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by bjterry 8y ago
When Stockfish evaluates a position, it explores moves to a greater depth (a greater number of plays ahead), with its guesses and the value of the final board arrangements it can get to estimated using a relatively simple heuristic. AlphaZe
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by bjterry 8y ago
You should always use your turn signal even when it's already implied, because that implication is not obvious from every vantage point near an intersection to people who are potentially crossing your path (and who may already be movin
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by bjterry 8y ago
> We observed a statistically significant difference (p =.048) in terms of changes in anxiety between the groups who heard two different rates of breathing. Studies with p-values that close to .05 never replicate. Likely p-hacking. >
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by bjterry 8y ago
I would be careful with what you put in Anki. There is only so much stuff that you can memorize outside of stuff you'd learn from normal life, because the time you have to devote to flashcarding is kind of limited (except if it's
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by bjterry 8y ago
The hedonic treadmill is very real. If you are trying to get to happiness via achievement you will either fail to achieve the things you want, or you will realize after achieving them that they haven't made you happier. I've achie
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by bjterry 8y ago
This is a great comment and an amazing insight. What's particularly interesting is that people have attempted to collapse (almost?) every stage of that abstraction hierarchy individually, but none of them have been so successful as to
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by bjterry 8y ago
Given the relative weighting of the sections of the product development lifecycle, I would expect Intercom to have approximately equal numbers of engineers and product managers. But based on a brief search of LinkedIn the number looks to be
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by bjterry 8y ago
Not only that, but since it isn't required many libraries in the ecosystem won't be using it. Comparing my experiences with TypeScript and Flow vs. my experiences with Haskell, any optional type system is going to leave a lot of g
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by bjterry 8y ago
It seems the question is ambiguous. Everyone is responding with the marketing websites of SaaS compnaies, but I interpreted it as asking for well-designed internal interfaces of SaaS websites. Would love to see examples of that which people
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by bjterry 9y ago
I think if I were writing this piece from whole cloth, I would use different examples. It was mostly a response to the reddit post so I was hoping to resolve confusion for my friends who had read that. There is a lot more that could be said
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by bjterry 9y ago
You have a point (I'm the author). When I was young I had a few friends who were line cooks at Olive Garden, and they didn't believe they were going to have a great career staying in that kind of work. It was just a job that they
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by bjterry 9y ago
It is a response to it, which I, the author, call out in the 7th paragraph.
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Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love(medium.com)
90 points by bjterry 9y ago|74 comments
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by bjterry 9y ago
Actually I was referring to USA Today as trashy, and they've won even more awards: http://static.usatoday.com/about/awards/ I appreciate the information you have provided and I'm sure he's a wonderf
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by bjterry 9y ago
It sometimes feels as if I've entered into a strange simulacrum of reality when I end up on websites like that. It has the logo of a known (albeit pretty trashy) newspaper business at the top, but it is being entirely staffed by aliens
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by bjterry 9y ago
People would use something like an Either monad in that case (in real code they may use an Error monad). If all your getData functions have a return type `Either MyError GoodResult` then you could write something like: data MyError = My
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by bjterry 9y ago
I have seen other people who have this conception of meditation, but I am not sure it paints the whole picture. Among the different schools of meditation there are both those that tend to "suppress thoughts" and those that simply
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by bjterry 9y ago
Seeing this reminded me of an episode of TWiML&AI [0] (This week in machine learning & AI podcast). It features a very interesting discussion of how Stripe provides an explanation for their black box fraud model to customers when it
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by bjterry 9y ago
At any given moment there will be a ton of offers people have made to buy or sell at a given price out in the market (whether it's Coinbase, NYSE or whatever). See [0] for an example of how this "order book" is visualized. In
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by bjterry 9y ago
That sucks. I used to work in investment banking where we used a tool called Capital IQ for our research, despite the fact that our focus was on venture-backed startups and Capital IQ's coverage of startup companies was really crappy.
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by bjterry 9y ago
This theory is plausible but I don't think it's a perfect explanation. Someone else has pointed out that Apple does the same thing and does not run afoul of money transmitter regulations. But I would point out that Patreon has fac
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by bjterry 9y ago
This is a very interesting visualization. If you adjust col2, you can see that the illusion basically has a step function. If both line colors are darker than the background, the two patterns look the same. If you slowly adjust col2 until i
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by bjterry 9y ago
The fact that those things are hard is exactly why a guide on them would be valuable.
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by bjterry 9y ago
This seems to have fixed it for me! Not that I could actually live with this fix, but now I could report it to them or something. When I turned it to default scaling it was snappy again. And when I move the window over to one of my 4K monit
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by bjterry 9y ago
I use a magic trackpad for scrolling and the delay before scrolling is there in either case, but it was off.
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by bjterry 9y ago
I have a 1/1 there, and the only extension I have loaded is the new version of Tree Style Tabs.
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by bjterry 9y ago
It also feels laggy to me. It's weird given the reports of all these other users. I am also using a 16GB Ram, Intel Iris MBP. There is a noticeable pause while switching tabs, and there is a very noticeable lag while typing (for exampl
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by bjterry 9y ago
He is emulating the style of CEO books. It's intentional that it's repetitive. As he says: > In case it wasn’t obvious, this post has been something of a parody of the business writing form I’m talking about.
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by bjterry 9y ago
When the web was young and most people were on dialup, having access to a T1 meant that everything happened nearly instantaneously. All the sites were optimized for dialup levels of complexity. Now that everyone has broadband there is no eq
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by bjterry 9y ago
Game theoretically, the fact that the Spanish government was so dead set against the vote implies that they thought there was a significant probability that it would be over 50% regardless. It seems like if a government resorts to violence

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