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by harigov 9y ago
Well, your entire business will depend upon that single employee doing his job while remaining sharp to take care of all edge cases. Given that you need one like that in every city, your chances of finding such person to provide consistent
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by harigov 9y ago
I didn't say reducing fairness. I said regulations to improve fairness are probably detrimental at this point when they are still trying to figure out how to run it efficiently and what other related problems can be solved. If you try
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by harigov 9y ago
To run a ride share co-op? Sure, you can run it without any of that technology. To run an _efficient_ ride sharing service? That's where all of this technology matters. Think of competition between companies that are efficient vs ineff
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by harigov 9y ago
It's a little too early for something like that to happen. The reason being that a lot of technology that goes into optimizing routes, predicting user locations, developing ML models, etc., requires significant amount of expertise. Ube
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by harigov 9y ago
I can't believe no one mentioned "Crash Course" channel on youtube. It follows a similar very short summary format (usually of 10 mins in video length) and it is very well made. I learned so much about history, geography, and
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by harigov 9y ago
Can you share your contact information? I am working on computer vision and I would love to contribute to advance science if I can.
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by harigov 9y ago
Some of this functionality (using NLP queries) is built into Microsoft PowerBI. It's not fully there yet but I think the idea is to make it easy to query databases.
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by harigov 9y ago
This is why making journals publicly accessible isn't a technical problem as much as a legal or policy one. Otherwise, this will just turn into a cat and mouse game with enough legal ramifications for those who use it.
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by harigov 9y ago
It's not the smartest Indians who move out of the country, but the ones who are in seek of a better life. They may be same in many cases but not always. Just as an anecdote, some of the smartest people I worked with are still in India
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by harigov 9y ago
I think you are being disingenuous when you try to stereotype people from an entire country as lazy and incompetent. Many of the top notch software companies including Google, FB, Amazon, etc., have many Indians working and thriving in them
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by harigov 9y ago
Minor correction. They are NOT offering free electricity. Just free electric connections. Consumers have to pay the monthly bill on their own. Also, GDP growth under previous govt was accompanied by a significant increase in inflation and g
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by harigov 9y ago
It makes a lot of economic sense for them, even more so than other countries because they don't have that much oil resources. Same with India. Not to negate the fact that China is in general very aggressive in working towards their goa
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by harigov 9y ago
We are still struggling to get away from dependence on monsoons for our farming, forget actually moving away from dependence on soil or other resources. Also, some of this is self-inflected because of our insistence on farmers owning land.
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by harigov 9y ago
It will probably improve as time goes by.
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by harigov 9y ago
BTW, the letter from RBI employees was about mismanagement rather than demonetization perse - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/f... That article that you linked seems to be intentionally
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by harigov 9y ago
I wouldn't take the statements about credibility at their face value. AFAIK it didn't seem like RBI's credibility got affected. Also, as other poster cited, most of those seem to be the opposition and they are just "conc
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by harigov 9y ago
Just out of curiosity, what makes you think RBI credibility is destroyed? Indian Rupee seems to be faring well compared to other currencies. Do you have any data around poor losing their livelihood? Last time I checked, street-side vendors
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by harigov 9y ago
If they start using banks and digital payments, one can build credit score and issue loans to them, so they can develop their business. That is not possible today.
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by harigov 9y ago
>> Pretty much everyone prefers a nonstop flight—business people, especially. Is this true? I find it so hard to sit in the plane for such a long time. I don't think flying in business class would make too much of a difference be
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by harigov 9y ago
I wouldn't call it a one trick pony. Their docker cloud is pretty compelling in some ways.
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by harigov 9y ago
I think the direction is clear. They are going to be a fully content based company in the near future. I think they should spin out their streaming technology arm into a separate company or license/sell services so other companies can
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by harigov 9y ago
I believe their game plan is more hardware based differentiation rather than software alone. From that perspective, TensorFlow will probably play a similar role to Google's Cloud that DirectX played to Microsoft Windows. As other cloud
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by harigov 9y ago
Thanks! I would also consider "A brief history of time" and "Wealth of nations" to be part of fundamentals.
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by harigov 9y ago
Yeah, even a toggle works. But the design, in general, doesn't look appealing to my eyes. You can have a very plain design, which neither attracts nor distracts, but if you have a design that is distracting, it's hard to take it s
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by harigov 9y ago
It used to be a huge concern for me as well. I realized that the more I read, the faster I read. So if you are worried about reading speed, don't. Just read, and it will get better. With no extra effort from me, my reading speed increa
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by harigov 9y ago
What other books do you consider as important fundamentals?
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by harigov 9y ago
That's a great idea and something that I would love to use. You should probably give some weight to blogs known for kick-ass engineering so that they surface up lot more. That would be a good way to seed articles to this service. Also,
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by harigov 9y ago
I love the idea but the design needs some work. If you can also display a quick summary and time to read an article, that would improve our reading efficiency quite a bit. That, and of course, dark design.
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by harigov 9y ago
I wonder if they are targeting this for developing markets where safety is not a major concern.
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by harigov 9y ago
If you think about it, it was always that way. However, a lot of companies that depend upon open source software also invest on it, so it also gets a reasonably good number of eyes trying to fix bugs and add features.

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