fizwhiz

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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   > Being told something like "you are intrinsically amazing and working here proves it" flatters in a deep existential way but also insidiously creates a dependence on that validation. Well that hit home.
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   Bravo. Thank you for sharing :)
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   So, rent the spike a la hybrid cloud?
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   Really don't know why you're being downvoted, but I agree. I prefer protecting my time whenever I can (read: I'm lazy) and I've personally found instacart to be an invaluable service. Whether it's a late night wine
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   > Only thing IITians are good at is self worship. It's almost as though you've got an axe to grind with people having any respectable pedigree.
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   Perhaps a better response would be outlining how much memory it actually takes? This way people can decide (i.e. if they care deeply about the memory footprint)
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   > Back then we roasted a few hundred thousand Japanese people Unbelievable. Flagged.
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   Serious question, what's wrong with parking funds in a coinbase ETH vault when compared to something like MyEtherWallet/Parity?
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   by fizwhiz 9y ago

   Reminds me of Google's blameless postmortem culture.
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    source: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2004/05/21/T... Authored in 2004, at which point Oprah had $1.1Bn[1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    I really wish this class (or the Harvard class referenced below) were offered as a MOOC w/ some certification. I rarely find classes around OS/databases offered as MOOCs, which is a pity because those are the things I'd love
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    ( cough ) Google ( cough )
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    > A lot of facts of life - like raising offspring at all, or death - make zero sense if you consider the actor to be a person, but make a lot of sense if you consider the actor to be a gene. Care to elaborate?
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    Excellent review! I haven't taken Ng's original ML course and noticed that you mentioned it would be a pre-requisite to taking any DL course (whether fast.ai or Ng's DL course). Care to elaborate why?
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    1058 comments all descendents of hedgew's comment. First time I've ever seen something like that on HN. Edit: FWIW, the best female engineers I've worked with were just as good as the males. But yes, distribution is a thing,
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    Technically, he started doing his PhD but quit 2 years later.
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    Not sure if trolling or serious...
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    relevant: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    My guess is that nostrademons was just being somewhat fast and loose with the "seek" terminology. FWIW, your linked snippet by Jay Kreps ends with: > ... Since SSDs have fast seek performance grouping data... Clearly, Jay is aw
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    who was your mom referring to, if I may ask?
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    by fizwhiz 9y ago

    The `Who’s Looking for a New Job?` unicode blunder on that article's section made me chortle especially after you realize the founder published this article years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    "What's the most fulfilling project you've worked on in the last 6-12 months?" I like this because "fulfilling" means different things to different people. Some folks would deem the opportunity to work on hard
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    All the images under the "How searching a VP-Tree works" are broken :/
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    Looks like it's mostly targeting application developers that don't normally deal with nuances of specific microarchitectures.
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    Aye.
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    Citation?
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    > Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit, then take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with second-order bullshit This made me chortle
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    I think you meant "jack of all trades". I also think it is wrong to conflate breadth with "improving generally".
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    by fizwhiz 10y ago

    Too bad they didn't open source this implementation, but they did link a bunch of papers that inspired it.
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    Microservice Threading Models and Their Tradeoffs(infoq.com)

    2 points by fizwhiz 10y ago|0 comments