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One thing that Google Home does noticeably poorly with is disabled voices and non-native speakers. Google Home would be really handy for a family member with down syndrome who can't read nor write but can easily learn voice commands, but Google Home doesn't currently understand him at all. My partner with a Malaysian Chinese accent also really struggles to use Google Home.

That said, I notice the quality of voice recognition is rapidly improving and I'm thankful for the work the Google engineering team are doing; voice recognition and language translation has the potential to improve the lives of so many people.

Gradient descent is quite amazing in its power and simplicity. If we can figure out a good loss function and a model architecture with enough parameters, calculus can basically take care of the rest.

ThoughtWorks is probably the most inclusion / diversity focused company I've ever worked for. I'd highly recommend them.

It's extremely widespread. Take a look at the Twitter search feed for Gmail+spam: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=gmail%20spam

Scrunch | Brisbane, Australia | Full-Time, Onsite | https://scrunch.com

Scrunch is a Brisbane-based Influencer Marketing platform that utilises Machine Learning and Big Data to help brands find and collaborate with influencers.

We are looking for full-stack developers, Machine Learning engineers and a new CTO.

Perks include free boxing, free yoga, flexible work conditions, a diverse work place, as well as lots of exposure to cutting-edge technology and a real say in the company's direction.

Tech stack:

  * Web: Django, Flask and Twisted.
  * Frontend: Mostly FlightJS, however, we are working on porting our app to React.JS.
  * Data: Elasticsearch, HBase, Postgres, Redis and RabbitMQ.
  * Ops: AWS as well as a number of smaller cloud services.
  * ML: Keras, Tensorflow and Scikit-learn (mostly image classification and NLP).

We recently presented at Brisbane.AI describing our process to building Machine Learning products: https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Artificial-Intelligence/even....

Interview:

  * Phone call / coffee (30 mins)
  * Take-home project (2-3 hours)
  * Onsite with the team (1-2 hour)
  * For the CTO role, there may be some addition requirements.

Though we do require sound technical skills, good attitude and desire to learn are our highest priorities.

Please email your resume to dev@scrunch.com

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Part 2 is already out: http://course.fast.ai/part2.html

In my limited experience, you don't need to have an "aptitude" for programming to get good at it. It just requires a lot of time and patience.

Wow - extreme! I reckon we have a few more cracks at solving this problem as an industry before we resort to locking up junior devs.

Unfortunately, DMS is quite limited for Postgres. We trialled it but found these two limitations deal breakers:

* "AWS DMS doesn't support change processing on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can only do a full load."

* "AWS DMS doesn't map some PostgreSQL data types, including the JSON data type. The JSON is converted to CLOB."

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source....

Hopefully it improves soon, since it's an otherwise awesome tool.

Article author here. That's really good advice, thanks a tonne.

If you can grasp all those things in less than a week, than congratulations: you're a once-in-a-lifetime genius.

If it takes you years to grasp all those things like the majority of us, then that's fine too.

Always give money if I have it. If even a fraction of it goes toward food or shelter, then it's money well spent.

Paperspace, offering an extreme version of the dumb terminal paradigm, is currently on the front page of Hacker News and Product Hunt, so it's kinda difficult to tell exactly what phase of the cycle we're in.

Aside from the ones already mentioned, there's a library called dot-ssh-config[1] that is useful for generating SSH configs.

[1] https://github.com/aelse/dot-ssh-config

Thanks for posting/making this. Using the scroll technique to read the copy on your webpage did appear to feel a bit more "natural" than other webpages. Look forward to experimenting a bit more with it.

Who would frown upon such an awesome demonstration?

I think the "Thanks for coming. Ok." thing is an in joke. See @isz's Twitter profile.

https://twitter.com/izs

Giving up high sugar foods completely (no soft drink, candy, dessert etc). I went from battling colds year round to almost never getting them.

That sounds great. Sometimes I really wish I had friends who are into programming.

Even though two people may literally "look at the same map", their experience of it will be completely different. They will both have different places to call home and work; they will have their own mental no-go zones and various other associations. If this article is correct, it seems Google recognises this and is taking it to its logical next step: literally changing the map for the individual.

As far as Google is concerned, services like this are very clearly what they are most interested in offering; convenient personalised digital experiences based on all the data we're willing to feed it. And, hell, they are getting pretty damn good at it!

Which is not to say that local community engagement is not a valid problem to solve. Just that, it's one for a different organisation.

I accidentally just attributed Travis Bickle's quote to myself. Looks like someone fixed it though. Thanks!

Not a Chinese knockoff, but Vuzix are trying to get a similar product to market: http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_m100.html

Not quite. At different points in his career, Buffett had large holdings in tobacco and coal. Plus, to this day, owns a decent percentage of Coca-Cola - which I would argue is a pretty unethical investment.

Great stuff. Thanks so much.

Love it.

Sexy as hell. Great job.

Well, I'm 25. But I'm also a well paid developer (early six-figures in Melbourne, Australia) who would be pretty hopeless in these interviews.

I'm doing okay working as a developer here in Australia without even a high school certificate. Granted I'm working in enterprise, so I'm not exactly doing the sexiest stuff on the planet. But the money's good, and I love the work. I learned to code a couple of years ago, starting with PHP then Python, and, after putting together a few websites for my team, I managed to transition from a Operations role to an Engineering role, developing a few in house monitoring products.

Good luck.

Good luck on your journey, Mr Tran. Personally, I didn't start really learning to program until a couple of years back; I'm 25 now. I've managed to transition to a dev role within my company shortly after and I'm earning quite a reasonable salary.