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Nearly 40 percent of tech workers in the Bay Area are looking to move elsewhere(bizjournals.com)
1 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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New ‘Lyft Shuttle’ service may be direct competitor to Public Transit(sfexaminer.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
“I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Peggy Udden, an executive secretary at MIT. “Not only because she was so young, but a girl.” Hah, this comes across as incredibly patronizing. Seriously though, whenever someone in a position of authority
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Geoff Hinton to Lead Toronto-Based Vector Institute(thestar.com)
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by JamilD 10y ago
I find that in cities near the border, Canadian and US coins are interchangeable and usually accepted at par. In Toronto there are a fair amount of US coins in circulation, and I've never had an issue using them here. Helps that each o
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Inside Uber’s self-driving car mess(recode.net)
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When people leave the Bay Area, where do they go?(sfgate.com)
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Failure to Act: America's Infrastructure Problem(strongtowns.org)
33 points by JamilD 10y ago|5 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
JetBlue codeshares with Emirates, who flies to Dubai. JetBlue is a relatively small, mostly domestic airline without any widebody planes. American doesn't fly to any Middle Eastern cities but they partner with both Etihad and Qatar, wh
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by JamilD 10y ago
That was my first thought too. After reading the document, it's pretty clear he acted with intent. He visited websites to figure out how to make images that trigger seizures, clearly created the gif for maximum impact and chance of a s
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by JamilD 10y ago
I'd argue that criticizing a new President for taking bad policies even further isn't misguided.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I'm convinced this ban is motivated by a protectionist desire from the US-based airlines, to dissuade business travelers from flying on Middle Eastern airlines like Emirates and Qatar, which necessarily transit through countries like t
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by JamilD 10y ago
I couldn't see any info about the founders or their company on the website, but it looks like the company is Tizeti Network Services, founded by Kendall Ananyi and Ifeanyi Okonkwo: https://www.tizeti.com/
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by JamilD 10y ago
That's in line with the question that was asked: "The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say y
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by JamilD 10y ago
I hear a lot of complaints about SF being too tech-centric and monocultural. This is only true if you segregate yourself from the SF natives and the vibrant, diverse community that's existed before the tech booms and busts of the past
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by JamilD 10y ago
Spotify has partnered with telecoms, newspapers, and others to provide bundled subscriptions -- inflating their "paid" subscriber amount. A good chunk of those 50m aren't paying $10/mo; they've expanded their partne
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by JamilD 10y ago
It's interesting that a lot of added constraints mirror "real-world" scenarios. We don't have an intrinsic global co-ordinate system, and brevity/laziness is generally rewarded (which results in Zipf's Law in n
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by JamilD 10y ago
You don't need to focus on just one side or the other. AlphaGo wasn't made by just hacking together a couple neural nets, it built on heuristic search, MCTS, and the "old-school" AI. I agree that basic statistics + Bisho
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by JamilD 10y ago
Firstly, I don't think you can dive straight into coding without understanding the fundamentals. AI is such a broad and rich field, and there's a lot you need to know before you start. It also depends on what you're going to
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by JamilD 10y ago
And if your bot is sufficiently spammy, it could end up diluting your own authority!
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by JamilD 10y ago
The way they phrase it is suspect though. It's not "the system deployed in a test environment", it's "a simulated system built ... to resemble fleet systems""
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by JamilD 10y ago
That's what I was thinking too. Looking back at Apollo, it seems like they were far more willing to tolerate a higher % risk. What changed? The lack of competition with the USSR? A general shift in our culture?
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by JamilD 10y ago
Even taking into consideration cost of labour, it seems like US manufacturing and infrastructure costs are excessively bloated. Is there any way to reduce it while still maintaining an acceptable level of risk?
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by JamilD 10y ago
I've been wondering this too. Many people I know are avoiding the YC/startup scene because it seems to be for the "cool" kids who know how to talk their way through something, and not those who are actually technically c
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by JamilD 10y ago
In aviation, feet are exclusively used, except in Russia and China.
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by JamilD 10y ago
Which is an unfair comparison to make in the first place. Waterloo is an hour and a half away from downtown Toronto -- further than SJ from SF.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I'm exaggerating of course. Born and raised in Toronto. It's more an inconvenience, not wanting to spend much time outside in the winter. I think everybody generally goes out less in the winter months -- it's a problem you do
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by JamilD 10y ago
I've lived and worked in both Toronto and Silicon Valley, and it's not even close. SV has a way better quality of life than Toronto, even for the marginally higher rent. I paid $2600 for a two bedroom in San Jose -- split that wit
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Facebook, the world’s most addictive drug(economist.com)
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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to Pitch Universal Healthcare for California(sacbee.com)
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