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imnotadoctor999 commented on Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home inc.com/scott-mautz/a-2-y... · Posted by u/mpweiher

chrisan · 7 years ago

Ya I don’t think I’ve ever been in a “corporate culture” that wasn’t a facade.

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

In your view, is there a difference between micromanaging authorian culture compared to a consensus-driven culture where the employees all trust each other?

I've seen several different companies from the insidr, and each one has had vastly different cultures. Usually it is an implementation of the CEO/upper management's views of what "corporate culture" is. There's still usually a facade, but that facade is not necessarily disingenuous.

imnotadoctor999 commented on Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/gorbachev

komali2 · 7 years ago

I bet one hundred dollars that if I tried to login to my old Skype account right now, it would take an hour to figure out how the fuck to reset my password, because"Microsoft account" bullshit.

I bet it would take me three hours to make a new account, for the same reason.

Try making an account for Microsoft's iot cloud thing. Good luck.

Edit: https://youtu.be/lfby-SOWWqQ

So, holy shit, somehow it auto populated maybe using Google smart Lock, and logged me straight in... To an account I don't remember ever creating. No contacts or anything so it's not my old legacy account. Lemme see about logging in on my old one

Edit2: guess it's time for me to eat my own words. I definitely remember this being an absolute nightmare. Turns out the hardest part was accessing my decade and a half old Yahoo account https://youtu.be/QVLz08OiMGk all my old contacts are lost though :( bye bye old WoW guildmates

I do maintain that the iot site is garbage and I still can't log in or create an account on it.

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

I thought I was the only one suffering with this!

imnotadoctor999 commented on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone ai.googleblog.com/2018/05... · Posted by u/ivank

Kalium · 7 years ago

Yes!

This is an API that requires no computer on the user's end and is portable across different implementations from different companies.

It's not ideal. Actual standardized APIs are better. But, uh, have you ever worked with industry standard APIs? I have, and standardized is not how I would describe them.

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

I still think there's a need for standardized APIs in this situation. At some point, the context constraints mentioned in the blog post have to get translated into some action with parameters. I'm guessing that action will be API calls to other Google products behind the Duplex Google Assistant UX.

"Ok Google, can you reschedule my Dr. Appointment this Friday for next week? I have a conflict." -> calls the Dr and reschedules -> adapts result to rebooking action with partners (ie, an api call to your Google calendar) -> applies action and responds to you.

There is still quite a bit missing from this to be a useful AI product. It's getting really close though. I can't wait until this makes it into Google Assistant and it can call a restaurant to ask about gluten free options while I'm driving.

imnotadoctor999 commented on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone ai.googleblog.com/2018/05... · Posted by u/ivank

sametmax · 7 years ago

Phone calls are necessary for anything that needs flexibility.

Coding flexibility in a website is incredibly hard.

Think about it. A restaurant doesn't have anything veggie on the menu, a last minute guest arrives and is veggie. You call to ask if there is something that can be done.

It's possible to code that, but it's a lot of work to get all the scenarios right.

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

Yes! Voice/conversations leads to a fundamentally different UX.

imnotadoctor999 commented on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone ai.googleblog.com/2018/05... · Posted by u/ivank

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

This is truly amazing work! Congrats Google for achieving this :)

imnotadoctor999 commented on Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2 course.fast.ai/part2.html... · Posted by u/mlboss

gcmac · 7 years ago

Not Jeremy (obviously) but having taken both versions of the course I would definitely recommend jumping into the 2018 version. The core content is the same (image recognition, recommender systems, NLP) but the 2018 version uses more cutting edge tools and has a tighter feel (as a v2 of anything usually does).

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

The field is changing so quickly, but fast.ai is always ahead of the curve teaching modern techniques! Hats off to them for being able to keep up, AND share that with others.

imnotadoctor999 commented on How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data source.opennews.org/artic... · Posted by u/akras14

robotkdick · 7 years ago

I worked in entertainment, so I had much incentive to stay.

The main factor was stress, which was causing me health issues. I transitioned to tech, and now my wife and I both work remotely, so we searched a bunch of cities with airports nearby on the West Coast, and chose an arean north of San Diego.

Our blood tests both show a marked improvement in health, and my issues (gout mainly) have gone away completely.

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

+1 for the area north of SD improving health!

imnotadoctor999 commented on Does growing up poor harm brain development? economist.com/news/united... · Posted by u/johnny313

dyeje · 7 years ago

Really? So, you have Child A and Child B.

Child A - Wealthy upbringing - Always full on nutritious food - Elite, private schooling - Live in a stable, loving home

Child B - Poor upbringing - Almost always hungry, only able to eat cheap calorie dense foods - Public, underfunded inner city school - Shuffled around between foster homes

You think that the deciding factor for these examples would be their desire and drive? I don't, and I think the science out there agrees with me when I say poverty has numerous adverse effects on how a human turns out.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f16e/845b8222cb92541902c19b...https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528798/https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1196/an...https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/policy-brief/how-poverty-and-dep...http://www.apa.org/pi/families/poverty.aspx

imnotadoctor999 · 7 years ago

Wow, thanks for those references.