gilbetron

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by gilbetron 9y ago
I'm trying to get the company I work for used to the idea of ML in general, and one thing I get push back on is that we don't understand what such system are doing. Beyond showing them the math, I also point out to some of our bu
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by gilbetron 9y ago
I didn't say anything about life ending at 30, in fact I'd say it is often the opposite. But it at least changes. I'm just recommending taking advantage of the things that easier when you are 18 than when you are 50.
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by gilbetron 9y ago
You misinterpret neither everything I said. The "make mistakes" isn't, "do drugs and get STDs and fuck up your life!", it is "try things that you might not like" or "date two women at once" or an
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by gilbetron 9y ago
I'm living where I am because I'm in an awesome city (Ann Arbor), and that includes a good social network, yes. You couldn't pay me to live in Detroit.
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Find some open source project(s) that you are interested in and has a friendly community. Get into developing for that and learning how you actually not that great of a programmer ;) Get better, immerse yourself. Go to college in the nex
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Downvotes? Because I'm old? This wasn't a dis on Go, just that I think of it as brand new, and it is 10 years old :/
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Holy hell, Go is ten years old. 2007 was ten years ago. I'm so happy I have some Buffalo Trace whiskey sitting next to me :/
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by gilbetron 9y ago
After starting up a big data timeseries project at work for the past several years, and spending a big chunk of that looking into and testing various DBs, whenever I am asked, "What database I should use for X?" I tell them Postgr
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by gilbetron 9y ago
I prefer gold.
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Is there a good solution to that problem, though? (Serious question). I recently did a laptop refresh and am using it as an opportunity to solidify my approach to ML development, and would love to hear if there is a good solution to long-
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Oh man, lets hope Chris doesn't read this - he doesn't need an even bigger ego! (he's a personal friend and a great guy!)
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by gilbetron 9y ago
From the article: "Pollyannaish plant physiologists will point out that the cereal-crop math applies only to those regions already at peak growing temperature, and they are right — theoretically, a warmer climate will make it easier to
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by gilbetron 9y ago
And because of that the kinds of answer we would expect from such a carpenter in that situation is, "Hmm ... how big is the room and what size of board are you using? 2 inch, 3 inch, 5 inch, or so mix? That's pretty popular thes
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by gilbetron 9y ago
And you are one of the types of person the question is meant to weed out - people so threatened by a simple question they get defensive and hostile. And thanks for calling me dumb!
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by gilbetron 9y ago
Carpentry is far different than programming. But even so, and equivalent question I would ask a carpenter I wanted to hire would be, "How much hardwood flooring would I need to cover the rooms in my house?" If they answer, &quot
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by gilbetron 9y ago
So you would be completely comfortable interviewing someone that claimed to have done 10 years of systems programming, including optimization, and yet when asked that question, just shrugged their shoulders and said, "I dunno"? E
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by gilbetron 9y ago
We totally would interview someone that responded as you did. Thing is, I'd say roughly 50% of the people that applied for the position would respond with something like "I dunno" or "A" and be unable to have any s
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by gilbetron 9y ago
A weeder question I've used: How many operations can a modern CPU perform per second: A) Thousands, B) Millions, C) Billions We'll accept C, and B with explanation. I'd say roughly 75% of the people I've asked (wh
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by gilbetron 9y ago
9 years ago a good friend of ours told us he had pancreatic cancer, but he hadn't yet looked into the details of the disease. The look on my face told him it was bad. Turned out to be Islet Cell (the same type that Jobs had), and they
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by gilbetron 9y ago
I've stopped taking either unless I have a strong reason. No more chronic use at all - yoga does more for pain relief long term, and I stopped playing soccer, and limit myself to lower impact sports. I'm sore enough after exerci
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by gilbetron 9y ago
In the peak of my "strenuous exercise" and "age" graph, I was taking about 12 advil a day, with Zantac. Eventually that, combined with a bit too much drinking (0-3 drinks a day), culminated in a messed up stomach. But
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by gilbetron 10y ago
Because it was nearly impossible to store all that data before, we had to figure out what we wanted to look at before we got the data. Now that we can store that data easily, it gives us the flexibility to find things we didn't know w
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by gilbetron 11y ago
Flint and Detroit have huge sections of the city like this. It isn't just a street or two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKQSPJWK5w0
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by gilbetron 11y ago
As a parent that played with legos as a kid and now has enjoyed the past 4 years buying my son legos, my answer to the question "What happened with Lego?" is: they became awesome . They managed to find a great balance between h
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by gilbetron 12y ago
All that work to create one of the most boring looking watches I've ever seen. The craftsmanship is inspired, the design ... blah.
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by gilbetron 12y ago
This is one of those questions I use to see if sites know how to research a topic. We have proven reserves to last at current consumption rates for 300 years. A little googling leads you to the facts, which is that we have plenty of heliu