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Thank you for such a detailed answer!

I think prioritizing and focusing on the right thing is one of the skills senior developers have. You don't normally have one isolated problem to solve. You have a problem and it branches out into multiple other problems. Over time you just learn to estimate the importance and the time you can spend on each problem to get things going. So you do have to have a deep understanding of the important part, but you cannot go into too much detail for every single sub-problem you have, otherwise the productivity will be very low.

hey, you'll be surprised, but LiveJournal is still popular and widely used in Russia and other ex. soviet countries ;)

Judging from his previous rants, Zed tends to overreact to things and blow out of proportion. Idiot commentors are everywhere, you don't just shutdown the community because of that. Other than that seems like a great guy.

Of course I was exaggerating a little bit, don't take everything so literally :) Sometimes people use word "genius" just to emphasize how much they are impressed.

This movie is amazing. Every scene is just genius :)

May get confused with the python machine learning library that has the same name.

That was a part of your stoicism training.

Saw that on a Kaggle forum and been wanting to play with it for a while. Code looks amazingly clean and simple. Keep up a good work!

Just curious if you compared Keras with caffe or torch in terms of performance?

It will be very interesting to see their findings. As far as I know Numenta's software (or HTMs in general) haven't been tested yet against known benchmarks like LSVRC, CIFAR, etc. Or results haven't been published.

I just hope it's not an April's fool joke

Awesome job, guys. I was just wondering recently if there's something like matplotlib but for Scala and there you go.

By the way, have you ever came across something similar to python's pandas but in Scala? Specifically I'm looking for DataFrame functionality, where you can read a dataset where column might have different types and then slice and dice this data in a way you want. The closest I found is Breeze but it supports only numerical types . And Saddle, but it supports only 3 columns as far as I understood. Anything else?

What do you pay for such cluster if I may ask? I assume it's not in EC2? Have you thought of adding a web-crawling service on the top of that?

Sure, everything "in real life" is more complicated. I think Kaggle to data science is as programming contests to Software Engineering. Will you say that doing programming challenges is "unnatural"? Is it useless or bad? Because you may also argue that you never have to solve problems for speed, you rarely see clearly-defined problems, you rarely get to apply complicated or rare algorithms in real life situation.

The thing is Kaggle helps developing certain skills. It doesn't mean it helps you developing all necessary skills for your "real life". Your real life and your job may require unique combination of skills and the only way to fully prepare for it is to actually do real project that are specific to your job.

Hm, looks like this argument about Kaggle pops up all the time.

This is true, that getting and cleaning data is an important part of a workflow in data science and it's a necessary skill to have. But I don't believe anyone ever claimed Kaggle is enough to become a good data scientist. That's like studying algorithms is very useful, but who said it's enough to become good at software engineering? The skill consist of multiple parts which can be practiced separately or in combination in a real project where you do everything from scratch.

Altshuller is amazing, I'm surprised he is known outside of Russia though.

>In most cases, you will see the specific brands and flavors of what you are drinking when you open the app.

It'd be very interesting to know how the heck this thing works.

I'm a programmer generalist who's on the quest to find specialization in Machine Learning and AI in general. I'm trying to structure and optimize my self-education in those fields to build up a solid foundation over the next few years. I'm more interested in being able to apply those technologies to solve interesting hard problems (with the building company in mind) than in research. Would love to chat to people experienced or formally educated in those fields, to get advice on how to structure the learning process better, what to focus on and so on.

Also would love to meet anyone who has similar interests (or also psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind).

Background: engineer with the experience in full-stack. Programmning: Scala, Ruby, Python, JS. C/C++(long ago though)

Machine Learning: only finished coursera course and played with 101 Kaggle competitions.

artem.yankov@gmail.com

Don't let this guy to discourage you. Millions of non-native speakers successfully work for American companies although they don't have perfect grammar and spelling.

It's so sad you guys aren't doing h1b. Is there a state/federal regulation that makes you require permanent residency or company's policy?

Oh, nevermind, I read it on their website. ISPs are just leaking these lists.

This site is pretty interesting. Where do they get this data from? I'd think that banned site list is not published anywhere?

This is awesome. That would be so cool if you described the entire process in a blog post :)

There are services like that. Check out https://www.ponoko.com

This is just unbelievable.. Have you tried to email their support? It's hard to believe that that could be an acceptable practice at any company, I would assume it's just some employee being a jackass.

You are right. I read this book when I was a kid, already forgot the difference.

Yeah, Viktor Suvorov is pretty interesting writer. This guy was a KGB agent who escaped to the West and published a lot of books. Another his book worth checking out is "Aquarium" - about his path from a spetznaz operator to KGB and then to escape.

they say "for Indian programmers" like there are no other h1b programmers in the US :)

What.. they also bought something from Drone tech?

Were you still on H1B when joining small companies?