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zatel | 5 years ago | on: PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

I agree in sentiment and can't find the link now but just yesterday I read an article saying the doj or fbi or someone like that had stated that just using Monero or zcash is suspicious behavior. I think this is part of changing the narrative from cryptocurrencies are bad to these ones are good (btc, eth,...) and anyone who uses any other ones is therefore definitely bad

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

Thank you for explaining this more indepth. I should have been more specific with my original comment, I did intend cross validation and hyper parameter tuning as inclusing to the automatic feature I was describing.

These operations certainly are computationally expensive, a recent hyperparameter tuning operation locked up my laptop for 3 days but this seems to be the case for any similar operation. The only approaches I've come across so far to overcome it are things like converting the data to smaller sizes (which seems outside the scope of this tool) and some way to batch the data so that it can be "paused" and resumed as needed. Thank you again for creating Igel.

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

This is so cool!

I know the answer is to just write what I'm describing myself but does anyone know of an existing way to find the best SciKitLearn algorithm for a particular problem. Like if I want to find the regression fit is there a way to just pass in the data and have it trained,tested on all of the regression algorithms in SKLearn? My current workflow is to just pick a handful of algorithms that sound like they should be good for the problem at hand and try each one of them manually. Igel seems like a step towards making this sort of thing possible if another tool doesn't exist already.

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio

I think this sounds like the right idea to move towards. With so many similarities in their offerings it seems like the logical next step. Maybe a company can be created to offer a middleware that abstracts all the common offerings into your spec because I don't expect the major cloud providers to do that on their own soon. Cheers to your upcoming IPO when this works out

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and read anonymously

I think this looks great, I definitely will want to use it. I tried to read some of the popular posts and found a small bug:

When you are on a post page (like https://vigyaa.io/sadness-is-confusing-86b8c139/) it loads the content of the page and you can scroll and everything but then after a few seconds it switches to "Something Went Wrong!!! Please Try again".

Watching it happen with the console open this error comes out when it fails:

TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

I'm still excited to use Vigyaa, worts and all!

zatel | 5 years ago | on: GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

+1 this could easily be the story line of a Rick and Morty episode or any of the other similar off the cuff shows that are popular right now. I think that will be one of the main profit streams for things like this, you can get the weird wild stories that don't really make sense but are interesting enough that who cares and you don't have to associate your network with eccentric individuals that attract malcontents.

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

As a self taught developer I also found Neo4j's query language (Cypher) to be way easier to read than sql. Especially for building complex relationships between data which I find to be kinda a pain in sql. Also the web interface for viewing your database is really easy to use. Although I should say I've switched to using more sql databases over the past year or two because there are way more hosting solutions that support them out of the box.

zatel | 5 years ago | on: Workers fear returning to work – many are resisting the call

Many people I know aren't really afraid of catching the virus, they go out to bars, stores, and other places to meet people with abandon.

They don't want to go back to work because they have gotten to taste passive income (unemployment money) and don't want to have to go back to trading most of their time for less money then they can get for free by not going back.

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