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waleedka | 8 years ago | on: Paperclips

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I interpreted that as fighting against other civilizations that are trying to stop your progress and protect the universe.

waleedka | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Adding some syntactic sugar to Python

The nice thing about Python is that it's intuitive and feels natural. To that end, this syntax for defining functions is nice, and I would love to see it implemented in native Python:

    f(x) = x^2 + 1
But most of the other ideas are less intuitive than their native counterparts. For example, I think that the native form:

    3 in [1,2,3,4,5]
is clearer than:

    [1,2,3,4,5] /contains/ 3

waleedka | 9 years ago | on: Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing

My understanding of the upper age limit is that it's the "natural" limit (i.e. if you don't take medicine and gene therapies and such). The goal of these new anti-aging therapies is to raise that natural limit.

waleedka | 9 years ago | on: People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars

I wonder if an Uber subscription might get around that transaction barrier. For example, a $100/month plan gives you up to a 100 Uber travel miles per month. Similar to how phone plans give you a certain amount of talk time minutes.

waleedka | 9 years ago | on: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

Thanks for the clarification. I'd change "early proof of concept" to "a specialized framework", but the other observations stand, I believe.

It's totally fine that it's a specialized framework, and it doesn't need to become general purpose. I just think the product description should do a better job positioning it and explaining what it's NOT intended for to set expectations correctly.

waleedka | 9 years ago | on: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

At a glance:

  - Only supports fully connected layers for now. No convnets or RNNs.

  - Requires a GPU. No option to run on CPU, not even for development. 

  - Setup instructions for Ubuntu only. No Mac or Windows.

  - Uses JSON to define the network architecture. Which limits what you can build.

  - Takes in data in NetCDF format only.

  - Very little documentation.

  - The name is bad. I'm not going to remember how to spell DSSTNE.
It seems like a very early proof of concept. I wouldn't expect it to be useful to most people at this point. Built-in support for sparse vectors is interesting, but not a strong selling point by itself. I hope Amazon continues to develop it. Or, even better, contribute to one of the existing more mature frameworks.

waleedka | 10 years ago | on: Deep Learning Benchmarks

I hope the TensorFlow team is working on improving its performance. Anyone know if they're working on that?

waleedka | 10 years ago | on: Google App Engine is experiencing service outages

Yes, this is the longest downtime I've had on App Engine for years. I've been up all night and the app engine team were up working on it as well and sending updates.

It seems that the default authentication method broke for some apps. They have different APIs to reach your data, and I tried another approach and it worked, but it's different enough, and we use Cloud Storage in too many places, that it would take a day or more to change our code to use it. I started on it anyway, in case the outage lasts longer.

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