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by dxbydt 13y ago
So you've never TA'ed a calculus class where you ask the religion major to compute the integral of exp(x) and she says she has no idea, but she'll do well on the exam thanks to Jesus. I have.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
I can't help but notice that the vast majority of commenters are missing the fundamental reason for all this handwringing. The reason isn't language schism (that too, but I'd attach a much smaller weight to it) so much as th
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by dxbydt 13y ago
For whatever reason, pomdp has been co-opted by the AI community, so the books are pretty lousy and show-offy, often using nonstandard terms and newfangled jargon to explain what is really plain old probability theory with some state space
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Based on interviews, POMDP has become a favorite FizzBuzz question for data scientists. So make sure you have a working example for that. I usually explain the tiger pot of gold in gruesome detail. https://www.google.com/sea
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Nice potshots at UC Berkeley philosophers...the ones from Stanford would have similar objections to the robot's actions
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Back when I was a really dumb undergrad, I did some work for a company & they asked me where to mail the cheque. I gave them the University address. So I was chatting with my professor & we walk by the mailboxes, and by pure reflex,
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by dxbydt 13y ago
I read this one a few months back & felt, like most programmers, that it was an awesome article, but I would forget all of it unless I rewrote everything from scratch all by myself :) So here's my rewrite in Scala - its not realtim
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by dxbydt 13y ago
> You were obviously qualified Not so sure about that. I looked at parent's code submission. In particular, his game logic looks like this - https://github.com/jyothepro/tictactoe/blob/master/TicT
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Another Sun story. I was at the annual Sun employee conference way back in 2002. As engineers, we were raving about Java/Swing & the JDK. After a while, one of the audience members couldn't take it anymore & spoke up loudl
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Will Scala ever be enterprise-ready? I don't know. Will enterprise ever be Scala-ready ? No. And I'm not being flippant here.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
> 2) The driver missed the exit for SFO, and drove through the median to get to it I have never made that SFO exit & had to drive through the median every single time. Been to SFO about a half dozen times this past year. The signs to
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Worked in Manhattan for 5 years, & last week was my 1 year anniversary in the Valley. Difference is night & day. In NYC, yeah we had meetups & cool stuff was demo-ed, but seldom used in day to day work. I do believe that is cha
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by dxbydt 13y ago
>This is so bad it makes my brain hurt If it's that bad I wonder what its doing sitting on the very top of HN right now. I think what he says cuts through the bullcrap and feels viscerally true. Imagine if, instead of him making the
554.
by dxbydt 13y ago
Its just my sense when I look at the git status of most of the private repos. Can't provide a source, sorry.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
> The developers who liked Ruby loved Scala, while the rest of the team stuck with Java, I believe. Not true. But hey, its a free country. You can believe whatever you want.
556.
by dxbydt 13y ago
The article asserts - "So where have people been moving to...Generally to southern Sun Belt states" If you compute absolute population growth from 1969 to 2011 on a per-county basis, using publicly available demographic stats, the
557.
by dxbydt 13y ago
I guess I wasn't the only one who parsed that as a $299 Haskell notebook ?
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Ok, so issuing a blocking call is "simple, familiar and intuitive". Invoking a Future or a Promise is "so many unfamiliar patterns". Yes Sir, with this attitude I hope to make a remarkable progress in my tech career :) S
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Needs a lot more granularity - in particular, the "Finance" bar needs its own bar graph ie. what exactly does making money in Finance entail - working for a retail/commercial bank ? IB ? Prime Brokerage ? Wealth Management ?
560.
by dxbydt 13y ago
WTF is an "IBM researcher" ? Why are we coupling ourselves to corporate entities in this day & age ? Just use her name & title. The research itself is pretty iffy.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Morgantown, WV. But nothing special about that... you could do the same in Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Carolinas, most places in south/sw...
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Am just pointing out that bootstrapping a startup in a university town on 1k USD is definitely doable. You don't have to go all the way to Thailand and flout visa rules(yeah most of those rules are not exactly enforced but they are sti
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Props to the OP for being open to exploring a whole different continent. But frankly, there are plenty of university towns right here in the USA that'll fit the OP's 1000 USD budget very well. As a TA in a CS grad program, I made
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by dxbydt 13y ago
> minimize the number of places where I handle state The idea isn't to minimize places where you handle state. If you want to manage state, use a State monad. Here are some examples in Scala - http://stackoverflow.com&#x2
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Very impressive! Pls post a link to your code if you don't mind.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Here's a handy little problem you can solve with road.li - There are 5162 KFC outlets in USA. Say I want to eat a chicken breast at every one of these locations. What's the shortest route that connects all 5162 locations ? Do a to
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by dxbydt 13y ago
My, my, 2 mistakes on a silly uniform distribution! You must atone for this sin. Explain what the volume would be if the side came from a normal distribution over [1,5] (ie. mean 3, sigma 2/3) Otherwise I will personally call the MAA d
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by dxbydt 13y ago
not 59, 39.
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by dxbydt 13y ago
>And this is what "big data" and NLP were like before computers :) aside, I recently interviewed a candidate for a "Big Data" position. He got quite chatty about Kolmogorov & Measure Theory, so I quickly cooked up
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by dxbydt 13y ago
> Admit there's a problem, and work to fix it. You must be crazy. Its not like you do git pull india --rebase and everything's hunky dory from then on. Its 1.2 billion people. Beyond a certain threshold, systems are essentially

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