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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:19AM (#49952493)
Location: Istanbul, Turkey Remote: Yes (strongly preferred) Willing to relocate: [Yes / No / Case-by-case] Technologies: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, deep learning, computer vision, whole-slide imaging (computational pathology), protein/peptide language models, ML-guided peptide binder design (phage display data), NLP/transformers (Turkish), FPGA inference (Xilinx), NMR structural bioinformatics, motion planning Résumé/CV: https://avesis.acibadem.edu.tr/Mehmetserkan.Apaydin Email: [email protected]

PhD EE Stanford (Latombe/Brutlag); postdoc with Bruce Donald (Duke/Dartmouth); Inria fellowship; currently faculty at Acıbadem University. Recent work: neuroblastoma WSI classification (Virchows Archiv 2024, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 2026) and ML-guided peptide design. Looking for remote roles in computational pathology, protein ML/generative biology, or ML systems.

Re:I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model on Sunday December 14, 2025 @05:30AM (#46262110)
https://cdn.cs50.net/ai/2023/x/lectures/6/src6/markov/# This is a nice Markov text generator.
Re:Why I'm Learning Sumerian on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:41AM (#45925061)
There is a famous Turkish Sumerologue who was influential in early Turkish republic, so many schools in Turkey were named after Sumers. Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is her name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muazzez_%C4%B0lmiye_%C3%87%C4%...
Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:17AM (#43482542)
Cihangir is kinda an exception though, where most expats live. I also lived there!
Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:30AM (#43479140)
Greetings from Istanbul. Unfortunately what you describe in your blog post sounds impossible to me in (at least many districts of) Istanbul. The only place to "socialize" in a neighborhood is to sit at coffee shops.
Re:William and Mary by Roald Dahl (1959) on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:25PM (#37989594)
The website belongs to a beloved professor of mine from my early years into learning computer science. He also was the head of Turkish olympiad team in informatics.
Re:Verilog to Routing on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:37PM (#37663855)
Does this support Xilinx pynq?
Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:58PM (#31782737)
I also like "the guardian", it is also less US centered, and has some great coverage of movies and technology ethics). The only catch is that the android subscription is not valid on the computer or any other device than android.
Re:AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:42PM (#30289792)
Yes, thank you. Sorry I am on mobile, traveling and could not post the full link.
Re:AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:25AM (#30288488)
I was awarded an FPGA chip by Xilinx that I blogged about: http://msapaydin.wordpress.com They are making an effort to promote the use of Xilinx fpga's on machine learning, recently.

How to prevent health insurance company get hold of private health tests

Today's something very strange happened for me where I live (Turkey). I got a health insurance offer (from Allianz) that precluded certain conditions. I had made a request about 10 months ago from the same provider, and had not had this excluded set of conditions from the insurance policy, but had decided to not proceed. Since then, I have had a private set of blood and related tests. I paid...

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Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:23AM (#29578380)
I think Salesforce has such a model. It is called CTRL. Have never tried using it though. It accepts metadata to generate text conditionally on that metadata such as domain of text.
Re:Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:22PM (#29151600)
Extremely well written article for someone who would like to dig deeper into forecasting, actually giving someone ne valuable links about the prophet tool that i used and recommended. I agree with the author that it is strange that the job posting only mentions the prophet tool, which is rather like a very basic and one particular library that i usually recommend to undergrads for their senior project.
Re:Alias-Free GAN on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:22AM (#27615780)
I agree, most top conferences nowadays publish reviews openly, and address this issue I think. Also it is easier said than done, this is so endemic in so many different academic settings, not just in the US, but also in Europe.
Re:Alias-Free GAN on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:25PM (#27609805)
I think that not being able to reproduce the results claimed in a paper is not specific to ML research. While working as a post-doc at a top university research lab, i spent years trying to understand how it can be that some software that was supposed to corresponds to the well cited paper did not even come close to reproducing the results of the said paper, and that the primary author went on to become a prof at a top university in the US. In short, scientific fraud is also quite common, in most academic papers.
Re:Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:31AM (#26055256)
I taught an OS class (for the first time) in my career with this book (I taught many other classes before). It was a breeze, compared to the books used by faculty who taught earlier versions of the class. Students much enjoyed this book as well. The fact that it is freely available was a great plus.
I am using a pomodoro app (productivity challenge timer) and as a result track my time. The smartphone also tracks walking and running and I have recently started tracking sleep as well. It does 80% of the tracking automatically I guess. I also use habitica as a complementary tracking tool.
Re:Diego Maradona has died on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#25223108)
I guess my point is that the parent comments referred to Maradona rather than to Diego. The documentary made me realize that it is actually not him but all those Napoli fans that grasped him that caused his demise. If he were able to leave Napoli for a calmer retirement perhaps he would not become what he eventually became. It was the greed of Ferraino (Napoli FC President) which kept him in Napoli and caused him to become infamous, according to the documentary.
Re:Diego Maradona has died on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:54PM (#25213530)
I don't agree with you. I recommend you watch Maradona documentary by Kapadia to better understand his career.
I guess there are things that are inevitable, the trick is not to try to completely eliminate them as that is impossible. However the optional ones could be eliminated if one has some practice of doing the trade-off analysis and perhaps deliberate poverty practice, and with some luck could become wealthy enough to be able to delegate even the most difficult to eliminate tasks to one's assistant.
Re:Tables: Tracking work for teams on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:11PM (#24557926)
openai gpt-3 beta private api is also becoming not free soon.
Some projects started by researchers from Stanford University seem to address these issues. Some keywords I have come across are MLflow, sisu and Databricks. The last one is aka spark. Sisu is a company I did not try, and I had trouble working with MLflow however the ideas are worth taking a look.
Re:Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000) on Sunday August 09, 2020 @04:12PM (#24102484)
Another attempt to gpt-3 filtering the intro section of the paper: This book is about how we can guess what will happen in the future. The first chapter is about how we can guess the next number in a sequence. The second chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a sentence. The third chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a book. The fourth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written. The fifth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written
Re:Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000) on Sunday August 09, 2020 @03:50PM (#24102319)
This is also gpt-3 output based on the abstract as if explaining to an eight grader: The theory of everything (TOE) is a mathematical formula that can predict everything that will happen in the future. It is a theory of everything, so it can predict what will happen to the universe, and to us. We assume that the TOE is simple enough for us to understand, but we don't know for sure.
Re:Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000) on Sunday August 09, 2020 @03:48PM (#24102307)
Here is what comes out: "The history of our universe is a sequence of random events. Each event is the result of a very small probability, and the events are independent of each other. The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller. And so on."
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020) on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:41PM (#24042387)
Location :Istanbul Remote: open Willing to relocate : yes Technologies:machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning
Re:Why professors are writing crap that nobody reads on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:43PM (#24030585)
Many reward systems around the world reward the number of papers and not the number of readers of a paper. Many biographies simply include the number of papers by such and such author. This further contributes to the crappy situation.
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:16PM (#23990522)
>essentially a classification problem, with extra steps.

I think it is a question answering problem, with the extra of being able to say "I don't know", rather than a classification problem. The current transformers models for question answering such as huggingface pipeline implementations do not handle the "I don't know" case and this is an attempt to see whether gpt-3 can be trained to have this extra functionality easily.

>results are not universally consistent.

I think the relative probabilities are what matters and those may be more consistent than the absolute probabilities.

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