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by aabajian 5y ago
In high school I was very nervous speaking in front of people, but I enjoyed explaining the one-off calculus problem that was challenging to solve. In college, I tutored small group mathematics and chemistry classes (2-8 students per class,
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by aabajian 5y ago
Didn't read the document, but hopefully it mentions PageRank, the prime example of using probabilistic graphical models to rank nodes in a directed graph. More info: https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models
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by aabajian 5y ago
This game is fantastic, I was fortunate to go to the 25th Anniversary concert in Chicago. It's reportedly Nobuo Uematsu's favorite game as well. Also, FFVI is the only game (to my knowledge) officially released on 8 different plat
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by aabajian 5y ago
I'm sure everyone is used to typing: 'VanVan motorcycle starting issue reddit' 'FJ Cruiser clutch chirp forum' Adding the "reddit" or "forum" tag makes the results way more useful. Is there a wa
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by aabajian 5y ago
Personal example. I bought a condo in the University District in Seattle back in 2017. It's a 92-year-old, 478 sq ft condo. I paid $279,000 (yikes, I know)...Zillow's estimate? $500,000. I have no idea how they were so far off. Ev
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by aabajian 5y ago
If you're interested in a querying for quantitative data, try Wolfram|Alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=minimum+wage+in+the+UK
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by aabajian 5y ago
The stock market has always been a bit of a mystery to me. There is no requirement that company revenue be tied to a stock's value. Rather, the stock for a given company is entirely based on human sentiment. Person A buys stock S at
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by aabajian 5y ago
Gotta say, sometimes the results really are nice. I searched for "Land Cruiser 70." The first result is a simple, short blog post about a couple who traveled across Europe and Asia in their Troop Carrier ( http://www.des
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by aabajian 5y ago
I'm a 5th year radiology resident with undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science...and currently on a mammography rotation. A couple background facts: 1. Mammographer subspecialist salaries are now the highest of an
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by aabajian 5y ago
I live in Seattle and have had my car broken into three times. Each time, they steal my iPhone's USB cable. I wonder, could they add cellular connectivity to this cable and use it as a GPS locator?
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by aabajian 5y ago
Paul Graham makes a few points that show why medical training needs reform. There's a disconnect between hard work and income in medicine: i. You work hard throughout residency, yet your salary is fixed. The hardest-working neurosurg
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by aabajian 5y ago
I learned Java long time ago and have worked on a number of large projects. I agree that it is easier to maintain code in Java. The downside, as the author described, is the verbosity of the language. Python is a wonderful language and exem
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by aabajian 6y ago
I think AR kit is the most under-utilized API available on iOS. Combined with the U1 chip, you could make a real-world tagging-app. Post a note on your favorite trail or maybe overlay In n Out's secret menu on their real menu. How abou
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by aabajian 6y ago
The author's pie chart showing data science to be 60% data manipulation is accurate. The biggest gap between good and bad data scientist is their comfort level with data wrangling. When interviewing candidates for data science position
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by aabajian 6y ago
The expressway I-5 bridge in Seattle is notoriously loud and can be heard for miles around. Interestingly, the sound from the busy topmost lane doesn't seem to make it to the ground. You can verify this during the brief pause when the
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by aabajian 6y ago
Geometric algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo It makes a lot of hard physics problems (Maxwell's equations, relativity theory, quantum mechanics) much more understandable and (I'm told) unifies
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by aabajian 6y ago
I'm a radiology resident. I did a similar thing with PowerScribe 360, the most popular dictation tool for radiologists. I injected an auto-complete dropdown and an inline spell checker. The Win32 SendMessage APIs are quite powerful if
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by aabajian 6y ago
If you like this, then checkout the presentation on Geometric Algebra from 2019 SIGGRAPH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo You can then play around with objects in 3D, 4D, and beyond: https://enkimute.
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by aabajian 7y ago
I have Eufy and a tiny 450 sq. ft. condo. I'm still amazed at how much dirt the vacuum picks up. 15 min of manual vacuuming is nothing compared to 2 continuous hours. Now that I have a dog, for $200, it's a no-brainer. When I come
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by aabajian 7y ago
O-negative means the red blood cells lack the A, B and Rh antigens on their cell membrane. It is these antigens that (most) often lead to a host immune response.
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by aabajian 7y ago
You can use an ECMO instead of ventilation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6185806/ Here's a fringe idea in the worse case: Connect one ECMO oxygenator to multiple patients at once using Ty
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by aabajian 7y ago
Does anyone think the TouchBar should be relocated to where the "MacBook Pro" logo resides? That way it'd be in front of your eyes and fingertips.
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by aabajian 7y ago
"Let Google Fi enhance your network. Get more privacy and more security. Your mobile and Wi-Fi data is sent through Google Fi's Virtual Private Network (VPN). Get fewer connection interruptions by automatically connecting to mobil
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by aabajian 7y ago
How does this affect AirBnb hosts?
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by aabajian 7y ago
Can someone more informed than myself explain if this applies to AirBnB? I'm a host in Seattle. The city now requires short-term rental operators to register as their own businesses.* If I'm a contractor for AirBnb, this makes sen
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by aabajian 7y ago
Okay, my favorite Indian dish is shrimp saag. Please add a shrimp option.
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by aabajian 7y ago
Article asks about residents and whether they can unionize. I'm a resident at UW in Seattle. Despite being located in a wealthy city, UW mostly serves the poorer populations of the WWAMI states and consequently doesn't make a lot
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by aabajian 7y ago
I'm a radiology resident at UW and we haven't really heard much about this event. Harborview is a phenomenal hospital, and (in my opinion) the best one in the UW system. The University has a pretty good track record of admitting f
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by aabajian 7y ago
I'll play devil's advocate. I went to a public high school that served a large area (it's Rim of the World High in Southern California in case anyone is curious). It's the only high school in the mountains, and services
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by aabajian 8y ago
If you haven't, you should take a few moments to read the original AlexNet paper (only 11 pages): https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-wi... What you're saying is true, it should have w

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