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by dasboth 10y ago
Exactly, the difficulty is not really in producing valid code but meaningful code. Same with text generation - while a recurrent neural network might produce grammatically correct sentences, I don't think we're close to it produci
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by dasboth 10y ago
Agreed. Our attention is one of our most valuable resources. It makes sense to try and optimise how we use it.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I agree, there's too much noise out there anyway. With most articles you don't lose much by only quickly scanning it.
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by dasboth 10y ago
Staring at your phone is definitely a modern reflex. I tried putting it out of reach when I'm doing something else (thanks to this: http://www.raptitude.com/2016/03/4-absurdly-easy-things/ ) and noticed m
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by dasboth 10y ago
"It's hard to strike up a conversation with someone who's bored and also you." I like that, it's a really interesting way of phrasing it (and it eerily makes us sound a bit like the Borg).
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by dasboth 10y ago
This was the biggest problem with the referendum: apathy from the younger voters.
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by dasboth 10y ago
"he found (or believed) that more customers came in with the mistake than without" I love this piece of (unintentional?) data-driven decision-making!
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's a good point, from a purely economics point of view it doesn't make sense to stop. Having said that, Nestle pulling out of selling sugary products entirely would dent the market hugely, but someone else would eventually fil
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by dasboth 10y ago
Honest question: do you see nothing wrong with someone monetising other people's lack of self control?
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by dasboth 10y ago
His name's Will Kurt - if you want to hear him talk a bit about his blog, he was the first guest on the Becoming a Data Scientist podcast: http://www.becomingadatascientist.com/2015/12/21/becoming-a-...
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by dasboth 10y ago
Cool. In many cases that sounds like a much more realistic test than a whiteboard exercise.
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's a very general skill though. You'd be stuck if you encountered a cryptic error message in an obscure library.
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by dasboth 10y ago
>> carefully evaluating the results and consciously separating the wheat from the chaff; they don’t blindly follow or copy-paste any solution they come across As well as writing the correct search query, this is the other important as
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by dasboth 10y ago
>> Writing Google queries to quickly find the correct solutions is a skill on its own. This is so true, and yet I haven't ever heard of anyone asking about this in an interview. It would be an interesting skill to try and assess,
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by dasboth 10y ago
I often wonder this and I think that's probably the reason. Someone somewhere is offering a good deal for people to write spam software for them. A real shame, because it's not a trivial task and that skillset could be used in muc
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by dasboth 10y ago
Nice story! With the large volume of Hungarians moving to London, was there not a way you could use your data to help them find a place to live? Having a web scraper that finds appropriate listings before you could physically comb through t
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by dasboth 10y ago
Don't Facebook already construct "ghost" profiles of people who aren't on FB but are mentioned/tagged in others' content? So when you eventually sign up they already know stuff about you, in which case even abs
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by dasboth 10y ago
"If someone points to a bunch of barely started projects, they might have great ideas but in a business you also need to execute." I'm not disagreeing, because I agree that side projects show passion, but I'm not sure a
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by dasboth 10y ago
That was my first thought when I saw this too! Definitely another addition to my side project idea backlog. Related: have you seen this? https://maraoz.com/2016/02/02/abc-rnn/
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by dasboth 11y ago
+1 for that recommendation, a really good resource.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Yes that's right. The reason they're "Markov" chains is that they make the "Markov assumption" which is usually stated as "the future is independent of the past given the present". This just means tha
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by dasboth 11y ago
"you would be silly not to include some form of practical test" Yes, I'm coming to the realisation that it's idealistic to assume that anyone with N years experience will be at a certain level of ability. "(potentia
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by dasboth 11y ago
Of course not, but it is (or at least should be) a two-way process. If the interviewer wants you to invest hours of your time this should be respected; either by paying for it, or at least by being sensitive to the fact that people generall
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by dasboth 11y ago
That sounds entirely reasonable; by paying, you're respecting the time the candidates have to put aside and chances are it will motivate people to do better.
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by dasboth 11y ago
That's true, and some companies are quite liberal with their ability to sack people at a week's notice during their probation period.
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by dasboth 11y ago
This is superb! I've often wondered how autocorrect would finish some of my messages on my phone. It gives some really weird suggestions after certain words, perhaps it's worth investigating further.
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by dasboth 11y ago
You're right, I can't imagine I could get proper form by looking at Youtube videos. There's no substitute for someone telling you where you're going wrong.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Yeah I think my biggest barrier is not having a clue where to start, and it's overwhelming. I've heard good things about Starting Strength - maybe I'll start there. Thanks.
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by dasboth 11y ago
This is exactly what I want to do in the coming year. What was the biggest barrier for you to start, and how did you finally overcome it?
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by dasboth 11y ago
I think this stems from the fact that other people's experiences are usually not enough to internalise something. You can tell me about it for hours, but unless I have a creative thought in the shower myself, I wont really know it to

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