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by bransonf 7y ago
I’m thankful for all of the mentors I’ve had thus far. There’s really something special about sharing your passions with someone at a stage much earlier than you. To the professors who showed me programming, and statistics... To the success
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by bransonf 7y ago
It’s sounds like a lot of issues could be addressed if the development of Python Tutor was sponsored. I’m all for open source, but that doesn’t have to mean free. If millions of people use something, and get value out of it, they would only
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by bransonf 7y ago
China wants the Uighur‘s gone, period. I don’t think anything short of military action is going to stop that. And frankly I don’t think that is ever going to happen, because of the world powers that would be capable, they too hold resentmen
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by bransonf 7y ago
But what makes wireless telecom giants any better than ISPs?
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off topic, but I first read the domain as Java Virgin and had a good chuckle...only to realize that I misread
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by bransonf 7y ago
Obfuscated cold storage for God’s sake. It’s crypto, who knows what that could be worth by the time you’re out of prison.
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by bransonf 7y ago
> Some also worry that long carbon nanotubes could harm the lungs since they have been shown to have some chemical resemblance to asbestos. So you’re telling me, there really probably is no place for graphene in consumer products... shoc
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by bransonf 7y ago
What amazes me is that Tik-Tok fills the void created when Twitter killed vine. Given the popularity of Vine, and the outrage when Twitter killed it, I have no idea why they thought it was a good move. I’m bullish on Tik-Tok because I think
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by bransonf 7y ago
From WT:Social's website > We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line. But what constitutes a bad actor?
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by bransonf 7y ago
Sorry, my understanding is that there is a waiting list unless you're willing to pay. Even still, I don't ever think a donation-based social network will be able to outcompete a free (but totally selling your data) social network.
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by bransonf 7y ago
I've had a hunch lately that someone would try to create a paid social network, but I never thought the idea would work for the reasons that social media became so popular to begin with. Facebook is popular because it is free, it is ea
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by bransonf 7y ago
Enlighten me, why?
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The problem I experience with meetings is that often times the information presented is only tangentially related to you. I hate it when I’m in a meeting and it ends up a conversation between two people. It’s stressful if you have an expect
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by bransonf 7y ago
The assertion, which I believed was implied, is that the habit of creating many sub functions will make it more difficult to trace a bug. Imagine having a function with 5 sub functions, and since this is your style, those functions have 5 i
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by bransonf 7y ago
This is my favorite monitor configuration and now I have a handy name for it, thanks!
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by bransonf 7y ago
I share your sentiment. Some of the programmers I’ve worked with would build functions for every thing within a larger function. Need to chunk the data? Function. API Call? Function. Parse the response? Function. So I asked: “Are you ever g
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by bransonf 7y ago
We don’t want to face the reality, but turning the gig-economy into actual employment, we may wipe it out entirely. Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, etc. operate at losses already because the demand for a taxi ride or food delivery is not h
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by bransonf 7y ago
That’s why I suggested the first three websites. The role of Anandtech/TomsHardware and the like is not to do this. It’s to give news about new CPUs and where the fit in current offerings. They are news sites after all.
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by bransonf 7y ago
I mean, there are plenty of options to compare new cpus to old ones. 0. CPUBoss 1. CPUBenchmark 2. UserBenchmark And if you’re considering an upgrade, it’s almost always the case that you should be comparing latest generation offerings to a
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by bransonf 7y ago
I think you’re mistaken. We’ll be smarter in the future, which means we won’t slap the space bar like primates anymore...
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by bransonf 7y ago
The biggest difference, however, is that almost all cyber crimes are preventable. The level of op-sec in most large companies, personal accounts, and even critical infrastructure is abysmal. Once a vulnerability is discovered and a patch is
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by bransonf 7y ago
The benefit of Jupyter notebooks really is about being able to share chunks of code and write narrative around it. It isn’t really aiming to replace a dev environment like VSCode. We’re seeing a rise of notebooks in particular because they
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by bransonf 7y ago
> What about your grandma? How would she fare? Grandma’s still falling for the phone and mail scams. No amount of legislation is going to fix the reality of technological illiteracy among the oldest adults. Deepfakes might fool some of t
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by bransonf 7y ago
I totally agree. My original comment was a bit narrow, but by captivate attention I meant platforms of consumption. But in many of those platforms, I’m willing to bet that an equal or proportionally larger amount of development is in advert
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by bransonf 7y ago
Did your lab ever publish anything on the subject? If so, I’d love to read it.
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Human motivations truly are something strange. We discovered and innovated heavily on amazing pieces of technology (Computers, Web, Phones, Efficient Algorithms). And seemingly, the two foremost use cases have become to captivate people’s a
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by bransonf 7y ago
Yea, we probably don’t want to do that. Over-expression has a tendency to compete with other regulatory genes, enabling the reverse of what we’d aim to achieve. [0] http://m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/2/2&#x2
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It's not a matter of cash in circulation. It's just against the incentive of banks to hold any more cash than necessary.
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This is a very good point. My take is that the Fed is trying to be vigilant amidst indicators of a looming recession. If the repo market rate is too high, banks will hoard cash. Hoarding cash will devalue the banks, and we know that'll
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by bransonf 7y ago
Well, they're part of the market. They have their judgments just like every other entity in the market. They use their best judgement to know that the repo market needs a cash injection. They're not infallible, but as regulators..

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