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by axg11 5y ago
Those poor Google engineers, being exploited with their $300k+ compensation and comprehensive benefits. How dare their employer try to incentivize returning to the office.
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by axg11 5y ago
This looks bad to you? Admittedly I have little experience with 3D models. As a layperson this model looks incredible to me. If the real life results are anything close to that then photogrammetry is as good as solved, as far as my eyes are
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Are there any existing apps that use this API or another easy way for me to test this?
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Agreed. Netflix need to decide whether they want to be more like Google/Amazon (multiple diversified bets) or Spotify (one undiversified but very strong ecosystem).
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There's a wider dilemma at play for Netflix. As the article points out, they've reached a point where their main product (paid streaming) has saturated the market. They won and there's not much more to be gained there. Option
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Are there many examples of companies (today) building 1000x the infrastructure they normally need? I can see how it could be necessary for some companies. > Most folks don't need web scale nor edge locations [1] [2], they'll ge
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by axg11 5y ago
How else would you scale to meet peak demand without being wasteful? Banking has a fairly predictable usage pattern, but there will be black swan financial events that cause 100-1000x load. On top of that, how else could you serve customers
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Very well put - participating in the prep industry is a completely rational decision. Context: I work at a FAANG Interviews and hiring at big companies aren’t perfect, but they never will be. Any type of evaluation or test will at best be
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You covered the main driving reasons that involve insurance. I think there are also factors inherent to medicine that make health tech “scammable”. There are few objective truths in medicine. Our understanding of human health is still fairl
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Right. Let’s assume everyone is ignorant and make decisions for them. The plebes don’t know better. Big brother will help you lead a better life. The average person is very aware that fast fashion is unsustainable. They just don’t care enou
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Fast fashion isn’t the only type of clothing that exists today. I think it’s shortsighted to deride fast fashion without understanding why it’s so popular. Every consumer in the EU, today, has the choice to pay for higher quality and more s
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I would only disagree with (1). I think a lot of the confusion comes from the fact that coding DNA is much easier to understand. Coding DNA essentially has one function, to code for proteins. Only the local sequence matters when considering
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Single point mutations in regulatory elements such as enhancers have been shown to change the expression levels of multiple genes. These elements are under just as much selective pressure as any coding region.
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All better terms. I think “regulatory DNA” is also a good term that helps emphasise the role in controlling gene expression.
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Wildly variable. That’s true for all DNA including protein coding DNA. It’s much more likely that changing a base in a protein coding region will result in an effect, but still nowhere near guaranteed. Statistically, the average human has ~
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Context: I have a PhD in genomics The label “junk DNA” was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of genetics. A lot of high school textbooks still reference this term and it’s worse than misleading. In many ways, non-coding DNA is just
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I’m not sure this is proving the point you want to make. Arguably the 2022 results are more relevant. If you ignore whether the results are ads or not, the top results in 2022 are all toothpaste brands and lead you to toothpaste websites. T
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Does it? Just taking one example "managed" stack: AWS Amplify + Lambda + S3 + DynamoDB. You can get pretty far using the free tier for the first two and using the second two sparingly. If you're spending any more than $20 per
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I may be wrong about this being illegal (depending on the country you reside in), but it is certainly not an approach that scales. Meta/Instagram have multiple teams dedicated to preventing this type of scraping. Unless you're wil
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In a tough hiring market, making the first interview automated is a bad idea. It might be a bad idea during any kind of market, but I find it particularly off-putting today, when there are many job options for a software developer. The cost
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by axg11 5y ago
If anyone hacking away or at the very earliest stages of a startup is reading this - run away. I'm sure this was a great learning process for the creator. However, as a new startup you should be aiming to take as many shortcuts as poss
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by axg11 5y ago
If scraping Instagram was allowed or easy, there are a tonne of use cases. One example: detection of products and sentiment for marketing (e.g. a post: I love my new Apple Watch!)
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by axg11 5y ago
The simple answer is: this is not legal and also doesn't work at scale. Try running this type of scaling for a few thousand profiles - you will quickly be restricted.
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You won’t believe they’re a reality until AVs are perfect? Technology doesn’t arrive perfectly in its final form. Progress for AVs is going to look painfully iterative from here. Waymo and others will roll out their AVs to increasingly more
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People will complain about the new subscription world but the concept has been around for decades. Ideally, I would like to upgrade my phone every year to the latest spec. Admittedly, I'm in the minority, and many people will see this
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I share your concern, although I'm more generally worried about volatility. Crypto is awash in fraud, but there are also thousands of porto-projects that are close to gaining product market fit. Eventually, one of these use cases will
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This is great news for expansion of Apple's financing/credit/card services to the UK. On the downside, does this mean it's incredible hard for Apple to scale these services to all the countries they operate in? I can&#x2
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We can observe viruses though? Through electronic microscopy, by sequencing their genomes and also by observing their downstream effects. In the case of dark matter, we only observe their downstream effects but have no other direct evidence
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The author is spot on - the current approach of applying ML to flawed and inconsistent data is doomed. However, on the bright side, I think they also highlight a possible path for data scientists to bring value to healthcare. All of the exa
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Did Levine set a timeline for Russia defaulting on its debts?

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