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kyrre··on Confession of a so-called AI expert
Offtopic: Did salesforce really pay 'several hundred millions' for metamind? I assumed it was an aquihire of sorts.
kyrre··on African Startups Are Increasingly Attractive to Investors
How do they view the chinese?
kyrre··on Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at Uber after ouster
you can't keep a good man down
kyrre··on There is no such thing as EQ (2016)
He explains this in more detail in the comments.
kyrre··on Fears for tourists in London as acid attacks escalate in recent weeks
data, stats and patterns?

sounds like xenophobia to me, mate.

kyrre··on Fears for tourists in London as acid attacks escalate in recent weeks
Ban guns, ban bread knives, ...

London has fallen. Glad I left three years ago.

kyrre··on About This Googler's Manifesto
> (1) Despite speaking very authoritatively, the author does not appear to understand gender.

> I’m not going to spend any length of time on (1) ... I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else.

heh

kyrre··on Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez

This guy is doing 20 years.

kyrre··on Letter from Unabomber to Dr. David Gelernter (1995)
kaczynski was succesful in spreading his ideas.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2013/03/22/the-best-th...

kyrre··on FDA announces comprehensive plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation
nootropic
kyrre··on Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
i had to give up on using slack for multiple teams because of this
kyrre··on Computational Linear Algebra
Why 'computational' and not 'numerical'?
kyrre··on Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
seems like you can just use twitch?
kyrre··on Six contenders to be Uber's new CEO
found the Lyft investor
kyrre··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
this is demonstrably false just by looking at the comments submitted prior to your own.

why did you even write this?

kyrre··on International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
The page states the following body counts: 95 Jihadist 51 Far Right Wing.

(bottom of the page)

So not quite 2x.

> Only in the past two years have there been more jihadist deaths. > In reality the KKK has killed more people than all jihadists combined. That is one group.

I am not familiar with the history of the KKK, but are they still a threat?

If you consider the recent incidents: Paris (how many times!?), Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Nice, do you really believe Right Wing groups poses a greater threat?

kyrre··on International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
Reading these reports do you find the story 1) more likely or 2) less likely to have occurred?

Remember, he (or rather his GF) claimed the Houston TSA were routinely performing prison type cavity searches, i.e., strip, squat (and cough).

kyrre··on International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
The study linked in your article has been updated (Spoiler alert: Radical Islam has retaken the lead by 2x)

https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/wha...

How would it look if we factored in the relative population?

> B-but you are more likely to be killed by white trucker driver falling asleep than a jihadist truck hijacker.

Misleading much?

kyrre··on International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
I'm calling bullshit on this story. I can't find any reports of TSA conducting these types of cavity searches. Ever.
kyrre··on Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices
any day now :^)
kyrre··on Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years
this comment perfectly captures the leftists view of southern people.

ignorance and hate

kyrre··on Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?
why leave a good and high earning job? don't ruin your life. stay at uber.
kyrre··on The SELinux coloring book [pdf]
coloring books for adults is a mindfulness thing.

the selinux one is just a cute marketing move for red-hat to sell courses

kyrre··on Frustrated Snap Social Influencers Leaving for Rival Platforms
this guy is not going to make it. he draws beards on snaps and has a grand total of 22.7k ig followers.

he had a good thing going, but it's coming to an end

kyrre··on An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
how can her experience with lyft be any better? most times the drives are using both services...
kyrre··on Ask HN: Needs advice on learning NLP
no point wasting your time on nltk:

cs224d (videos, lecture notes, assignments)

a similar course: https://github.com/oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures

good paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0398 "Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch"

kyrre··on My Interview at Uber
pls buy my kindle books
kyrre··on Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
X1 Yoga + Mendeley or paper printout
kyrre··on Make America Hate Again
do you really believe this? honest question.
kyrre··on Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech
Good for software developers. Not so much for large companies that want to drive down salaries through indentured servitude (H1B).
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