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by LrnByTeach 8y ago
I completely agree with this Analysis. Having said that, my gut feeling is that SO "Teams" product will succeed in enterprise (& small companies). Managers love if their employees take time to create "Summary pages"
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
Thanks for the writeup, great summary of all most all Bootcamps fundamental problems. > The problem with the bootcamp gold rush is and has always been the business model. You have a few major variables: > 1. How much can a person pay
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
I guess , most of the programmers experience these two approaches ( at any given time only one approach) > "discovering how to program a thing" and "programming something you already understand".
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
CEO Gibbon talk sums it up. - prematurely scaled, charging deep discount price of $5 with the help of $65 Million VC money. Looking back, Gibbon says that “the investment we took, everything we got, wasn’t warranted for where the business
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
the crux of Technical Debt is captured in these 2 points > the right balance comes with not just engineering experience, but also domain experience, team maturity/talent, market/competitive pressures, leadership, and culture. &
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
I totally agree with this assessment. This is the reason lots of people learning programming try few months of Javascript/Ruby , then they got stuck to solve any real life programming problem. The reason is that they have not mastered
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
> The amount of micro-management that goes into most programmers day to day work makes it extremely hard to be innovative, because you essentially have to justify what you're working on daily -- and any creative person knows that no
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
I think these two points captures the challenges for the AI to match primitive human abilities . >just how much we take for granted in that comes "out of the box" with a human brain. Humans can build associations with very few
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Uber co-founder Garrett Camp is creating a new cryptocurrency(techcrunch.com)
3 points by LrnByTeach 9y ago|0 comments
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
This "choose Two" mantra captures essence of tradeoffs among the modern popular programming languages Go, Python, Java, C++, C, JavaScript > Simplicity, speed, abstraction: Choose two https://cs.stackexchange.com&#x
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
It seems the ability of this tool to extract features from regular enterprise databases will save lots of manual effort Github repo url https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools Python notebook for NYC Taxi 1.5 mill
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Automated Feature Engineering(featurelabs.com)
3 points by LrnByTeach 9y ago|1 comments
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
The problem with this "no more than N hours a day" is that - For parents it is hard to implement N hours/day on long term basis ( parents may be able to do for a week or month) - The parental control tools are too narrow in s
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
carpenter 2,000 years a very good analogy with quality of code. This is very good reward system for developers . placing a premium on “skills learned or perfected” over “bugs closed or features implemented” > We aren’t dealing with anyt
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
That is interesting one. Backing up - and looking at it years later gives you a perspective on your thinking process in the past years Delete - leaves lean set of Todos to focus on, without blogging down by laundry list of old things. &gt
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
Here is the tweet that sums itup (a credible source: VC firm A16z partner) https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/958765216338132992 Tencent Credit has been rolled out nationwide in China: a score of 300-850 points
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China unveils digital ID card linked to Tencent’s WeChat(ft.com)
23 points by LrnByTeach 9y ago|6 comments
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
Thank you very much for the clear explanation for MCTS Vs. vanilla policy gradient >In vanilla policy gradient, one plays the game to the end and then bumps the probability of all actions taken by the agent up (if AlphaGo won) or down (i
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
This is text book ponzi scheme . > it was quite literally just a bare-bones ponzi scheme, where you deposit your money (Bitcoin) on their website, buy their token, 'lock' your funds for some amount of time, and you are promised
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
good list for generating model data / fake data
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
The term "shares" is used here in loose sense, all these are coins/tokens . All these companies behind this coins/tokens have no "paid" employee or assets and no legal registration ( for the coin itself) so the
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
not just "Many" , All of these 1400 coins listed on this site except couple of them are "being used as shares to circumvent securities law" https://coinmarketcap.com/ >Yes many tokens are being used a
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
This Leverage concept can be applied to a family . Instead of YOU, as head of household putting more hours to solve Home chores/issues, if you teach other 3 members of your family how to solve issues/do chores , you get 3X return
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
>It really hammers home how hard it is to disentangle good & bad advice and > how easy it is for an outsider looking into to really underestimate the depth of someone else's expertise in a given domain.
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
This captures what is Banks interest in blockchain in a nutshell > Banks want to use Blockchain as a more reliable alternative to SWIFT it won’t be doing actual account settlements which in your case you mentioned corresponding banking.
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
> 1. Startup builds thing fast in dynamic language because they need to optimize for development speed and iteration, not maintainability or scalability. > 3. Repeat for some years and some hundreds of engineers and you arrive at this
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
>Bitcoin community has changed tone. > It used to be "this is the currency of the future, down with cash/Visa!" > but now you hear "Bitcoin is not a currency, it's a store of value".
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/world/welfare-as-japan-kno... Scholars say that the system in Japan almost never breeds dependence, and they suggest that the Japanese approach has emphasized the work e
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
Interesting numbers !!! > US gov revenue is 3.31 trillion and the population size is 323.1 million. Which leaves about $10244 per capita to play with. > How would a BI work, give people $7k per year and save 3k for military and basic
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by LrnByTeach 9y ago
Very well said, Both of these comments , capture the essence of STATE of Crypto trading unregulated markets of today . > I've always laughed watching the cultist end of the crypto community up on their imaginary moral high horses ta

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