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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Does a child know grammar and vocabulary? Understanding and producing the sounds of a language seem to be the elementary units.
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
A large portion of routes are low demand and have few passengers. Does an empty bus reduce congestion? I'm not sure what percentage of routes are like this, but I assume it's non-trivial because predicting demand is a tough proble
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Obviously there's a trade off between unemployed hair dressers and users, who save money. In dollar terms, I don't think it's fair to assume harm to hairdressers is greater than benefit to users, which, I suspect, far outweig
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Would you prefer we had to get a license like a barber? There's a growing shortage of developers. What would that look like with more barriers to entry?
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
They have pay for use toilets in Colombia, and they work great. You pay a small fee and there is an attendant that cleans on duty the whole time.
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
I made a mvp to practice a foreign language with subtitles. The spoken language is how we all learned our primary language from our parents, so it makes sense to start there as an adult. You can check it out at caplearn.org, if you're
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
So far, I've been paid to ship machine learning tutorial content for an education startup. I got the client through upwork. Think of all the people that know less about site administration/programming than you. These people would
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
I shipped machine learning tutorials for an education startup client through upwork. Here's a sample: https://colab.research.google.com/github/geofflangenderfer/m...
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
I've been traveling around the world earning money as a freelance software developer. I have had no need to use any data structures or algorithms to complete my work.
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Markets are incapable of optimizing against externalities. For example, no one owns the air, so no one pays for the exhaust produced by their cars as they drive to work. If there were air rights-say every property owner gets rights to the a
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a true A/B test? Peter thiel starts his Sea steading libertarian paradise and Bernie gets his very own socialist heaven. We use US as the control.
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
If the market decided, these small towns with all their centralized services wouldn't last. Either people would move from rural to urban areas or private, decentralized, and economically viable services would develop.
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
I had a lot of trouble understanding spoken Spanish when first arriving in Colombia. This tool provides deliberate practice for speech recognition. It's what I wish I had at the time.
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CapLearn: Speech Recognition for Humans(caplearn.org)
1 points by g_langenderfer 7y ago|1 comments
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Got a 404 when clicking invite a coffee shop in Android app
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Sigma Learning Outcomes(twitter.com)
1 points by g_langenderfer 7y ago|0 comments
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by g_langenderfer 7y ago
Are companies acting in their interest the problem or is it the system that allows incumbents to lobby and close the doors to new entrants behind them? The status quo is a bastardization of capitalism.