fizixer

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   by fizixer 6y ago

   You cannot get ahead in society without making someone somewhat worse off. How many you made worse off, and how much you made them worse off is a function of how much you got ahead and in how much time. "Free-market is not a zero sum g
2. 92.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   Respond with "then you could phrase your question a bit better and ask about the relationship or connection b/w hashing and fingerprinting". If you're not throwing the keyword you're a 12-year-old fanboy of in the q
3. 93.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   'Grading homeworks and exams'. I'm sorry the only way I could get over it is by leaving academia.
4. 94.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   Solver/Deep diver FTW All the way.
5. 95.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   Tangentially related: I often get super pissed when my employer, or a friend's employer internally announces that employees should suggest ways to improve the bottomline of the company, think outside the box, be proactive etc, etc. Lik
6. 96.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   A job in big tech is not a job. It's half a job, half a privilege. Perfectly capable s/w developers fail big tech interviews for the tiniest slip-ups in a day long coding marathon. Big tech response: "We can afford to lose pe
7. 97.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   I have two babies: - My pure math research (nothing to do with my day job). Possibly resulting in a part-time PhD program. - My financial portfolio (again not related to my day job). These two babies of mine are as precious and valuable to
8. 98.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   Yeah right, it explains a lot of things, assuming you don't ask how to make sense of this alien thing called a 'bivector' in the first place. That's when they start telling you, that you're supposed to be an elite m
9. 99.▲
   by fizixer 6y ago

   If I remember correctly, having a capable RTOS is much more important, and they can be used in regular processors too [0]. I wonder what's so special about this processor that makes it better than dozens of other hardware platforms (bo
10. 100.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    - Prenups made null-and-void at the whims of the judge are a thing. - Unenforceable prenups are a thing
11. 101.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    So what you're trying to say is that after you've amassed X million dollars over many many years of work, what other options are there but to have a near guarantee to reduce it to X/2 millions within a few years (as little as
12. 102.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    If you're a tiling wm user, you might want to try out regolith linux. It's a i3wm desktop variant of Ubuntu (latest release based on 20.04 LTS) like Pop!_os, and I just checked, I don't have 'snap' installed.
13. 103.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Doctors are not tech-savvy, there is not doubt about that. But the Micro$hit Window$ kludges I've seen in pretty much every doctor's office, with many instances of the doctor entering their credentials for login, and then waiting
14. 104.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Loaded premise. No one in my whole life has claimed originality is the only way, except in case of academic publishing, in which case, yes it's the only way.
15. 105.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    But when you publish a paper on Monarch, aren't you giving away the core idea? In the case of PageRank, at least it was published after Google had already dominated the search space, i.e., many years after the conception, implementatio
16. 106.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    So do you need monads in Haskell because that's the only way you could do some of the things that are trivial in an imperative language (albeit verbose and arguably inelegant)?
17. 107.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Thanks goodness this is not a renaming/rediscovery/attribution-hijacking of a well-known and old concept (reference count, allocation count, etc.), something every other person these days seems be engaged in.
18. 108.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    When you pay ransom for physical possession you get your possession back. When you pay ransom for lost data you get a copy of your data back. The culprits still have the data, but they likely don't have a use for that data. But this is
19. 109.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    So you mean fire up an instance at AWS/Azure/GCP/etc that acts as an android-dev vm? So dev environment is on the cloud? and all the data (working dir, data files, pdfs, whatever is involved during the dev phase) is also on t
20. 110.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    I guess SML would be it then. I'm sick and tired of the OCaML community that tells you to use OCaML, as if it's better than SML, but then tells you not to worry about the OO parts.
21. 111.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    - SML is old - OCaML has OO cruft and OCaML folks themselves keep telling you "Oh, you don't have to use the OO parts of OCaML" Well then effin give me an ML that's more modern than SML, and has no OO cruft! don't t
22. 112.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    After a few years' break from professional s/w dev, I'm really trying to get into the docker-based dev mindset. You can use docker (or, less efficiently, a full-blown VM) for any purpose, but it looks like the killer app that
23. 113.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    I think some of us (most? all?) develop a tendency to act/be clever instead of act/be clear. When I resist that temptation, I ask for something like: clamped(num, range=[ lower_bound, upper_bound ]); and then have no inte
24. 114.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    - loaded premise (that AI community thinks causal reasoning, whatever form that may take, is the silver bullet) - Failure to distinguish b/w narrow and human-level AI - Zero mention of attention/transformer models - Zero mention o
25. 115.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Thanks. Great work.
26. 116.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing. If you don't mind, did you use Graves 2013 RNN or something recent/more advanced?
27. 117.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Can anyone explain/interpret what leetfree.com is saying here? > ... don't try to solve it with online judge ... > ... Try to learn from the solutions we provided as quickly as possible ... > ... Interviewers only care ab
28. 118.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    Nothing makes it appealing or faster than C in particular. It's the stubbornness of the old guard of physics professors (and applied math, etc) who contributed to mountains of (now legacy) fortran code in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and who&#x2
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    by fizixer 6y ago

    Did they legally have to "reach the numerical allocations"? Or is it that H1B employers have enough of a powerful lobby that USCIS had no choice? (since I assume current administration would've been content with under-utiliza
30. 120.▲
    by fizixer 6y ago

    I has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, OP is engaging in a cheap form of terminology hijacking. Either that or OP has no idea what the word 'photorealism' means. Either way OP is doing himself a disservice. Great project. Sir