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Eight Reasons to Switch from TensorFlow to CNTK

derpapst — Mon, 22 May 2017 19:45:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Eight-Reasons-to-Switch-from-TensorFlow-to-CNTK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396372

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by derpapst in "Cognitive Toolkit beta for deep learning advances"

derpapst — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:17:45 +0000

CNTK contributor here - Keras indeed is pretty high on our list of things to cover soon. But then, all our code is out there on GitHub and we welcome PRs :-)

Machine Learning with scikit-learn

derpapst — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:19:04 +0000

Article URL: http://amueller.github.io/sklearn_tutorial/#/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6507038

Points: 72

# Comments: 12

Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python”

derpapst — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 06:36:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/luispedro/BuildingMachineLearningSystemsWithPython

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494020

Points: 94

# Comments: 13

New comment by derpapst in "Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame"

derpapst — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:56:18 +0000

Many years ago, when I did my first steps in Emacs, I wrote Richard a mail asking, why it has such unusual and sometimes awkward keyboard shortcuts. He replied: "For fast and efficient editing."

I like that guy.

A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

derpapst — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:38:40 +0000

Article URL: http://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/building-machine-learning-systems-with-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5799622

Points: 134

# Comments: 19

New comment by derpapst in "StackOverflow"

derpapst — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:12:54 +0000

Exactly. And even if SO goes evil some day: one cannot point out the fact often enough how cool it was that SO shared the user generated data. We at TwoToReal.com benefit a lot from it (http://twotoreal.com/site/credits/)!

New comment by derpapst in "Convore (YCW11) is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses"

derpapst — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:45:55 +0000

Any ideas/opinions why XMPP's mult-user chat (MUC) is still not widely used?

New comment by derpapst in "Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow"

derpapst — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:50:55 +0000

That's a totally valid point, gbelote. Nevertheless, there will always be questions where you don't know you to frame a question - even after having searched around for a while.

E.g.: if you are new to Linux and X doesn't start - how could you ask if you are new to the whole field? A bit of guidance by an expert could help in 5min. And then, sometimes it is just like the xkcd strip at http://www.twotoreal.com/site/about/

I view it as a last resort - after SO/Quora/etc. could not help.

New comment by derpapst in "Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow"

derpapst — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:23:37 +0000

The article nailed it. Chances are that the world of QA sites is switching from narcism based reputation systems to the real web currency: user attention. That is, if I spend some of my attention on your problem, the system will remember it the next time I have a question.

This is what I am doing with http://www.TwoToReal.com: Unlike SO/Quora/etc. it is a synchronous QA site for questions where you didn't get an answer on the the former QA sites. As it works by pulling in other expert users into a real-time web chat, I had to be very careful to find a reasonable trade-off between disturbing the expert (i.e. asking another user by IM to participate) and benefiting the questioner. Rule-of-thumb at TwoToReal: the more you are allowing yourself to be "disturbed" the more will be asked for participation the next time you have a question. Soon it will allow you to "invest" more of your attention on one question by letting the system pull in more than one expert. Thus the currency of attention.

New comment by derpapst in "How to lose time and money"

derpapst — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:57:24 +0000

That's why my wife and I abandoned TV long time ago. First week was hard, but after that we have always been happy with how we spend our time.

My Grand Experiment: Turning Off AdWords

derpapst — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:06:41 +0000

Article URL: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/my-grand-experiment-turning-off-adwords-2/?ref=business

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219380

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by derpapst in "Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams"

derpapst — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:29:47 +0000

Could even open a market of such bots for you: Customers of Grove.io could then offer their bots in your IRC bot market place ... but now I'm just dreaming ;-)

New comment by derpapst in "Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams"

derpapst — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:21:49 +0000

Not sure whether it is in your vision as well, but wouldn't it be cool if Grove.io offered a library of such IRC agents in the same manner as HuBot from GitHub?

New comment by derpapst in "Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams"

derpapst — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:00:26 +0000

Cool idea. However, I am missing the method to auto-group chats by topic. Would be nice to have it with IRC.

Currently, I am doing that (not with IRC, but with Jabber/XMPP) via my side-project http://TwoToReal.com (beta): You ask questions (or raise topics) for which automatically determined experts are then pulled in via IM into a real-time web chat (most of the knobs/switches are tuned by machine learning).

What are your pricing plans?

New comment by derpapst in "Git is exploding"

derpapst — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:38:28 +0000

Indeed. E.g., I am using git for more projects than I use mercurial. To these projects, however, I just submitted a limited number of change sets. Most heavily I am using mercurial instead, which I also would choose for future projects. Maybe it would more accurate to measure the number of submissions per time interval.

When you know that you had success

derpapst — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:22:19 +0000

Article URL: http://postimage.org/image/2hxaeares/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079521

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by derpapst in "Why Germany seems not to want a quick fix for the euro crisis"

derpapst — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:35:19 +0000

Zwieback - that's the coolest alias I've seen for a long time :-D Are you plattdeutsch?

New comment by derpapst in "Why Germany seems not to want a quick fix for the euro crisis"

derpapst — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:45:57 +0000

Also interesting that the Economist continues to come up with the same kind of story every week. Just check the last Economist links that were posted on HN over tha last weeks and you will see that they all have the same message. To be honest, I would expect them to be more diverse.

New comment by derpapst in "Why Germany seems not to want a quick fix for the euro crisis"

derpapst — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:41:12 +0000

One of the many reasons we got that far the global crisis is probably the reactive attitude "jump when the markets tell you so". As a German I find it comforting that our chancellor is not of that kind. One can criticize many points, but one has to agree that she does not fear head wind. Would be nice to have more politicians of her kind in Germany.