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Sam Altman has already explained why late-stage private valuations -- but not earlier-stage or public valuations -- are bubble-like right now:

>To summarize: there does not appear to be a tech bubble in the public markets. There does not appear to be a bubble in early or mid stages of the private markets. There does appear to be a bubble in the late-stage private companies, but that’s because people are misunderstanding these financial instruments as equity. If you reclassify those rounds as debt, then it gets hard to say where exactly the bubble is.

>At some point, I expect LPs to realize that buying debt in late-stage tech companies is not what they signed up for, and then prices in late-stage private companies will appear to correct. And I think that the entire public market is likely to go down—perhaps substantially—when interest rates materially move up, though that may be a long time away. But I expect public tech companies are likely to trade with the rest of the market and not underperform.

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015
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Can you completely discount the part played by one's innate ability, though? I have been able to sing in tune and play percussion instruments (mainly the tabla) from a very young age, though I am no prodigy. Sadly, I was never motivated enough to put in the effort to become better at music and am still an amateur.

I think I'd have had an (initial) advantage over someone who absolutely sucks at music and is learning to sing or play a percussion instrument.

I feel the same thing when I look at people who are much smarter than me when it comes to intelligence.
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So on a whim, I put some system documentation that I wrote into the simple word writer linked on that page (xkcd.com/simplewriter). So many red words... perhaps that's a challenge suited for another day.
Yes, it "can replace meals." It can't replace all meals, and that wording exhibits a good deal of effort trying to hide that fact from you.

What is the appropriate amount of Ensure you'd have to eat in a day to survive on nothing else, and is that the actual amount recommended for meal replacement?
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I know, but it missed an opportunity to go big.

In early 2000s, Microsoft basically told Win32 API developers to either migrate to .NET or to go fuck themselves. There was a lot of FUD flying around. At one point, people were wondering will the new Visual Studio ship with C/C++ compiler.

In it's quest to promote .NET, Microsoft even got Borland to kill itself by jumping on the .NET train. The days of native Windows development were over and the best alternative to MS stack, Borland with its Delphi, decided to commit suicide.

That was the chance for D to shine. I was among the developers looking for non-MS solution for native Windows development and D was my favorite, but the Tango vs. Phobos thing killed it for me.

Like many developers at that time, I left Windows for the Web development. If D was then what is now, I would stay with Windows a bit longer than I did.
Maximilian Schrems said this would ultimately not qualify to EU's standards for privacy either, and could also be declared invalid by the CJEU.

Contractual solutions here:

http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/PRISM/Respons...

I think it would depend a lot on exactly what kind of data Microsoft gets from the German company. If they're using the EU third party as some kind of "shell company" and as a loophole through which they can extract any EU data to their hearts' content, then that would definitely not work and will be declared invalid in the first lawsuit.

However, if the German company abides by all the EU and German privacy laws, and therefore gets only the data it can legally get from EU citizens, and then only allow Microsoft to get some of that data, then that could work.

Also, the claim that the US gov can't access that data (legally) is only true if Microsoft itself doesn't get that data. If Microsoft gets it to "improve Cortana" or whatever, then obviously the US government can get that data, too, if it requests it.
Loved the slides. Convolution reverb still my favorite, even if half my ir's are from those old reverb units/plates/springs/chambers, fun to mess with the parameters possible with convolving. I cannot recommend max4live's Convolution Reverb Pro more, changed my life. Tons of cool IR's around for free too. Valhalla is great too!
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I wonder if there are other similar "lawyerish" explanations for how obama dealt with wall street.
Yann LeCun has been working on hardware implementations of convnets almost since the beginning. LeNet 5 (the check reader of ATT, circa early 90s) needed a dedicated and specialized hardware implementation IIRC. It could be kneejerk, but he definitely has the background to make a fair assessment - and this benchmark seems to back his claims.
For me the minimalism of the Go language, the quick learning curve, the great standard library, and the ease of deployment make it a great choice. I hardly ever need to code things in low level assembly, but I do need to revisit old code frequently. The explicitness of Go makes it easy to work on coded you have not touched in 6 months. I have not looked at D, and Rust is still pretty new. I may give Rust a try in the future if I can find a project for it and I have some time to learn it.
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and the other problem is the BND has cooperated with the NSA; even German internet exchange points are tapped (see DE-CIX).
I was so sad to read the history of Mozart and that most of the movie was just factually wrong. I still love the movie though.
Oh, I've seen that gif. Hasn't everyone?
Because that's when even the bears have been stopped into longs.
> When applied to melodies, the inversion of a given melody is the melody turned upside-down.

