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by autokad 4y ago
I did my masters of Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania mid career. It was the best career decision I ever made. Prior, no company would give me the time of day - couldn't get a phone screen. My TC prior was 60k, and doubled
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by autokad 4y ago
Tech Management wants to -not- promote people, so they try to make promotion difficult which inadvertently creates promotion driven culture. For instance, if they promoted people for working hard, then everyone would work hard and we (high
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by autokad 5y ago
two companies control nearly 100% of everything that is seen on mobile (Google / Apple)
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by autokad 5y ago
I don't think this is true. you over train in KNN by making the distance small, the best example is when you set k = 1. some would argue that's just a parameter for regularization, but I tend to disagree.
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by autokad 5y ago
technically speaking, tree algorithms such as decision trees and gradient boosting are special cases of knn. Items in a leaf are within the same 'distance' from each other.
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by autokad 5y ago
carbon offsets are the modern day equivalent to indulgencies.
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by autokad 5y ago
we are built and optimized for our respective uses cases. eventually after we figure enough things out, it wont make sense to use any animal as a template. we wont need to take in any of the drawbacks the animal design has because our robo
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by autokad 5y ago
I believe this is the same video, the author theorized (probably correctly) that it was because there was residual 'power' on the wire, as it acts like a giant capacitor, among other things. this is because the wire that immediate
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by autokad 5y ago
One thing about Veritasium is that they do get things wrong. They did one on electric circuits where if you had a circuit that was miles long with the energy source sitting right next to you, you would get current as soon as you turned on t
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by autokad 5y ago
The analog computers on the Missouri class battleships was never upgraded because the kill radius of the shells was larger than the margin of error the analog computers introduced and that the analog computers required less electricity whic
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by autokad 5y ago
One person doing all the work and needs of a project does happen, but its rare. I would just be cheaper to hire someone full time, so this usually happens in specialty software where its hard to keep hiring head count to do it. > I don&#
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by autokad 5y ago
if you look at the security space, this is exactly what cloudtrike is, or at least is aiming for. They want to do your SIRT, your red teaming, your malware collection, etc etc. Then you got microsoft with teams, office, and such trying to b
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by autokad 5y ago
yeah, hacker news would rather just downvote me instead of actually think for a change. I didnt say it was proven, nor the only reason - just that some say the language itself may provide some advantage. then you get like idiots above sayin
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by autokad 5y ago
aha, that's so true
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by autokad 5y ago
tangentially, I wonder if this is one of the reasons why Chinese are often better at math. some have argued that idiosyncrasies in speaking the language might play a role (such as being able to detect tone changes). That may be true, but al
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by autokad 5y ago
In general, Tech has no respect for people's personal time. Leetcoding is a problem. we are forced to spend substantial parts of our lives preparing for these coding interviews, and that doesn't cover design, behavioral, and take
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by autokad 5y ago
you see that a lot on hacker news. you make a comment and they attack you without taking a position of their own. This way they can pivot to anything that suits them and continue attacking you.
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by autokad 5y ago
its revisionist bs. The US was a democracy for much longer than their BS metrics
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by autokad 5y ago
I am confused here, why should I care about this whole thing?
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by autokad 5y ago
a lot of people opine on adds have no idea what its like to run a business. do you think big businesses want adds? they'd love to get rid of them. then no one could ever knock them out of their spot. They'd just rule by dominance
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by autokad 5y ago
1/3 of their revenue from ads is a lot. especially since the ads are probably high margin
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by autokad 5y ago
> I’m 40 and have lived in the US my entire life. I grew up in a very rural area, went to college in a small town, and now live in a tiny urban apartment My situation is the same as you except where you veer off the deep end and "I
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by autokad 5y ago
you have to put the disclaimer "usually" because people will downvote you for being "too certain". There is also the haters who are like "I know a friend who lives in a rural town that has great public transport so
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by autokad 5y ago
when I was doing study abroad in Singapore, there was a class on corruption in south east Asian governments. However, they were not allowed to discuss Singapore in that class.
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by autokad 5y ago
actually I think its illegal to criticize the government even if its true.
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by autokad 5y ago
governments are going to face huge problems as the world de-populates. so much infrastructure and buildings to maintain and no one to maintain / use them
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by autokad 5y ago
> Who hurt you? Every time I have to show my vaccination card to be in public. > Listen, if you're hell bent on willfully increasing your risk of death/hospitalization, that's on you. I am vaccinated and boosted. I MAY
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by autokad 5y ago
contact tracing only works when a pandemic is in the hundreds, maybe a few thousand tops. After that it becomes too intractable to trace and also yields little benefit.
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by autokad 5y ago
it does feel like we made lots of progress though. as we need less fuel for them, they get easier to use, and safety improves we should start seeing some real use cases
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by autokad 5y ago
Omicron rarely sends people to the hospital. check that, so does all other variants of covid19; however, omicron does so at about the same levels as the flu - with or without vaccination. However, stop trying to change the narrative. the co

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