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by flor1s 9y ago
I didn't read the book, just the TOC, but it seems like this book is only about programming, not so much about theory (automata, discrete math, calculus, linear algebra, etc), and not even so much about the engineering side of it (auto
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by flor1s 9y ago
I also really enjoyed the book by my former professor: Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML by Roel Wieringa, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 2003 This is all about specifying reactive systems though, not about ho
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by flor1s 9y ago
This is also allowed at some crossings in The Netherlands. Typically on crossings with a traffic light cars are not allowed to "pre-sort" on the bicycle lane though.
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by flor1s 9y ago
Yet cars are allowed to drive on the cycle lane (if it has an interrupted line) before turning. If they are forced to stop (e.g. when a pedestrian crosses), even though they are in violation, I doubt that they would be fined.
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by flor1s 9y ago
I was using Google Maps in Amsterdam a few months ago and tried to go to a restaurant. Google Maps led me into a tunnel and in the middle was it was happy to announce I reached my destination. It happened to be that this restaurant was loca
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by flor1s 9y ago
I have a much simpler technique: Always have a non-empty drink on your desk. It makes you take breaks to get a new drink and to go to the restroom. During these breaks you can procrastinate. It keeps you hydrated (drink water, tea [caffeine
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by flor1s 9y ago
I'm not sure. You could contact the organizers. In my case my university supported me.
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by flor1s 9y ago
I mastered in Software Engineering at the University of Twente in The Netherlands, however in the past few years that program has discontinued and I think has been replaced by a program called "Software Technology". I'm so su
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Andrew Ng Says Factories Are AI’s Next Frontier(technologyreview.com)
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by flor1s 9y ago
This is quite cool, though it seems similar to RxPy ( https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY )
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by flor1s 9y ago
I think slide 12 touches on this. Even in the case of an image we can process it pixel by pixel, but that would be lunacy! For text great results have been achieved using automatons, but they only work for structured strings and break if yo
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Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to(docs.google.com)
1656 points by flor1s 9y ago|120 comments
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by flor1s 9y ago
Its mostly what I hear from the postdocs in my lab. In Japan older companies seem to prefer to hire a more homogeneous work force. Also in The Netherlands some tech companies (including one I interned at) were reprimanded for having a hirin
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by flor1s 9y ago
Starting from scratch is indeed a tall order, and probably not possible if you didn't study it before coming here. Many students spend some time as a "research student" before starting with the PhD, so that would be the best
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by flor1s 9y ago
Coming from a final year PhD student (already passed "pre-defence") doing a three year PhD in Japan: Advice I would have liked: Don't do a PhD if you like taking classes and just want to extent that experience, as doing a PhD
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by flor1s 9y ago
To be honest there is so much variability that it's hard to call the US extreme. For example, in The Netherlands (at least at my previous university) for Computer Science, BSc is 3 years, MSc is 2 years, PhD is 4 years. Non-research p
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Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People(cbmm.mit.edu)
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by flor1s 9y ago
At least the videos can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT5rFIZZeKI&list=PL2jykFOD1A... Maybe the notes of his course at Berkeley can be used to supplement the videos? http://people.eecs.
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by flor1s 9y ago
Signals have been part of FRP since the first papers about it were published twenty years ago (about FRAN)
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by flor1s 9y ago
Meh, I think other companies just don't have the bravoure a man like Musk has. Also it helps if your company is a start-up and no heads will roll if you don't make a profit. Established companies don't have that luxury.
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by flor1s 9y ago
I feel like the benefits you obtain through cold showers disappear after a while as you get used to them. That's similar to the benefits I felt of meditation.
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by flor1s 9y ago
I was reading through some of my journals that I wrote a few years ago and noticed that the ones written with a pencil are much more readable than the ones written with a fountain pen. I guess picking the right kind of paper and ink is very
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by flor1s 9y ago
In the case of the Computer Science course from Sedgwick, I have only been able to find it on Safari Books and InformIT (30$) http://www.informit.com/title/9780134493831 If you happen to be a member of ACM, you actuall
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by flor1s 9y ago
I used to think the same way about the CPU, even after getting a masters in Computer Science! About a year ago I read the book Code by Charles Petzold and watched some lectures about Computer Science by Robert Sedgewick which really opened
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by flor1s 9y ago
Avi Pfeffer's "Practical Probabilistic Programming" (Manning) is a nice book to learn about the concepts. It uses his own Scala based framework Figaro.
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by flor1s 9y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't accelerated so much, considering the availability of the internet, relatively cheap hosting, donation services like Patreon, typesetting software and platforms, etc.
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by flor1s 9y ago
This is from the same guy who made the MarI/O video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44 - using Neuroevolution). In the video he also compares MariFlow vs MarI/O.
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by flor1s 9y ago
It depends (TM) Some companies value GPA a lot, others do not value it so much at all. See https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-GPA-matter-when-applying...
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by flor1s 9y ago
I was about to say that too. I've also used many languages (PHP, Java, C#, JavaScript, C, C++, Scala, Haskell), and even though one language might have been especially good for the task at hand, it would not have been so much harder to
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by flor1s 9y ago
Even your example of Create React App sounds like nicely polished scaffolding a la Ruby on Rails and Django to me.

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