egl2016

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by egl2016 9y ago
Stuxnet?
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by egl2016 9y ago
If you want something that is mostly "doing mathematics", i.e. thinking about Galois groups, differential geometry, or the Riemann hypothesis, that is pretty tough. Many jobs have interesting mathematical content, but to get them
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by egl2016 9y ago
"By default, blas64 and lapack64 call the native Go implementations of the routines. Alternatively, it is possible to use C-based implementations of the APIs through the respective cgo packages and "Use" functions." Perf
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by egl2016 9y ago
tl;dr: if we assume deleterious effects from CO2-driven global warming and discount effects from long-term storage of high-level nuclear waste, nuclear is safer.
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by egl2016 9y ago
In the Dark Old Days, there was more specialization, so you could (and were expected to) become deeply knowledgeable about a few things, e.g. Cobol programming on OS/360. The computer vendor usually supplied everything, including the
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by egl2016 10y ago
Andrew Ng on this topic: "...if you seriously study half a dozen papers a week and you do that for two years, after those two years you will have learned a lot." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13&#
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by egl2016 10y ago
I find the MBTI incredibly useful. When I meet someone I immediately figure out what their MBTI type is. That saves me enormous amounts of time later on---I don't have to pay close attention to what they say or do. I just rely on th
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by egl2016 10y ago
"more determined" -- you've obviously never dealt with Haskell tooling. :-)