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pixelHD··on State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
Just remembered I already asked you about the CNNs, my bad!

Oh wow, didn't realize that these were multi-layer pre-trained models.

Also, started going through the QRNNs, they mention they've updated the AWD-LSTM Language model to use QRNNs, which is what your paper uses!

pixelHD··on State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
I'm glad we're again concentrating on newer language models.

Curious how it'll perform compared to fasttext when used as encoding network in larger tasks. I can't help but notice the trend of going back to simpler models with smarter optimizations and regularization to achieve better results.

This is a frequent question of mine, which I ask to everyone using RNNs - what do you think of the idea that CNNs will be able to replace RNNs for sequence tasks [0]? CNNs are less computationally expensive too, so there's a definite benefit of switching to them if the performance is on par.

[0]: https://twitter.com/lmthang/status/989261575482560513

pixelHD··on Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?
I've started doing this as a hobby, to see how many services I regularly use can be replaced. They're all behind an nginx reverse proxy + letsencrypt cert on a hetzner box.

IRC: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/ (Use a lot, and it works decently well)

Cloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ (Works surprisingly well, however, I've heard there are security issues)

Analytics: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/ (I'm comparing how much I'd lose out compared to google analytics, if I ever move away from it)

Chat: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/ (never really use it, just wanted to see how it works)

Git: https://github.com/gogits/gogs (Mostly for mirroring git repos)

Browser IDE: https://icecoder.net/ (I'm able to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself)

Calibre library front end: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it)

Linkshortener: https://github.com/LINKIWI/linkr (occasional use)

Mail + mailbox + webmail: https://mailcow.email/ (Had to spend a bit more time, but now it is able to deliver mails to gmail/outlook/icloud without issues. I use it as a mailing solution for all the selfhosted projects which need smtp)

Online Markdown editor: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger (Used quite a few times)

Minecraft server

Music streaming: https://github.com/phanan/koel/ (I'm not a native english speaker, so quite a few songs I listen to aren't on spotify)

Neo4j, mongodb, mysql and postgres: For all database needs.

Server monitoring: https://github.com/firehol/netdata

Photos: https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free (I use it quite a lot to host images I'd have used imgur instead)

R Studio server, and Jupyter notebooks: For work/hobby programming

I've had a lot of help from https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

I"ve had to move from one VPS provider to another while testing, so I have a handy guide for setting up quick here: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup .

I have a separate guide for hosting each of the above projects behind an nginx with https, but its quite rough right now. So its private.

pixelHD··on Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
My bad
pixelHD··on Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
Oh, nice!

Yeah, I understood the intention behind that statement. Great work with the course!

While you're here, what do you think about using temporal convolution for sequence tasks? I've read a few articles, this particular one by my professor comes to mind now [0], which say CNNs could work extremely well for the tasks traditionally done with RNNs. A recent paper by the people at Google Brain [1] mentioned that their CNN with attention network beats traditional RNN approaches. More surprising is that the network is 130+ layers deep, and yet trains faster than RNNs. Do you think we can potentially switch most machine translation tasks to CNNs?

[0]: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c7... [1]: https://twitter.com/lmthang/status/989261575482560513

pixelHD··on Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
Well, I looked at the summary, and they're implementing a Seq2Seq model for this. It is what I think of as an archetype for machine translation and chat bot tasks.

Quite a few new network architectures in this space have been updates to this model, which uses an RNN encoder and a decoder, along with attention between them and a beam search for better results.

I wouldn't call this model a solution for natural language translation, nor would anyone else. But I think fast.ai meant that they're going to explain and go through this model, and how it's helped bring a new generation of models with good performance in this particular space.

pixelHD··on Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
This reminds me of Unreal's blueprints. You could get a surprising amount of work done just via blueprints and not touch C++ code.

You'd have to balance the input and output connection's granularity - too many would put off users, too few would make users feel restricted. If you manage to find a sweet spot, or let the user pick the level of expertise, and reveal them accordingly, it would be perfect.

I really like how good it looks, and can't wait to use it myself!

pixelHD··on Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
Oh gotcha! Didn't consider that you'd allow users to write their own models too.

Coming to community model zoo, would it be free access to any model, and pay for the training and disk usage (floydhub like)? Or you'd go the quantopian route?

pixelHD··on Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
I have a couple of questions -

Do you have a team implementing most of the new state-of-the-art model architectures (given how fast new ones keep getting published)?

If so, I'm assuming you keep associating some types of model architectures to the type of data being input? I'm just curious how you'd pick a particular architecture.

On the other hand, AutoML comes to mind, but IMO, the biggest hurdle of AutoML, and its ilk is the massive computational infrastructure requirements.

But great job, it looks really good and seems pretty intuitive!

pixelHD··on Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?
Me too!

