JamilD

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by JamilD 10y ago
You can trivially modify their example to be 1.02003000400005... cycling through the digits and the argument still holds. As another commenter pointed out, pi is not proven to be normal, but is suspected to be.
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by JamilD 10y ago
Seconded. It's one of the few good 'classic' AI courses with videos available to the public, though personally I prefer Patrick Winston's 6.034. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63gFHB6xb-
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by JamilD 10y ago
I have a hard time believing that a chess computer wouldn't draw this game… the main issue is in the centipawn evaluation function which would show black ahead. This doesn't seem like a difficult thing to correct, and it might not
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by JamilD 10y ago
The GO Train is probably my favorite commuter rail service. People line up properly at the doors, it's never too crowded, it's clean, there aren't delays very often, and it's generally civilized.
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by JamilD 10y ago
"A lot of power" 2/50 senators = 4% 55/538 electoral votes = 10.2% Compared to: Population = 13% of US GDP = 15% of US
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by JamilD 10y ago
Many workers in the Central Valley do commute to the Bay Area or LA. http://kvpr.org/post/two-hour-daily-commute-thousands-valley...
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by JamilD 10y ago
Exactly -- the HSR Authority is investing heavily in upgrades to Caltrain and Metrolink; they provide tangible benefits to commuters in the cities while building the infrastructure they need to run the high-speed trains in the cities. They
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by JamilD 10y ago
Support for amnesty and lighter policies against undocumented immigrants comes from both sides of the aisle in CA -- a significant portion of California's economy comes from agriculture in the Central Valley, and almost 100% of the wor
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A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck(nytimes.com)
115 points by JamilD 10y ago|162 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
That's true, it's really helped with the fundamentals - but most of my domain-specific knowledge comes from self-study.
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by JamilD 10y ago
The bigger accusation the article makes is that Levandowski made a deal with Uber to create a startup with Waymo's stolen data, that would later be acquired by Uber. So Otto was essentially just a vessel for that stolen data, created s
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by JamilD 10y ago
I'm so glad that something like "one course at a time" exists. I've been thinking about this a lot recently -- I start a semester excited and eager to learn, but end it off just knowing the basics at a mediocre level, ju
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Caltrain and the Politicization of Transit(smdailyjournal.com)
3 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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How should our kids play at recess? Alameda schools offer lessons(sfchronicle.com)
34 points by JamilD 10y ago|22 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
You can choose to regulate speech on your own property or site (just like HN does). You cannot vandalize someone else's property and infringe on their rights because you don't like what they say. There's no equivalence betwee
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by JamilD 10y ago
It's also worth noting - for those that will inevitably use this to defend driving - that the environmental effects of cars extend way past dioxide emissions.
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by JamilD 10y ago
In Santa Clara County they have a pretty strong vision for more transit-oriented development, for the Milpitas and Berryessa Stations [0]. We'll see if that actually happens though, it seems like a lot of those East Bay stations are ju
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by JamilD 10y ago
The BART union contract only allows employees to bid on station postings twice a year.
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by JamilD 10y ago
The VTA is undergoing a complete overhaul of their bus schedules [0], in anticipation of the Milpitas and Berryessa BART station openings, which will happen later this year. After that, there'll be express buses from both stations to D
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by JamilD 10y ago
It'll also be nice if we see neighborhoods that pop up similar to what's on the Caltrain corridor, like in Burlingame or Mountain View. Really nice, walkable areas with lots of retail and housing.
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by JamilD 10y ago
It really depends on what you want, though. I'd rather be in a coliving space in San Francisco than in a big house in suburbia outside the Bay Area. As people's priorities and expected standards of living change, so does the marke
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by JamilD 10y ago
Many tech employees come from Iran; it's a country of engineers and mathematicians. Both my supervising postdocs in my research positions were born there.
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by JamilD 10y ago
I've travelled to the US 20+ times over the past two years; I really don't mind going through TSA or US Customs, I have an Arabic first name and I'm a visible minority (Indian). Never had any major issues at the border or dur
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Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the First Travel Ban(fortune.com)
106 points by JamilD 10y ago|55 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
Another commenter mentioned that much of the code was taken from a tutorial [0], so it might be worth checking that out :) It goes step by step with commented code and explanations. [0] https://pythonspot.com/personal-assist
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by JamilD 10y ago
It's interesting that this got so many upvotes so quickly, despite it being something similar to what (I'm sure) most of us wrote when we first started learning about computers and programming. Maybe there's just a demand for
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The Electric Car Rush Started Too Early(bloomberg.com)
1 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (2009) [pdf](static.googleusercontent.com)
1 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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Beautiful and imperfect: Woodworking the slow way thrives in a San Jose woodshop(kalw.org)
1 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
Let me end off by saying there's a difference between being "fine" and "exceptional". If you're content with the former, then that's okay, no problem there -- cutting off immigration will be okay. America

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