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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Thanks! That's exactly what I mean. I don't want to use magical API and "just play with data". I really want to be able to understand from ground up. It doesn't mean I have to read every single line of Tensorflow bu
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Sure it's exciting stuff for those handful of researchers who currently work on projects like AutoML. On the other hand, I feel sad for myself because me and many others left so far behind. I have strong feeling that such technologies
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Yes, it's a free money! What else it could be?? You give free money to people who don't work (and probably don't want to work at all) and you naively expect them to have high-level of responsibility in the sense they eventual
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I've been pure C developer for 5+ years (worked with codebase of ~2.5 million lines of code) and I took a quick look (just out of curiosity) at the content and one thing immediately strikes me: http://cs.yale.edu/homes&
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Here is very concise implementation of sieve I use in algorithm contests: int n = 100; vector<int> p(n); void sieve() { for(int i = 2; i < n; i++) for(int j = i; j < n; j += i) p[j]++; } int is_pr
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
As a person who almost didn't attend a school and dropped out from university, I can confidently say that many (if not most) schools and universities across the globe are completely useless. You may think I'm kidding or exaggerati
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> I don't need this daily coffee and sugar fix anymore. In the same way, some people just stop being "addicted" to life in general after strong trip. Some of them decide to commit suicide. Just yesterday, I've been in
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Back at the time when Deep Blue won chess match against Kasparov everyone in the media said about superior intelligence of Deep Blue. While I at that time clearly realized that IBM just built brute-force "bulldozer" which can look
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
There is massive problem in the culture about value of sleep. The culture implicitly defines mentality where working hard without much sleep is somewhat heroic. Therefore according to the culture (again implicitly ) those who sleep a lot
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> May I ask you why you moved to Sweden? or Amsterdam? I moved here because choose least worst option, not because I appreciate socialism and high taxes. In Uzbekistan, taxation is also very high but in different dimension - the governme
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
In Sweden, you will pay 58% from your every Swedish krona for monthly salary above 55000 SEK (6873 USD). So social-democrats believe you are already rich having monthly income just above 6873 USD. At that level of income you have absolutely
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I'm tired of two so wide spread dogmas - "will of majority is absolute good", "rich owes money to society, so we need rip them off". I lived in Sweden and now I live in the Netherlands. You have better chance to mee
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Is there any book which actually explains where matrix and its rules come from? Instead of throwing on you matrix multiplication rules in dogmatic way so you blindly follow them like mindless robot? I know there are lectures in YouTube from
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I've born in Uzbekistan. In 1990s Uzbekistan moved their entire language to Latin-based alphabet. Even I was small kid I knew it's just a stupid sign of nationalism. Changing your official language to a new alphabet is pretty expe
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
If I create my own company, I will try really hard not to hire people who adopted buzzwords like - scrum/agile/user story/spike/standup/sprint etc. These people tend to create bureaucratic nightmare, an environment
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I would like to read mathematical foundations of machine learning written for those who are bad at calculus but good at discrete mathematics and algorithms. For example, I'm learning algorithms, participate at contests, quite comfortab
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
You have described exact reason why I completely disrespect third-wave feminism, political correctness culture and other derivatives of left-wing politics.
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
As a person who was extremely poor by western standards (in 2002, I earned 10 USD per month in Uzbekistan) and who lived among poor people for 22 years, I can say that poverty is a personal choice, period. Here is my answer on Quora with mo
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
And that's why I left Sweden to the Netherlands because the Netherlands offers huge tax discount - 30% rulling. In other words, Sweden lost me as a software developer. And it looks like it's not only me how doesn't like high
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> I would happily pay 80% taxes That's ridiculous. No government services costs that much. No insurance for any event costs that much. If you live in richest country in the world and citizens pay 30% taxes and government can't
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I remember the story of Samuel Brannan who made lots of money selling picks, shovels and pans to gold miners during gold rush in 1848. Quote from Wiki: "Brannan moved to New Helvetia, where he opened a store at John Sutter's Fort.
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I think the notion of accredited investor is very discriminatory to small investors. It's basically says - if you already wealthy then you have an access to attractive investment opportunities with huge upside (and of course, huge risk
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
To me the one single biggest challenge with startup ideas is that I always feel I'm too late on the market while it's not actually too late. I asked HN how to deal with this but my question was too difficult to read since I'v
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> useless and worthless ripple coins https://ripple.com/files/xrp_cost_model_paper.pdf
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> How quickly we forget average peoples buying million dollar homes without understanding the basics of interest rates. If they are so stupid to buy a million dollar home without even having income (NINJA loans), it doesn't mean I m
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Calm down folks, Coinlist is not for you (and not for me): https://coinlist.co/about/help/investors/2 They require you to be an accredited investor. For those who don't know what it is: It's the sin
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
In the same way, I find most linear algebra books annoying. Throwing on you dull definition of matrix multiplication is completely useless unless you know where this definition comes from.
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Ask HN: How do you know you are still in early market?
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
It's indeed worth to take survivorship bias into account. But if you put too much emphasis on survivorship bias then you would think that everything is completely random and use "survivorship bias" argument as an excuse to do
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
There should be references to problems for each topic at online judges. Like this one: https://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge... Learning algorithms per se is only a small part of training. Much bigger

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