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by dxbydt 4y ago
> UK is a country that pays very low wages Am told "Talent on tap, not on top" is a British expression, not American.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Look, if you want to draw from a unit circle, you could enclose the unit circle inside a square. If the center of the unit circle is the origin, it should be clear from some middle school geometry that such a square has upper left cartesian
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by dxbydt 4y ago
"If the lights and the T.V. are out, it kind of sets the table for romance . . . But, if you're running for your life, you can't make babies." - https://www.cargenerator.com/blogs/news/is-the-bl
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Stability AI Unicorn(bloomberg.com)
11 points by dxbydt 4y ago|5 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
I posted this article because “In Utah more people die from lung cancer than from any other cancer” is true, while “Utah has the lowest rate of lung cancer among all states” is also true.
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Lung cancer rates by state, 2017(lung-cancer.com)
37 points by dxbydt 4y ago|50 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
pg wrote about this a couple years back. big-boxy architecture of american suburbia vs all the diverse architectural styles in europe/asia etc. in many parts of costarica, panama & especially in upscale indian houses, the house lo
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by dxbydt 4y ago
scala is dead last. btw his script is 167 lines of clean well written python. i can rewrite that in 16 lines of scala using http4s and cats or whatever dsl is hot these days in scalaland. fwiw, probably that’s why scala is dead last :)
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Just as computational statistics is a very different beast from statistical computation. Got an A in one and C in the other :(
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> as a SDE in India/Bangalore, I would absolutely love to work in California As someone who spent all his childhood in Bangalore before migrating to the USA & specifically California, let me give you some perspective. No SDE wan
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by dxbydt 4y ago
I had to take 1 semester of Accountancy. The problem sets were like - "Acme Corp had revenue of 23,000,000$, profit of 2,000,000$, cost of materials 5,000,000,$ cost of labor 12,000,000$, cost of inventory...." Ultimately the pro
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by dxbydt 4y ago
i will unfortunately give you a half-assed response. Because the truth will take up a lot of time & space & is very inflammatory. So here's what I honestly believe - there are only isolated tricks. The ones who sit in judgement
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> why you recommend said books. > Sell them to me ok, i will try. 2 books I absolutely love and have read cover to cover several times, solved most of the 1000+ problems. 1. Inference - Rohatgi 2. Inference - Stapleton Why I recommen
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by dxbydt 4y ago
frankly, there’s only a tiny handful of these mythical saas “1000 users each paying 1 mullion dollars” companies. the vast, vast majority of saas startups are serving millions of “users” - i put that in quotes because these aren’t real user
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by dxbydt 4y ago
do you think we’ll be able to watch live video from random places on the globe, on television, before the end of this decade ? i’m not talking dull webcam footage. more like google street view but with video and maybe the ability to pan&#x2
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by dxbydt 4y ago
:) This one should really be the top answer.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
How exactly does an American keep up with this level of intellectual one-upmanship ? This was on my linkedin timeline today - https://imgur.com/a/dLpo9G7
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by dxbydt 4y ago
In the early 1990s when I came here, the prevailing wisdom was that its categorically better to immigrate to the US from India if you get a chance. India was too far back in the tech space, too much bureaucracy, corruption, red-tape etc etc
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by dxbydt 4y ago
There's definitely a Netflix aesthetic - if you watch a lot of Netflix you'll see it. Especially in Indian/Bollywood circles, "Netflix movie" is a pejorative. It means its shot in a certain high-res way, favoring ae
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by dxbydt 4y ago
There are places in the world where the art/author scene is thriving. For example - there's only 30K journalists working for 6K newspapers in the ENTIRE USA[1], which is a rather tiny, pathetic number if you think about. it. Where
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Excerpts from “Silicon Snake Oil” by Dr. Clifford Stoll, Ph.D. Physics ———- I don’t believe that phone books, newspapers, magazines, or corner video stores will disappear as computer networks spread. Nor do I think that my telephone will me
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by dxbydt 4y ago
This is a very good collection. Especially The Cranes Are Flying. I like the very last scene in Seven Samurai where they're looking at the funeral mounds of the 4 dead samurai. Shichiroji says to Kambei - once again, we both survive!
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Is a 2016 National Geo docu. Features Stamatis Moraitis. Dead. Features Dr. Ellsworth Wareham. Dead. Features Marge Jetton. Dead. Features....oh well I don't want to spoil your day. They are all dead. https://abcnews.go.com&
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by dxbydt 4y ago
was looking at your link and found this - https://bibliogram.art/p/Cfsna30F2h- WTF is going on over there ?! So glad I'm safe in the boring midwest.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Dude was so clueless he got scholars mated in his previous game. So he figured, I don't know any chess, but I'm playing against a GM on a simul, what hope do I have...oh wait this is online & no one can see me, let me use an e
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> just wait until this type of thing is deployed on demand and at scale South India averages 4 movies a week. Each movie has like 5 songs. So in a year you need lyrics for atleast 1000 songs. Sure, lyricists are creative artists, but not
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Where Are the Cleverest Countries?(forbes.com)
1 points by dxbydt 4y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> seems unfair to compare GPT-6 in a box to a human who is allowed to talk to other humans Are there any efforts to make one gpt talk to another ? Can the older versions eg. gpt1 and gpt2, talk to each other, and eventually become more p
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by dxbydt 5y ago
> I copied a bunch of standard CS algorithms from the internet. I rephrased them as Company Assessments. If someone publicly shared them I DMCA'ed their github repo. If they made a ruckus I shut them up with 25K VC chump change. YTA
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by dxbydt 5y ago
not 19th century. 21st century.

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