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autokad
8y ago
go to google and type "about definition"
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8y ago
considering your foot is 2 standard deviations from the mean foot length, that hardly proves anything
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8y ago
i cant stand it. they should have a 'translate' button that removes all the crap for the readers who have no interest in that
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8y ago
I feel like imperial units are human units. they are units used on a human scale, where as metric are more 'computer'. example: a human really cant look at something and divide it by 10 very well, but 1/3, 1/2, 1/
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8y ago
I disagree. facebook pays a premium because they make a ton of money. Facebook has been a place people have wanted to work for a long time, and its only until January 2016 (which would contradict your theory) the media hate machine turned
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8y ago
i dono about Groupon. with 'their more they sell more they lose' balance sheet, I thought they would go out of business in 2012 but they are still here, so maybe I was wrong about them?
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8y ago
I disagree with the article. I got nowhere fast in life by just sitting around waiting for things to happen. I had all sorts of excuses on why I wasn't succeeding, the article likes to supply plenty, and they are just poisonous though
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8y ago
I do agree it seems like a bad idea to leach heat from the inner surface of earth in large quantities. I actually feel the same way about wind as well (a bad idea to take enormous amounts of energy out of the weather system before understa
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8y ago
Homes appreciate on average 3-5%, where as the money saved on rent - taxes, interest, and maintenance is somewhere between 3-5%. that's 6-10% (which is about the best you can expect from stocks over the long run)+ the other benefits of
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8y ago
they also ignore the fact you are saving in rent, and you can also rent out your spare rooms (I did). My house was and still is very affordable and it was one of the best investments I have done. they are not mutually exclusive objectives o
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8y ago
I'm a huge fan of databricks, its got github sync built into it
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8y ago
> "I mean I guess technically it's a layoff, but a layoff and getting fired are functionally the same at Netflix as they both come with the same severance." hmm, but unemployment is a concern too, and you wouldn't get
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8y ago
most of the article wasn't about what the click bait tittle made you think. they are collecting aggregate data to help radio companies fine tune what songs to play.
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8y ago
it doesn't mean it, but there is evidence to it being true. According to sallaries on glass door, in sanfrancisco with 10-14 years exp: Product Manager: 145k$ Web Developer: 110k$ Software Engineer: 135k$
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8y ago
I agree, sounds pretty affordable for a rocket. I think the Hubble costed around ~ 4.5B. color me surprised if it doesn't end up to at least 15B. Now for cost over runs for something I am pretty sure isn't going to work? James W
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8y ago
> "In particular, I think that Google for most of its history was masterful at PR and communications - they managed to maintain a very positive public image all the way through 2011" I feel like this is in part because the peop
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8y ago
well, after a tweet that costed that much money, i would probably never tweet again if I were him. however, it was a naughty by nature youtube link, so I guess that is rather harmless
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autokad
8y ago
I am a Data Scientist w/ a MS in computer Science, but many of my CS classmates never become one despite desire to do so, while several of my MBA friends did so with ease (granted it is Wharton). I think an MBA is more useful over a ma
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8y ago
its really amazing how Malthusian ideology is so pervasive in public thought, when the data shows that it is wrong just about everywhere you look. Even India's population growth rate is going down (has been going down since the late 1
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8y ago
the domain is registered by info@chinacapital.com, which registered over 500 domains, 2 of them marked malicious. the cisco umbrella risk of the domain is 77, medium
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autokad
8y ago
Does anyone got any ideas (or know any posts) on how machine learning can be used to detect these types of attacks?
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8y ago
definitely agree. in fact, one of the biggest dangers of accidents is difference in speed on the roads. Its my understanding that this is one of the primary reasons for a speed limit (note if you drive too slow you also get a ticket), whi
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8y ago
i'm curious if further understanding may yield additional techniques used in ML/DNN or even match some of the things we have already been doing
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8y ago
> "By your logic, you'd be OK with it if I posted that the car I was selling worked great, but after you sent me the money and got the car, you found that the engine had blown a connecting rod through the case that wasn't
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8y ago
the problem is not as simple as the headline makes it out to be. Its VERY easy to get a birth certificate. you know what proof I had when I got mine? I knew my mothers maiden name - thats it. Meanwhile, a passport is a very highly accep
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8y ago
I kind of have a problem with an BS in AI. the degree itself proves no edge over a BS in com sci / stats / etc. when applying for graduate programs, and there are very few positions in the field that would hire someone that was n
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8y ago
its not a sloppery slope argument. imo, the slope is already slipped if you are claiming they can sleep anywhere just because they can't find a place to sleep. your counter example is not quite there. I dont think anyone is saying th
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8y ago
I think the issue is deeper than just 'no viable alternative'. should you not receive a parking ticket because you couldn't find a parking spot? Should homeless people be able to sleep in your yard? if so, do they need to p
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8y ago
> "but that today it is much harder to get to the point to do something meaningful." in some ways that is true, in many ways that is false. only as far back as 2005~, if I didnt know linux and wanted to learn it, I needed to p
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8y ago
as a data scientist, I would struggle to answer 'what % of your work involves programming in python?' I'm like well uh that depends. 95% if you include #import sklearn and basic numpy and pandas operations. 01% if you consi
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