jackthetab

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by jackthetab 7y ago
> But there is something about degree-level maths and beyond that I find deeply unintuitive in a way that software development isn't. Grok. Over the years, I come to the conclusion that one of the stumbling blocks is the definition&
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by jackthetab 7y ago
I don't get it either. How is this different than a "left luggage" place? A coupla' years ago, I landed at Heathrow, dropped off my luggage at the left luggage shop, travelled through Europe for two weeks, went back to H
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by jackthetab 7y ago
> I felt like Sapiens rewired my brain in a way. Same here. His explanation of intra-species realities blew my mind. Explains a _lot_. > Homo Deus only drove in the message that we are nothing but algorithms Biological algorithms but
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by jackthetab 7y ago
I'll have to go back and re-listen but IIRC the other guy wasn't a co-founder, he was employee #1.
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by jackthetab 7y ago
> And again, if you think founders should take less equity then you're free to start your own venture and show everyone how well it works. I've yet to see single example of this though. This topic was covered in Episode 3 of Gi
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by jackthetab 7y ago
A big fan from way back. I was doing the "six snacks a day each less than or equal to 300 calories" a while back. Yes, they do have some weird combos, but the cream cheese + smoked salmon in a tortilla (300 calories) is still a fa
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by jackthetab 7y ago
Unicomp makes (modifies?) Model-M type keybaords that are Mac-ish; I've got a Command and Option Key, the F keys do the same thing as the ones on the Mac (change volume, brightness, etc.). I love it. Tell, me, how do you connect your M
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by jackthetab 7y ago
But most employers don't care about having a "proper engineer". They want someone who knows $LATEST_HOT_FRAMEWORK which a trades education can provide. I've been in the trade professionally for 30 years. In only one inte
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by jackthetab 7y ago
I've noticed the same thing recently and agree with your assessment. Is this an HN thing or a Chrome thing?
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by jackthetab 7y ago
Yeah, what he said. :-) In addition one side effect of moving to and fro is that, as a trainer, you have to know _everything_ about your subject (not on the first day but you will eventually). Most people learn just enough about a topic to
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by jackthetab 8y ago
Uh, somebody want to explain this to us riff-raff? All I see is a web page that generates faces. No menus, no "About", nada. WTF is going on?
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by jackthetab 8y ago
Good luck with your project. I love the transparency. Makes me think I should do something similar. First criticism (if I follow you, I'm sure I'll have others ;-): When I first clicked through, I saw a box in the lower right-hand
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by jackthetab 8y ago
I don't care if it's AI snake-oil or a bunch of grandmothers in a yurt in Nepal. <MontyPython>It works, mate!</MonthyPython>
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by jackthetab 8y ago
> You can try some video game music Everytime I read this, I think back to the Quake soundtrack by Trent Reznor, especially the opening track, and think "That's not what I want to listen to when I'm coding." (Awesome
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by jackthetab 8y ago
I use them a coupla' times a week and find the focus mode quite good. Wish I had thought to listen to sleep mode last night between 3 and 6 AM while I was tossing and turning in bed. As someone mentioned below, I could put together a S
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by jackthetab 8y ago
What is an APM in this context? Google just tells me about Alternative Payment Methods.
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by jackthetab 8y ago
I never liked the "be sure to make backups" and have "and be sure to test" as an afterthought (or "added corollary" in this case :-). Most ppl ignore the afterthought. I taught my students "You don't
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by jackthetab 8y ago
How do you do it without throwing an error? My philosophy has been to ignore the error if it's a re-application of the migration because the migration _is_ idempotent. So ALTER TABLE foo ADD COLUMN bar INT either succeeds (because ther
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by jackthetab 8y ago
Details wrt the first paragraph, please.
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by jackthetab 8y ago
Two things I haven't seen ITT yet: 1. After you tell me what you're going to talk about, tell me why I should be listening to _you_. Why are you an authority on this topic? Unless you're famous, I don't know you. 2. The
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by jackthetab 8y ago
"Tailspin" by Steven Brill. It talks about how the recruiters for the Ivy League decided to admit people based on merit instead of connections, creating a de facto meritocracy and how this meritocracy has changed the USA in the pa
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by jackthetab 8y ago
It seems to be a plea deal rather than an actual indictment. Someone please feel free to show me the actual trafficking indictment; I didn't find one on a cursory look.
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by jackthetab 9y ago
You may want to check out Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization over on Coursera. [1] One of the courses is specifically about hyperparameter tuning and another about structuring your project. There is a lot of practical information