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by fizixer 6y ago
edit: Interesting post from a humor point of view (not my cup of tea TBH).
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by fizixer 6y ago
Wow, Julia is a "baby language" and there is not a single project where its dominating the usage landscape. What's next, the unreasonable effectiveness of an idea I just had last night? Come back in 10 years.
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion ... Any ideas why that is? I thought s/w companies have gotten smarter about securing their infra, e.g., strict https-only access, linux server (not wi
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by fizixer 6y ago
Two wrongs making a right. I see.
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by fizixer 6y ago
> AI ... simulate ... Wow, so now the whole of CSE (computational science and engineering) is AI. Great, I can call myself AI researcher.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Thanks. Very helpful information!
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by fizixer 6y ago
Makes sense. Thank you for your comments.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Which is a good thing right? All questions and their solutions should be exposed, so big tech can get to work on fixing their interview process?
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by fizixer 6y ago
Yeah but I fail to understand when that happened in the past? Google Analytics appeared in 2005, and as far as I know as a tech person, they never marketed it aggressively. How did we go from sometime in 2003, when analytics packages (no ma
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by fizixer 6y ago
As an outsider of web-backends, is Google Analytics used as a web-service api for doing analytics on your own website? and now with Plausible you can install an analytics engine on your own website/webserver and use it "natively&q
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by fizixer 6y ago
'pneumatic tubes' here refers to an algorithm developed by BigTech(TM), with the paper on PTA (pneumatic tubes algorithm) coming out any minute now.
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by fizixer 6y ago
I learnt about this technique in Triumph of the Nerds[0] long time ago. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398
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by fizixer 6y ago
I understand the sentiment but for the records: I don't think employees are the customers of Amazon. I definitely don't think Amazon sees it that way. What you said makes more sense if you replace both the words with the word &#x2
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by fizixer 6y ago
Misleading title. It gives the impression that Google tried WFH, found it to be inadequate, and took a U-turn, saying 'on-site work' is the future (as well as the past, and WFH was a failed experiment). But in the body of the arti
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by fizixer 6y ago
I was wrong about types too. I used to think after I had mastered half a dozen languages, I should start spending time on typed languages, maybe eventually learning type theory, Haskell and what not. Now I focus on things that matter: deep
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by fizixer 6y ago
I apologize on behalf of the schmucks posting hate in the comments. The know-it-allness and the highness shall remain reserved for the author of the post.
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by fizixer 6y ago
So you're of the opinion that the gallup study about economic inequality [0] is flawed (or maybe politically motivated?). Or is it that you think even the most charitable nation is not charitable enough? (hence acknowledging that chari
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by fizixer 6y ago
Tangential: it's called K-shaped but really it's kinda sideways-Y-shaped.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Hate to be that person, but I'm surprised people like mech keyboards. I ordered one, hated it so much, I actually decided to return it. Too loud, too much force required to type. My ideal keyboard is the low-profile laptop keyboard, es
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by fizixer 6y ago
IMO, and this is what the engineers never get to find out, at the managerial level, a big concern is to keep the 'labor' "fed" (fed here means fed with list of tasks). Meaning, an ideal for a manager in this aspect is to
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by fizixer 6y ago
Any good learning resources for implementing your own DBMS, and DB internals? (not DB theory, not SQL, not intro).
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by fizixer 6y ago
Fun fact: You can do relational algebra on plain text data (e.g., csv, as well as output of commands like ls, etc.) using only shell + piping + well-known shell tools.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Cybernetics is really an old word, or one of the old words, for AI/robotics. The overarching, multidiscipline, that subsumes cybernetics, can be summarized here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
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by fizixer 6y ago
In my opinion, 'business person' is not the right word. You need someone who has the right network, and/or can network, and/or can comfortably network. While still contributing as a co-founder. Usually extraverts are goo
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by fizixer 6y ago
The longevity is really healthful and youthful longevity, not longevity for its own sake. I recommend looking into longevity forums, SENS foundation, Aubrey de Grey talks, etc, etc.
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Physics is stuck I agree. > needs another Einstein to revolutionize it Nope. The smartest minds today need to work on two topics: AI/AGI, and anti-aging/longevity Once these two problems are cracked, we'd be on a smoo
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by fizixer 6y ago
I'm fully in the camp of C plus powerful analysis tools, plus a high-level language (Python or Scheme).
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by fizixer 6y ago
ML publication is a complete mess right now. Anyone can claim anything as long as they do a write-up and include some equations and pretty plots. It was hard enough 5 years ago to filter out handful of good papers from the sea of bad resear
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by fizixer 6y ago
Good point. I didn't. I would've done it if it had occurred to me, given my desperation with my research workload. And it's pretty clear to me that instruction in a research university is a really bad sideshow that very few t
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by fizixer 6y ago
Let me know in 30 years. If you had more than 4% annual growth the whole time (on average), and the world grew only 4% (on average), yes you did make someone somewhat worse off. You may not know who that is, or where, or how many, but they

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