internet555

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by internet555 8y ago
That’s so cool! I really miss Chicago some days.
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by internet555 8y ago
Frankly, I only go on Facebook a few times a month to occasionally check in. I feel like logging in daily is not the point of the service.
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by internet555 8y ago
I’ve thought the same thing
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by internet555 8y ago
One of my colleagues spent a lot of time working on combination anthropological/aid missions. According to him, toilets/waste disposal was usually the number one way to help people in remote or less developed areas.
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by internet555 8y ago
Strong agree. Unfortunately, it seems that many sites do this. Many I know refuse to use them for this reason.
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by internet555 8y ago
This general area (epigentics) is what inspired me to take up a more serious routine of lifting. I’m not sure if it will have any particular effect, but I suppose I am significantly healthier now than in my 20s either way.
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by internet555 8y ago
As a former employee of one of these (quite famous), the curricula are oftentimes relatively good, with an emphasis on practical skills. But it’s difficult for me to see them as a good thing given the issues marked out. Many of them take lo
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by internet555 8y ago
I would have loved this during my post-doc!
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by internet555 8y ago
As a kid I always thought spandex or whatever bike riders were huge dorks who got scammed into wasting their money. If you’re driving around your home area a few times a month (or even week) I doubt that you’re anywhere near good enough tha
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by internet555 8y ago
Really? I had one sort of similar because I took as many cross listed math electives as possible and avoided any software type courses, but even then I learned a lot less analysis, algebra, geometry than a good math student would learn
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by internet555 8y ago
What was the Greek story (Plutarch? Idk) where some guy being hunted by some army captain crashes on some island and the local pseudo intellectual sophist says they need to kill him before the army captain comes or else they’ll be punished
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by internet555 8y ago
I agree. Many view self improvement as being a jacked millionaire genius or whatever. Self improvement for me is if I managed to do some small stretching routine to keep my legs a bit more flexible that day, did a small walk, had good oral
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by internet555 8y ago
That is also very true. I worked with someone like that who was really wonderful (and a wonderful person)
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by internet555 8y ago
What’s funny to me is how many incompetent “thinkers” appear in meetings. Obviously, thought (even removed from implementation entirely) often has immense value. Eg, many people spent a lot of time thinking about arithmetic, linear algebra,
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by internet555 8y ago
Don Quixote
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by internet555 8y ago
I could be quite wrong but wouldn’t a course in Bayesian statistics be a lot more useful for someone interested in inference or however you will say it?
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by internet555 8y ago
Idk, on the job I was in at that point I worked my specified amount and then worked on developing my skills and education outside work. I watched as my boss’ project floundered, he ran out of budget for contractors, employees who were less
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by internet555 8y ago
Your boss is entrusted with other people’s money, resources, employees to manage it in a way that generates value for them. How he looks and how his image impacts you feeling like you got an interesting project is irrelevant except exactly
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by internet555 8y ago
“Make your boss a hero” is one of the most deranged things I hear managers say. At my first job out of university, my manager told me my job was to make him look good. I instantly wrote him off as a moron. We worked for a publicly traded co
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by internet555 8y ago
For one example the notion of a generalized inner product and its induced norm is important for the derivation of conjugate gradient algorithm. My smarter friends have told me that anything involving cost functions and covariance matrices (
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by internet555 8y ago
Certainly you would want a more abstract follow up for many cases. Even engineering or computer science students may have to learn about e.g. inner product spaces and orthogonal polynomials for their numerics class.
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by internet555 8y ago
“Tv is ran by money; how am I supposed to be?” - Lil B
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by internet555 8y ago
I work with a guy like this. The rest of us laugh at him but he thinks we are intimidated by his technical genius and immense capability for Machiavellian political maneuvering. In reality he doesn’t take direction well but he’s around beca
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by internet555 8y ago
Loeb library is like this but I’ve never seen anyone walk around reading them. Maybe this is because of who I hang out with :)
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by internet555 8y ago
How to teach yourself ML in two easy steps 1) Have a strong knowledge of undergraduate mathematics, probability, statistics, numerics 2) read a book about machine learning
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by internet555 8y ago
When I was a teen I ended up in a lot of outpatient mental health stuff (similar story, abusive parents who were very convinced they were normal) and the girls I was friends with there would outcast anyone who started diagnosing people coll
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by internet555 8y ago
I always figure if I should take something my doctor will just prescribe it
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by internet555 8y ago
That’s what all my posts are about
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by internet555 8y ago
I got in trouble for everything! And everyone hated me
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by internet555 8y ago
This is why I think much of Christian thought is actually quite intelligent. (Summary by a very intellectually and spiritually deficient moron): I am pathetic, my desires are all almost certainly evil, I can probably not even think one good

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