NotAnOtter

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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Not particularly.
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Ask HN: Thoughts on adding utilities that aren't immediately needed?
3 points by NotAnOtter 1y ago|7 comments
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Of course not. They would never do that. Industry has a good track record of this.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
This is super cool. It seems to break for ranges including 0 though 100 / -1~1 = -3550~3500 I think the most correct answer here is -inf~inf
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Your overall point might be correct but your example does not prove your point. A Makrov chain is just the path taken through the course of a markov process. The terms 'chain' and 'process' are sometimes conflated in thi
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
There is such a thing. Basically every popular language has a mutation-testing frameworks. It's pretty common for large scale projects.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Given how simple Water is and how readily available it's components are, it's inevitable there are many planets with vast oceans.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Photoshop is a stretch.. that's more like MS paint in terms of feature parity.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Isn't this like 1/2 the appeal of living in rural America though? Way out there, on your own. Fewer creature comforts, more getting stuff done on your own. No paying the connivence fee associated with cities, having everything nea
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Having been on both sides of the equation, including at FAANG, I would say 'just enough' for it to be disadvantageous to lie. I mean it's not like we're studying the resume and looking for inconstancies. Generally I just
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Well IMO if you're giving some trivial level of credit someone else, you should use 'we', since you're both 'talking. If you reference them by name in the paper somewhere, I feel even stronger about my stance.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
...Right.. unoptimized bubble sort.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Right there with you.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
It's assumed you at some point talked to someone in the lab, or your advisor, or your advisee, or literally anyone about the paper. If you didn't that's probably problematic. So "we" gives non-formal credit to your
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
This isn't even worthy of a blog post let alone a published research article, the publisher should be embarrassed. This isn't an innovation. It's just un-optimized bubble sort. Back in college when I was learning bubble sort,
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
A chess site I'm calling 'Chess Derivatives' with modified rules to reinforce best practice. I'm still tweaking the specifics but the basic pitch is this Augmented Chess: Normal chess with conventional ELO ranking syste
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
I bit of UX tweaking and this could see a lot of traction as a snarky reply, a la "Let me google that for you".
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Funnily enough you can learn lots of things when you read books.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
He was a top-tier scientists but kinda disgraceful in every other aspect of his life. Womanizer is a polite way of saying it, I would choose harsher words. He was also just generally a jerk to the people around him. Think Edison, more than
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
He is known for being a bad ass scientists and super slick with the ladies. Many decades later we say more accurately, he was a bad ass scientist who either sexually harassed or straight up raped most of his female mentees and was generally
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Feynman should not be celebrated.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
I'm not claiming college kids can't build products. But in general, if you're buying the cheapest labor you can find, you're going to get an inferior product.
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
When I was in college, I was asked to be a founding engineer. The other two involved were business guys that were pursing a $1Mil grant and needed the MVP in 9 months. I asked for 33% and they laughed me off. A few months later I saw many s
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Ask HN: People that write blog posts – why?
5 points by NotAnOtter 2y ago|4 comments
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
Came here to do a worse job of writing this comment. Terrain generation via water simulations are cool, except they don't work for the primary use cases for terrain generation. Water simulations are inherently slow you have to choose t
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
I like analogy's like this. Not in love with this specific one. It feels like OP thought of the first two hats and then tried to think up other hats, rather than have the nebulas idea of different ways of working and structured the ana
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
I agree this is the best route for my own personal happiness. But I'm just not really willing to be complacent anymore
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
One example is something like this: https://trumptracker.github.io/ I'm hoping for things more impactful than yet another dashboard but something is better than nothing
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Ask HN: What can we do to support change in the US with our skillset?
3 points by NotAnOtter 2y ago|5 comments
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by NotAnOtter 2y ago
> However, developers hate email. My perspective is every form of communication bears certain unspoken rules / implications. * Email - This is a serious thought out discussion * Slack / Similar in a shared channel - This is off

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