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by bpiche 5y ago
I have to disagree, Snow Crash is interminably long, like most of Stephenson's books. Neuromancer's whole Ocean's 11 Straylight run job is a very clean story. edit: A lot of Gibson's stream of consciousness writing style
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by bpiche 5y ago
That last line must be the best one in the whole book. It has remained with me for years. Thank you for sharing this.
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by bpiche 5y ago
At least it's an option. Not at my current org! Been there for two years.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Don't know much else about your situation but I would ask who that slide deck was intended for. It's possible that it was only meant for sales/client facing people. In my experience bonuses tend to be a lot more common on tha
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by bpiche 5y ago
How long have you been there?
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by bpiche 5y ago
That's great to hear. Thanks a lot for your time, I'll look into using Mage :)
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by bpiche 5y ago
Do you perform model accuracy metrics on this data and provide it back to the customer? One thing I've noticed about a lot of enterprise low/no code ML platforms (dialogflow, I'm looking at you) is that they give you everythi
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by bpiche 5y ago
Well, not to the day, but it's never a bad time to remember him. Rest In Peace.
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by bpiche 5y ago
what are you referring to? the Boston bombing?
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by bpiche 5y ago
Wasn’t it Philip K Dick, in VALIS, who wrote “the Empire never ended”? Not in the sense that it didn’t end; it did in the 14th c. to the Ottoman Empire, but that the past is laminated onto the present.
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by bpiche 5y ago
The author and futurist Bruce Sterling (should need no introduction) has spoken about steam engine time before if I’m not mistaken but I might have mixed it up with someone else. Basically the steam engine could have been developed further
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by bpiche 5y ago
I got contacted by something like this once in Boston
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Gassed, 1918 – John Singer Sargent(wikiart.org)
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Happy Peanut Butter Day (USA)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bpiche 5y ago
Happy National Peanut Butter Day, American HNers!
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by bpiche 5y ago
Nothing to be afraid of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by bpiche 5y ago
Yale is a great school, and there's nothing wrong with being an autodidact. A lot of the people here are as well. It doesn't mean you don't know what you're talking about. I'm also agnostic regarding dark matter. Le
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by bpiche 5y ago
Wow, that's a great song. Thanks for sharing that.
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by bpiche 5y ago
In my experience it's mostly a venue for people to buy and decorate their own digital homes and avatars, and just hang out and talk. SecondLife is a giant archipelago of (infinite?) islands, you can either teleport or just fly between
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by bpiche 5y ago
Yes.
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by bpiche 5y ago
A loaded and offensive title, to me, and that's what stopped me from clicking through. Maybe it's a demotion if you're being compensated less, but I doubt that's the case at most organizations.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Wow, that's an interesting analysis. Do you maybe mean that they have so much influence that they can attract other firms to an entire sector just by being a prime mover in that 'media' space? Even if it's all crap. I wo
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by bpiche 5y ago
I wonder what the hack-the-planet l0pht-era cypherpunks of the 90s would think of them, even the 'small core group of people quietly toiling away'. I bet they would think they were a bunch of moonboy sell-outs. Pardon the digressi
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by bpiche 5y ago
Actual cryptography is interesting. Cypherpunk topics are interesting. Distributed networks like Tor are interesting. 'Crypto' in the modern parlance is not interesting. Compute-intensive blockchain technology is not necessary for
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by bpiche 5y ago
Is this a joke? First WSJ and now a16z. I figured due diligence was one of their core competencies. Now, I'm not so sure.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Somebody doesn't watch South Park
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by bpiche 5y ago
I presume there was a line of succession like we have for the President and other public offices for these contingencies. Sure, she's had relationships with city officials like Mohammad Nuru, but I didn't get the sense that there
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by bpiche 5y ago
It's been a while, so I had to look. It seems she was actually interim mayor, and was then recalled as interim mayor. After she was recalled, she won the special election. https://sacobserver.com/2018/01/resid
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by bpiche 5y ago
The last mayor died on the treadmill and she became interim mayor.
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by bpiche 5y ago
I read this and heard Bill Hicks, yelling, and it was great Edit: You're great, too!

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