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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   A co-occurrence model isn't really meant to be used for exploration. I'm eliding a bunch of details, as it's just one of many different recommendation algorithms, and there's an exploration layer on top of the whole ense
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   I've experienced issues like those mentioned. Imagine a recommendation service for online shopping, using a simple co-occurrence model, aka "People who viewed this also viewed". Hopefully, your model will eventually hit a ste
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   There's an elm on the UW campus that at least is on Facebook.
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Prefer local, but possible Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Java, Python, machine learning, recommendation systems, big data. Opportunities in Scala or Haskell welcome too. Résumé&#x2F
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   "Many years ago," Gaspar said, taking out a copy of Moravia's The Adolescents and thumbing it as he spoke, "I had a library of books, oh, thousands of books -- never could bear to toss one out, not even the bad ones -- a
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   I really enjoyed Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, by Huw Price.
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   You get to be part of a community, and people like to feel as though they belong.
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   by bcbrown 11y ago

   The two I tried both worked. Try this one: 142 West St, Cantonville, OH 98104 (Not a real address)
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   by bcbrown 12y ago

   I wish there was a different name, unparticles are a terrible name. I didn't understand this part: "While a particle's mass always stays the same, even though its energy and momentum may change, unparticles are different. In
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    I thought http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/purple-reign was well-written and very interesting.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    It's not useful to transmit light through air; instead waveguides are used[0]. I don't know all the benefits, but I imagine trying to keep a path through space for light beams to travel is harder than using a waveguide. In that ca
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Pick up the book Elements of Programming Interviews and practice.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Whatever you pick, pick just one and learn it well for a while before learning another. Don't fall into the trap of continuously changing technologies.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Yep, pretty much.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    When interviewing, I will absolutely rule a company out if the office space isn't appropriate. I like open offices, but I need my own desk, and my back to a wall. Any companies with bullpen-style shared long tables is immediately out.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    If you don't mind abstract mathematics, the category theory lectures from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Ky8lYL8-Oh7awp0sqa8... were what made monads finally click for me.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    That's the book that got me interested in fractals and mathematics back in high school. If you want a non-layman text, check out http://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Fractals-New-Frontiers-Science/d...
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Whenever you have a good interaction with a recruiter, tell them that, and tell them that you'd like to build a relationship and contact them every time you begin a job search. The good ones will be receptive.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Depends on if you're trying to engineer fault-tolerant, robust systems, or trying to learn how to program.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    > discipline says "go to the gym" but regardless of discipline you cannot lift the 300 lb weight. That's not true. The only reason I was able to lift 300 lbs is by going to the gym three times a week for a year. Discipline
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    I worked for a place that used German as the "placeholder text", to avoid the problem of text longer than the allotted space. German is supposedly about 1.5 times as long as English, so if you can fit the German version, you won&#
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Did those three drink anything?
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    Plus the tax bill on the difference in value from option issue date to option exercise date.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    One approach to getting a list of topics is to look at the degree requirements for a couple of universities. I'm wrapping up a similar project, and here's what I included, along with some resources I used: * Algorithms (CLRS, Ski
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    This is what was recommended to me: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706699
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    A tip bot that charges commission.
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    http://engineering.richrelevance.com/bandits-recommendation-...
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    I totally agree. What I think Test should mean includes testing the spec and acting as a user advocate; testing the design spec to ensure the dev is considering all relevant scenarios and cases; manual UI testing (and scenario-based API tes
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    by bcbrown 12y ago

    I disagree. Back before the reorg and layoffs, there was a clear prestige difference between Test and Dev, where most SDETs were levels 1 or 2 with one Senior per team, while the SDEs had 2-3 times as many Senios, and one Principal per team