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Yes , quiet good introspection, really interesting article.

I often put my phone on DND and only allow calls , that really helps. From morning 9 to 6 and everytime I am on my bed. Removing social media apps also helps. I wont say its 100% effective but I see drastic reduction in my screen time.

Node JS

"The most frustrating paper:

I have true hate for the authors of this paper: "A deep learning framework for financial time series using stacked autoencoders and long-short term memory". Probably the most complex AND vague in terms of methodology and after weeks trying to reproduce their results (and failing) I figured out that they were leaking future data into their training set (this also happens more than you'd think)."

- Not sure how author tried to implement it , but is this not how you train LSTM networks by feeding t+1 data back into the cell again to predict t+2 data. It will be easier if author made it open source as well

One of the best non-smart feature of these smart feature phones is battery. These batteries can go on for days ofcourse depending on the usage.

I had same thought when I read that title , but again its NYTimes , we all know how they reacted to Mars program 2 years back.

Wow , re-volt used to be one of my favorite games back in those days.

This will impact the tourism industry to some extent and also high time for governments across the world to take positive steps in the same direction as this will eventually affect all of us. I stay in India and recent news related to water scarcity across cities are trending which is not usual.

Found this : https://medium.com/tensorflow/an-introduction-to-probabilist...

This is based on Julia.

I was really looking forward to probabilistic programming but then I saw this project is based on Julia. Not to keen on leaning Julia as I already know Python/C++/Java/Scala/R. Wish it was based on c++/python to at least get started with. Please let me know if there are other interesting probabilistic programming frameworks available or tutorials to get started with.

Edit: https://medium.com/tensorflow/an-introduction-to-probabilist... There is support in tensorflow for probabilistic programming. How is this any different?

Just imagine people using this tool to spread false claims and propaganda. Can we also determine if the video was actually edited or forged?

Podcast link : https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/generalist-specialis...

Animation, their favorite cartoon is not possible without technology.

"Maybe whatever fresh-faced grad student built this on their summer internship flubbed the feature engineering, modeling autorespond as a library of independent phrases rather than a library of choices."

Whats wrong with a fersh-faced grad student trying to build a new feature if at all he/she is trying to do so?

What is the name of the film?

Likewise, OCW is one of the key learning I ever had in my career. Resource crunch and lack of good professor were not a problem with the internet and online course. I took OCW algorithms and data structure course and I still remember all the data structures and algorithms being taught in the course. Not just OCW , I find Stanford edu , Berkeley, coursera and udacity really helpful. Thank you to everyone involved in making online coursework accessible. I feel indebted and thankful to this community.

"Having a lot of math involved does not mean that it is mathematically elegant" I agree to your point, but at the same time how much effort is being made to understand the intricacies of deep learning is my question. In my opinion, those who dont understand these techniques bluntly say its a black box but its not entirely a black box. I am confident if more reearchers start to peel it off layer by layer , a lot more insights will be generated given the field is relatively new .

Not sure why I am downvoted to put my view upfront

" The facts speak loudly for themselves; in most cases, deep learning-based solutions lack mathematical elegance and offer very little interpretability of the found solution or understanding of the underlying phenomena."

I don't agree with this statement, a simple look at cs231n lecture series will show you how much math is involved. A lot of articles/people claim its a black box, but while writing a small network architecture you realise it's not. Methods like stride, padding, activations, learning rate, optimisations, drop outs etc. give you "aha" moment which is followed by a mathematical explanation. One should study the topic thoroughly before criticising it.

This village in India is the cleanest village in asia, sharing one article: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160606-the-cleanest-villag...

Same here.

I am confused, how is it different from spark graphx?

"The engineered environments of Facebook, Google and the rest have increasingly discouraged us from engaging in an intellectually meaningful way"

I fail to understand if it's their duty to inculcate critical thinking in all of us . While reading any article on websites I try to fact check while searching on google , I dont believe any random article getting viral. Yes I agree there is lot of content online which might not be correct but outsourcing critical thinking to computers using correct resources might not be a bad idea depending on way it is done

I am based out of India and I find this article misguided. Corruption is a very big problem in India , and lot of bribe is paid in cash. For eg: If you want to buy a house which is sold for 20 million INR , value of same property is 5 million on papers (to evade house tax etc. ) and rest of the money is paid in cash or through some black money . Real estate stocks started sinking down 5 days straight and are expected to sink further after this move. Yes it causes inconvenience to the people but as a tax payer and contributor to the economy I dont mind small inconvenience for greater good.

Already submitted here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937847

There is no point of calling them MOOC , if they are not 'O'pen anymore.

Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO plans to test two more such prototypes before the final version which will be about six times larger at around 40 metres and will take off around 2030. src :http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-all-set-to-launch-its-o...

Hiring is broken , but not everywhere , its hard to set standard rules for technical hiring across different organizations , as every organization have different needs. I had similar experience in few organizations but not all organization are same.

Real time score updates displayed on Google cards is also helpful, but creating a platform so engaging will be clean and unique.