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moinnadeem··on AI Canon
I would hold skepticism for the moment.

I know the authors from the blog post quite well. Say what you will about the firm, but one of the authors have been investing in machine learning since 2016, and another has a PhD in CS (including a SIGCOMM test of time award!)

I come from a strong ML background (multiple publications, PhD dropout), I would say that the canon is actually quite good.

moinnadeem··on AI Canon
I wouldn't go so far. I know the authors quite well, and as someone who has multiple publications in machine learning confeerences (and started a PhD in ML), they know their stuff well.
moinnadeem··on Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator
Disclosure: I work at MosaicML

Yeah, I strongly agree. While Nvidia is working on better hardware (and they're doing a great job at it!), we believe that better training methods should be a big source of efficiency. We've released a new PyTorch library for efficient training at http://github.com/mosaicml/composer.

Our combinations of methods can train CV models ~4x faster to the same accuracy on CV tasks, and ~2x faster to the same perplexity/GLUE score on NLP tasks!

moinnadeem··on WhatsApp Down in Some Regions
Instagram is down for me (located in the midwest). Reports "5xx server error"
moinnadeem··on Nubia: A SoTA evaluation metric for text generation
What do you think about the train test discrepancy? ie. will practitioners have to fine-tune Nubia's models on their training dataset in order to evaluate on their test dataset?
moinnadeem··on Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
MIT student here, there's really no rhyme or reason. Generally, higher numbers mean more advanced courses, but that's about it.
moinnadeem··on Tulsa Remote
Jenks High School class of 2016, MIT class of 2020. Honestly, Jenks was an incredible high school to go to since it was public; having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT.
moinnadeem··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Honestly, I think Cambridge MA may give you that environment.
moinnadeem··on Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf]
Freshman at MIT here taking this class -- the lectures are actually taught in a flipped classroom format, so I wouldn't imagine they would release the course considering there are no lectures to follow. I could see them releasing problem sets, however.
moinnadeem··on Show HN: Stranded by Trump
Anyone have thoughts / ideas on what people need that developers could create for times like these? ie. What are the biggest problems in today's political climate which a developer may be able to solve?
moinnadeem··on Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
Undergrad at MIT here, thanks for signing! Our community has been fairly troubled by this to say the least, and your outpour of support is incredibly helpful.
moinnadeem··on Show HN: GitHub trending alternative that ranks repos by contribution rate
Do you normalize the contribution rate by the number of contributors?
moinnadeem··on Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon
Soon-to-be a freshman in college. If you don't mind me asking, what career path do you wish you took?
moinnadeem··on Aaron Swartz died three years ago today
MIT 2020 admit here: yes, it is still in the hearts and minds of the newest classes. When discussing some of our idols, one student and I both agreed upon Aaron Swartz. He may be gone, but never forgotten and the new students look up to his legacy.
moinnadeem··on Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (2014)
I'm a high school Senior (17) and I'm currently taking it. It is ridiculously understandable and I often see myself yearning for more. But I've also had Calc 3 + Linear Algebra by now, so its understandable that not everyone would get it. The intuition is simple, however.
moinnadeem··on YC Research
Hi. Seventeen-year old high schooler here, I love this idea. (@sama, anyone else behind YCR):

All my life I had wanted to go into industry, follow that classic Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel dream that many CS High Schoolers go into.

But recently, I got into research. The CollegeBoard opened up a class called AP Research I am now in, and I spent my last summer researching Machine Learning at my local private university. I was surprised by how much I loved it, the math behind it fascinates me (context: am currently taking Adv. Diff Eq and Linear Algebra my Senior Year.)

I am now trying my own Deep Learning algorithms and working on my paper. I have always been conflicted between industry and academia, since all of my fellow HS CS friends just want to found companies in industry. Things such as YCR make research a bigger dream for youth, whom I would currently argue are too under-exposed to it. It just doesn't seem as glamorous to them.

Thank you for YCR, it reminds me of the cool things research can do. I can't wait to hopefully apply one day.

moinnadeem··on Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Change Schools
I disagree. He seems level-headed and focused enough that he could take this as motivation. If he was arrogant, he would have capitalized on it, created a social media account and a gofundme. He seems humble to me.

Source: 17-year old who faced similar media attention, it did inflate my ego a bit despite attempts to remain humble.

moinnadeem··on Show HN: Bubbles – A minimalist visualization of what's new on Twitter
Is this open source? I'd love to take a look around.
moinnadeem··on Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
You cannot get better. About as close to Bash as you can get on Windows.
moinnadeem··on Homeless Fonts
Although I'm curious to wonder where the profits go, they seem to be quite unclear about that:

http://hyperallergic.com/135700/homeless-fonts-are-a-feel-go...

moinnadeem··on Amazon Fire Phone
What if I get bitten on a Saturday?
moinnadeem··on Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car
"This is one of the developers of the app. The Android version will be available in the following month. We are planning on running the experiment on Android devices too!" - OP.
moinnadeem··on Introducing Swift
Here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...
moinnadeem··on Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming
Windows users: download this, open it with VLC: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14poiunaepo...
moinnadeem··on Snap Out of It: Kids Aren't Reliable Tech Predictors
As a 16 year old, the main use for Snapchat is a photo sharing service. Students take a picture of themselves, caption it, and send it to their friend(s). Think of IM but with a photo attached to each message. However, the conversation is based off of a photo, and only used for short conversations. Awkward phrasing but get what I mean?

However, at the same time, teens are more willing to send racy photos if sent over snapchat. They just view this as an added bonus, not the core feature though.

moinnadeem··on Facebook Is Losing Teens
As a teenager, Twitter is what everyone is using currently. Don't complicate it, teens just want to be on what their friends are on, and their parents are not on.

Twitter just fits the need.

moinnadeem··on To reduce its tax burden, Google expands use of the “Double Irish”
Meh, tax code is still grossly over-complicated in the US, simplifying it would help everyone.
moinnadeem··on PostgreSQL Studio
Just click on the 'Fetch More' button, and 50 more rows will be retrieved. For cloud based _free_ solutions, I haven't found anything better than this.
moinnadeem··on iMessage for Android
It has: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/38236591736120934...
moinnadeem··on iMessage for Android
Obfuscated code, auto-downloads APKs, presumably to 'self update' but no one is sure.

Use it with a demo account.

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