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Re:Introducing Gradient Ventures on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:32PM (#14749736)
https://cogniac.co/ The demo over here seems to be fabricated. Even if you provide wrong labels interactively, the performance of the classifier keeps increasing ...

Picked up from https://gradient.google/portfolio/

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02492 ^^

Disclaimer: I am the author

Hi, great work. Just curious, how did you collect the data? I tried searching with some cities in Europe, but it does not work.
OP here, not sure who has changed the title. Thought it was relevant to the paper.

Original title: First publication from Apple: ...

Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:30AM (#11841451)
I guess they should add a minimum margin for the referendum to pass a resolution.

Ask HN: Facebook interview question

Facebook has a great interview question: "On your very best day at work — the day you come home and think you have the best job in the world — what did you do that day?" I am curious how would HN members respond? Source: Oliver Emberton

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Re:What photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about work on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @04:40AM (#10654372)
It is quite interesting to see how Facebook and other corporations are re branding open-office, which in practice looks like a factory of workers. Somehow, the idea is to convince people that it promotes openness and productivity. Someone in the article says it is easy for her to schedule meetings on the fly, which also means it is easy for her to access the employees. However, not sure if I would like to be so accessible when I want to zone in, and work on a project.

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