monkmartinez

I am going to run this on my Chromebook asap!

I, for one, can't wait. I am not convinced that it is going to be Apple, but I do believe ARM or something like it will replace my Intel laptop.

You stated that Andrej Karpathy ignores the history of neural networks and posits a misleading picture. While you gave a very brief history of Neural Networks, you failed (imo, BIG TIME) to make a point.

First, you really should look into what Mr. Karpathy has done. Second, none of these "old" algorithms were useful in the 40's and 50' because there was no internet and very little data. They are only becoming useful now due to the explosion of data. So, it stands to reason that it Mr. Karpathy isn't ignoring history out of malice, he is ignoring it because it doesn't fucking matter... at all.

I just want to point out your user name: Stanfordkid... Ironic? I'll let the readers decide...

I agree with you that "complaining" by itself is unproductive and a waste of time. However, it would be super presumptuous to say that the complainant is not doing "something" about it in meatspace. Not that there is a lot to do, which is to say: Realistically, a few people control the overwhelming majority of monetary resources in the present world.

Should we contemplate that?

I don't. I am content with my status. I can, however, understand others are not. From an objective POV, it is super ridiculous that so few control so much. Does it affect me on a daily basis? Not that I am aware of, so I press on...

I agree. Have you read any "ML for dummies" types books that you could recommend? I use python, for better or worse, almost exclusively...

True. Enterprising people will develop solutions or we can still own a specialized "manual" with appropriate regulations.

I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. They knew the bloodlines and "genetics" of a good horse. The emergence of autos made that knowledge less valuable and/or relevant.

I do want to live in that world and I live in the suburbs of vanilla tract homes, charter schools, and club soccer.

Vehicles are expensive in either time, money or both... I recently did the brakes of both our vehicles. It was super inexpensive compared to what I was quoted in price, but it cost me some time. I am looking at replacing one of our vehicles soon as the cost of repair may overshadow the vehicles worth. In all cases... it is a hassle and I would rather not deal with it. The alternative, public transportation and/or Uber is either too expensive (Uber) for our use case or inconvenient (public trans)...

If these self-driving vehicles get to parity with owning a vehicle in terms of cost of ownership and convenience. I will be standing in line to get rid of my cars.

Is this really a surprise? Massive government incentives and cheap electricity.

I was there this summer working on an oil rig (Aasta Hansteen), ironically. Teslas, BMW i3's/i8's and more... everywhere. What is more, is that many of the Norwegians who work in the oil industry own electric cars because "petrol" cars are too expensive.

I agree 1000%! I honestly could not imagine using Jupyter without a virtual env. I don't worry about anything related to Python / virtual envs since I started using the Anaconda distribution. Further, every sciency tool is at my fingertips with almost ZERO configuration on my part...

If I had to vote on: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." for Python dev, I would choose Conda so hard.

Not really. I never signed a SLA with my power or water company. We know they try to keep the service(s) "up"... but if they can't, they can't.

Sadly, people riot and fight over much less than the loss of an API... just wait until black friday or some team wins or loses a game.

Big picture I think you are onto something as these examples feel more like gimmicks than actually useful, sophisticated technologies that will push the bounds of humanity. However, we have to start somewhere and "here" is just as good as any place.

One thing I think a lot of people dismiss is varying cultures. There is a _LOT_ of cultural baggage relating to the rejection or adoption of transhumanism... especially juxtaposed with religion, for example.

> ...but anyone sitting here scoffing that China can’t make itself a world leader in a field by simply pouring money and support onto the problem needs a serious history lesson. They have before, and there is every indiction they will again, here with this.

What are they currently leading?

I love Anaconda. To me it is the most obvious way to do Python. If you don't know what is going on with your env exactly, just go to your Anaconda folder and investigate. I have done some pretty funky stuff just messing around and have never had problem. Great work!

Anecdote time!

I bought a water softener at HomeDepot about three weeks ago. Initially went to my local Lowes where I had checked if one was in stock and at the store. Yes and Yes. Get to Lowes and there is no water softener, as the website indicated. Lowe's employee checked the back as well, wasn't there.

There are many problems with humans doing this "inventory business" at $10 an hour or so. The professional counts that happen once or so a year by outside agencies wouldn't be necessary otherwise.

To be fair, I've had issues at Home Depot as well... lots of; "The computer says there are 2 in stock... I have no idea where they are."

Very insightful! I agree that many people are tone deaf when it comes to the fact that other people may value something other than money, consumption, etc.

Stoicism. You just missed Stoic Week 2017, but you should be able to find the course materials online.

I think you are right. There is nothing "transparent" about pricing in the various clouds. I am of the mind that one should test for min. 30 days to get a good feel for what it will cost. There are just too many variables and little minefields (ingress, egress, network activity, etc.)

Have you ever tested S3's eventual consistency? Just curious.

Problems with macOS and iTerm2... that is too bad. I am going to do a 30 day challenge with a Thinkpad from Costco next month. Full linux install with Ubuntu 17.10!

I have wanted to try i3wm for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, it is a PITA to get working on a VM with the Mac as the key chords don't play nicely intersystem. Super excited to give it a go... what is awesome is that I can have an IDE like Pycharm right next to VIM and my shell in a tiling window manager with Linux. I hope I can ditch macOS...

Yeah, I bet they peg the average "storage" per customer around 300GB. People are forced to manage the space on their HDD and not simply dump everything to Dropbox. If everyone used the 1TB... I imagine Dropbox wouldn't look the same pricing wise and/or have some serious heart ache about it.

Like over provisioning in the VPS space... maybe, I don't know for sure, just throwing this out there food for thought.

I am not sure what you mean by crippled... nor do I have vested interest in Dropbox. However, I would be remiss to not mention 1,000GB of storage on S3 would run you $23USD. Now this is before calculating management, request and data transfer pricing.

I just did the math and now thinking I should pay for Dropbox, instead of S3.

You're proposing a false dichotomy regarding payments... As if the cryptocurrency way has no flaws and the other is chalk full of them.

If life has taught us anything it is that; Given things of value, people will find a way to defraud, game or otherwise manipulate said items of value.

I am positive that people will abuse or are abusing the cryptosystems to the same extent people abuse fiat given more time.

> My ideal setup is actually a MacBook Pro. But I am forcing myself to live out of the Apple ecosystems, and it hurts.

Why? In all of the digressions I would like to read about this is a big one. I have been considering the same. The only Apple product I have left is a MBP. There are soooo many choices on the PC side of things. The paradox of choice hits hard when looking at; Samsung, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, Dell, and HP. Some $700 models have the same specs as $1500 Mac's with touch screens and pen support.

I would like to see that as well.

How old is that server? I do not see ECC RAM if you care... also are the other pieces of the server going to fail anytime soon?

How loud is it? How much energy does it consume while running? How hard is it to configure and keep running? What kind of firmware does it have and will it be a problem updating?

These are all the questions I would have before buying a beast like that...

So absolutely with you on this. Exploring visually is best for me as well.

Why not just use a Chromebook if you are going to limit computing environment intentionally?

I am pretty sure S3 is atomic. That is, you can't get a transitory state. Your object either updated/PUT or it didn't AKA read after write consistency.

A dynamo... ;)

What do you mean by; "astounding the amount of work that needs to be done in the python ecosystem!"?

Can you provide examples of different ecosystems that would compare favorably in your opinion?