ThrustVectoring

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by ThrustVectoring 12y ago
>I've done tests where I put the cat in front of the mirror and I stand behind the cat. The cat looks at me in the mirror. I pull out a treat and the cat turns around to get it from me. Have you done the same thing with a piece of c
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by ThrustVectoring 12y ago
AppAcademy runs a cohort for 9 weeks of instruction time, then another 3~ish in the job search. They overlap them, so there's a bunch of experienced people to ask questions to. Really, the best part of overlapping like that is that you
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
Why would it be throwing 30k people under the bus? If you can support 300M people off of the work of 30k, you can give a damn good lifestyle to about 45k people who also happen to have to do shitty jobs. If you set it up right, people would
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
If you look at it funny, YC itself is doing this. Funding isn't salary, but if you look at it in terms of expected value they're pretty much handing gobs of money to those they think can do the right kind things with computers.
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
1. Use capital letters. Please. There's a reason they're there, and it makes a big difference for readability. And professionalism. 2. There really isn't a good description of what your site does or why I'd want to use i
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
It's rather disingenuous to not mention the real problems of network non-neutrality. Specifically, rent extraction by those who have a privileged market position.
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
It's really a question of how quickly it gets difficult to improve an arbitrary AI algorithm, in terms of the problem-solving capabilities unlocked by having an AI algorithm of that strength. Once you have given beliefs about these qua
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
That headline is a good example of a garden path sentence. I thought reddit was making a technical change to their website for a few seconds.
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
I have a couple simple ones off the top of my head: - You write a recursive program the same way you write an inductive proof - Abstract algebra and category theory are likely relevant, especially for metaprogramming. My math education hasn
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
>Painful though it may be, you never ever litigate on principle. Not if you have any brains at all. It's not worthwhile to litigate on principle, but it may be worthwhile to be the kind of person who litigates on principle. It reall
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by ThrustVectoring 13y ago
It's not just an opportunity for them to learn - it's an opportunity for you to learn, as well. There are deeper levels of understanding beyond merely being able to use something, and you can only reach them by the kind of explici