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by hackermailman 3y ago
Daniel Jackson's book https://subconscious.substack.com/p/concept-design-in-three-... I use it all the time after reading it for example they redesigned git into gitless using these methods to audit and find redun
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by hackermailman 3y ago
If your goal is distributed systems then take it, lectures are all on YouTube https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Missed this post but for the record these rural post drivers are contractors just like every newspaper delivery driver used to be. If you are sick you get someone else to work for you and if the route is too long hire a helper. Fedex ground
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Senior means you can figure out stuff on your own that works and know about tradeoffs so you aren't crazy in meetings demanding that it must be done x way. It also means you can teach new hires. It's supposes to mean years of exp
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Yes in your company where people are paid they will review in a reasonable time but everyone else who's tried a pr to an open source project they sit there for months unless trivial to review.
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by hackermailman 3y ago
borderland beat covered this and it was a combination of the students stealing a cartel bus used for smuggling and the corrupt local government asking for favors of the cartels they work for to teach a lesson. Btw there is many more terribl
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Logs are linearized exponents so all the laws of exponents are the log laws: log(xy) is logx + logy. Logs are also a way to scale which is what they were originally used for to do large multiplication without electronic assistants. We log s
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by hackermailman 3y ago
I understood regular expressions by learning DFAs https://youtu.be/UNn_dirK-nI
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by hackermailman 3y ago
You could try writing down actual goals where you want to be at 1 month, at 1 year, in 5 years. Then unravel into tasks from there. Without a plan I end up doing nothing. Like Julia has sciml youtube lectures showing the guy doing all kinds
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by hackermailman 3y ago
If you can't concentrate then you don't know why you are doing it. You have to write down what overall goal you want that you are very interested in then break that up into weekly research tasks where now you recognize that doing
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by hackermailman 3y ago
It kind of gives you everything and is just a well written book that incrementally builds up abstractions in every chapter. I found I got more from it the second time I read it after I had some experience programming. The first time I had a
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Taken from Simon Thurley's book, they washed but avoided baths, and used rainwater only during the sweating sickness outbreaks: A school of though existed at the time that believed that bathing was dangerous and a time that “allowed th
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by hackermailman 3y ago
I do know they were terrified of water during the early Tudor period because of the Sweating Sickness and wouldn't even risk taking a bath, but the large beer intake I suspect would've happened anyway and isn't connected
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Even in the early 80s a lot of beer was 3.5-4.4% in the UK like Boddingtons. I only know that from punk music made back then about consuming insane amounts of various brands they named in songs then looked up to find it very light beer. Wal
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Some universities now have a Lean proof assistant logic course that teaches natural deduction http://leanprover.github.io/logic_and_proof/ Whenever I have asked professors in the past how they first learned proofs the
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by hackermailman 3y ago
Not for me because I did my own translation and became a meme because of my awful accent according to comments, currently my French translation is making money which I found hilarious because ppl are posting me as the idiot who has good vid
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by hackermailman 3y ago
The real summary isn't just technology bad. He claims mankind as evolved is not compatible with the industrial world we have created therefore humanity will never be able to adapt to it. In order to force adaptation he then lists all t
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by hackermailman 3y ago
His criticisms of leftist activism in the 1990s is that it will always seek to control and exploit technology to implement their ideology so followers of his anti-tech movement should not rely on them. He then rants against 'green anar
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by hackermailman 3y ago
I've watched those, the recommender algo he claims is simple. Whoever achieves the longest continuous views wins so you introduce every video with very brief 'here is what you are watching' then do that video you just describ
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by hackermailman 4y ago
The questions were easily manipulated, so I would find someone I liked, changed all my answers so we would be either 96% match or lowest as possible because I would always get interest from them when they discovered who viewed them with the
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by hackermailman 4y ago
Every new language is converging to ML it seems, like js -> ts -> ReScript, it's also really easy to prototype with ML family module system super easy to bolt on a new feature and the compiler checks for you anything you forgot t
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by hackermailman 4y ago
If you have Rust OSS exp try searching ycombinator jobs you never know https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shuttle/jobs/4YFL0TH-r...
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by hackermailman 4y ago
Sure, try this guy's channel https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTkKBA6LRqYuuQ-LboerRb... and his Putnam seminar vids, he shows an interesting process you can do for any problem outside math as well like collecting
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by hackermailman 5y ago
Yep, even if you pay Gsuite you get some guy in the middle of nowhere earth just feeding you macros for support. They don't care at all big gov contracts is their business
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by hackermailman 5y ago
There's zero difference. It teaches you how to solve problems analytically. In the real world you have to solve problems analytically too, even if you have a terrible corporate job writing some template for a bank you're going to
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by hackermailman 5y ago
If you like this sort of histotainment BBC used to make good series like Tudor Monastery (1500s) https://youtu.be/0-uqQknglio or their original 'Tales of the Green Valley' (1620) https://www.youtube.com
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by hackermailman 5y ago
MIT's 6.006 teaches algorithms and some python internals https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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by hackermailman 5y ago
Cheapest online US regional accreditation is WGU, which you can do at own pace so if you know calculus you can just write the exam. UK open u is probably the next cheapest but not by much. UoP is on regional accreditation path but only nati
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by hackermailman 5y ago
Best way is do away with exams and have projects graded instead. Math write a survey paper on the subject that demonstrates expertise, then orally defend it on live chat where you can't easily cheat, that's what my school did but
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by hackermailman 5y ago
How do enroll in a Msc program and not read how exams are done? I took remote university for a while, you either go to some exam invigilator and pay the $20 for them to monitor you (some campus libraries it's free) or you have someone

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