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by StClaire 10y ago
I think Planck used discrete states for blackbody radiation just as a mathematical trick to make some observation work out and that led to quantum mechanics
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by StClaire 10y ago
A few suggestions 1—Have a good, somewhat strange, personal story ready to go. I have a few that work depending on the occasion. People like to laugh. 2—Ask more questions. People love to talk about themselves. 3—Spend your time telling per
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by StClaire 10y ago
How would we check these results in humans? Can we safely biopsy someone's heart?
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by StClaire 10y ago
They start to diverge on the issue of what a probability actually is: frequentists see them as long run averages, and Bayesians see them as degrees of beliefs. If you have a coin that comes up heads 60% of the time, a frequentist looks at t
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by StClaire 10y ago
I know TSA looks for communications with extremists over Facebook or something. But why would they think they could identify suspicious activity in such a short time? They aren't professional or competent enough to join real law enforc
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by StClaire 10y ago
I wonder how this started. It said his goal was to visit a library in Argentina. Is that what he wanted to do when he left, or did he pick that up on the way? I know I've gone out for a drive or a walk to clear my head and found myself
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by StClaire 10y ago
Hit 70 today in Denver.
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by StClaire 10y ago
> If, like me, you have no interest in managing other people and want to just do coding for your career, then you’re eventually going to hit a ceiling in any organization I can't think of one job where you won't hit a ceiling
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by StClaire 10y ago
Passions don't necessarily have to be ingrained from birth. Plenty of people get into something for one reason or another and gradually build their passion
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by StClaire 10y ago
I first heard of Zenefits when the CEO withdrew a job offer for someone who asked (anonymously) on Quora if they should accept an offer from Uber or Zenefits. The CEO didn't want anyone who wasn't all in for Zenefits "world c
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by StClaire 10y ago
I've had this thought before. What's software development if not a trade? I don't want to say that work gets dumbed down, but one hundred years ago a store clerk was a solidly middle-class job, now it's not. Maybe a more
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by StClaire 10y ago
Android phones don't really come with a Google Now launcher, they just don't put their own skin on their phones over stock android
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by StClaire 10y ago
So...you wish someone built a time machine?
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by StClaire 10y ago
You don't have to stay. Look for development jobs or internships for the Fall semester. If you like it more than what you're doing now, don't go back. If you decide that you want to get into the physics, the go back. Plenty o
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by StClaire 10y ago
I work for a children's hospital gluing several systems together to automate the conversion, preprocessing, storage, and analysis of brain scans. It's more tedious than challenging, I have to use Matlab which kind of sucks, I&#x27
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by StClaire 10y ago
Inflation happens because we expect it to do. A company says: we expect inflation so we'll raise our prices now to get ahead of things. Competitors see prices go up and they raise their prices. Spiral upwards. If people don't expe
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by StClaire 10y ago
I feel like hackerrank is a poorly done product run by people who don't know what they're doing or what makes them a good or bad developer. I believe that more strongly now.
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by StClaire 10y ago
I love the functional aspects of Python. It's nice to break the monotony of loops every once and while.
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by StClaire 10y ago
Why do people still work there?
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by StClaire 10y ago
More cold water on our image of lost tribes in the rainforest living unchanged since the dawn of time. Nearest we can tell, the uncontacted tribes are refugees from great civilizations who got wiped out by European diseases.
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by StClaire 10y ago
I spent the last year getting 95% of my news from The Economist's leaders and the world this week. Did I know about every mass shooting soon after it happened? No. But I spent a half hour a week and could speak reasonably competently a
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by StClaire 10y ago
I pushed from ≈55wpm to ≈75wpm. You just have to consistently type slightly faster than you're comfortable with. You'll make more mistakes but gradually less and less. Good luck
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by StClaire 10y ago
Assuming you know the basics of calculus: learn lots of linear algebra, lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. But you don't have to wait to learn all the math to get going
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by StClaire 10y ago
:'(
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by StClaire 10y ago
01. The second machine age 02. The Firm: The secret history of McKinsey and it's influence on American business 03. The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets 04. League of denial 05. The Martian chronicles 06. The Sixth extinction 07
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Ask HN: How do I become a competitive and competent machine learning engineer?
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by StClaire 10y ago
Interesting. But isn't this almost the definition of depression?
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by StClaire 10y ago
One thing HN might care about: 3 years ago, 25% of Goldman employees worked in the IT division. They probably had more developers than Facebook and LinkedIn combined. http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-has-more-eng
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by StClaire 10y ago
Most (all? I can't remember exactly) of it doesn't use Scikit-learn. You actually implement the algorithms yourself and see what happens under the hood
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by StClaire 10y ago
I bought this book awhile ago and I can't recommend it enough. My machine learning club will go though this starting in January. Is this part of a Christmas season special, or do they regularly do giveaways? And do they send emails abo

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