SixSigma

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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   thanks yiyus - maht
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   > the code you write will eventually be rewritten or lapse out of use, or be replaced by something better. yep. try using the websites you've built as a resume even worse when all people look at is the UX and if you'r enot a U
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   if you didn't notice, plan9 was ported to run under this : 9vx [1] which you might find in your Linux package manager, e.g. AUR on Arch [2] [1] https://swtch.com/9vx/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   IQs can't be higher. The tests are designed to be normally distributed with an average of 100.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   This. I work in OR, specifically Computational Logistics. There is plenty of room for operational improvement in all industry, all the time. Articles like this paint us as big and stupid because that's how the "disruption" pe
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Yeah, I forgot the other part of the platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   That cops are racist and killing blacks because they are black.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Because you're breaking the narrative. They don't like that round here. Using statistics to support the opposite argument challenges beliefs too. And we can't have that. See how the SF community has turned on Theil > The e
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   > acronyms ... where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word If you wouldn't pronounce it, it's not an acronym
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    It's more about model building than out & out coding. Papers are algebra and describe clever heuristics. The main issue seems to be marrying the theory and practice. I am building direct industry experience rather than filling GitH
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    India : Bollywood & Cricket, yeah!
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Coming to the US, Amazon has lost so much value to me. The $49 minimum order for free postage stops me buying things. I just open eBay and the same item ships for free. Yet in the UK I switched to Amazon from eBay because it is a much bet
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I'm doing a degree in Supply Chain Management focusing on Computational Logistics. I really didn't want to sit through a CS degree either learning stuff I know already or stuff I know won't be much use in industry. So I chose
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    What I found even worse in the job market is that the job requirements say CS Degree but the job description doesn't match. I've ended up going to University to get a degree because I was being screened out of job applications b
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    But as a company they cripple other products
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Ah, there are no niches. Got it.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    So their product on day 1 should have been faster, more responsive and had more features than Android / iOS ?
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    His subsequent colleagues fired it at Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I <3 Sqlite.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    When most media is paying Clinton [1] calling doubts on credibility is laughable tbh. especially in an age where if one is piqued one can right click ... search and go look at places you trust. [1] http://www.politico.com/bl
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Gimp = Photoshop 4 and I use Gimp a couple of times a week.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    "Markov chains still produce credible sentences after 30 years" reports Mark V Shaney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Not with these guys in charge I hope : “I believe we need to build a platform that respects and amplifies every voice in a way that the world needs to hear it . I trust that the world will amplify and retweet and have conversations where
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Controlling the narrative. See who has been banned from Twitter. It's not BLM people celebrating cop murders, it's people posting too many #StopEnslavingSaudiWomen tweets. http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016&#x
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    How to be an overnight sensation in 10 years !
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    A combination of type inference, just in time compiling and multiple dispatch. The function is compiled at run-time if the signature is not already compiled. I've not really found the 1 index much of a problem, makes translating other
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I use Julia. I work in Computational Logistics but some of the code I write is personal. This week I have used Julia for running SQL against SQLite, manipulating dictionaries, raytracing, statistical analysis, engineering problems, simplex
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Watts are joules per second. 1 kWh is 3,600,000 Joules but it is more convenient to use some unit of watt because the power rating of the things you're attaching it to are often rated in Watts also. Besides it is just the way things ev
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    $600m over 10 years I bet Bezos isn't too comfortable about the Trump presidency after the way WaPo has behaved
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I hope you mean "The BBC are good a regurgitating press releases"