LeetHacks

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by LeetHacks 4y ago
Yes, the AI was wrong and output was blindly accepted. There's no evidence migration background was a good predictor of fraud. The government was warned multiple times what they were doing was both illigal and ineffective. And even if
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by LeetHacks 4y ago
No, the law allows for technological innovation if the usb group proposes a new connector, or if the industry wants to move to another connector. It will require some lobbying though, but the big tech companies are well skilled in that.
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by LeetHacks 4y ago
Plenty cheap boards out there with Cherry MX mechanical switches. A first board doesn't have to cost more than $100, maybe even towards $70 dollar range. Buy secondhand and you can go even lower. Go for Cherry MX Switches. Want clicky
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by LeetHacks 4y ago
Because at the end of the day PayPal is better for the average consumer than a solution where somebody needs to handle a private key. A lot of tech savvy people lost money due to losing their keys. Now imagine the disaster if your mother n
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by LeetHacks 4y ago
I am very against the idea that somebody with a PhD is the only one that can do a certain kind of work. But I am ofcourse biased given that you call me out. Creative and critical thinking is not exclusive to people with a PhD. The ability t
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by LeetHacks 4y ago
It highly depends. I was hired for a small research group that didn't have a product in production. Got hired for programming, was on the table discussing and contributing to research within a couple months without any background in ML
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Where to find fully remote companies?
15 points by LeetHacks 5y ago|6 comments
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by LeetHacks 5y ago
Maybe have a chat with them and explain how it's affecting you? If you are not comfortable having a chat like that you need to play it via an intermediate like HR, but remember that HR only acts in the companies interest. I am not alwa
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by LeetHacks 5y ago
Very early on in the pandemic one research group opensourced "COVID-Net", using the described flawed dataset. Given the fact that at that time there was still quite a lot of "if we all help we can beat the pandemic" posi
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by LeetHacks 5y ago
If properly done, that approach would most likely generate a model that works really well and detects COVID for the right reasons. Put it out in the wild and it breaks down again because all radiologist would have to use the exact same meth
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by LeetHacks 5y ago
It hurts me that some people seem to consider this a luxury position. I completely wrecks me, to the point where I wished every day that a semi would drive me off the road and end it all. Switching jobs makes these thoughts go away instantl