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by 2sk21 6y ago
I got a PhD so I started a bit late but I do not regret spending my 20s as a grad student. At least when I started working, a PhD came in useful. I should note that this was a long time ago so my advice may be less relevant today. In genera
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Except that searching through email was a lot easier than searching for something in Slack. Important conversations would be scattered all throughout slack. I had a notes file in which I would store URLs for these important messages. I just
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by 2sk21 6y ago
At two companies where I have worked recently (IBM and a small startup), Slack quickly displaced email. Email was hardly used in either organization.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I bought a RadioShack scanner in 1993. I found that even though 800-900 MHz was blanked out, reflections of cellphone signals were clearly audible! Back in the early 90s, sitting in my house, I was able to listen to cell phone conversions f
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Yes - a blog in other words!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Is this in any way to the problem of quadrature of the lune? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lune_of_Hippocrates
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I love this idea!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Out of curiosity is there any possibility that the new Microsoft Flight Simulator could ever run on Linux?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
What a stupid self-goal by Facebook!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I just "won" my endgame :-) I recently retired after working 29 years in software development. I was always very well paid but a notch below the FAANG-level. I always focused relentlessly on achieving financial independence by sav
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Mind boggling! Such gems are why HN can be so much fun :-)
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Same opinion - I have mostly used Slack as a chat tool and it works very nicely for that
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Interesting but doesn't allocation get slower as the heap increases?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Not very technical but absolutely essential reading. This book is the main reason I became a programmer.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I agree but the key is to get test results quickly. A five day delay in getting test results (which is common) seems to imply that an infectious patient may have already done their worst spreading by the time they start quarantining.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You are correct. It's very much possible to improve scores by practice. By simply taking a lot of practice tests over the summer, my daughter was able to substantially improve her AC
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by 2sk21 6y ago
We had an LMI machine in my department (competitor to symbolics) - and it was no better either. It hardly ever worked and was scrapped soon after it was bought. According to the system admin, the machine was very temperature sensitive and w
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by 2sk21 6y ago
And there is a security aspect to this design decision too - if a way can be found to inject arbitrary code into one of these microcontrollers, all kinds of access will be opened.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
And TCL: "everything is a string"
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by 2sk21 6y ago
You are right. I got caught in the wave of excitement after the Rumelhart, McLelland and Hinton PDP book chapter of 1986. But as you say, there were a lot of things that had already been done in NN going back to perceptrons. My first exposu
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Over the years, I have acquired a fair number of citations for my papers which were mostly published in IEEE Transactions in Neural Networks. But I am certain that my work did not inspire any magazine articles - the field was considered too
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by 2sk21 6y ago
When I graduated, there were absolutely no jobs in machine learning and I used to get blank looks when I told people about my work. Fortunately, I was able to get a job in the systems field and worked there for many years. I was able to get
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I got one of the earliest PhDs in neural networks (in 1992!), and my dissertation about improving back propagation. Even though I actually saw how well it worked, I somehow had no faith in the technology as it seemed like a toy due to the h
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I know exactly the IBM Research group you are referring to but won't name names to avoid embarrassment :-) Politics in large organizations can be pretty nasty.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Wasn't this the aim of Hadoop as well? Also, to be fair, IBM wasn't able to do much with any of the companies they acquired in the same timeframe as Blekko. I was working at IBM at that time and witnessed this first hand.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Fascinating video that answered my question about why bother replicating 30 year old hardware. I had no idea that vintage hardware was going for such high prices. This is becoming similar to the classic car market. I see an analogy with com
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Interesting - I didn't realize that AirPods have class-D amps.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Same here. I used an app called RoomScan Lidar on my iPad Pro to obtain very accurate plans of some rooms in my house that we are planning to renovate. Lidar is a real game changer for such applications.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
You are so correct! Knowledge that I have acquired just for the love of it has given me the greatest value in my career.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I'm really amazed to see this here - I was his student back in the 1980s when he was a professor at Syracuse University. I implemented the virtual machine for his language Joyce which a hybrid of Tony Hoare's CSP with a Pascal syn

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