estefan

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by estefan 10y ago
I agree.
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by estefan 10y ago
People find it acceptable to write more harshly than they'd speak face-to-face. I wonder if all 43 or whatever points would have come up if it was done side-by-side the developer. Also, great negative PR for this company. This sort of
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by estefan 10y ago
Not sure why there are all the down votes (if OP is asking why they don't support parquet as an input format). If Google support avro, why not parquet? JSON isn't exactly efficient if it's about efficiency. We dump the output
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by estefan 10y ago
> Industry players are aware that just one serious accident on the roads involving a driverless car could set back their development by decades. It'd be awfully "convenient" for the truckers & taxi drivers if this were
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by estefan 10y ago
It can't have worked out that well because they've taken down the paywall for The Sun...
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by estefan 10y ago
It's also because it releases less information into the public domain about how the industry works. Less information = greater competitive advantage. It's harder for new entrants to determine 'reasonable' pricing and to
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by estefan 10y ago
Some scientists consider ageing to be a disease. They're trying to rebuild telomere length to keep us young, so this sounds like a step towards that goal.
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by estefan 10y ago
There were cultures where the oldest men in the tribe got exclusivity over the teenage girls to reproduce with. Also, since men can reproduce in old age, that sounds questionable to me.
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by estefan 10y ago
I'm no biologist, but as I recall newborns have long DNA strands. As it says, each time cells split the strands shorten a bit eventually leading to age related illnesses. AFAIK there are no benefits to telomere length shortening with t
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by estefan 10y ago
Someone posted this on another thread which is good (I've only got to chapter 3 and have had to detour to the Khan Academy to refresh my maths): http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
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by estefan 10y ago
You put it so much more eloquently than I did. Yes, this is exactly what I mean.
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by estefan 10y ago
The problem is that we're meant to believe everyone's opinions are equally valid. Empirically, it seems to me, some people are just manifestly stupid and/or incompetent.
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Google faces EU charge over Android 'abuse of dominance'(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by estefan 10y ago|3 comments
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by estefan 10y ago
This is a good book (albeit UK focussed): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Financial-Times-Guide-Investing/dp/...
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by estefan 11y ago
> when do I need this Probably never. Spark, flink and a few proprietary tools can operate in both batch and streaming modes which means you can share your codebase between both tasks if you do them. Before these tools it used to be hado
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by estefan 11y ago
It's also interesting because some neuroscientists believe that we literally do live in our own simulations of reality. This is because our consciousness has a time lag which our mental simulations trick us into believing aren't t
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by estefan 11y ago
Yes, it's not a one-size fits all. I recommend The Evolution of Desire or The Red Queen. Both fascinating.
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by estefan 11y ago
Wealth + status
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by estefan 11y ago
How does the company behind Jeeves make money?
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by estefan 11y ago
> now that's powerful and useful Maybe, but how could a company apart from FB monetise that? This seems like a very risky opening for all but a few strong brands ("Get me an Uber to blah blah blah", etc) since they'll
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by estefan 11y ago
I think they need to let yahoo.com burn and put their money into some new brands instead. Yahoo was never a clearly defined site and any changes they make will alienate whoever it is who actually visits. They should take their capital and d
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by estefan 11y ago
...and why you won't get our job :-)
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by estefan 11y ago
What's the best way to learn about these algorithms? Do a course on deep learning & neural nets, or is there some other less time-intensive way?
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by estefan 11y ago
Use Coursera to get the education you wish you'd had.
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by estefan 11y ago
Anyone reading this and being in the same boat: Be very careful with this advice. There are high-paying jobs out there who will only consider CS grads. Why cripple yourself professionally learning something tangential to what you want to wo
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by estefan 11y ago
Any story featuring a character called "Randy Bush" should be taken with a pinch of salt...
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by estefan 11y ago
Yes. The simplest way to solve all this is that you need to have been resident for > x years, or a national to be able to buy property. But governments won't bring that in until the bubble bursts because it'd burst the bubble p
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by estefan 11y ago
If only these people could get some sort of... I don't know... "education" to learn how not to be so foolishly parted from their money...
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by estefan 11y ago
I was working for a small business once and they owners patronisingly asked "How much commitment do you think it'll take for this business to work? 110%. We work all hours but you only do your contracted 9-5:30". I just looke
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by estefan 11y ago
Same with when you write report for your boss and they just stick their name on it and present it.

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