That's a lot different from what the original comment was asking for.
I guess the "speaking piano" could also classify as black MIDI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
I think the simple explanation here is this: Governments rely on information to function. When you get into a position of power and see the breadth and quality of information provided by digital means, you aren't going to be the one to push to turn that off. I'm talking about all data here of course, not just the NSA et. al. - weather, financial, trade data, so on. However, I think this is even closer to the truth when it comes to clandestine sources of data, since those are more often than not tightly coupled with security.

The point being that all of this just makes logical sense given their (essentially impossible) mission of preventing all future terrorist attacks, whether or not you agree with it from an ethical perspective. It makes an argument against the NSA's methods difficult without hard evidence that threats to the country are either overinflated or could not possibly be stopped without surreptitious methods.
Most of the trouble building a world after Apocalypse, is all those working hard against you - the raiders and thieves and generally chaotic elements. Otherwise, it'd be no harder than setting up a new town somewhere.
Mozart would disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU
I was linked to Veneitan Snares when searching for 'breakcore', which is the genre I found when searching for Igorrr, which is erm... an interesting mashup of all kinds of musical styles.
(Putting to one side your reliance on God)

"and the laws of physics just fell out as a byproduct"

Why? Don't you need a theory for why this is?
I didn't edit it.
>Has anyone ever created an "inverted" song? For example, take the Ode to Joy melody and play every other note BUT that one.

That would just be a cacophony -- the relations used for notes in a symphony do not exist in their "complement" (all other notes except those in the current harmony).

E.g. for the trivial case of a single C major triad chord, the "inverted song" would be: "C# D D# F G# A A# B B#" which is mostly cacophonous noise, even when restricted to one octave.

(If we restricted the notes to the same scale D F A B would be slightly better, almost a D7).
All of the played notes will be in dischord.

As for the unplayed notes: each note is a harmonic series of pure tones (F, 2F, 3F, ... where F is the fundamental frequency). Different notes have some degree of (sometimes approximate) overlap in their harmonic series (indeed, the greater the overlap, the more the notes sound to be in harmony). So, all of the tones in the un-notes' harmonic series will still be present as overtones of the other notes. Therefore, the un-notes would likely be a fairly subtle damping of a few frequencies.
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The problem with this type of reasoning is that there are always analysts predicting a bear market. Articles arguing as such come out every day. So it's easy to find an article from the late 90s that said a crash is coming and feel vindicated that that person was right among so many fools. Perhaps that analyst was brilliant and his argument was flawlessly researched, but anyone can build a bubble story over rising P/E ratios. I can predict a bubble burst right now and I'll be correct at some point in the future. Saying "we're in a bubble" is pointless without an accurate prediction of the turning point.
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>There are too many corner cases and oddball stuff to deal with.

It seems like all the langauges I've used, from objective-c to swift and Clojure require you to keep certain aspects of the language in mind for certain situations that don't on the surface seem obvious. Purity in any language is quite rare.

In the case of C++, it is possible to ignore much of that old baggage most or maybe even all of the time if you write new code using new features. I agree that those maintaining much older codebases are going to have a rough time, but is not an uncommon problem in many languages.

Also, even in a so-called "better" language you can run into massive refactoring projects with older code once you choose to adopt new libraries and tools. As Bjarne says, C++11 is much better, C++14 will be even better, and C++17 is further going to be better... frankly, this is a good path for any language to be on.
This benchmark basically shows that releasing TensorFlow with cudnn v2 backend support hurts - v2 is quite a bit slower than v3 (current) and v4 (upcoming). TF has announced that they will update to v4 support, which should help quite a bit - but when many hobbyists and researchers are developing on one or two GPUs performance on that scale is more important (for them) than infinite scalability.

It is not surprising that a tool developed and focused on `Google scale` work has some imperfections in a wildly different setting. The question is - will they (or some dedicated contributor) speed up a use case the business itself may not have a use for? My gut feeling is that they will, but these things usually don`t happen overnight. Torch, Theano, and Caffe have years of work put into them and have largely been focused on the one to two GPU case.
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That preference would reduce the available supply of startup investment money, and thus valuations.
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>This certainly is an interesting area to explorer musically. Want can we do with a piano if we had more than ten notes to play at a time.

