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by ben_jones 11y ago
Say what you will about the NBA (like the fact that they're about to vote to have corporate logos on jerseys in the near future), but what they're doing with data science, and especially the open sourcing of it, is a gold standard
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Haven't we all been there? We want to setup some great polymorphic abstraction that allows us to adapt it deeply and effortlessly in the future. Then half way in we're like "fuck I actually just needed x, not the whole alphab
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by ben_jones 11y ago
I dunno. My personal opinion is that humans to some extent are innately good, and that it's the broken ones who turn to crime. Furthermore it's the EXTREMELY broken ones that become the crime lords etc. and those people often have
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Isn't it just a maturation of the process? First we throw everything at a dart board, then we take notes on what sticks, and finally we repeat the steps that made them stick as best we can while wasting fewer darts. Many of us here are
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Still would be nice if the software could go "shit I'm about to get into an accident" and deploy air bags etc. that much faster. Plus now that I'm thinking about it, most accidents probably occur with some option that, h
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Self driving cars don't have to be perfect. They just have to be safer then driving is today [1]. The real question is if society can handle the unfairness that is death by random software error vs. death by negligent driving. It'
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Also an interesting place to apply calculus is in computer graphics. Unlike a lot of math calculus is extremely practical here and sometimes its more fun to make a game then to beat your head on practice problems.
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Definition of blog: "a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style." This is a static site generator written in PHP meant to allo
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by ben_jones 11y ago
I feel like you could almost as easily say "Why do some people thrive?"
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About 5 years ago when I was still in high school I found $500 in a derelict paypal account that had been locked. Having finally gotten a debit card I was able to unlock the paypal account by linking my bank account. I decided to immediatel
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by ben_jones 11y ago
I thought Steam was a well-funded and well-engineered organization. Am I wrong?
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by ben_jones 11y ago
I think kids are perfectly capable of understanding it, and most of the time they do. They just think to themselves "I'll just get a $100k salary and pay it off in no time, because it's easy and I'm special". Source
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by ben_jones 11y ago
Consider these two statements that I believe to be true. "Start-ups are these great enterprises where individuals make huge sacrifices in order to take a chance at achieving amazing things." "Great parents make huge sacrifice