This github repo, along with r/selfhosted [0] and this [1] are everything you'd need.

I've been keeping track [2] of the things I've had to do to whenever I used to switch my VPS providers. Its not perfect - I don't restrict ssh, nor do I restrict the database access, but I mention that, and you can choose not to do that.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

[1]: https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/

[2]: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup

pixelHD··on Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?
I second netdata. Its got a wonderful set of plugins too! I have it running behind an nginx with basic authentication.
pixelHD··on Ask HN: How true is it that most founders are taking drugs like Modafanil?
Unrelated, but I couldn't help but think about this tweet I saw recently https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon/status/988942270891085827
pixelHD··on MacOS finally gains external GPU support
You'd have to buy an eGPU case, along with a GPU. Apple recommends Sonnet case with AMD GPUs [0].

However, as seen here [1], people have managed to use other GPU cases, with NVidia cards.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544

1: https://egpu.io/build-guides/

pixelHD··on Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories
I've moved to Hetzner from DO as well. It's cheaper than digital ocean.

However,

- They have two data center locations, both in Germany, which might be good or bad depending on how view the laws.

- Their web interface looks good too, but doesn't have the features that DO provides.

- Depending on what option you pick, some have commodity hardware (No ECC RAM, i7 processors instead of server hardware).

- [Rumor]I've heard that they are very hands off, and will take down your instance much more aggressively. As someone on reddit put it, "If Disney was a cloud provider, anything Disney won't be comfortable to host, Hetzner won't."

pixelHD··on PyTorch, a year in
Yo! I've read articles on your blog quite a few times while working on my thesis. Great work!

I've been using Pytorch for quite a while, and had to use tensorflow recently. May be its my pytorch _priors_, but using tensorflow felt weird, and un-intuitive. Any good resources for pytorch folks to get into tensorflow?

pixelHD··on Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website
I'd love to use this if it works with Piwik.
pixelHD··on Open Beta of Texpad 1.8, macOS LaTeX editor with integrated realtime typesetting
I've always used sharelatex, but recently overleaf and sharelatex merged. Nevertheless, have a look at sharelatex too - I prefer their UI.
pixelHD··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
Wow, I have similar issue. I have an acer 4k monitor at home with both HDMI and Display Ports. I used to use HDMI before to connect it to my 15inch 2016 MBP, and the mac used to crash very often. Close the mac, and connect the dongle with hdmi? crash. So I'd have to restart the mac, and connect the monitor while keeping it open, and then close. But once i disconnect the monitor - crash.

I then got a usb c/thunderbolt to display port for 4k 60fps, and the issues significantly dropped, but it still occasionally happens.

pixelHD··on Coinbase down for maintenance
Related, https://twitter.com/Vueron/status/935995302049472520
pixelHD··on Tesla Roadster
almost got kicked out of class for laughing too hard
pixelHD··on If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?
Whoa, I've never heard of this, can you expand on what happened with blender?
pixelHD··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
Wow, that looks great! I guess that's what i'm intending to do with unreal.
pixelHD··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
honest question, how interested is the academia/industry in deep learning libraries & game engines integrations? I've worked on unreal and tensorflow the last semester, and I found out that there aren't any existing integrations. I will probably work on a plugin, but I wanted to know if there is any interest?

The way I see it, having hooks into the engines themselves helps with what the article talks about - not needing to go through VNCs or other _glue_ to get realtime data. It could potentially send the framebuffers themselves directly from the game/simulation and tie in the actions back to the game/simulation. And using framebuffers is just one direction, we could instead stream the co-ords/the current payoff/etc.

Also, having such plugins would help with the adoption in both directions - games now have an always updating/learning AI (might need a network connection + cloud backend), and researchers can have training/testing environments.

pixelHD··on WebGL 2 Interactive GPU Cloth Simulation
Same on my late 2016 macbook pro/Chrome 59.
pixelHD··on Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
What about the Vault 7 releases?
pixelHD··on Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice
oh, my bad, didn't notice that
pixelHD··on Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice
i get your point, but connecting to a random country won't be of much help though.
pixelHD··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
any link specific for interns?
pixelHD··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)
Looking for Internships!

Location: West Lafayette, IN

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript/React, Ruby on Rails, C# .Net, Node.js

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemanth-devarapalli-40a36162

Email: hemanth.devarapalli (at) outlook

1st year Masters student at Purdue University - West Lafayette. I'm doing coursework involving Natural Language Processing, Computer Graphics.

pixelHD··on Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1
Apart from the lack of the Escape and function keys, I'm kinda bothered about the keyboard. It seems the MacBook Pro has the butterfly keys. I really hoped they won't use the butterfly keys on the MBP.

Well, it's just a leaked image, so can't draw too many conclusions out of it I guess.

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