We do, there are lots of pieces for 2 people playing the same piano (so 20 fingers).
Typo in submission title: It's Guix, not GUIX. Guix is not an acronym.
All true things. But at the heart of the issue:

No clear wins in horizontal scaling

Reduce batch size

Use truncated back prop

*search for better hyper params*

I usually do 2-4. After those, have you really seen scaling result in significant accuracy gains? And what percent of the time is that necessary? Genuinely interested--and you guys rock btw!
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You're certainly not saying anything useful.

I have personally made some headway on this problem, and I wouldn't be saying it was possible if I hadn't. Your inability to find a workable framework is more evidence to me of your lack of imagination than it is that the problem is fundamentally unsolvable. There's a finite number of consistent models to explore, and one of them will give us what we want.

It doesn't matter if you want to call that a technological problem or a social problem; the world isn't actually divided in those terms. So saying "social problems" strikes me as starting with a shitty model of what we are capable of. It's also just corporate-talk and there's no reason to expect it to be valid in this domain. The best that distinction has ever done is prime somebody to employ an actual problem solving technique.
Depending on context, filler is a much more complicated concept. You could be referring to stuff they put in food that is not food, or stuff they put in cracks to fill them in, or a nozzle at a gas station.

By contrast, go is such a foundational word to English that it appears in English reading primers for toddlers, and a goer goes.
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There is a bubble at the seed stage. There are tons of people (accredited investors) investing that stage and tons of incubators/accelerators to help introduce those startups to those investors.

Platforms like Angel list are helping fund allot more companies at the seed stage by having syndicates.

Now even non-accredited investors will be able to invest in startups[1]. So the seed stage is bubbling up.

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/10/30/sec-...
It's amazing how complicated you can make something look with very low midi velocities...
Yup! And the article incorrectly states that humans have more cortical neurons than any other animal. Pilot whales (a misnomer, they're dolphins) have more cortical neurons than humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...

Which is especially important because the article takes as given that the number of cortical neurons is what makes humans special.
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A good strategy as an analyst is to predict a downturn coming. You can be wrong for six or seven years, and then if/when there is a downturn you say, "I told you so!"
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This is some wild speculation.
Well, the easy answer is to stop volunteering and attending family/social events[1]. Check out this[2] blog post for other possible ideas.

[1] Number 3 here: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morebooks

[2] http://rob.conery.io/2015/10/06/how-to-learn-a-new-programmi...
It is Winamp that keeps me on Windows. (Not that I would ever switch to a mac anyway.)
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Well, realistically, the whole "You suckers voted for CHANGE hur hur" thing is a strawman anyway.

A little over half of the country voted for the guy who wasn't promising to bomb Iran and put Sarah Palin in line for the presidency.

And four years later, a little over half of the country voted for the guy who wasn't calling 47% of us leeches and takers.

I knew what I was getting when I voted for Obama, twice, because the alternatives were all just awful beyond words.
One reason, reasonable or not, is that indentation based syntax overloads white space in ways that muddle it's use for communicating with humans with it's use for communicating with machines. I have some sympathy for the argument (though it may be misplaced) because my gut suggests that the more a language relies on whitespace, the more human communication via formatting (such as reducing line lengths) becomes a corner case requiring special syntax and using that special syntax induces cognitive load when reading and writing the code.

That's not to say that for a Domain Specific language like HAML, the whitespace approach isn't useful. But that's down closer to declarative programming than trying to wire up a control flow.

YMMV.
This is pretty much verbatim the "Green Lantern" theory of the presidency, fwiw.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/30...
AFAIK the duplicate finder was tweaked to only react to already discussed links, and I guess 3 comments didn't count as a "discussion".
> Surely you'll admit that this is far less accessible, in terms of enjoyment, than a lot of other music.

One cool thing about the internet is the 'long tail' effect that you don't hear much about anymore that allows for all those microgenres like this to thrive.
I don't really like it when people try to evoke emotional responses to things they haven't read.
There is "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" by Lewis Dartnell.
Scenarios of machine learning on 1 machine is way more common than machine learning on 10,000 machines! I doubt even Google would have 10,000 for google translate

It's more realistic to discuss librairies for 1 machine / GPU
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Usually there's a lot of diversity in the immediate source of the traffic. If it's a volumetric attack, the immediate source is the misconfigured servers that spoofed packets are being sent to. If it's an in band attack, the immediate source is usually botnet members, but occasionally regular browsers being served bad scripts by a compromised or mitmed site.

You could work to notify the network owners, but it's whack-a-mole; even with strong efforts there are enough DNS and ntp servers out there configured to generate a pretty big reflection.
Professional game developers don't have any issues with walled gardens.

