colvasaur

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by colvasaur 1y ago
That’s funny, I remember the only way to block ads on my Android phone back many years ago was to root it. I was thrilled how easy it was to block ads on the iPhone when I switched.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
Is there a public API for this?
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by colvasaur 8y ago
I don't think comment karma is publicly available through the site or API, but average comment karma could be calculated based on total karma of user minus sum of post karma divided by number of comments.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
> The virtualized nature of cloud hosting makes benchmarking over a period of time vital to getting the full picture. It's so nice to see a benchmark of VPSs that takes this into account.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
Isn't everything client-side on the web inherently open-source?
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by colvasaur 8y ago
An old statistics professor recommended I read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. The book's voice has some ego and it's unnecessarily verbose at times, but it changed the way I think about modeling, forecasting, and day-to-day assum
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by colvasaur 8y ago
Their “April Fools” jokes made me realize the devs think my phone was just a toy and not a tool. Not that they owe me anything. Made me switch immediately to iOS.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
Don’t hate the player or the game; hate the scrubs on the sideline.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
I used to be irritated by middle-click paste as well. That stopped when I had someone explain it to me as follows: > It’s just another clipboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the keyboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the mouse. Pe
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by colvasaur 8y ago
I feel a pull, so my reaction is to retreat rather than jump. Paradoxically, the desire to jump results in placing myself at a safer distance.
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by colvasaur 8y ago
PDE constrained optimization. I was optimizing for many hundreds of thousands of parameters. I only needed the diagonal of the Jacobian by the end of the calculation, however it was necessary to build the full dense matrix first without rew
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by colvasaur 8y ago
3.5 years if you consider my MSc a personal project. There were three hallmark technical failures that are summarized as follows: (a) a computational failure -- at one point I needed to iteratively generate a 3 TB matrix, (b) a mathematical
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by colvasaur 8y ago
I'm at a transition point in my career and have been really thinking about doing this. Salary and career trajectory are my primary concerns. Do you feel comfortable with your pay and future opportunities? The only portfolio I have is d