"Sorry I was late for dinner, I got stuck in a local minimum"
Peyman Milanfar
8,380 posts
Peyman Milanfar
@docmilanfar
Distinguished Scientist at Google. National Academy of Engineering. Computational Imaging ∩ AI. Posts are personal opinions
Joined February 2014
- at a conference where you don’t have to present
- Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 🧵 1/4
- product managers in eng meetings
- My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box 1/2
- Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons have been hacked to hilarious effect
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00:00 - product manager in eng meeting
- Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy a home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 1/4
