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by amit_m 13y ago
If you work as a programer or similar, your salary will probably increase significantly over the next 10-20 years. Your spendings will increase over time as well. If you are not crushed by debt, just try to make your spendings increase much
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by amit_m 13y ago
I'd say you are overestimating the day-to-day worries of a typical tech employee and underestimating those of billionaire founders. Personally, I get a small PhD scholarship, but I don't worry about paying my bills and I like my h
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by amit_m 13y ago
tl;dr: Julia is killing it.
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by amit_m 13y ago
Inequality is not just about poor people feeling bad because the rich have bigger TVs! In modern countries, markets are the standard way of distributing finite or growth-limited resources (e.g. apartments in San Francisco). In these games t
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by amit_m 13y ago
Amazon is, to a close approximation, not profitable. Would you say it is unreasonable for its founders to take large paychecks? Source: See second chart on http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/05/27/decoding-share-p
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by amit_m 13y ago
If you can't bother to understand the work then heuristics are your best bet. In this case, the authors are leading academics from good computer science departments. This makes the probability of the paper being an outright hoax very l
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by amit_m 13y ago
You probably want to look at a couple of good undergrad textbooks (calculus, linear algebra, probability). The good textbooks explain the notation and have an index for all the symbols. Unfortunately, in most cases, you have to know a littl
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by amit_m 13y ago
The CPU can also execute instructions exceeding one per clock cycle. For example instructions such as MOV, CMP and even conditional jumps run at a typical throughput of 3 instructions per clock cycle on the intel Core line of CPUs. (source:
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by amit_m 13y ago
Stop smoking weed for a month. See if that increases your drive in some quantifiable sense (it probably will). If so, stop smoking as a daily habit. Save it for special social occasions and only on weekends. After you've regulated your
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by amit_m 13y ago
I wonder how much these tricks matter nowadays. Even if we ignore the time to read from disk, for simple algorithms that scan data linearly, it is often the case that the CPU is spending most of its time waiting for the data to be read from
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by amit_m 13y ago
tl;dr: (1) Author does not understand the role of research papers (2) Claims mathematical notation is more complicated than code and (3) Thinks ML is easy because you can code the wrong algorithm in 40 lines of code. I will reply to each of
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by amit_m 13y ago
Dropbox has basically replaced my homedir and nearly everything I do now goes inside (documents, photos, git repositories). It is installed on my home laptop, university desktop, smartphone and tablet. Goodreader (a PDF reader) can sync to
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by amit_m 13y ago
What is so funny about it? I think the first reply is spot on. In fact, one of the best things about Dropbox is that they worked very hard on removing any barriers, including making sure that it can be installed on a windows machine without
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by amit_m 14y ago
Interesting post. The author could save another 0.83$ per package by skipping the included instruction manual. I think it's safe to assume that very close to 100% of users will have an internet connection available when playing this game, u
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by amit_m 14y ago
AFAIK Israel has more startups per capita than any other country in the world, but the legally mandated benefits are very similar to those in the UK (with slightly less vacation time). Actually, I think some form of social safety net is sup
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by amit_m 14y ago
Argh! Worst streaming experience ever. Also, no contents in the first 20 minutes. It took me a while to understand that the slides were in a popup was blocked. After reloading, the slides don't match the audio.
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by amit_m 14y ago
I didn't go straight from undergrad, took a few years off to work in various places, then started a master's degree in CS/math. The first year was mostly coursework (some were good, most were meh) and a bit of probing to find interesting fi
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by amit_m 14y ago
You got it wrong: more DOLLARS want to cure baldness than malaria.
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by amit_m 14y ago
I don't get this post. O notation specifies the asymptotic behavior of (mathematical) functions. e.g. sqrt(n) = O(n/log(n)) In order to use O notation to describe the performance of an algorithm, one must specify 1. What is being measured a
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by amit_m 14y ago
What startups outside the US need to know about health insurance in 2013: nothing.
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by amit_m 14y ago
This choice is decided in a democratic process. Countries with very high levels of taxation and public services (e.g. scandinavian countries) have earned a high level of trust from their voters that the money is put to good use. To pay less
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by amit_m 14y ago
So you have a problem in taking taxpayer money for working on science that advances all of mankind? Instead you could work in Ad targeting/personalization, where you will help trick people into clicking on ads for products they have no inte
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by amit_m 14y ago
Taxation is not theft. It is a societal agreement. I know of no society, except extremely primitive hunter-gatherer societies, that has no notion of tax for public services. And even there, you could say everyone is "stealing" from the publ
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by amit_m 14y ago
It looks like they could've chosen to extend one of the established projects (e.g. Cython, PyPy, CPython), maybe making some compromises. Instead they chose to start from scratch, which means that the chances of this actually becoming usabl
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by amit_m 14y ago
A cookbook has recipes. If this is a cookbook, where are the recipes? :-) Such a concept might make sense in this context. e.g. Recipe to calculate p-values. How to fit various distributions. A recipe to calculate posterior probabilities, e
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by amit_m 14y ago
I wouldn't call it a cookbook. It is an (unusually large) cheatsheet.
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by amit_m 14y ago
Because IT JUST WORKS. Dropbox is multiplatform, fast, almost zero-hassle to install and maintain and free (up to a size limit). What more could you ask? I often work on my Macbook on the train, then when I get to the office I switch to a W
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by amit_m 14y ago
This might become a great transition technology. But leaves many problems unsolved: 1. All the issues surrounding fuel-burning engines OR all the issues surrounding huge and expensive batteries. 2. An inherent lack of energy efficiency. The
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by amit_m 14y ago
Seriously? Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car. It's not good for very long distances and not good for very dense urban areas where traffic is slow and parking is lacking. It can't drive in rural areas (unless you have a stur
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by amit_m 14y ago
3% of the budget, not the GDP! I am not sure it makes too much sense to divide it by the GDP. Israel's GDP is around 250$ billion. So US foreign aid is around 1.2% of GDP. However, as I mentioned in the previous post, this aid does not come

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