true though? Sure, for a casual observer, these new methods for generating videos appear convincing, but is that the right bar to judge "ability to fake evidence"? As far a…

Meritocracy is very much in conflict with equality. Meritocracy means you are judged on your merit. It is completely orthogonal to a nature-vs-nurture argument. For example, this i…

>But this runs into a problem - if you don't know that the piece was created by a machine, you might assume intent and judge it as an art. Does it stop being an art when you learn …

Here's a no-nonsense video chronicling the progress of the Donkey Kong world record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQ2vEHq2N4 This guy has also made videos chronicling similar s…