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   by esalman 3y ago

   I was an international grad student in 2018-19 when there was a shutdown. It was fascinating. My wife was working in transportation consultancy and there was a sudden drop in the amount of work. The national parks were free to go in an out,
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   by esalman 3y ago

   Programmers are not held liable. If you go to another industry, such as construction, it's not the case.
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   by esalman 3y ago

   I have used Google products for free all my life. In last year or so I was forced to pay for two products - one is my wife's Google Fi phone and another is a friend's Google apps suite. Both of these are ticking time bombs. These
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   by esalman 3y ago

   I have nothing against the Dutch but these two Dutch companies, Shell and Elsevier, are scourge of humanity.
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   by esalman 3y ago

   Exactly, and you don't need to invest tons of $$ on EVs to solve that. ICE vehicles should be acceptable in rural areas. In fact, you'll probably have hard time convincing rural folks to switch to EVs.
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   by esalman 3y ago

   Yes. What's the point of developing something that is suitable for sunny climate only? This is how bias creeps into Al/ML systems.
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   by esalman 3y ago

   Phoenix gets like 300 days of sunny weather, Bay area also has historically mild climate. Why is almost no comments mentioning this?
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   by esalman 4y ago

   Well, multiple disciplins including and/or associated with electrical engineering and electronics would fall apart without imaginary numbers.
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   by esalman 4y ago

   We don't have any apple products actually. Three Lenovos and a Razer. My wife is still on WiFi most of the time and she hasn't experienced much issues. But my impression is that we always has 5G WiFi enabled. Still not sure actual
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I might end up getting another router next time I move because of this.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Yeah. We checked with censys.io, port 3389 and 8080 were open as publicly available service on the router.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Fun story: I work remotely for an org located in the Bay area. Few months ago I get a call early morning from the IT security person. Apparently someone had been trying to RDP into my work laptop, over a thousand attempts per day for last c
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Thanks!
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Funnily enough, my HN account is 12 years old and back then I was located in Bangladesh with no concrete plan to come to the US. The US-centric nature of HN (or Reddit, 8yr old account) never bothered me, rather it gave more context to thos
15. 645.▲
    by esalman 4y ago

    How about Bangladesh?
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Absolutely. We were international students to the US, so we waited for a long time trying to sort out our future before having a baby- studies, immigration, employment among other things.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    You're right, there are nearby playgrounds. As the other comments put it, it is more about the walkability/design of the neighborhoods that's the issue.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    We can't afford a house with yard and garage in the Bay area so living in an apartment complex with our 2 year old. Most of the days he gets an hour of outside time at the daycare and that's it. All of us are more miserable the lo
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I have an optimistic, almost desperate take on this. The AI generated content will scale and proliferate so much that it will put a premium on verified, curated human-generated content. Initially I was a ChatGPT skeptic. Then I started usin
20. 650.▲
    by esalman 4y ago

    His friends have opened up a free speech comedy club in Austin.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I bookmarked a lot of tweets over the years featuring papers in my research area. Last time I was doing a literature review I found most of them do not exist anymore. Which is sad.. I should've bookmarked the DOIs instead of the tweets
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Been happening for years too.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I usually go with Davies-Bouldin index but there are a few methods: Python/Sklearn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html#clus... R: https://cran.r-hub.io/web/packages&#
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I just asked ChatGPT to give me an example of a 3d object generation using WebGL, then to make necessary modification in the code to make the object rotate.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Same. I'm almost inclined to include prompt engineering as a skill in my CV next time I'm out looking for jobs.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I've seen stuff like that too. I asked ChatGPT a tricky geometry question and it got a ratio reversed and ended up producing wrong answer. I have also tried to use ChatGPT like Google search at the beginning by asking short, curt quest
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    by esalman 4y ago

    I was never a graphics/3D designer but ChatGPT basically unlocked a potential new skillet for me.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    One of my colleagues at my previous lab is porting multiple Matlab toolboxes to Python. These would probably require months for couple of Master's students, but with ChatGPT it is a few weeks work for a postdoc.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    20000 miles is not really enough to judge the reliability of a car. There are Prius taxis in NY clocking 500k miles or more. On the other hand Hyundai Veloster is fun to drive but literally breaks down after 30k.
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    by esalman 4y ago

    Maintaining ICE is actually not that bad, you just have to pick the right ones. Think Toyota-Honda-Mazda-Subaru.