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by imh 9y ago
That's really interesting and something I never knew. Is that just something to simplify writing a decent bot, or is that something human players think in terms of?
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by imh 9y ago
Not really. Climate science is actually a decent analogy. We look at the historical record (observational, can't do experiments, very macro) and combine it with theory we can back up from foundations and experiments (done on a micro le
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by imh 9y ago
These complaints against economics are getting ridiculous. It's the same BS that's getting levied against climate science, coming from a place of ignorance. Science is hard. It feels like, "Physics can't unify QM and gra
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by imh 9y ago
This question is a beautiful example of typical incentives workers feel and how screwed up they are. On HN people talk often enough about how if you have a worker who gets their job done in 30 hours instead of the company's usual 40-60
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by imh 9y ago
They send individually packaged everything. Three meals amounts to about this much trash (those pieces of paper are full size 8.5x11" for scale. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU1N8VJVEAATbNG.jpg:large The giant foil
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by imh 9y ago
Yeah I loved Blue Apron for a few weeks, but cancelled because there was an unreasonable amount of waste. I'm sure I'm not the only customer to do so.
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by imh 9y ago
I've never heard that before. Do you have any sources for that?
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by imh 9y ago
>1591 >Viète writes In artem analyticam isagoge (Introduction to the analytical art), using letters as symbols for quantities, both known and unknown. He uses vowels for the unknowns and consonants for known quantities. Descartes, lat
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by imh 9y ago
>Options are not taxed until you exercise them. At that point they become an asset that contains "value"... The assertion that they then contain value is the contentious point. To the IRS it is defined to have value. To me, it
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by imh 9y ago
Can you expand on what you consider the AI UI problem and why you don't think anyone's working on it? If it's what I think it is, people are trying, but it's just hard and in some weird way not as flashy as "company
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by imh 9y ago
How do FPGAs compare on space and power? Would differences be enough to matter for mobile?
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by imh 9y ago
Would adopting UBI correspond to a one-time step increase in velocity that sits constant again afterwards?
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by imh 9y ago
From the article: >“Robot” is shorthand for any device or algorithm that does what humans once did, from mechanical combines and thermostats to dishwashers and airfare search sites. "Software engineer" counts in some ways too,
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by imh 9y ago
I have this same non-background and work on the proverbial team of mostly PhD's. Short answer is yes, you can do it. Long answer is that you have to be really, really good to compensate, and getting to that point is absolutely exhausti
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by imh 9y ago
Working with graphs is super painful. Building a graph where you can say `parent ( firstChild node ) == node` is really difficult. There are ways to define it all in one go, or ways to build as you go, but I'm not aware of any ways t
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by imh 9y ago
The single letter version is far easier since I already know what foldable does. Not so much when I'm learning a new library.
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by imh 9y ago
What's the difference in motivation between doing things this way vs with functional dependencies?
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by imh 10y ago
Add to that, I don't even know where I can buy a digital copy of most movies. I know I can sorta rent rights to them on amazon, google, etc, but to actually be able to use it as I please and copy from device to device? Itunes is the
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by imh 10y ago
I really didn't read this as an attack or polemic on code interviews. It's just a fun parody. Like how the TV show Silicon Valley some times pokes fun at actual Silicon Valley, but isn't an attack on it.
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by imh 10y ago
Does it need a point? It's well written entertainment, with some neat programming trickery.
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by imh 10y ago
PGMs are interesting in how they represent distributions over the values of their nodes. In neural networks, (for the most part) those nodes are deterministic, so from a PGM perspective the distribution is trivial (up until the final output
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by imh 10y ago
If you ask someone to predict a coin toss, and use the methods we use today for interviews, you'll end up with a 50/50 chance at best. Yet some people guess the coin toss correctly. It must be some unmeasured "gut" that&
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by imh 10y ago
If you tie it to an exit, you're setting up for tension. "If we exit, you'll get one hundredth (or even far less!) of the payout that I will, but my payout may be immediate while you're transferred to the acquiring compa
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by imh 10y ago
I've noticed the same thing with scientists. To make an uneducated guess, many people with similar education or social status or whatever really need communication not just as a core skill, but as a primary thing they are responsible f
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by imh 10y ago
It's good to allow people to take risks that only affect them, but even then we have to make sure they are properly informed of the risk. When so much of tech is spread on hype, people aren't aware how much of risk they're si
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by imh 10y ago
Nah, too niche. Why try to strike it rich selling picks and shovels to gold-rushers when you can get richer doing logistics for those pick-and-shovel merchants? MaaSaaS is where it's at.
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by imh 10y ago
I'd describe category theory as the study of connected things. It turns out that many things are connected, and often the connections are exactly what makes something both interesting and complicated. Getting better at those sorts of p
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by imh 10y ago
It's way overhyped, but there's still a ton of potential. People are making progress on a ton of fronts, and there's lots of incredibly lucrative not-so-sexy stuff happening you won't see on HN. There's way too much
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by imh 10y ago
>If we can’t assume any kind of common base-line level of background experience but need to re-hash all of school mathematics in every conversation, then it’s hard to have a technical discussion. We can have any kind of discussion we wan
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by imh 10y ago
> SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell has said that customers that fly on a used Falcon 9 could eventually get discounts of up to 30 percent.

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