That is how the industry has survived the 1983 crash due to race to bottom quality.
Yep. I've mentioned this a few times.

It seems like a sensible approach to me. Much like having members of a jury selected, it should be considered a civic duty and not a career path.
The problem is you can't really "abolish" the parties. Social cliques will form regardless.
Google has added an "Enable location" prompt in Android 6 (aka Marshmallow).
One case where I see 1 as being necessary is the softmax size / vocabulary boost in the seq2seq paper (8 GPUs IIRc, and 4 were dedicated to a softmax!). There are other ways to handle this (hierarchical softmax, sampled softmax, skip-thoughts trick of using word2vec vocabulary) but every time someone figures out how to have a larger vocabulary, neural machine translation results seem to improve. In general, 1 is a last resort for me - but maybe this is due to current tooling and availability of hardware as much as anything?
The rest of us don't have "a few thousand CPUs" though. Seen this way, TensorFlow is largely inaccessible and makes more sense to focus on existing librairies optimized for single cpus
What about other investors who also have liquidity preferences?
That has nothing to do with C++14.

It was an gcc bug.

Remember that languages based on standards are not defined by what a specific compiler does.
There's a "too many notes" version of Bad Apple? Hmm... I think I'll stick with marasy8's incredible cover[1] of the song.

Not that there is anything wrong with noise. As a fan of CCCC (Mayuko Hino)[2], I have often thought noise is best when it is played directly (analog), instead of the digital perfection of MIDI. I like my digital noise when it's written in Fourth[3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr7uwOp0Yck

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbb-e0RRc0

[3] http://pelulamu.net/ibniz/ (warning: turn down the volume - raw square waves at the beginning!)
Produce a set of random numbers once and store them as part of the test set. That way your test is independent of the black box which is your RNG. Or make your own simple RNG - in these cases you are looking for "arbitrary, definitely not just sequential" rather than cryptographically random (or, indeed, truly random at all).

If you rely on the order of the output, for reliably consistent test cases in this instance, avoid using black-box RNGs which could change implementation under your nose without much or any warning.
Try using the left usb port.

I have the same MBP and while the it'll drop anything on the right one that's more intensive than a flash drive, the left one has no such issues. Lot of reports of the same "solution" working floating around.
What I mean is that math seems to constrain our universe, and given enough constraints, the universe might be completely specified. For instance, consider Noether's theorem. The laws of conservation of energy, momentum, angular momentum, charge, and particle number all fall out due to continuous symmetries. Mass indexes the irreducible representations of the Poincaré group. Spin is simply the result of SU(2) being the double cover of SO(3). Conservation of probability implies unitary evolution of state vectors. And so on.

My guess is that once you consider all of the symmetries that could exist (and there are many which have not yet been found; supersymmetry has long been posited but remains undiscovered), then our laws of physics are basically the only laws that can exist in a mathematically consistent way. Of course, that's just my hypothesis.

There's also the possibility that our universe is unnatural, which some physicists have recently been considering, but I'm skeptical. ("Unnatural" means that all of the constants in our universe that cannot be calculated from first principles are simply the result of random chance — i.e., only those universes with "finely-tuned" parameters capable of supporting life would have life in it to observe those parameters.)
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Cut to His Majesty being blown out of his throne by dubstep. "Is this few enough notes for you?" Mozart yells, hands cupped.
Where is the Chaos Monkey?

(http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...)
The trade agreements are all about protectionism for capital and market discipline for labor.
Encryption is hard to do correctly. Even for ransom-ware developers.

Thankfully, in this case, it also gave a way for some smart people who understand encryption to fix a potentially serious problem.

Ransom-ware seems to be the current big growth area. It's probably due to the fact that simple breaches don't really give much financial payback on the investment - active credit card details raise only a few cents as they are disabled so quickly by anti-fraud mechanisms, so are unlikely to actually yield much, except in a few 'lucky' [to the bad guys] cases.

Real systems security (not just the traditional technical measures people have relied upon till now, but process, business activity etc.) looks like the way forward. But there are going to be a few casualties along the way, especially if the FBI suggest people should pay up[1].

[1] http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/fbi-ransomware-malware.html
> - On Linux, my Xbox gamepads don't work at all

Really? I use Linux full time at home and I've never had problems with 360 controllers either when developing with SDL2 or playing games built with it. Are you talking about original Xbox and/or Xbox One controllers?
Oh thank god, finally. Maybe I'll be able to afford an apartment again.