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narvind··on Exploring DNA with Deep Learning
I like how you make the effort to go back and update your previous comments made in haste.
narvind··on Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas
So Trifacta on top of Pandas. OK.
narvind··on How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]
Both form and content are superb. Very moving story. The crisis is real. We have to act now.

What are the best ideas proposed so far that might help them?

narvind··on Personalisation Is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare
Just to take away the creepiness factor, I'd say things like: Passengers who shared their favorite drinks with us rate us higher because we know them better and serve them accordingly.

This is akin to amazon's main website changing "We recommend the following to you" to: "People who bought this also bought" - to induce a subtle hint of jealousy that others are getting a better deal and this is totally optional.

Any recommendation system should be a voluntary opt-in feature and should consistently do a great job at recommending.

narvind··on Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub
Mr. Nadella's version of "developers developers" is top notch. I was scared we will get something like: https://giphy.com/gifs/michael-strahan-enTimXqzmVXR6
narvind··on Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent
OMG...This is amazing! They call the low dim compressed representations "State variables" and is very close to the ideas described here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08568

Brilliant stuff!

narvind··on AI speed test shows clever coders can still beat tech giants like Google, Intel
Well said, Jeremy!
narvind··on A letter from Drew and Arash
Fan mail induced high.
narvind··on Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US
What are the odds, that the fiancee story is fake and he's diverting the world's attention again, now that he has served time?

Maybe he did receive the bitcoin...

That'd be the bonus point after touchdown.

narvind··on Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018
fast.ai international fellowship recipient here - The second iteration of the fast.ai course is totally worth. If you can code in Python, you can master deep learning. Join our fantastic community!
narvind··on 'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'
We are great fans of your lego sorting spectacle and your comment affirms my belief in your engineering prowess. You sir, are awesome!
narvind··on Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
In south india Tea is called "theneer" in the Tamil language. I wonder if that's because it came from Sri Lanka as opposed to Northern Indian states.
narvind··on Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
There are 2 shows everyone seems to be talking about: Netflix and Bitcoin.

I need to tell my wife to record them on the VDR.

narvind··on Tesla Roadster
you are a good person.
narvind··on $3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt
I see what you did there ;)
narvind··on Tesla Roadster
Now that seems like a good place to work!
narvind··on Google Maps Gets a New Look
only when walking right?
narvind··on Google Maps Gets a New Look
All that Japan love!
narvind··on How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
Great job, guys! Best wishes!

One of my friends is building a feedback system like this called qna.dog

The key thing is to use AI to come up with the right survey question to ask the user.

narvind··on Neom – an entire new land, purpose-built for a new way of living
Thanks but no thanks, crown prince. Good luck with your project!
narvind··on Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
Yes, if you observer the system, it gets disturbed. It's like opening Schrodinger's box to see the cat.
narvind··on AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
How I wish Marvin Minsky would have stayed alive for one more year and seen this. He would have been so happy!
narvind··on The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
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He's obviously referring to himself.

narvind··on Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes
Great article!

My $0.04:

1. Programmers often see a small part of the jigsaw puzzle they are assembling. Most spaghetti code is the result of too many cooks over time.

2. The architects should ensure that testers know and care more about the problem than the programmers who are coding the solution

3. There is a clear need for improving the stone age tools programmers use

4. There is a need to create simulated environments for all kinds of software so they can be battle tested

narvind··on Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
Not sure if there were really any passengers disembarking in San Juan. I would guess that it was pretty much an empty flight flying in.

What a heroic effort! Salute to the entire team!

narvind··on Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
Nice.

I wrote down my thoughts after taking his new DL course. Hope it helps you all :) https://medium.com/towards-data-science/thoughts-after-takin...

narvind··on Measuring the Progress of AI Research
Great compilation!