Ftuuky

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by Ftuuky 8y ago
I loved 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'. Do you have any book suggestions on that style? Japanese or not, I just wanted more of that weird cyberpunk/magic realism vibe.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
What would you all recommend as a good book in forecasting and time series analysis using Python?
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Haven't seen the video yet but by the gifs I saw on twitter it looks like he didn't even inhale.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Hey, your name refers to the ill-fated Portuguese king, right? I'd love to pick your brain on a few things related to daytrading, could we talk at your best convenience? I'm @Ftuuky on Twitter and Telegram, Monteiro on Keybase. T
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
I'm the same. I keep progressing through this sci-fi story as a spaceship captain.
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What makes TPUs fine-tuned for deep learning?(cloud.google.com)
3 points by Ftuuky 8y ago|0 comments
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
This is why the bank where I work developed its own OCR software (and translation and entity recognition, etc.). It simply couldn't afford to have these kind of leaks.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
12 hours later and still doesn't work for me
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Came here to say that. How come no other tutorial or MOOC on pandas mentions that? It's so useful.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
>At some point after I read the Hays translation, I picked up another translation of Marcus — probably one by George Long or A. S. L. Farquharson, that was free online. I was immediately struck by how the beautiful, lyrical book I loved
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Why read cyberpunk books when we're already oppressed by algorithms everyday?
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
You can also easily obtain summary statistics and ANOVAs, etc, in Excel with a few clicks.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
In a similar way, I know a lot of people who do their best to not look good for a promotion. Most of them are coders that do not want to stop programming and start managing teams.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
So much this. The wake call was Naval Ravikant on a podcast (Tim Ferriss I think?) that said something like "don't be afraid to stop reading a book if you're not enjoying it. If it's non-fiction it's okay to skip fo
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
I've only had one panic attack in my life and it was out of nowhere as well. I was riding the subway and suddenly I had this urge to run away, as if I was late for something but didn't know what. I got out of the subway and just c
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
My mother had insomnia and her doctor prescribed some benzo (can't remember which) 3 times per day . She would take one in the morning and spend the rest of the day sleeping or calling random people with super weird conversations. I w
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Portugal and Spain signed a similar agreement.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
The solution? Blockchain. /s
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
I graduated in anthropology. In the last year of the course was doing Erasmus in Brno, Czech Republic with a friend and we both noticed that a forensic software tool used by all forensic anthropologists for biological profiling was really b
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Exactly, it's just some dude having fun with sabermetrics.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
They attribute the concept of "divide and rule" to Phillip II of Macedon, Alexander's father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
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Napoleon Was the Best General Ever(towardsdatascience.com)
135 points by Ftuuky 8y ago|122 comments
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
Do you have examples?
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
In my country (Portugal) they do prepare my taxes and so far I can't complain. Even if something wrong happens you can file for appropriate compensation. Any payment is concluded in less than 2 weeks.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
That link name is probably the reason why corporate proxy blocked it.
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by Ftuuky 8y ago
BNP Paribas still used Lotus Notes in some departments. And every year it pays a lot of money to COBOL consultants as well.
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For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students(nytimes.com)
2 points by Ftuuky 8y ago|0 comments
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That's almost the plot of the tv show Utopia.
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Ask HN: How would you solve climate change?
6 points by Ftuuky 8y ago|9 comments
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SpaceX organizes inaugural conference to plan landings on Mars(arstechnica.com)
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