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thecity2 | 7 years ago | on: ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

This is like every OK Cupid profile I see in SF.

thecity2 | 7 years ago | on: Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]

They are market makers.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: The Eve programming language project is winding down

That's a little sad. I used LightTable for a little while, and thought it was very cool. Was looking forward to Eve, but it was beginning to seem like vaporware, so I guess I can't say I'm surprised by this announcement.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

And heat!

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale device for larger businesses

Not having cash actually is a feature for some establishments. There's a bar in Berkeley that doesn't allow you to pay with cash, so they had no need for registers. We assumed the purpose was to prevent any incentive to rob the place (even by employees).

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: San Francisco Is Losing Its Great, Inexpensive Restaurants

You can get cheap dim sum on Clement. Half the reason I moved to the Inner Richmond. lol

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: San Francisco Is Losing Its Great, Inexpensive Restaurants

You didn't hear they re-opened Sam Wo in a different location? I've been once, it doesn't have the same charm as the old place, but it's alright. Still cheap!

http://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/diningout/article/Res...

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end before 2060 (2015)

Unfortunately, that wasn't a joke.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end before 2060 (2015)

Sure, but then I wouldn't have clicked.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: What is the best resource to publish my own article for free?

Medium and it's not close.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Apple Watch 3

You'll probably have to pay around $10 to add cellular for the watch, similar to how it works for the iPad plan.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Apple Watch 3

I'm not buying one until Spotify has an app for it. I'm not switching to Apple Music just to get a watch.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

This is the sense that I got. I am a one-person data science team for my startup, and I basically cobbled together most of the automation described in Michaelangelo over the course of a few months. Spinning off Spark ML jobs on EMR and saving metadata to a database.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

Spark is good if it fits your use case (or if you can make it fit your use case). We have definitely found that scaling can be a real issue though.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

This doesn't seem to be an open source project, unless I'm missing something. It's kind of a show-and-tell basically.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

This sounds a bit like Idris with its dependent types.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

I like the idea of category-oriented programming. Would be interested to see a white paper on what that means.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Google.ai

Unless you have like 64 cores, I don't think you will be a GPU. And yes, you can use multiple GPUs in parallel to train.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Google.ai

Agreed. NVDA is probably very concerned right now.

thecity2 | 8 years ago | on: Google.ai

> It would probably be cheaper to just buy my own Xeon computers.

What does Xeon have to do with training? You need a fast GPU (or apparently TPU). The CPU is relatively unimportant. Furthermore, you can roll your own algorithms (i.e. architecture) in TensorFlow. You don't have to use "theirs".