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by anvuong 3y ago
This is quite true, especially true when talking about direction (gradient) in high dimensional space. I don't think this can be avoided, since after all we are creatures living in 3D space where left right up down are quite well-defin
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by anvuong 3y ago
Maybe because the Jupyter is setup on the computing server, where everyone needs to log in to do their works? This was the case for my last 4 companies.
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by anvuong 3y ago
This is the way. I use miniconda to create env for Jupyter and install only Jupyter and its dependency on that, then I just config it to point to all the other Python envs I use for my different projects. This is only one-time setup and it
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by anvuong 3y ago
Yeah it's cache all the way down. CPU has L1, L2, L3 for instructions cache. Server has ramcache, then SSD cache. Then apps with SQL almost always use redis/memcache as first level cache. Then for network side we have CDN which is
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by anvuong 3y ago
I agree on the current state of US cashless system. I moved here last year from a SEA country, I was surprised the amount of fees for a cash withdrawl, it's charged both ways which is ridiculous. In my country, if banks joins the natio
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by anvuong 4y ago
If you have a PhD in CS and you get tenured track position immediately right after finishing grad school without doing any postdocs, then I guarantee you can make at least 200k/year in your first year at any decently big tech company.
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by anvuong 4y ago
What are those universities? In Pacific Northwest it's only 100-150k for Assistant Prof from what I've seen.
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by anvuong 4y ago
Seem pretty common with Google. They have brilliant and genius researchers and engineers, but they have terrible product managers.
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by anvuong 4y ago
I hope they stop trying to push shorts into me feed, I'm that guy who hate shorts/tiktok videos with everything I have, at least give me an option to not see any shorts.
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by anvuong 4y ago
I don't believe in rice causing bad teeth either. I live in Asia and almost all of my grandparents and great-grandparents have good teeth, and we only eat rice here. The ones who have bad teeth are, unsurprisingly, heavy smokers or dri
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by anvuong 4y ago
Bullshitting well is an important skill in life. Sometimes the content doesn't matter, it's how you say it that matters.
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by anvuong 4y ago
Last year, my first month salary in the US came in the form of a check, since I didn't have my bank account ready at the time. So yeah checks are still common.
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by anvuong 4y ago
Yup, information theory says that Gaussian signalling is optimal in term of bandwidth utilization in many cases. And we've spent decades trying to achieve this by various techniques in coding and modulation. And yes encryption/sec
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by anvuong 4y ago
Can't quite wrap my mind around this kind of spending. I mean AMD came up with Ryzen and RDNA with much smaller R&D budget, and sillicon was hard af to do. What were they doing with this amount of money?
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by anvuong 4y ago
I doubt the 500$/month plan would be able to withstand the cyber warfare waged by Russia. Encryption and anti jamming is not cheap.
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by anvuong 4y ago
People hate GoT because how quick it went from 100 to 0. I doubt they put more than one day in writing the entire S8, that was a dumpster fire of writing.
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by anvuong 4y ago
No, the difference is Meta is a publicly traded company, SpaceX is not. Meta don't want this kind of negative publicity since it directly affects their stocks price, mishandle these things can lead to lawsuit from investors. For SpaceX
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by anvuong 4y ago
I have 2 monitors with a particular setup, a laptop holder, a workstation that plugs into one of the two monitors for console, a hand-assembled mechanical keyboard and an ergo mouse. This setup is typical for a senior dev/engineer in m
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by anvuong 4y ago
Agree, I've never found browser notification useful.
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by anvuong 4y ago
They give you access to assignments. For Andrew's courses it gives access to Jupyter server to run your codes.
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by anvuong 8y ago
billions photos of cats is invaluable data, mind you