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by cardosof 5y ago
This looks beautiful, congrats! As an user though, it got me thinking - why should I learn this instead of good old excel? Is there an advantage in addition to not being MS/closed source?
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by cardosof 5y ago
I disagree with your first sentence - resource scarcity may happen and a country may be impoverished, but deciding to go to war is not an economic decision but rather a very personal one. Negotiations and deals are about resources, wars are
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by cardosof 5y ago
Only because currently ML is more alchemy than engineering. We mix stuff until we make gold while we can't explain why more parameters generalize better instead of overfitting.
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by cardosof 5y ago
Thats for structured data, for non structured it's more like "create a NN and stack more layers until you have your MVP"
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by cardosof 5y ago
While I'm a bit skeptical of the study - sample bias can happen (companies with unlimited pto may have younger workers who are taking less vacations to hit career goals) - I've reached the point where I, personally, prefer boring,
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Floydhub Has Shut Down(blog.floydhub.com)
2 points by cardosof 5y ago|0 comments
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by cardosof 5y ago
That's because R's core purpose is reproducible analysis and visualization. Sure, there are frameworks for ML (tidymodels) and API building (plumber) but those are either recent or not as good as in other languages. But just as We
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by cardosof 5y ago
"Tech company" used to be vendors/providers of technology components (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc) but today it is a label you slap on a stock, startup or IPO to mean "monopoly potential with very profitable operations &
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by cardosof 5y ago
Back in 2016 I've coded a small app for basic investment/retirement calculations because a friend asked for it. Building it made me aware of many things I honestly didn't give a damn, and since then I've been able to sav
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by cardosof 5y ago
I share the same thoughts - and I hope one day we reach a level of automation/AI/cheap energy that everyone gets "for free" some sort of living allowance to pursue their own objectives in science or art.
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by cardosof 5y ago
If you received a cow and some land today you'd surely sell it, but if you received it when he wrote this.. I'm not so sure this choice would be obvious. Also, I guess the point he makes is not getting a cow for it's own sake
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by cardosof 5y ago
There's you, who you think you are and who you think you're supposed to be or become, but only one of them is real.
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by cardosof 5y ago
I have this same experience as well. During college, with exams in the mornings, I've also tried shifting periods: going to sleep really early just to wake up early and study for some hours until the exam. That did not work well - a
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by cardosof 5y ago
If I were you I'd keep a low pace, 6h a day, helping the company and my direct coworkers/bosses/reports succeed however I can. The other time would be split between family and self improvement (not really coding, it may be he
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Ask HN: Do you have plans for staying fully remote?
17 points by cardosof 5y ago|18 comments
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by cardosof 5y ago
I believe this has something to do with the statistical distribution of compensation - normal-like for electricians, dentists, and more power-like for coders and people from highly creative or sports fields.
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by cardosof 5y ago
I love how a very small group of the elite may rule on how millions of parents do their parenting on such small matters. The less parents need to think, the more time they have! /s
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by cardosof 5y ago
I believe there's an important distinction between doing what you love and doing something with love. I also believe that overall happiness is more linked to the latter than to the former. You may love coding but if you don't try
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by cardosof 5y ago
https://c19ivermectin.com/ I wish I had given ivermectin to my grandmother before dismissing it because science (she was vaccinated, Astrazeneca). Maybe she would die the same way she did but that would be one less item in
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by cardosof 5y ago
While I generally agree, I think for many people it's easier to cut 10% of their annual spending instead of getting better return rates or a salary raise.
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by cardosof 5y ago
The first time I heard we will have nuclear fusion in just 10 years was just 10 years ago.
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by cardosof 5y ago
That's normal for most latin cultures. The max normally accepted age varies of course but it's quite higher than in other cultures.
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by cardosof 5y ago
Wasn't morality about consequences or motives of actions and not arbitrary quantities of cash?
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by cardosof 5y ago
As someone who quit a project after, much to my shame, successfully delivering personalized alcohol ads to heavy drinkers, you're right. This industry sucks balls. The default for any content platform should be something like "do
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by cardosof 5y ago
I see this opinion over and over again, but I don't know the reasons sustaining it, so I will ask: why is he a fraud? Are his companies fraudulent as well or just their iconic leader/founder?
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by cardosof 5y ago
Bringing the big harpoons for the small fish. What about the whales?
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by cardosof 5y ago
You may find it biased but here it is. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/spring-2019/how-d...
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by cardosof 5y ago
Yes, but people still buy it (and market is bound to grow, ceteris paribus) because they think tap water is worse somehow. And with crumbling public water infrastructure in many countries, that's not really far from the truth.
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by cardosof 5y ago
I wonder how I would be today of if my toys were helping me get addicted to gambling.
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by cardosof 5y ago
Of course every generalization is wrong but a not so little part of the crypto community seems very interested in avoiding taxation, money laundering and buying illegal stuff without detection.

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