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Re:Where Sci-Hub Is on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:44PM (#22410755)
same in san francisco
Re:Marching neural network on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:51AM (#14634618)
This is pretty cool. It seems impossible to mouse away while maintaining the orientation. I want to be able to perturb the weights and watch from different angles. Very cool though, nonetheless.
Re:Microsoft Concept Graph on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:31PM (#12857836)
Wow, those are rather interesting "concepts". It's surprising most of the top results are all totally subjective (and yes highly opinionated): 'unrepentant liar', 'gas bag', 'ruthless and totally corrupt politician'...

Clearly those associated concepts didn't come from the nytimes or wikipedia, so how can they ensure accuracy when scraping these unauthoritative sources?

Re:Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google on Saturday October 08, 2016 @08:18PM (#12669318)
Wow, there's something funny going on with HN search there. There's a quite a few discussions about ConceptNet. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fnews.yc...
Re:Movie and TV recommendations using doc2vec on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:45PM (#12474913)
Here's the training data and code for training doc2vec embedding on a corpus of imdb reviews.

https://github.com/jeradf/bookspace/blob/master/example/doc2...

Looked interesting, but it was sooo long.
Re:The arrival of man-made earthquakes on Monday April 06, 2015 @01:23PM (#9329321)
As the article states, up until 2008 Oklahoma averaged 1 earthquake per year of magnitude 3.0 or greater. In 2014 there were over 500.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/oklahoma/image...

Re:Ask HN: How to get freelance work in academic projects? on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:13PM (#9212752)
I've worked as a research assistant in several labs in NYC. About $30-35k/year was typical. A new post-doc would make about $40k/year.
Re:GitHub blocked in Russia on Saturday December 06, 2014 @07:43PM (#8710779)
The migration rate rises sharply in late 2011/early 2012. Putin was nominated for re-election as president in September 2011, elected March 2012