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by imh 10y ago
I've been wanting to learn C++ (as a data scientist), but never know where to start. There are so many books that were about modern c++ when they were written, it's impossible for an outsider to know what's up to date. Is the
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by imh 10y ago
With data analysis, performance can really help even when it isn't paramount. If I am doing some exploratory analysis and it takes 20 minutes to run instead of a couple seconds, I can iterate much, much faster. This is huge.
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by imh 10y ago
The unstated reasoning is that it isn't luck. I disagree, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
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by imh 10y ago
I deliberately tried not to come off as pessimistic. I'd just seen a pop science article on this paper that went along the lines of "OMG, 10^-24? That's so small! Aliens are basically guaranteed!" It was totally exploiti
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by imh 10y ago
How about a nice compromise where if the person asks whether they have to comply to a request, the government has to respond truthfully? As far as I know, there are no such requirements.
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by imh 10y ago
One in 10^24 seems like really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 17 letters of the alphabet, the odds that they spell "probabilistically" is less than that.
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by imh 10y ago
Optimizing CTRs is not at all zero sum. Advertising a board game to me instead of beyonce tickets doesn't take my clicks away from Beyonce. I'm just not interested in seeing her show. Another client might be the reverse.
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by imh 10y ago
Google products seem to often be terrible for your battery. Even on firefox, having google docs or gmail or whatever open sets of that damned google talk plugin that devours my battery. So much of android too, from what I remember. Seems li
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by imh 10y ago
Holy crap that site basically stops my computer.
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by imh 10y ago
Assuming you know basic algebra and calculus already, learn introductory statistics and linear algebra first. Then pick up a book like http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ (or companion lectures http://w
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by imh 10y ago
When they find the visual turing test results important enough to put in the abstract, it's a shame they only include tiny images in the paper :(
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by imh 10y ago
One in 10^22 seems really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 16 letters, the odds that they spell "unscientifically" is less than that. If we gave 16 letters
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by imh 10y ago
This is how I began my career. I fell into programming by way of physics, and for things like sorting I always knew better than to try to roll my own sorting algorithm. Every language has well tested, finely tuned libraries for that! But my
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by imh 10y ago
It sounds like they don't have to factor in the risk of others not doing their fiduciary duty, because the courts will enforce it.
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by imh 10y ago
I had that reaction to my brother's Vive too. It was really amazing. But that doesn't matter. I probably wouldn't spend more than $30 on one. Despite being blown away, there are no compelling games and it gave me a headache.
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by imh 10y ago
Feasibility and morality are two totally separate things. Just because two things are equally feasible does not make them equivalent.
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by imh 10y ago
If I make a profile that's viewable explicitly only to other logged in members, then it's pretty clear what my intentions are. Violating that makes you an asshole. If you shared a private email I asked you not to, it would be the
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by imh 10y ago
>..and that the input data is uncorrelated with the output ground truth. I haven't read it yet. Is that just linear correlation, or full independence? If it's independence, then there's no signal, right?
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by imh 10y ago
* Significant improvements in error message readability and content, including facilities for libraries to provide custom error messages, more aggressive warnings for fragile rewrite rules, and more helpful errors
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by imh 10y ago
In what world is "Always on call" an appealing phrase?
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by imh 10y ago
I was under the impression that oil combustion, not oil production, was the part that hurt the environment. Is that not correct?
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by imh 10y ago
Right out of college, it took me about 3 months. Even my most recent hunt took a couple months, but I ended up with a bunch of really compelling offers. It doesn't mean anything about you. Just be persistent and keep applying to everyt
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by imh 10y ago
>HARC researches technology in its broadest context, which includes: technology for communication (from the invention of spoken language to modern data graphics), intellectual tools (such as the scientific method and computer simulation)
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by imh 10y ago
There's also a reverse version with the same mistaken assumption. Gambler: "I already got five 6's. I must be on a roll! I'll surely get another one."
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by imh 10y ago
I think a part of the secrecy is so that if it goes poorly they can stop the interview after a really bad session without indicating to the candidate that it's gone so badly. "Yup, it's always just two sessions, goodbye.&quot
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by imh 10y ago
It's not saying that apple is suddenly worse than yesterday. It's that new information may make you suddenly realize you overvalued it yesterday, right?
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by imh 11y ago
The argument is that traffic is down. I wonder the impact it had on revenue.
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by imh 11y ago
That's exactly what a hypothetical conversational interface would do that a simple voice interface couldn't. It's the level 3 the article was talking about. If the computer responds "There are 47 entries," you might
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by imh 11y ago
It's easy to think about interacting with a computer as a programmer, but "Computer, when does the next star wars movie come out?" is much easier for most people than "SELECT release_date FROM ...". Unstructured lan
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by imh 11y ago
You're right that in the case of grabPiFromWebPage returning a JustValueOrError, you'd have to apply a jvoeToMaybe function if you wanted to use Maybe's bind. It could be an issue, but in practice, everyone uses the standard

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