ZhangSWEFAANG

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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
"I have started assuming that most of the people here have some kind of side project that makes them money" I would assume the former - that they have a side project, but not the latter part of that statement - that it makes them
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
but for most people, they are respected, so for "the respected", it is a justified pursuit.
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
I can't believe you're 14. That's so impressive. Does your programming ability translate over to other subjects in school? Are you ahead of your peers in those areas as well?
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
yeah whenever I relax my face, I start to feel ideas flow to my brain. It's weird.
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
damn, I never thought of it like this. So if I understood you correctly - Gates wants to stroke his ego?
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
nodewood.com
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
That's his brother. The poster's name is Sanjay Vakil. I think he's saying - look at my brother. He is so successful and intelligent. Unless you have won the putnam (his bro was a 4 time putnam fellow), you have no right to b
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
This is unlike traditional spam in the sense that it feels more legitimate.
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
What incentive is there for states to sue over monopolies? Is it simply to advocate for their constituencies?
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
I don't think there is one unified goal but a series of suggested changes. For example, in the linked article ( https://www.reuters.com/technology/dozens-us-states-sue-goog... ), "The states want the consumers
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
This is like the escape velocity of wealth.
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
I would argue that constants don't assume something. In fact the opposite. Take the equation for air resistance for example. F = bv^n n and b are constants that depend on the environment, so it is actually a layer of abstraction
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what you mean.
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Ask HN: Do you think ahead when programming?
1 points by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago|4 comments
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
'One way to think of AI is as a process of optimization — finding the course of action, in an uncertain world, that will result in the maximum expected utility" This specifically reminds me of reinforcement learning. "Now tha
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
Yeah, personally my view is that if an OSS project contributes something new to the existing tool then it should be acknowledged on a place like hackernews. Also, because acknowledging the project you built on top off recursively references
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
sort of like run time vs compile time
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
Can anyone explain how the hash function maps to multiple values in the bit vector? I thought functions cant be one to many.
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
I wonder why California isn't covered with water when the sea level rose 1000 m
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
"Arguably the fact that there is the option to get at least the old profit levels, combined with many new options for making and using synergies across these firms, suggests that such merged firms can in general make more profits than
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
What's the concept called when something persists even as it scales?
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by ZhangSWEFAANG 5y ago
"Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Google’s founder and its CEO respectively, were already seated in the conference room when co-founder Sergey Brin came in, out of breath. He was wearing shorts. And roller skates." Why do tech guys al