dfraser992

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by dfraser992 7y ago
I wonder if the writers of HBO's Succession have read this series of web page? I have only glanced at a few pages TBH, but this immediately came to mind.
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by dfraser992 7y ago
If I remember right... there was some research or an article I read about this awhile back. The issue is actually the older you get, the more 'stuff' is stored in your memory. And so the search process gets more inefficient - the
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by dfraser992 7y ago
I got the HD 4.40 BT from Sennheiser. I thought I'd buy something cheap (under $40) but ended up wanting NFC connectivity, cable connectivity, low enough latency to watch videos (did not realize that was a big issue)...
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by dfraser992 7y ago
If you are concerned about technical details, try [1]. I spent hours on this site when looking for a pair of wireless headphones - I got tired of dealing with the myriad of other (pseudo)review sites plugging specific brands that were more
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by dfraser992 7y ago
This sounds a lot like my situation a few years ago, except that I was both you and the tech lead. The founders were playing me like the dumbass I was - I was too busy to spend any time thinking about office politics and what I ought to be
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by dfraser992 7y ago
To answer the question you didn't want answered (as no one has mentioned this yet): Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are three psychological factors that impact the 'meaning' one can derive from work / a job. [1] is the fi
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Altered states not does automatically equal altered traits (or however the saying goes)
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Hoffman was never arrested, I think you are thinking of Owsley. Hoffman was never a US citizen and I don't recall him ever getting into trouble. As for the Analog Act, the UK's version is presumably watertight (it effectively bans
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Perhaps you are just more sensitive to style than others? The style of writing and the substance of the text are two different things. i.e. I've read widely enough that once I "pick up" the style of the writing, reading a boo
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by dfraser992 7y ago
I recommend you investigate plumbing. Yeah, seriously.... I have not done anything very complicated, but it takes much of the same mindset (or skillset), it is satisfying, and you will have a job for life (aka I have just hit 50 and sort-of
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by dfraser992 7y ago
This is an example of why I stay off the Internet (and especially Facebook) <not the article, but what the article is talking about, or is an example of>. There are now too many ideologues out there with deliberately poor reading comp
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by dfraser992 7y ago
You should find this interesting/useful as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby I have Bowlby's books as well, so can recommend
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by dfraser992 7y ago
One of the best clients I had told me something once (she knew IT pretty well and was a very good manager). (paraphrasing) In her experience, only 10-15% of people in IT actually knew what they were doing and were good at it. The next 20%-2
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by dfraser992 7y ago
This was 12 years ago, so things have changed, but man... when I first got here, landlords were wanting 6 months of rent upfront. The system was obviously designed (or it just came out that way) to make it hard for immigrants to initially e
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by dfraser992 7y ago
It is low - my initial take was this law was written in the 1970s when US expats were rare and only the really wealthy lived overseas. I was thinking of the people I've read about who had 100k etc stashed in Swiss bank accounts and the
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by dfraser992 7y ago
I suppose things have changed a bit since I moved to the UK, but in my experience, the US is infinitely better than than the UK is terms of banking. It was quite easy to open up a business bank account in the US - took one day. Here, it is
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by dfraser992 7y ago
BuzzFeed had a series of articles about a number of suspicious deaths of Russian expats who had fallen out with Putin or otherwise were persona non grata. Apparently the Home Office / upper echelons of the police were dragging their he
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by dfraser992 7y ago
TLDR: Apple's QA processes need improving? FYI: I have a 2010 iMac and it still runs great. I am behind a few OS versions, but it does not matter for what I do. I do wish they would release a fix for this "Recent Items" issue
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Ever try Pyke? It handles backwards chaining. http://pyke.sourceforge.net/index.html
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Pyke [1], a Python based rules engine, supports both forward and backwards chaining. The docs are good. We used it in an AI class I was a TA for; the previous years used Prolog and everyone (most everyone) consistently hated Prolog.... For
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Good plan. See my previous comment; I did my MSc on classifying fake reviews. The behavioral / non-text features are far more useful than the text, based on all the research. There is no technical reason Amazon could not capture all th
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by dfraser992 7y ago
I did a MSc in ML and my dissertation was on classification of fake reviews: https://douglas-fraser.com/FakeReviews/index.html Some years ago, there were some studies trying to estimate the percentage of fake reviews.
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by dfraser992 8y ago
I used Freestyle for awhile and was mostly happy, but then had to deal with a series of them that were so inaccurate, it was a waste of money despite the replacements. The less than ideal accuracy was a bit concerning, but for understanding
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by dfraser992 8y ago
I have been mostly reusing (up to a point) both the lancets and insulin pen needles. I don't go overboard, i.e .weeks, but ... how much contamination is possible? well... i never reused syringes, however. The idea of doing that makes
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Ditto for me. I don't mind the insulin pens or the blood tests - it is the constant monitoring / science experiment aspect of all this that is exhausting. Even if I had a phone app that graphed my levels for the past 24 hours, cou
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by dfraser992 8y ago
The important part of DKA is the imbalance in the pH of the blood, which is a dangerous problem. This sentence is basically false and misleading. Diabetics can thrive (yeah, thrive) on a ketosis type diet. DKA != ketosis, but "dietitia
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Amen! As a diabetic (with a pretty high educational level, mind you) and as I've ingested marijuana before... halfway thru the article, I concluded it was nothing but anti-cannabis propaganda. I've deliberately put myself into ket
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by dfraser992 8y ago
His comments are reflections of all the extensive reading I've done, though he explains things better than I ever could. So I didn't have a problem with his authoritative tone - in general, I never have a problem with an "aut
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Got my upvote there... I had to deal with a actual psychopath who'd fooled the other people in this little charity sort of org for years. I got pulled in because a friend asked me to work on their website and I was supportive of the go
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Off the top of my head... what do you think NLP means? Parsing sentences, understanding the grammar, POS... are not needed here. Named entity recognition would probably be useful... NLP is such a broad term that it's almost useless, IM

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