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by fizixer 6y ago
Agreed. This confused the heck out of me. Almost sounds like script kiddies when they start learning programming for the first time in their lives they assume that the test of successfully learning how-to-program is that your code should co
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by fizixer 6y ago
This is bs. In order for outsiders to understand tech, you need to invite engineers/researchers, not CEOs. And you need marathon sessions, not sprints. Go figure!
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by fizixer 6y ago
She appears to have taken her "If Susan can..." blog post offline [0] I do not believe she's coming clean on her learning journey. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089263
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by fizixer 6y ago
I'm sorry I can't take Susan Fowler seriously. She claims she went from zero math knowledge (besides sixth grade) and a philosophy major to studying quantum field theory in a span of something like a year and a half [0]. If this w
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by fizixer 6y ago
I don't know if K supplementation helps with calcium levels, but you don't need magnesium supplementation as long you have half-decent diet. There is plenty of magnesium in foods.
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by fizixer 6y ago
OP is incredibly fortunate. Or maybe mathoverflow is that active/supportive. As a STEM grad student (not in math), I had more than a couple such moments of crises, when I posted my questions on various stackexchange websites. I got eit
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by fizixer 6y ago
- R: the mean function is already created - C: You will create the mean function It's the difference between using a calculator and knowing how to multiply two 5 digit numbers with pen and paper. You might say, "Oh but we can do t
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by fizixer 6y ago
"When you refund a customer in full, for an app they returned , Apple doesn't refund you the 30% cut" ... ?
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by fizixer 6y ago
Can anyone tell me how Google got hold of the whole usenet (I know it was like 15-20 years ago) which looks to me like a community service kinda thing. Like when Google decided it's going to host comp.lang.c, can there be only one comp
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by fizixer 6y ago
No downvotes. I agree with you. I can guarantee you that deep NN/RL researchers are thinking of these hypotheses every other week. But they don't publish them. Even I, who got more active in this kind of research very recently, ca
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by fizixer 6y ago
I agree with you as well as with the response to your comment, in that both nVidia and Google are engaging in misleading claims about their TPUs. But I'd like to add two points: - I don't think they can get away with it when it co
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by fizixer 6y ago
Something tells me OP hasn't read Polya "How to solve it" and is attempting a bad rediscovery of a tiny aspect of the overall body of problem-solving tactics.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Sigh. Have to put up with high-school kids' "I asked GPT-3 to ..." posts for the next gazillion months. Here, you have your 15-minute of fame, here you have yours ... Everyone gets 15-mintues of fame.
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by fizixer 6y ago
How does this (or its EdX version) compare with ESL? ( https://amzn.com/0387848576 )
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by fizixer 6y ago
Fantastic.
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by fizixer 6y ago
So what you're trying to say is that execs getting these kind of bonuses in a financially distressed company is not unlike vultures feeding on a carcass, except that in this case the vultures were nurtured by the same "person&quot
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by fizixer 6y ago
Ulysses journalism, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780937
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by fizixer 6y ago
Borderline. The 'E' in RHEL doesn't imply RHEL itself is an enterprise s/w, more that it's an OS best suited for 'running enterprise s/w on'.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Same. Someone asks about 'enterprise s/w' and everyone starts spouting their favorite 'commercial s/w' and apparently everyone seems to get along with it. Is HN overrun by coding noobs who are pathologically ha
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by fizixer 6y ago
A lot of deep work requires domain knowledge the juniors don't have.
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by fizixer 6y ago
No.
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by fizixer 6y ago
This is perfect. We need this ASAP. It'll convince more and more that healthful longevity is a viable future.
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by fizixer 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... machine ... has ... events that can kill it ... > ... N independent event types ... So if the robot blows a $0.03 (i.e., 3 cents) electrolytic cap [0], that's an independent event type that "killed" the machine? J
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by fizixer 6y ago
- The robot is in your house the whole 168 hours a week, not just 4. You're assuming a good cleaning robot would be absolutely useless for anything else, like cooking, laundry, etc. - 4-year robot lifetime is overly pessimistic. If upg
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by fizixer 6y ago
Postmodernism 2.0
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by fizixer 6y ago
I've heard great things about CEB (compressed earth blocks).
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Those who do not have ... compensating for it by exceeding in some other trait ... So what do you think the definition of 'privilege' is?
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by fizixer 6y ago
I don't get it. There are dozens of amazing open source projects posted on HN every week, and on average, the ones out of these that are outstanding and could be turned into a business model are countless every month. So I don't u
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by fizixer 6y ago
PhD is not strictly necessary, but the process and training that results in a PhD degree is. Case in point, Freeman Dyson, brilliant mathematician/math-physicist, never got a PhD degree, but did research work all his life. Note, he was

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