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Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by hayksaakian »

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.

We've been getting at least a few days per year since then

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by zeno334 »

zeno334 wrote: post #30
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…

In the meantime, the best way to keep up is to go to his profile page and refresh every now and then.

Eventually went ahead and wrote a small chrome extension which injects some css and javascript into IAMA threads to make it easy to switch between the full thread and a simplified Q&A thread. See https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cleanama-for-reddi... if you think you need something of the sort.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by donniezazen »

The part that resonated with how I feel everyone should live this tiny universe.

    Just creating an innovative company is a huge contribution to the world.
World would be a much better place if we just go about minding our own business making our own lives easier and not interfering in other people's business.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by kevinalexbrown »

kmfrk wrote: post #77
kevinalexbrown wrote: post #44

You can tell it's him by the succinct and direct responses. It's a trait that's consistent across the most successful people I know.

One reason is that people have a vested interest in taking your words out of context and do a big non-story on your remarks.

That's true, but the responses seem to be specific and tangible, rather than vague, which is what I might expect from someone worried about being taken out of context.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by nl »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #81
jhartmann wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

TIL Hinton's great great grandfather is George Boole (inventor of Boolean logic).

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by 13hours »

iambateman wrote: post #68

I like Bill Gates. He seems like a kind, genuine guy who cares about people and doesn't mind making fun of himself. Big contrast from Bezos, Jobs, Ballmer.

He kinda reminds me of Woz in that way. Except Woz was never seen as evil, and Bill had an evil image for a while there in the 90s and early 2000s.
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