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by deepGem 9y ago
Apple will not buy any US company using it's cash hoard because of tax implications. They can of course raise debt, similar to what Amazon is doing with Whole foods.
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by deepGem 9y ago
I think, more than the outcome, it's the window of uncertainty that burns through you. Gamblers get a kick because the uncertainty window is fairly short. I'd bet that they'll flip when faced with an extremely long uncertaint
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by deepGem 9y ago
This has been my experience as well. What I've found helpful is to just take a decision real fast and move on. Sure, it might be a bad decision but it's a done deal nonetheless. I tend to feel less burned out even if the decisions
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by deepGem 9y ago
Programming is simply an awful time that most people wouldn't wish upon their worst enemy. Where can we find data to support or refute this point.
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by deepGem 9y ago
Well doesn't this sort of support Damore's hypothesis ? Some of the smartest girls I know went into marketing, purely because they just loved that field. Somehow to them sitting in an office in front of a computer all day didn&#x2
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To pair program or not(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by deepGem 9y ago|0 comments
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by deepGem 9y ago
I have to agree that there was a lot of noise in the nosql world and a lot of people got carried away by the ease of use metric. I guess people were lured by the prospect of not having to write SQL joins. That said I found nosql databases
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by deepGem 9y ago
Unlike more common smaller stars, such as the red dwarf stars Proxima Centauri and Trappist-1, they are not so faint that planets would be tidally locked, showing the same side to the star at all times. In such planets, the most habitable z
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by deepGem 9y ago
I am rooting for cryptocurrencies just for cross border payments. What we have today is abysmal and pathetic. We pay a lot of overhead sometimes 3% + 2.5%. I think circle or some startup is about to offer near zero cost cross border payment
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Kafka Design, General optimization techniques we often overlook(kafka.apache.org)
3 points by deepGem 9y ago|0 comments
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by deepGem 9y ago
ah, thanks for pointing out. I had the Times and this article in consecutive tabs and mistook this for the times. Classic context switching issues.
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by deepGem 9y ago
I heard of a study recently that showed that cities in Japan that ended up getting Shinkansen stations ended up almost always shrinking, because people got used to going to Tokyo all the time and ended up just moving there. This is so count
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by deepGem 9y ago
The article has a taste of criticism but offers no points of criticism. Sort of a passive-aggressive play on words, which is ok just for a read, but not something that I expect from New Yorker. Comparing Hyperloop to Concorde and it's
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by deepGem 9y ago
Why was this underwhelming ? Elon unveiled the most important aspects - speed, range, safety, price and the range anxiety question - how many superchargers. I agree that his delivery style is underwhelming and there's a lot of debate
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by deepGem 9y ago
Zero voting rights make a lot of sense for the founders in today's world of activist investors. Caveat, the founders act in good faith.
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by deepGem 9y ago
I bet if we start testing self driving cars in India, we'll get there in perhaps another 10-20 years. What's needed is an extremely good path planning algorithm. Rest of the self driving tech SLAM et al is already solved. However,
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by deepGem 9y ago
Ah, another ban. Welcome to the new age governance in India. Some government official in Karnataka wanted to ban ride sharing as well. I hear the government's sentiment about creating jobs, but hey have these guys ever sat in that shit
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by deepGem 9y ago
I'm not kidding, but I proposed doing something like this as an open source project for the Segment open source fellowship. I didn't qualify but I am keen on doing this. A few priorities have taken over lately, looking for a job p
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by deepGem 9y ago
I've seen the same behavior in London tube and Singapore MRT as well, despite display boards that indicate removing backpacks in crowded trains. Mumbai locals handle this in the best possible way, you simply cannot get on the train dur
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by deepGem 9y ago
Yes, you mean well and I don't mean to imply that people are misinterpreting your words. People understand things differently. They read correlation and imply the converse. I have done it so many times. Another analogy - Alan Turing wa
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by deepGem 9y ago
Twice exceptional people often appear to be "average" but find an "average" or normal life enormously frustrating Like all correlation to causation misconceptions, most people read this and imply the converse. I find the
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by deepGem 9y ago
Valid. Bananas are however very high in potassium, moderately high in Magnesium and dietary fiber.
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by deepGem 9y ago
They simply can't afford fruit and meat. I'm not sure about meat but fruit is definitely affordable. Especially bananas and apples. Bananas are far cheaper than any other food. Yet, people snack on chips/crisps and other refi
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by deepGem 9y ago
This is because a deep learning model is "just" a chain of simple, continuous geometric transformations mapping one vector space into another. Per my understanding - Each vector space represents the full state of that layer. Which
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by deepGem 9y ago
This is true even when a company is hiring someone. They will try to hire you at the lowest possible tier. Of course there are exceptions to this.
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by deepGem 9y ago
These are the tutorials that depict the reality of a machine learning career. Everyone broadly understands that data preparation is the key, but few realize what that involves. Half of this tutorial is just about getting and prepping data f
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by deepGem 9y ago
Per my knowledge tuning hyperparameters and building models are mostly intuitive guesswork/experimentation based on some fundamental mathematical principles. Am not sure if that's equivalent to hacking in the canonical sense.
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by deepGem 9y ago
Related - if not editing, use a panorama image taken from the phone to create stunning professional photographs.
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by deepGem 9y ago
What perplexes me is that none of these seem to affect their services business. 39 billion in services revenues is nothing to scoff at. I mean how can a company build shitty products like this and be a world leader in services ? Do these un
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by deepGem 9y ago
As a startup you have less leverage to access proprietary datasets. In fact, most of the companies we tried to work with wouldn't let us even access the data, let alone use it, unless we did everything on prem. Oh and one company even

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