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by ivan_ah 8y ago
A friend of mine runs a web dev shop and I have seen him train at least six people from zero-to-pro (very smart, fast learners with a math background) and what you described is exactly what happens. Once they become medium/advanced-lev
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youtube_dl an ffmpeg would be my top two in terms of power. Here are my top commands by frequency of use: 4421 git 952 open 936 vim 908 cd 603 ls 566 grep 533 cp 429 rm 414 mv 250 atom
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Here is quote from 1894 by Albert A. Michelson that captures the attitude of that time: ``[...] it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have now been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chief
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For more advanced topics, this is an amazing book that covers many graduate topics in a unified and consistent notation: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0691159025 Draft of the book is available here for free: http:/&#
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Do you have any physics forums to recommend off the top of your head? There are often interesting discussions under each video on Khan Academy, I know this one too https://www.physicsforums.com/ , and this one in French htt
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Wow what an amazing list. It will still take many years to learn all this material, but I think that a dedicated student could follow it and physics up big time! My time estimate for someone with normal intelligence level (i.e. not genius),
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Nice! Did you work though some of the exercises and problems? Don't be a tourist in the land of math! If you don't want to bother with pen-and-paper (which is the best, but takes very long), you should at least try some problems
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Speaking of learning/reviewing linear algebra, I wrote the NO BULLSHIT guide to LINEAR ALGEBRA which covers all the material from first year in a very concise manner. preview: https://minireference.com/static/excer
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Link to journal article: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)31106-1.pdf
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> Python comes very close, but is far from simple (pip, IDE, maybe mypy, ... This might be of interest for you to try---it's a super simple Python IDE for beginners: https://codewith.mu/ I've tried it out for d
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Reminds me of jsPlumb: https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/demos.html This could be good for ETL tasks where you have to take data from one place, transform it and load it into another place.
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Interesting off-the-cuff comments[1] about quantum computing in the question period: Patterson: You may get a question "Won't quantum computing ..." — No! Quantum computing is a really exciting; it's not going to happen
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Ah no, my intended meaning of “just-in-time” was definitely not in the sense of just-in-time-for-the-exam. In fact I think there is very little use for last-minute cramming... at most you can survive the test, but definitely not build fluen
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Yeah, private tutoring is the best. The custom, just-in-time curriculum that a tutor can prepare is the most efficient way to learn. I think equally important is the transmission of a relaxed, exploratory attitude towards the STEM subjects.
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
It's true wikipedia can be hit-or-miss sometimes, but in the STEM fields it's mostly solid, so not sure why the need to start a new one from scratch. Maybe just make some initiative to fix existing pages and make them citable? ht
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
I think what skookumchuck is referring to is the general notion that "privacy and confidentiality has long been an integral part of the intellectual freedom mission of libraries," see http://www.ala.org/advocacy&#x
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archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174620/https://dawn.cs.s...
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"You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSCRoYyM-Y
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Yeah, I hear you about the jupyter-is-for-draft-code. I thought that's how everyone used Jupyter for software dev. I guess this is the MATLAB-style software dev---try something in the REPL, and once you figure out the parameters intera
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
I highly recommend https://github.com/softcover/softcover see dogfooded demo http://manual.softcover.io/book You can write the text either as Markdown or LaTeX, and softcover will build PDF, HTML, ePUB
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Lots of useful synthesis about the study of consciousness: https://www.consciousentities.com/
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There was an interesting HN thread about this topic two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17664084 Check ^ for other useful recommendations and links.
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This is pretty cool. I've been looking for an example code base for creating a simple GUI tool. This seems a bit too specific to lists though. Would it be possible to write module for manipulating tree data, e.g. something like a files
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Yeah after looking through the PDF, I'm still wondering what they meant. Here are some conjectures: - The book has a high bias (since written from physics perspective), but low variance since assuming physics background allows authors
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This is very, very, very good. Book is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08823 ____ My review: The authors provide a condensed summary of all central topics in machine learning. Topics include ML basics, ML theory, opti
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Very cool stuff. I can totally see universities get into using this to give another venue for their researchers to publish. Link to demo site running OJS component (journals): https://demo.publicknowledgeproject.org/ojs3&#x2
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Will the videos be posted somewhere public as they become available? YouTube channel? RSS feed?
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Yeah, I think the git "chunks" are quite large though. A big enough move (e.g. an entire file) will be recognized as a rename and reuse a pointer to the underlying blob, but anything paragraph-sized will be recorded as remove and
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This would be really interesting to do with some sort of move-aware diff algorithm. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Instead of getting lines removed + lines added, there could be some sort of content aware diff algorithm that works
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+1 for computing some sort of normalization factors... here are some ideas: N = number of API endpoints, then N/cloc would be something like efficiency (get more stuff done with less code) M = number of lines of code for all code paths

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