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I also appreciated commentary from professional violinists about soloist performance and why they’re so technically and musically good
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Didn’t expect this to show up on hackernews! Didn’t know there were so many lingling fans here.
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Terrible advice, 0/10 wouldn’t recommend. Honestly the author sounds like they like the idea of doing a startup more than a specific problem they want to solve. Unfortunately this means you’re an undifferentiated untechnical person try
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When figuring out precisely what problem to work out, in person meetings are critical, and WFH is a huge obstacle towards progress. Once a problem is well defined, WFH is more productive.
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This is also true when you “buy” music from Apple.
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Technically he’s a lecturer not a professor. Generally lecturers are treated like trash.
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Average meaning not gay, not ethnic minority, and not living in China or Soviet Union?
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Autonomous cleaning? Good luck vacuuming all the nooks and crannies in a car.
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It’s a nice lifestyle even if you haven’t made your money as long as you have a full time position. The work-life balance is so tilted towards life that it’s already semi retirement for people with full time jobs because job security is so
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They haven’t even gotten self driving working with driver still at the wheel, how are they supposed to convince us that they can do fully autonomous?
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If blast used a neural network it may have had a chance! The question is: has blast made more of an impact than alpha fold? I think so at the moment.
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Computational thinking is more important than software per se. Computational thinking is the mathematical thinking.
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To make an advance in a field, you must simultaneously believe in what’s currently known as well as distrust that the paradigm is all true. This gives you the right mindset to focus on advancing the field in a significant way. Believing in
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I would say alphafold is to structure prediction as crispr is to gene editing. Crispr did not solve gene editing either, but has been made accessible to the broad biochemistry and biology researchers to use. Both similar impact and changed
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Mike Jordan, Tibshirani, Emmanuel Candes
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Cookbooks are very western culture specific. Ask Asian (Thai, Korean, Chinese) families and youll notice fewer cookbooks used. They don’t cook with a recipe as often and information is passed by word of mouth. A better way to preserve is th
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It’s most like carb. Most Japanese diet is much more carb heavy than a typical Californian diet.
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A typical American won’t be satisfied on the calories of one onigiri for lunch.
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Yes. Basically kids can have strong emotional reactions to seemingly small things.
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The issue is you don’t know which of the 0-5 dollar products to spend that will make them excited. A strategy is therefore to buy lots of cheap stuff and experiences, and let the kids have the option to choose. Then throw away the stuff the
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They don’t code better but they code faster. I imagine for first pass prototypes, AI will greatly accelerate the process. But getting to the fine details and getting things done well will still take same amount of time. AI-guided coding wil
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Artisan products are usually tailor made for one person. So an artisan program would involve many hardcoded variables relevant for a specific user, and hard links that connects files for a specific users computer. Basically one that has as
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The insight here is that you need to emit two signals that has equal probability, even if those two signals are rare in the full distribution. In the full distribution, you’re allowed to add any other kinds of signals that aren’t those two.
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His section on monitoring your information diet is generally applicable to many fields. If you want to be expert in X, consume content in X (in addition to the deliberate practice and focus on the craft of X).
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Key is to link the evening session with the morning session to maximise impact while preventing burnout.
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The ideal work schedule for me is work first thing in the morning for 2 to 3 hours. Eat lunch with people, ideally people who are technical enough to discuss work. Extend lunch to an espresso afterwards. Quick nap in the afternoon, any erra
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Avoid delicatessen meats in USA. Most of them are bad and the food poisoning risks are not worth the convenience. Buy imported ham from Italy or Iberia instead.
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Other analogies that might also work: Playing a classical piece music. You’ll never be anywhere near the top musicians, but people still do it because it’s enjoyable. They also share it with others. Painting: you’re not a professional, but
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Test your theory by using distilled or soft water to make your rice.
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Prerequisite is a euphemism for practice. You lack practice. It’s like saying you can improve your skills in basketball/swimming/piano/singing if you just practice better. But obviously you can still be dumb and know a lot of

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