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"We demonstrate the importance of bidirectional pre-training for language representations". can some one help me understand what bidirectional and pre-trained means?

Ask HN: Will companies (Birmingham area) at the UK will give me work visa?

Hi, I'm planing to move to the UK because my GF going there for study. I have Israeli passport, about 4 years of experience in mixed fullstack development and DBA, no Academic degree and for the last 2 years I'm working as expat in English speaking country. I can stay in the UK for 6 months without VISA . what are my chances to getting hired?

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not everyone
Re:The radical idea of a world without jobs on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:31AM (#16185704)
I think its clear, in our world, you should work on what earns you the most.
Re:The radical idea of a world without jobs on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:27AM (#16185683)
what do you mean stuck? what do you do after 5 that is so meaningless?
Re:An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:21AM (#15905373)
I meant, physically, what gives different? why after applying the gate once on 1 there is a 50% the spins flip but when applying to 0 no-chance of that.
Re:An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:31AM (#15904430)
why Hadamard of 1 is diffrent from Hadmard of 0?
Re:Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:05PM (#15781786)
the actual product environment, not development research or testing.
Re:Leela Zero – Go engine with no human-provided knowledge on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:21AM (#15712405)
the game is a bit older
It was a different country. how well can ex-slaves and bushman run a country? democracy is not rooted in every culture, greed is :\

EDIT: just to be clear not every person in charge is ex-slave or something, but as a country even if they started financially strong it does not mean they had the culture to support it

Its not the kind of things you can get confirmation. He was called a traitor in official letter yesterday.
background: President is old and have succession problems. In recent years his wife trying to grab more and more power to be the next president but not everyone in the ruling party like that. last week she (from the mouth of the president) fired "number 2" in the country. since then everyone who was "friend" with number 2 was fired too. when they tried to get rid of the army general (friend of number 2) he refused to leave his office in claim that president wife doing undemocratic things. yesterday he did the "takeover". its not yet clear if the president will switched with the number 2 guy (the friend of the general).
Re:Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:45AM (#15245732)
For the past century raw scores on IQ tests have been rising; this score increase is known as the "Flynn effect," named after Jim Flynn. In the United States, the increase was continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to about 1998 when the gains stopped and some tests even showed decreasing test scores. For example, in the United States the average scores of blacks on some IQ tests in 1995 were the same as the scores of whites in 1945.[61] As one pair of academics phrased it, "the typical African American today probably has a slightly higher IQ than the grandparents of today's average white American."[62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

IQ is a culture thing not a brain thing

you have "related-channels" in the channel page. also you can view the "liked videos" of channel you liked. you can browse channels by category by clicking on the "browse channels" in the side bar.

https://www.patreon.com/explore you can explore creators who uses Patreon.. not only youtube guys

Re:A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:35AM (#15131995)
colony remain 1 million ants!
Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:08AM (#15122838)
https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

another nice yt channel about math and physics.

Re:Game Programming Patterns on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:34AM (#14476105)
>On the prototype pattern: >... >..what? Then why did you bring it up at all?

From the intro: "Prototyping — slapping together code that’s just barely functional enough to answer a design question — is a perfectly legitimate programming practice. There is a very large caveat, though. If you write throwaway code, you must ensure you’re able to throw it away."

Prototyping — coding without architecture in mind? I dont find it relevant to his book.

Re:Using NeuralNets to make smooth character animations on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:55AM (#14253812)
Yes, but it is very game dependent. Maybe this "engine" does not suited for fast, action packed games, but I think what players hate is annoying and logically/physically wrong animations, not smooth and fair. Also you can train the NN on faster more reactive training data.
Re:Introducing Token on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:57AM (#14166688)
I can see your point, but, when it comes to the "Internet" it is Ok IMO. It is global already, people everywhere "consuming it". Facebook are "helping the poor people of Africa" now as well as the author hopes to.
Re:Introducing Token on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:10AM (#14165743)
they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.
Re:Introducing Token on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:04AM (#14165702)
they stated their aim is to help 2B people in develop countries. it is very hard to fix the government. there are networks here, poor villagers how use money have a phone, I think its better to by-pass the government. relying on private company is terrifying as relying on third world government. decentralized solution would be the best. also E-money is used here already, trough the cellular company but they have a monopoly backed by the government so its just another way of stealing from the people.
Re:Introducing Token on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:40AM (#14164983)
living in Zimbabwe now, there a severe shortage of cash, Im hoping a project like this one will catch one day. good luck
Re:Show HN: HireBae on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:43AM (#13986107)
very slow
Re:Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:25AM (#13005162)
Is it possible to make the equal opportunity and the max profit thresholds the same? maybe with a special tax system (the closer your threshold is to the "equal opportunity" the less tax you pay)? edit: i forgot its illegal to discriminate