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Re:Deep neural nets and the purpose of life on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:10PM (#12509425)
Nice! Had not read about this concept earlier. Will research more on it. Thanks for sharing!
Re:Deep neural nets and the purpose of life on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:06PM (#12509381)
Fair points. Would love to hear the other 'anythings' that can replace DNNs (something that optimises and stores knowledge that can be passed down generations to further build more sophisticated systems).

I thought DNNs are a good framework to contemplate the reason as well as mechanics of our existence. And using the framework I came to the thought that we probably do not have any grand purpose.

Also, I think saying that the universe is a DNN system is different from saying that it is 'a system'.

Agree DNNs are not magical for someone who has been working on them forever but for a new entry into the ML field, believe me they are pretty magical :)

Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @07:18AM (#7666200)
https://mentii.com - a peer to peer career advisory network. The site features are listed here - https://mentii.com/features.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to host your blog? on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @07:57AM (#5824979)
We use jekyll for our blog( https://mentii.com/blog ) and use disqus for the commenting system. If you are comfortable using markdown and need something lightweight and fast, then jekyll is perfect. On the other hand wordpress has a lot of themes and plugins to choose from and pretty much everything that you'll ever need is already there. If there are non developers who are going to contribute to your blog, then wordpress would be a better option IMHO.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:42PM (#5616720)
Thanks a lot ! :)
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:38PM (#5616714)
The request meeting sends 3 specific times for the other person to accept one, thus making it easier to setup a meeting with them.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:36PM (#5616712)
Oh wow .. never knew that. Thanks for letting us know.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:35PM (#5616710)
Thanks a lot! Sumit (my cofounder) is sending you a mail. Lets connect.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:35AM (#5611760)
And to add to this .. We have some karma already in place and its called "Respect". Users can go to profile of others and give them Respect (by clicking on the Respect button) which helps in bubbling up engaged mentors in the community.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:54AM (#5611694)
Thanks a lot for the encouraging words. Would love to see more of you on Mentii! :)
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:53AM (#5611692)
Thanks Kris! :)
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @12:50AM (#5611519)
Thanks a lot! :)
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Friday April 26, 2013 @12:49AM (#5611518)
Thanks! Cross border mentoring is a great usecase for Mentii! Hope we can be of some good help to you.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:50PM (#5611233)
Sorry about that. Drop a mail at support @ mentii.com and we'll remove the account right away. Do tell us briefly as to what exactly happened.

Best, Nitin

Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:17PM (#5611143)
Thanks for the screenshot .. we'll fix it. And Thanks for your good wishes :). We'll soon try to create something that will help you get a better sense interest areas of the mentor population inside.