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by bhntr3 6y ago
If you're curious enough to read a 900 page book containing very accurate information about the specific processes that occur when preparing most foods then On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee[0] is the book for you. It's not for
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Jeez. Little Leland Stanford Jr. must have been a real terror before he died of typhoid at 15
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by bhntr3 6y ago
That's a great story! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. You make good points. I've experienced links not working. In fact, Berkeley's AI course ( https://berkeleyai.github.io/cs188-website/
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I'm neither bright nor a teenager but I have been enjoying working through Spivak's Calculus. I picked it up because it was recommended as a good intro to pure mathematical thinking for someone who knows calculus. I've found
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I agree with that. Would you agree that the Church-Turing Thesis is different from the equivalence between the lambda calculus and Turing machines? I was trying to argue that even if Church-Turing were somehow (magically) invalidated that t
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I think you're commenting on this line? > can't be computed by a Turing machine or the lambda calculus I agree they're equivalent. That's been proven. Maybe that would be clearer if it said "both a turing machine
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by bhntr3 6y ago
In terms of mind-expanding or intellectually stimulating, I find it's easier to get that from Youtube. I recommend: 3blue1brown for math ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw ) Everyday Astronau
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Here's an interesting paper on the topic. It seems that only some NN architectures are turing complete: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.03429.pdf To the essence of what I think the original question is asking: It seems
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by bhntr3 6y ago
From the article: > It's not so amazing, the λ calculus is equivalent to a Turing machine. It seems meta3 is a very basic implementation of the lambda calculus. But I believe the equivalence of Turing machines and the lambda calculu
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I agree with your assessment. Most of the MOOC websites have shifted to being much less academic, more applied and are pushing paid credentials. It doesn't seem like most of the top universities are creating much new content for Course
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Here's a better article from 2015: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/microloans-dont-solve-p... The primary research it's based on: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20140
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I don't know enough to advocate a solution in the "defund the police" debate and I agree that I don't have enough personal experience from my aeron chair (which, as you know, I was actually born in.) But, excluding the l
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Here's the wikipedia article for the fallacious argument I used and which you're critiquing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum Here is some statistical evidence for systemic racism: https:&
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Of course that's true. I wasn't so much trying to provide evidence as to point out that people who felt comfortable saying "I'm not racist but I don't think this country is racist either" should not feel comfor
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by bhntr3 6y ago
The problem with predictive policing is in the name. Inference (ML) predicts the future from the past. If the past is racist, then inference will create a racist future. Since racism is systemic[1], especially when it comes to policing, pre
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by bhntr3 6y ago
> I learned recently that Airbnb (YC W09) actually sells your chat logs[2] and stay history(!) to data brokers, which can be used for stalking or kidnapping in the wrong hands. That's a pretty big misrepresentation of the NY Times a
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I don't think you really need to "learn a lisp" but I recommend that curious developers read SICP at some point. John McCarthy famously wrote a lisp interpreter in a half page of lisp in the lisp 1.5 manual. The simplicity of
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Microservices are the actor model (erlang or akka) except they require lots of devops work, being on call for x services every night, and a container management system like kubernetes to be manageable. Actors are a simple solution to the sa
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by bhntr3 6y ago
When Max started building airflow Airbnb's engineering team was probably 80 or so people. The data engineering and data infrastructure teams couldn't have been more than ten combined. I'm not sure that's massive but it i
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by bhntr3 7y ago
> If we moved from Python to a language that is an order of magnitude faster, we can both improve how responsive our site is and decrease our server costs dramatically. I see people say things like this a lot but my experience is that
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by bhntr3 7y ago
So far I think I prefer the visualizations in http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html For pure visual intuition, I prefer 3blue1brown's Essence of Linear Algebra on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by bhntr3 7y ago
I became a "fan" of Tao after reading this piece in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-min... . It talks about how normal and well liked Tao is. How much he collab
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Not only that, the founder of xHamster doesn't claim they manually review everything: "We don’t allow just anything to be uploaded and immediately appear on the site. Our A.I. reviews the content for some violations or refers it t
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by bhntr3 7y ago
This article is from June. I've generally been a bit skeptical of Noam Chomsky's politics but this interaction seems prophetic given the current situation in Syria and makes me think that I should give "Manufacturing Consent&
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by bhntr3 7y ago
I especially liked the image of the guy roasting marshmallows on his burning computer. Error might be opportunity but it's best to triage and fix the immediate impacts of the error, document the root causes, then explore any potential
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by bhntr3 7y ago
What I found interesting about this article was that data scientist/machine learning specialist was in the top 3 happiest jobs whereas business/data analyst was dead last. As the article notes there is a lot of overlap. Working wi
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What are the happiest jobs in tech?(towardsdatascience.com)
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Yes. The article is a bit tautological. It's not defining seniority in terms of time spent. He actually says this at the end. Instead he's defining a "senior developer" as someone who has a necessary mix of the qualities
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by bhntr3 7y ago
Awesome. I've been trotting this idea out for years as an interesting but silly website I should make: videos even the uploaders didn't watch. I'm so excited to see it at the top of HN. This might inspire me to execute on one
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by bhntr3 7y ago
Great point. I'm not advocating for an anarchist utopia. I think Ursula Leguin's The Dispossessed lays out the problems with that pretty well. We've probably all participated in organizations with ineffective leadership. I do

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