RogerL

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Robustly tracking and localizing very small objects in high clutter environments using computer vision.
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There is a continuum between pre-commit and push to production. You can push to integration, push to QA, push to nightly build, and so on. I'm highly skeptical of code reviews as the way to find bugs. I think code reviews have other
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They exist: https://www.nostarch.com/catalog/manga
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A lot of this is done in discrete math. You know, the actual probability is defined by this integral, but there is no closed form solution to the integral, so we do sums to find the approximate answer. Anyone can understand sums. And, it&#x
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As the author notes, Emacs was an example. The browser interface is terrible. We use bug tracking software. JIRA. It's horrible. Click here, click there, this screen closes, that one opens, this thing is over here. Ugh. It is just a cl
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I think this link botches the explanation for 51%. 51% is because of precession, as explained in the paper[1]. With enough precession the coin will always come up heads if it starts out heads. That's how magicians control coin tosses
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This is some of the best advice available on HN. Don't (just) read books. Put down the highlighter. Explain them. Get in front of a whiteboard and explain it to an imaginary audience. Imagine the questions you get back. Try to answer t
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I think it is simpler than Python, all things considered.
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Aliasing, for one. Plus, array's are a first class feature in Fortran. "But Eigen!" you retort. Sure, except this library I want to use uses MTL4, this other library that I need uses uBlas, and this other one uses MKL. Ouch,
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As another poster already said, Ada fulfills all of the requirements, and you can trivially write reusable code in it.
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I know people that make a very good living at it. But, like anything, you have to find the 'nice' positions, and that comes from knowing something critical to a business that almost no one else knows. You can name your price then.
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We don't try to rehabilitate people in US prisons, or treat them like humans with problems. All we know how to do is lock people away in hopes of either breaking them or at least just keeping them far away from us. It's our only t
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Amazon has interviewed my cat's mouse toy. And companies never share why they turn you down. I really wouldn't read much into this.
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It's up to you, but it sounds like you would in large degree saving the company. That means you have a high value. But, what do you want? Do you want this job? If it wasn't interesting then, would it be interesting now? Are you be
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"shouldn't be" is in the eye of the beholder. None of my input is in the range where a+b generates an overflow. I "shouldn't" have to pay for something I am not using - overflow detection. If you want to pay
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Others have answered why, here is the 'what would happen'. Heat your CPU up by pointing a hair dryer at it (you may want to treat this as a thought experiment as you could destroy your computer). At some point it begins to fail be
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Buy coffee, dump it out.
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This sounds like a fantastic idea. I was in that market for most of my career, and it is filled with extremely competent people with resumes that don't convey much. The "you want to see the code I worked on? Uh, that's a felo
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There is a large fine per call because robocallers are relentless at skirting and flat out breaking the law. This is so common. Each time I moved I ended up getting endless debt collection calls on the new line. If you can even talk to a
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If you mean what I think you mean I think that is unworkable for most of us. Drop your car off at the shop for some work. Mechanic calls you from his cell phone because it's handy and the shop line is tied up. You never get it. Or scho
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Curious - have you done a sleep study? You may just be getting very low quality sleep due to sleep apnea or the like.
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Python is used in a vast amount of scientific codes. I do a very significant chunk of my work in Python. And heck, I reach to C++ to do the pre/post processing, believe it or not, the inverse of what you suspected.
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It was pretty much - whiteboard interviewing is stupid. BUT, if you for some reason value it, recognize I already went through a much harder version of it and passed." That's entirely reasonable, and not entitled, it's just f
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"We can't hire 3D graphics people" "I'm teaching myself 3D graphics" There's more than a hint here. It's not hard to hire competent people and then give them space to grow. As engineers, that is what
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This is why I don't quite understand the common complaints about Google and data. Not that I don't understand the concern, but the unawareness that this happens everywhere . You order a pizza to be delivered? That info is sold. M
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Fortran, Matlab, C++ I'm almost kind of serious. I had Ada in there, but C++ is building okay concurrency support, and is otherwise better at interfacing to other things. Maybe pull Fortran in favor of Ada? That's a thought. Not s
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tl;dr don't cripple yourself with substandard notation when it takes 2 weeks to learn it. You shouldn't be counting. Any decent pedagogical training is going to introduce the lower and higher notes one at a time. And 'decent&
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Define 'need'. In college I learned, besides all the normal CS stuff: * writing * accounting * organizational psychology * small amounts of business stuff * lots of EE, digital and analog * how to read and write research papers *
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Why not? He doesn't need to use it for his work, why would he spend time learning it vs learning something relevant for his field? Oh, I know, to pass a GYMAAAE interview, but that is a pretty bad reason. There's a universe of pro
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Ya, I mostly gave up on the headphones. I know correlation is not causation, but I've started to get ringing in my ears (the more likely causation is age). I don't do high volume, but these are my ears, no company gets to eff with

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