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by dweekly 9y ago
As an engineer, founder, and investor I'll note that there's an ethical mandate for investors as well; when I started drone.vc I committed as a Quaker to not investing in "offensive" technologies. Separately, RE: bringin
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There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. One thing to keep in mind here is that naming should be done with a lifetime matching the thing being named. If a given machine might hav
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How much overhead? Is the request or response larger than a single packet?
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Tangent: Automatic Differentiation with Python(github.com)
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Vegas has wide pedestrian boulevards, escalators for elevated pedestrian crossings, throughways inside casinos, and even a pair of monorails. The Strip is mostly linear and there aren't long stretches with nothing there - food, lodging
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A Skeptic's Guide to Discourse(medium.com)
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The narrative of coping with depression by playing video games seems reasonable but the data in the paper seem to show that there was an uptick in self-reported happiness in the segment playing the most games. That seemed to read to me as,
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This is brilliant and evil: LuckyFizz! Quick nit: FizzBuzz is supposed to print the number if not printing Fizz, Buzz, or FizzBuzz. So the output is not correct.
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Emit an HTTP header and Chrome will attempt a QUIC connection. Alternate-Protocol: quic:<QUIC server port> https://www.chromium.org/quic/quic-faq
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A few thoughts here, responding to a comment where nearly all of the facts stated are wrong and/or ignorant. Caveat 1: I'm not an aviation lawyer, or indeed licensed to practice law of any kind. Caveat 2: I am a licensed rotorcr
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FYI this is Cloud AutoML Vision being showcased here as the first of a suite of AI services that can learn to learn efficiently in different domains. The overall vision is to democratize AI and this is intended to be a meaningful step in
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FWIW many companies have parallel tracks for ICs and management. The upside for ICs is that you can become as senior as a VP with zero reports. The downside is that there is no comp bump just for managing people: it's only extra overhe
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Here is some information about the secure coprocessor that Google has invested in developing - and shipped with Pixel 2. https://www.blog.google/products/android-enterprise/how-pixe... Disclaimer: I work for Googl
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Congrats on having good options! Several companies (including Google) have very good associate PM (APM) programs that offer recent grads rotations through a few different roles, mentorship, and a strong peer group. Several APMs end up with
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Good SWE interview tips. For those interested in product management interviews at Google I wrote some guidance at https://hackernoon.com/acing-your-product-manager-interview-... Context: I'm on the Google PM Hiring Com
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"I drink wine...and know things."
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Re: splitting control and ownership, don't non-voting GOOG shares exhibit exactly this split as one example?
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Re: having a switchable mobile hypervisor I have some free/unencumbered IP for you courtesy my employer Google in case anyone would like to implement. http://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/500/
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Nits = how bright can bright get? If you want your sunny shots to be searingly so but your dark shots to still be clear the ideal is to have high dynamic range: really bright brights and really subtly dark blacks. If you don't have the
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Of course it would turn out that the first thing we could grow and eat on Mars would be rocket.
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What's the 250k limit? (If you're speaking of Accredited Investors, the limit is $1m in net worth not including primary residence.)
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Personalized Education ICOs. Everyone gets their own token redeemable for a portion of lifetime earnings and tradable on an exchange. Traders can go long on an investment or short you if they forsee the market digesting an event decreasing
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I’ll admit I had to look up FTL shipping just in case you were moving goods faster than light. ;) For the benefit of others similarly confused: it’s Full TruckLoad (whole containers, not just a few pallets sharing a truck with others).
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https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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> Agents initially receive dense rewards for behaviours that aid exploration like standing and moving forward, which are eventually annealed to zero in favor of being rewarded for just winning and losing.
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Confusing Position and Velocity: Process and Risk in the Corporation(medium.com)
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Great! Now can the people interested in helping fewer women (and men) die of cancer please turn their attention to lung cancer, where there is far better "bang for the buck" on research investment? https://www.cancer.or
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OP here. Yes, SolarCity panel install was pretty straightforward.
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Ah, it did seem a little too silly to be real. Thanks for the sleuth work there. I've updated the post title accordingly.
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Medium and Message: Thoughts on Our Devices(medium.com)
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