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by imranq 5y ago
I would work backwards from why you want to learn a new language in the first place. Definitely spend some time on that. Usually the reason will lead directly to a project that you want to work on. Otherwise it will be hard to follow thro
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by imranq 5y ago
I like the idea. It would be cool if multiple devices could create a mesh network where students and teachers could communicate with each other without a connection to the global internet
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by imranq 5y ago
Could this be used to convert PDFs into audio? I would love to be able to listen to papers while walking / driving
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by imranq 5y ago
One quick note is that the boiling frog metaphor actually doesn't happen in nature. When the water is too hot, the frogs jump out https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2006/09/the-b...
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by imranq 5y ago
Why is there so much fetishization of violent content in the comments? Sure maybe liveleak provided some footage you couldn't get on youtube and that is indeed a loss, but to think that the violence you see represents the truth is just
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by imranq 6y ago
An engineering feat, definitely. However there are so many ways this technology can be abused.
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by imranq 6y ago
The motivations seem so confusing. It says this doctor sacrificed his reputation by providing fake fentanyl prescriptions for $33k/yr. Most physicians make 10x that. Really strange.
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by imranq 6y ago
Why does it need to make sense
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by imranq 6y ago
I would spend more time understanding your motivation for brain computer interfaces. It seems more like a research project with some applications to neurodegenerative diseases, but to actually get anything done you'll need to master se
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by imranq 6y ago
Imagine how the people back then were thinking of how future peoples would view them. Now we are those people.
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by imranq 6y ago
You can email your congressman/woman if you’re in the US Otherwise, we can try to see the evidence for ourselves, via articles and satellite imagery and try to make more sense of the situation.
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by imranq 6y ago
No good engineer I've worked with only did the bare minimum. Usually it was 2x or 3x beyond that e.g. thinking about the customer, understanding the right technologies, designing for scale, etc.
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by imranq 6y ago
Honestly the best perk in a job is a short commute. I would take a huge paycut for a shorter commute. Anything over a twenty minute drive is a no go for me. A five minute bike ride is ideal.
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by imranq 6y ago
Sorry I’m not quite following. I understand if groups are isolated from each other we will have different forks of Bitcoin running around the world, but why would a fork disappear? Wouldn’t the separate partitions merge into one network aga
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by imranq 6y ago
Looks like it was a case of mistaken identity. One party named the OP with power of attorney, mistakenly thinking of someone else with the same name. What bothers me is how that is possible, don’t you need SSN, address, signature, something
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by imranq 6y ago
My wishes and prayers going to Christian's family. There's also a good book on the co-founder of Akamai who also departed early. I thought it was a good read: https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Trans
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by imranq 6y ago
As someone who has worked at Amazon as a PM, it's always surprising how many different verticals that the company expands to. But it's probably not all that surprising: 1. Long-term approach in attracting the best technical minds
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by imranq 6y ago
And possibly giving charity each year
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by imranq 6y ago
I wouldn't judge an entire country from two pieces of news...
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by imranq 6y ago
Roger Penrose! If there’s anyone I could think of who deserves the prize, it would be him
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by imranq 6y ago
It’s easier to write code in a notebook. I frequently look at a screen for a minute, memorize what’s there, and do the rest on a piece of paper. If you sum up total screen time during an 8 hour day, it’s around 1 hour of bursts.
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by imranq 6y ago
Of course. Just expanding on the idea behind journaling is that it is a scaffolding for your mind. For me, without journaling, my mind will wander and probably resemble a random walk. Instead, I found that by organizing my days into "p
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by imranq 6y ago
One trick I learned to slow down time is to keep a journal and write both about the future (either as a narrative or plan a schedule) and about the past (either as a journal entry or an audit). This could be about anything, any minute detai
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by imranq 6y ago
Jeremy Howard and Andrew Ng are the two teachers who got me into ML and eventually as a career. Amazing to see so much progress! Because of FastAi I can see ML being used around the world just like Excel or python
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by imranq 6y ago
Make a plan and get there too!
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Good article. I was half expecting at the end to read that the article itself was generated by GPT3. Luckily GPT3 can’t explain itself just yet.
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This is incredible, but won’t these techniques just make the gap wider as big tech firms create even larger models?
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I wish the best for his family. Sad all around. Occam's razor certainly applied here. I wonder if that rampant speculation earlier shows how disconnected we are from reality. Our minds are certainly warped by the sugary fictions and me
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by imranq 6y ago
That's a really good question. I took a class with one of the professors who started Snorkel. The way he broke it down was either you can incorporate rules into your data or into your model. Because we want our model to be as general p
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by imranq 6y ago
The amount of speculation in the comments is surprising for HN. There are very few facts established so far. What a tragedy. God bless his family.

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