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by glimcat 14y ago
I don't believe that the citation list is copyrightable ("copyright does not protect facts" [1]). Ergo, anyone with access to a papers database could contribute, or you could port it over from other citation graphs. Many papers databases wi
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Just from an efficiency standpoint, you don't need other levers for new grads. A reasonable engineering salary will already be highly motivational for someone who is coming off a student's budget, probably with loans just kicking in. Some
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by glimcat 14y ago
I know a guy who's working on this. In addition to the chores, they're working on some stuff for motivating kids to study. Allowance as a service + motivational gamification. http://empower.me/how-it-works/
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by glimcat 14y ago
Many instances of this type are properly unit tests, e.g. assert brute_method(foo) == optimized_method(foo) for foo in cases.
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by glimcat 14y ago
You can increase this further by abstracting away the "code monkey" aspect. 1. Specialize & productize your output, then offer fixed pricing. Customer gets a predictable result for a predictable cost, you produce something you can estim
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by glimcat 14y ago
The general premise is that there is an arbitrary, recoverable signal which has been convolved with the data signal. The generating function for this signal is a matter of record if you have access to the utility logs, but difficult to obta
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by glimcat 14y ago
It doesn't help that user research is constantly getting conflated with how to do drop shadows and gradients.
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I wish I had more than two choices at 4 mbit. You can pick the phone company or the cable company. Neither is very good, and neither cares - they don't need to. Heck, I wish I had one choice where I could call tech support, tell them that
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by glimcat 14y ago
The hierarchy of slides goes something like: Relevant images which support the speaker Relevant graphs, rendered for projection Relevant microcopy which gives context or focus Relevant videos which are kept as short as pos
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by glimcat 14y ago
"Asserting that AP classes are not equivalent to classes where he went to school is unhelpful. Mr. Tierney fails to mention that he went to Yale, making this anecdote disingenuous at best." I did my first two at a community college. While I
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by glimcat 14y ago
Maybe it's the engineer in me, maybe it's the astronomy geek who watched two shuttles explode. But I am way more impressed with "engine failed, still got to orbit safely" than I was with the already titanic feat of making it to orbit in the
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by glimcat 14y ago
For any problem with optimal solution k, a superset of that problem formed by relaxing the rule set will have an optimal solution at least as efficient as k. It comes up in AI a few times.
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The fastest way to grok memory issues is to do some work in Assembly. Few programmers will use Assembly for regular work, but the intuition it fosters will serve you everywhere.
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by glimcat 14y ago
This is all very good advice which will save you much stress and many wasted hours. I would add: Document any reference material you use, including the source and why you're including it. Cache any digital content, either in the project pat
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by glimcat 14y ago
Users make my head explode sometimes, even when I'm expecting it. I've caught users recommending a product of mine (feels awesome), then they turned around and insulted it in the same conversation. Upon a little anonymous interaction, they
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by glimcat 14y ago
I'm thinking that some monkey software buried in the human psyche is interpreting giving someone money as an act of submission, while another bit is assuming that free is a promise of all-you-can-eat and thereafter interprets limits to that
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by glimcat 14y ago
I refer to it as persona - based pricing I hereby declare this to be the correct technical term for it. The guys in marketing may be calling it something else, but I don't think you'll find a more succinct description of the s
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by glimcat 14y ago
I've been known to follow up a couple days later with a concise report on some issue they mentioned having in-house. It seems to be better received than null-content pings.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Images are up now on the raw feed. They're getting F5ed hard, so actually seeing anything may take a bit. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ Images are grouped by Martian solar days (sol 0 == day 0, length 24h 39.6m).
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by glimcat 14y ago
One major thesis of MSL/Curiosity is that sample return missions are hard. Taking a jaunt over to Mars, collecting samples from various locations, then shipping them all back to Earth is not something we can accomplish right now - so Curios
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by glimcat 14y ago
I started, well, pre-kindergarten. Or in my teens, for anything major and self-guided. Or at about twenty for producing professional results. Or in my late twenties, as someone who could do research-level algorithms work. Or today. If I sto
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by glimcat 14y ago
I'm still very nervous about the landing system. It's ambitious, to say the least. But if it works - oh, if it works! This really is the most exciting project in exogeology since men brought rocks back from the moon. (Table of localized lan
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I think they appeal to different audiences.
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He's also effectively selling preferred access to classes, which is something of an ethical issue. And many universities handle waitlisting on a department or class level so they have leeway to deal with various factors as appropriate. Ever
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I had to can a project recently after spending over a month fruitlessly trying to get a response from Google's support resources. On the up side, I made $70 and learned some interesting stuff. But here's yet another way for Google to run fa
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After being at this for a while and being successful enough to get a label account on iTunes.
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I'm sold, although I'd still start by sitting them down with a copy of Feynman's QED. When doing math about a thing, it helps tremendously if you already have some sort of intuition about what the math is describing. Also, the historical st
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MRI is mathematical voodoo even when it's working - it's easy to fool yourself at any of several stages in the process. "New scanner gives 10x improvement in detail, shows amazing and unexpectedly simple result" is just screaming for verifi
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> You have to work on a problem you know exists. At the same time, experience can often mislead you into thinking that your problems are everybody's problems. Experience gives you a head start, but you should still do customer research
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It depends on what you want for your career. Either on a resume is just saying, "Hey look, I have a bit more education than the next guy in the pile!" - and little else. It can be a marginal advantage there, but the effect is often negligib

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