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Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

jhartmann wrote: post #47
m_ke wrote: post #27

Did he really just say that deep learning started at Microsoft?

I saw that and maybe its stretching it a little bit, but I know Patrice Simard was involved in this sort of research relatively early (he started at Microsoft in 99, and worked at Bell Labs before.) I would not be surprised if there were some other people there that were doing this sort of research even earlier. There is actually some very high quality ground breaking research that comes out of Microsoft, they just h…

Hinton is where it really starts of course, but a lot of our researchers were involved in making it practical (e.g. train quickly on GPUs).

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by stevewillows »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #78
waterlesscloud wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He lives in Seattle so he has plenty of weather to be interested in. :-)

There are only two kinds of weather in Seattle: you get rain for 6 months and sun for 6 months. Its quite simple actually.

Don't forget the week of snow in December and the two weeks in late February!

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by ck2 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #69

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQ5ZhxYAss <-- in this video (linked by Gates in AMA), there's a moment in which there's a book shown, with "Dell #1 in laptops" written on the back cover. Had a good laugh, given the whole Dell speakers thing from yesterday.

This was hilarious.

There were years I was worried but he turned out to be great for humanity.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by crucialfelix »

Trufa wrote: post #57
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #24

What a strange format. I'm not a regular Reddit visitor so maybe I just don't "get it" but it seems like the top level questions for Gates are pretty intelligent, all questions I'd like to ask him (well, almost all--I don't get the condom one), and the responses to those questions are mostly snide, petty, and stupid.

I'm a frequent Redditor, and while I find the IAMA subreddits one of the most interesting ones, I'm pretty disappointed by how softball questions they were. Reddit is a great opportunity to be more direct and poignant (always in an educated and intelligent manner). For the people that don't know, the general "consensus" on reddit is that Bill Gates is awesome and Steve Jobs sucked, of course it's oversimplified but y…

What's the point ? He would give diplomatic answers about events 20 years ago. What would that accomplish ?

His energy right now is behind a really great thing and a great inspiration for all of us - to apply ourselves and our geek brains to doing something useful in the world, not just optimizing hip city limo rentals for inflated multiples.

So I think these so called soft ball questions are great. They set him up to hit the ball out of the park. Go Bill ! Hit that thing ! Let even the shallow and dull minded hear the message and see that this is what great people do when they have the opportunity.

Public opinion is fickle and there is far too much snark and strife. He is going in the right direction so God speed.

But I'm not going to start using SQL-server or anything.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

stevewillows wrote: post #82
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are only two kinds of weather in Seattle: you get rain for 6 months and sun for 6 months. Its quite simple actually.

Don't forget the week of snow in December and the two weeks in late February!

Seattle gets a week of snow about once every four years, or at least it did when I lived there 10 years ago.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by jhawthorn »

Arjuna wrote: post #20

For those that aren't aware, check out the "/r/tabled" subreddit [1]. From the official description: "a subreddit for tables of recent threads from places such as... /r/IAmA, /r/InternetAMA, /r/AMA, /r/AskReddit, /r/AskScience" It makes things nice to read. Of course, Bill Gates' new AMA will not be "tabled" yet, but as an example (and in case you missed it), here is his AMA from February 2013 [2]. [1] http://www.red…

I made a small rails app which presents reddit AMAs nicely

http://ama.hawth.ca/1xj56q

Here's the source https://github.com/jhawthorn/riama

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by olalonde »

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #37
pmelendez wrote: post #16

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Am I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.

His primary interests now are fighting poverty and hunger. Having a basic understanding of weather sounds like something nice to have in that situation, and if he spent the time in high school and college thinking about computers and businesses, a "for dummies" book might not be the worst place to start.

Interestingly, the first "for dummies" book was actually "DOS For Dummies" published in 1991, followed by "Windows For Dummies". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies#History

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by farnsworth »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #85
stevewillows wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget the week of snow in December and the two weeks in late February!

Seattle gets a week of snow about once every four years, or at least it did when I lived there 10 years ago.

It literally just snowed last night and caught everyone totally off guard (melted now).
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