colmvp

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by colmvp 9y ago
> They've completely obliterated the way messaging works. You will never see a message from someone unless you're either looking at their profile or you've "liked" them. I've read people on /r/okcu
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Given your comment, I wonder if there's an interesting list of people who have been on the Price is Right. For example, one person I can think of is Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad) who said: "It looks like I'm on
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by colmvp 9y ago
Dear god what a terrible story.
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by colmvp 9y ago
Reminds me of the exploration vs. exploitation problem in ML/RL.
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It reminds me a bit of the motivation behind fast.ai, that you should get your hands dirty with the things you care about instead of learning the tough things until you're ready. I found it easier to learn things like stats, linear alg
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David Silver's Keynote Speech at NIPS 17 on Deep Reinforcement Learning(youtube.com)
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by colmvp 9y ago
Yeah I apologize, I should've linked to a more informative article. From another news release: Investigational SPK-8011, a novel bio-engineered adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector utilizing the AAV-LK03 capsid, also referred to as Spar
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Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing'(bbc.com)
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Gene therapy makes a big advance treating hemophilia B blood disorder(washingtonpost.com)
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That seems to resonate with me. I might want a little more time with my parents, but quite honestly, I'd rather they were less stressed and tired. Unfortunately, they are pretty headstrong so nothing I say would ever change their hours
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by colmvp 9y ago
I actually like Meetup. In my home town, I've been able to meet a lot of people in tech (including Civic Tech), government, and data science that I wouldn't have met as easily otherwise since I mostly work from home. Most of the A
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by colmvp 9y ago
I quit a little less than a year ago but honestly it’s a drop in the bucket as compared to the rest of the people in my social circle. I’m resigned to the fact that millions of people don’t care about whatever Facebook does, that Facebook n
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by colmvp 9y ago
I second that book. Well worth the small price and very accessible to read
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by colmvp 9y ago
> Recently Hearthstone (collectible card game) announced a free roguelike single-player mode, and the only thing many people in the community can think of is that the only reward for completing it is a minor cosmetic item, and that is no
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by colmvp 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some of those devs as well as other gamers just think that it's buyers fault for improperly spending money, and that it makes perfect sense as corporations exist for the maximization of profit. It's
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by colmvp 9y ago
I hope (though I'm not truly that optimistic) in a decade that the trend of F2P will have passed. I find them extremely parasitic, exploiting human behavior. I also hate the term free-to-play, because it purposefully hides the fact tha
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by colmvp 9y ago
I really wish I could customize Lichess to have an aesthetic similar to Chess.com chessboard/pieces. I prefer Lichess, but what I have found with Chess.com's aesthetic it sounds and looks similar to an old classic board but not in
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by colmvp 9y ago
I feel that as certain cities become more dense, public space is either hard to find or not that well designed (i.e. too loud, dirty, not comfortable). It wouldn't surprise me in the least if cafes like Starbucks have grown in populari
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by colmvp 9y ago
Some of the malls in the GTA are doing quite well too, but I've noticed most of them are going upscale.
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It's been years since I've lived in NYC. Is G still the ugly sibling of every other line?
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by colmvp 9y ago
That may or may not be true, but the fact remains there is no shortage resources online to self-learn a great deal of material related to specific jobs, augmenting it with getting mentorship from people in real life.
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by colmvp 9y ago
Noticed a couple typos: Second paragraph - 'argures' should be 'argues', and 'resonse' should be 'response'.
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by colmvp 9y ago
A question I was thinking about this week: Why do some GM's drop in peak performance? It's common to see players have a golden age of performance where they are near unbeatable. But unlike physical sports, GM's don't exa
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by colmvp 9y ago
Not CS/Engineering related, but I went to a pretty mediocre design program in my country (top of my country but compared to others world wide, not that exceptional), yet studying with designers who ended up being far better than some o
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by colmvp 9y ago
I can't help but laugh when the guys at Pod Save America plug Square Cash and other companies
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Also I think it should be encouraged to ask questions even if the true answer is the opposite of what was implied.
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Agreed. I'm learning math right now and similarly the hard part for me isn't memorizing the rules/properties but trying to build an intuition on how to combine these truths to infer other truths in order to solve harder probl
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It certainly doesn't help when people don't give a shit. Billions use the service that Facebook and Google provide without much of a care about how their data may or may not be used. It's hard for me to blame Google/Face
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> In Western society there are always two lies operating at once. The first lie is that technology will save us and fix everything and is the ultimate path, the second lie is that throwing away all of our technology, being as close to na
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by colmvp 9y ago
Yeah it's a little hilarious how people just keep giving Facebook more and more data to experiment with.

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