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by dxbydt 14y ago
Am a huge follower of Charlie Munger, and I re-read his writings every so often ( http://www.tilsonfunds.com/motley_berkshire_charlie_speeches... ). What the two of them do is so much of a one-trick pony. They always seek massive rent cap
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Save this servile genuflecting for the unwashed masses of india. Those 3 commodity IT vendors have as much to do with programming as say a quixtar or an amway has to do with entrepreneurship. People were programming back in the 50s and 60s
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Oh sweet irony! A majority of kamaal's comments are about the devalued programming culture in India... where people are expected to shift to a management role asap and if you are just a programmer after 5-10 years you must be a loser. Who i
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by dxbydt 14y ago
NAT vs P2P is small fry. What really bothers me is the death of ATM at the hands of IP. A protocol which had a much better design, addressing present future and futuristic use cases dies at the hand of a protocol that had the marketing musc
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by dxbydt 14y ago
This is getting rather silly. Ask any immigrant what "the American dream" is. Take an average of their responses and you'd have a reasonable approximation of the American dream. Nobody in their right minds would redefine the American dream
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Haskell: what every Scala baby wants to be when he grows up
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Curious - what are the energy costs for running this rice cooker for a whole hour...or this crockpot sous vide stuff for hours at a time, whole day even...is that a concern at all ? Personally I've never cooked anything beyond 10-15 minutes
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by dxbydt 14y ago
are you saying the only value of econ is its predictive value or the lack thereof ? if some PL hotshot predicts that 10 years from now imperative languages will go the way of the dodo, must we mock his particular prediction or his field in
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by dxbydt 14y ago
you are looking for a rose without the thorns:) you'd be better off with a lily ( ie. straight job at big-co/small-co, no income variance )
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by dxbydt 14y ago
This isn't big data at all. This is stuff you'd use AFTER you've processed your big data & obtained a reduced dataset result that was small data, of the order of a few hundred MB. To process said big data in the first place, of the orde
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Its just a stupid fraction. say you have a dataset ie. sequence of (x,y) tuples. In OLS, you try to fit a line onto the dataset. So your manager wants to know how well the line fit your dataset. If it does a bang-up job, you say 100% aka r
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by dxbydt 14y ago
In the textbook "multivariate stats" by izenman, ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387781889/ ) , he claims that stats & ML progressed in parallel. So traditional stats techniques like OLS, multiple regression, nonlinear regression,
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Watched your videos on montesori numbers. Very impressive. Have you thought of doing iphone aps with arithmetic for the older kids and/or prodigies ? I learnt to add three digit numbers when I was like 6-7. I didn't understand what I was do
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by dxbydt 14y ago
> "language semantics since I believe that to be a personal preference" If you start with such patently false beliefs you aren't going to get anywhere. Good abstractions are good, regardless of your personal preference. I have a very ha
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Ok, so I piled into star city purely because of FOMO. What are you going to do ? FOMO is real. You sit in Charlotte and say "I want to write cutting edge machine learning code in Scala", you get back emails from Managing Directors who make
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by dxbydt 14y ago
adding barriers to make a room into a maze is trivial. So if you were forking my scala code, you see 4 filters - val res = Seq(x-1,x,x+1).map( a => Seq(y-1,y,y+1).map( b=> (a,b))).flatten .filterNot( ab => ab._1 ==
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by dxbydt 14y ago
I interviewed at transcriptic but ended up at twitter...so the next time my boss walks by & asks why I'm cranky, I'll say I was supposed to be flying cars instead of manning this giant 140 character machine :))
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Not by a long shot. An astar will get you out of a 10x10 maze in 10 steps since this particular maze has no barriers... I asked my wife if she were trapped in a maze how she would get out. She thought for a while and said... if I could clon
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500,000 clones get you out of a 10x10 maze(github.com)
6 points by dxbydt 14y ago|4 comments
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by dxbydt 14y ago
I actually did the opposite. Owned a house in Chicago. Sold the house, moved to SF, bought a house in the suburbs, and now take the BART to twitter everyday. Rents are obscene if you want to live in SF proper...as you start moving out to th
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Wtf?! Yes you are short housing...then u buy one...prices go up... you sell the damn thing...at which point you become short again...but with that extra money you can cover your short and come out ahead in a different market. It isn't li
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by dxbydt 14y ago
interesting, but probably suboptimal in a quantitative sense. As an immigrant, it is interesting how Law is a universal dumping ground in the US...whether you major in Arts or Econ or PolSci or English or Philosophy or Culture Studies....yo
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Notation is what it is because it serves our ( ie. mathematicians') interest so well. If every one of us started writing Integral Of Quadratic Polynomial = Cubic Polynomial plus constant maybe we would increase the size of the audi
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Frankly, there are 2 kinds of programmers. People who do this: val result = directProduct(cyclicGroupOfDegree3, finiteAbelianGroupOfDegree7) and the second kind, people like me, who do this: // Compute the direct product of
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by dxbydt 14y ago
I cannot reason with somebody whose main thesis is "I believe" and "I think". The real world actually shows the opposite of your beliefs. The obese guy does click consistently on KFC coupons recommended via NLP, and does dismiss ads of fitn
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>But wouldn't it be better to use NLP to emancipate people from the attention economy altogether I work on ads recommendations, and yes, it would be "better" if I stop recommending KFC to the 36% of obese Americans & instead recomme
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by dxbydt 14y ago
In Scala using the par function: https://gist.github.com/4199415 def ip(host:String)=java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(host)(0).getHostAddress var map = Map[String,String]() val hosts = List("google.com","twitter.com","faceb
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by dxbydt 14y ago
User1: Lets talk about OOP vs FP User2: I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with assembler User1: umm... User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with VB User1: umm... User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Thought I'll share this with you. A yc company hired me. I showed up at their mountain view office. The founder said "This is the former office of RethinkDB! I hope we are as successful as them." I didn't know who/what RethinkDB was, so I s
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by dxbydt 14y ago
I guess this will get rapidly downvoted, but let me say it anyways, because I've always felt there's more than a grain of truth to it - If you want to obtain $$, and you feel the way to obtain $$ is to find this mythical customer, and then

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