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by btheshoe 4y ago
Am I right in my reading that OP went more than 2 years into a startup without a single paying customer? That seems a little absurd.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I wonder what the odds are on the monarchy being abolished within, say, the next few decades.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Woah, this is pretty cool
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by btheshoe 4y ago
hey, I get that you've probably had negative experiences in the past with people like this, but it's possible to enjoy learning without being an asshole about it. There's really no need for this kind of negativity.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
leetcode isn't that hard though.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Here's the response: Universities are mostly unimportant in terms of what they offer: class sizes, education, curriculum, etc... All mostly bs that doesn't matter. The real role of universities is to gather together smart people a
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by btheshoe 4y ago
yes, but what principles justify the importance placed on low resource languages?
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure why low resource languages are seen as such a high priority for AI research. It seems that by definition there's little payoff to solving translation for them.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I really hate the discourse around tech interviews. Every blog post is exactly the same: that leetcode isn't an indicator of real skill, that the whole landscape is terrible, and everything is completely awful and no one knows how to h
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I did around 200 leetcode problems preparing for this summers internship search. About half my interview problems were problems that I'd seen before.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
This all seems very similar to writing vectorized code in numpy
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by btheshoe 4y ago
any article based on a single study, especially when related to psychology or the social sciences, is more likely than not to be untrue. Worth taking this with study with a massive grain of salt. Replication crisis is real and most severe i
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Snapchat is a messaging service. Quite different from the rest imo.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
yes, but also more money changes hands in longer bookings, so maybe num bookings is the unintuitive metric. Def worth pointing out that both are biased in one way or the other though.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Yes, that's how it should work
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Good data is worth it's weight in gold. I've heard stories of startups paying journalists 40/hr to write samples for nlp datasets. Imo this is not a good place to cut costs
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Do we really though? Does an international society really exist? Personally, I don't feel much of an obligation to people a hundred miles away, much less people on the other side of the Earth, in a whole different country
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by btheshoe 5y ago
>There may be some economic consequences to such sanctions, given Russia’s significant role in world energy markets. But that’s a price we should be willing to pay to take a stand on the side of freedom. What if I'm not though. Seem
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by btheshoe 5y ago
30% make more than 800k???
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by btheshoe 5y ago
It's geopolitically interesting that China, a Russian ally, is choosing to donate to a Ukrainian cause. It sends a subtle message of china's stance on the war.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I go to washu - which does decently well on the rankings. There's a tradition every fall for the incoming freshman class to read a selected book, and my year they chose Cathy oNiel's weapons of math destruction, which goes over in
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by btheshoe 5y ago
A paid newsletter that's read by a large portion of the tech world
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by btheshoe 5y ago
isn't anonymous just a loose affiliation of people on 4chan though? Kind of strange to claim that the whole collective is doing something.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Look of art of problem solving's alcumus. It's targeted at children who do competitive math, but leetcode is also easier than high school level usaco problems, so you might find it challenging. In general, aops has some decent tex
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by btheshoe 5y ago
That's an optimistic timeline
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Imperfect information games that require agents to cooperate with each other haven't been solved yet. (multiagent cooperation is still a hard problem) Hanabi is a big(ish) research area. Contract bridge has had some work done on it.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
To provide more perspective - I went from not really coding to an internship offer from a big tech company in about 12 months, and I didn't even work particularly hard. I still have no idea how to code though
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Leetcode starts with an examination of the structure of the problem - the data structures present, the best possible time complexity. Knowing both allows a ton of narrowing down of the method that should be used.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s#Wars The 1890s were a rare break in great power conflict, but they were only a few decades after the civil war, Imperialism was in full swing, and there were still plenty of wars. In
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Is it allowed for all medical reasons, or if there's a genuine alternative would Islam dictate going for that instead?

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