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rstojon I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

Early-onset breast cancer is most likely genetic, so the only thing that could've been done is to catch it earlier by having enhanced monitoring.

Hopefully we'll learn more about the underlying genetics and have better risk assessment tests in the future to catch these earlier.

rstojon Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

Absolutely, I think that would be amazing!

rstojon Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

It's done automatically by looking for category names (and synonyms) in abstracts. This mostly works although it's not 100%. However, if you click on the paper, you can add/remove them in the "Tasks" section.

rstojon Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

Hello, one of the creators here! We just launched a Slack for paperswithcode, feel free to join:

https://join.slack.com/t/paperswithcode/shared_invite/enQtNT...

rstojon AI Generated Skateboard Deck Graphics

Lignite is my favourite!

rstojon Show HN: Papers with Code – trending ML research with available code

Hi all,

Sharing a project I’ve been working on in spare time: Papers with Code.

Papers with Code links the latest machine learning papers on ArXiv with code on GitHub. It allows you to see “trending research” allowing you to keep up-to-date with what’s popular in the ML community, as well as the most popular historical papers. Additionally it shows the framework the implementation was coded in: TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet/etc. Lastly, you can search for papers and choose a code implementation of your choice.

Links are automatically scraped from arxiv papers and github repos, so in some cases e.g. the SNIPER repo there are three entries because this library implements three papers.

Let me know your thoughts, and if there’s any other feature ideas you have for the site,

Thanks! Robert

rstojon World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year

Good point - I wonder where that comes from, can anyone find a reference?

In any case, their wealth is increasing at a much higher rate of 23% compared with the world GDP increase of 2.4% and US' GDP increase of 1.5% (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2...).

rstojon Ask HN: Examples of large exits without VC Funding?

Similar situation with Grammarly which bootstrapped for a very long time (9y) and then raised $100M: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grammarly

rstojon Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads

Just checking the references in this article. The offshore tax claim seems to be referenced to "Guido Fawkes" (https://order-order.com/ "Guido Fawkes Blog of plots, rumours and conspiracy") which seems to be a collection of conspiracy articles about all kinds of stuffs, written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Staines

rstojon How 4chan and The_Donald Influence the Fake News Ecosystem

TLDR; snippets from the article:

A shocking amount of disinformation (“fake news”) is also created by and spread from smaller, fringe Web communities that have relatively outsized influence on the greater Web.

We set out to measure just how this influence flows in a systematic and methodological manner, analyzing how URLs from 45 mainstream and 54 alternative news sources are shared across 8 months of Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter posts. Highlights:

1. Reddit and 4chan post mainstream news URLs at over twice the rate than Twitter does

2. Alternative news URLs spread much faster than mainstream URLs, perhaps an artifact of automated bots

3. 4chan was also the most successful at “reviving” old stories

We found that Twitter does have heavy influence on the spread of fake news. The_Donald and /pol/ are responsible for around 6% of mainstream news URLs over 4.5% of alternative news URLs on Twitter.

Whole story in the arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06947