anothertraveler

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by anothertraveler 9y ago
Great points.
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
In my opinion, it is easy to feel like an indentured servant as an employee, especially if that employee lives paycheck to paycheck or is servicing a lot of debt (mortgage, car payment, health insurance premium and bills) that I see a lot i
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
Good point. Owners can become employees, but there are much more benefits to being an owner that employees never really have access to, so unless the owner doesnt have the skill or capital, I don't see why an owner would want to be a
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
I think the key point here is that - if a founder is raising money for a company from investors, and the founder simultaneously buys a mansion - the founder is implicitly communicating that s/he doesn't believe that investing that
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
There are platitudes that money doesn't really matter. Money doesn't buy happiness, etc... But in the US, money is very important. If you have to go to work every day to survive, you are working class . If you get laid off, and y
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
Indeed... > every dollar the boss keeps _is_ a dollar that the employees don't get and the boss is the one deciding how much both sides get. I've thought a lot about this over the past few years. There's definitely a diffe
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
4TB of RAM is pretty impressive, especially if they are actually making money on this offering. It must be pretty expensive to have them sit idle at all.
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
echo "export EDITOR=nano" >> ~/.bashrc
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
nvidia-docker is just docker that configures the docker to see the physical gpu device, and also mounts the run-time drivers that match the hardware driver that is installed on the host. It makes life way easier if you need portability acro
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
I am a Debian sid user, so I know well what you mean, but as long as you don't do a kernel upgrade, Linux has been extremely stable for me. This wasn't always the case. 10 years ago, Debian sid would break all the time, but I have
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
They're probably similar software-wise...but the Nvidia GPU Cloud is a docker container registry, so you can pull the docker image and use nvidia-docker to run it. Containers are easier to move around across cloud providers (AWS, Azure
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
I gave up on Windows about 10 years ago. I've had to use it for work sometimes, but the Windows Updates are actually destructive sometimes, and often take hours to install during business hours (especially if you happen to need to rebo
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
Whoa! I was just talking about this text book the other day! I think it's out of print these days, but it's a hidden gem!
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
This list is solid, and could keep you busy for a few years.
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
1. Start with the fast.ai courses. It's an applied deep learning course using state of the art techniques. 2. For classical machine learning (regression, etc...), Andrew Ng's course on Coursera is widely considered "the basic
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
I thought the sunglasses would've been a nice transition into a larger AR play, but they fumbled...and had no plan for how to compete having a product that is otherwise easy for other social networks with a larger userbase to copy.
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
The best editor is the one you know how to use. This is sage advice!
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by anothertraveler 9y ago
If you study a bit of corporate finance, you can learn the mechanics of valuation. At the end of the day, though, how do you determine the market value of any asset? You auction it off. If you keep it, you are saying it is worth more than $