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Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
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by achenet 5y ago
Could you please give some examples of this?
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And the final 1% comes from re-reading yourself.
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DaVinci kept a journal. There may indeed be something about expressing one's thoughts, especially in writing, that enables them to get better.
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There's probably a way to make money exploiting this. For example, develop a hiring process to hire smart people with non prestigious backgrounds. Similarly, I read once that ugly people pay higher interest rates on loans despite being
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"The g factor (also known as general intelligence, general mental ability or general intelligence factor) is a construct developed in psychometric investigations of cognitive abilities and human intelligence. It is a variable that summ
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Thank you for doing that. I try to do the same. :)
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I think you misunderstood his point- in a system without money, you can directly barter (ie I give you an apple for your your orange), or adopt a ‘credit’ based system (ie I give you an apple today, and when I need a favor I’ll ask you for
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There was actually a thread here on HN a little while ago about how early employees can actually end up with very little. One memorable comment was "I am that early engineer that got nothing" (or similar, may not be exact quote).
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This reminds me of the Ted Chiang story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.
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Sleep: having a fixed bedtime that enables me to wake up without an alarm. Diet: Avoiding bread and dairy, as well as sugary stuff like soft drinks. Exercize: Gym 3 or 4 times/week, plus climbing once or twice a week.
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Not actually solving the problem, just shifting it elsewhere. Nice.
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Try to help them understand each other.
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Being a member of multiple tribes and through that seeing that each has its own goals, beliefs, and communication protocols.
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well... There is some truth to that, honestly. If I sell guns to someone living in the middle of Alaska, those guns help keep them safe from bear attacks, and hunt to find food. If I sell guns to bank robbers in NYC, those guns are used to
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To quote the New York rap group M.O.P. "I'm nine hundred ninety-nine thou short of a mil".
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> Buddha and Jesus didn't use smartphones made in China, shoes from Vietnam, shirts from Bangladesh or cars from Mexico. Which you do. The semi-ironic thing about this is that it's actually more expensive (in the vast majorit
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Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. -circa 1997
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> It seems humans need a sense of competition to make progress towards any goal beyond the day-to-day. No, you're overgeneralizing. As counter-examples: - fitness goals - financial freedom goals (eg the FIRE communities) - altruisti
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I'm afraid I don't know the joke about Bourbaki and Lang, could you please share it? I do have a possibly relevant joke: A math student asks his professor how to visualize a result in 7-dimensional space. The professor responds: &