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by jeeeb 5y ago
Language is a bit confusing here. In Japan it’s common to require a “resume” (履歴書) and “C.V” (職務経歴書). It’s on your CV that you detail your job history and highlights. A “resume” is more like a cover sheet and follows a very specific format.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I’ve seen this claim made a few times. If this is true then surely it would be in the US’s interest to stop doing it! Stop us freeloaders from mooching off your drug development! Personally I’m doubtful that this claim is broadly true thoug
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by jeeeb 5y ago
> Though maybe I'm missing something 'cos it seems to me you can run gradient descend on non-differentiable functions Isn't that exactly the point though? If you don't have an analytical solution for the gradient of t
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by jeeeb 5y ago
FWIW. I’ve seen a lot of interest in Japan and Australia as well. Toyota in particular seems to be betting big on hydrogen with a PHEV -> BEV transition as backup.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
As an explanation as to why Google has gone down this design path, I think this makes sense. Basically it’s easier to maintain compatibility with existing devices this way. From a security perspective I don’t think it makes the slightest di
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I’ve seen this spin a lot in the Australian media but it seems like a distraction. The Great Barrier Reef is endangered and will likely disappear for the most part. And yes our own management of it has been problematic in many ways.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
You’re still flushing about* the same amount of water out of the pipes though. It just takes longer with a water efficient shower head. And as the parent poster points out this is solved by using smaller pipes. * some of the hot water may c
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by jeeeb 5y ago
> SOTA models are at ~5% WER for general speech. Do SOTA results measure performance in difficult environments though? Presumably dealing with people talking out of their car window next to a busy road would be a lot more difficult than
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I started a new project in Python in late 2019. Coming from a C++/Java background I elected from the start to use type checking and data classes heavily. The project has now scaled to multiple developers and many thousands of lines of
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by jeeeb 5y ago
This sounds very similar to our experience in the public hospital system in Australia. With both our sons the process was mostly handled by midwives including a lot of the pre and post natal checkups. The births were done naturally and imme
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by jeeeb 5y ago
IIRC. It was primarily the USSR which backed the North Vietnamese. By the early 70’s the communist block had split between the USSR and China. Vietnam was USSR not Chinese ally. Not long after the end of the Vietnam war, China attacked Viet
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Controlling for confounders and demonstrating causality are different things though. They explicitly acknowledge that they don’t demonstrate causality as a study weakness. People who drink alcohol may simply tend to have a slightly differen
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I pretty much agree with everything you said except that for the most part I think we do that already. This year’s federal budget has large allocations towards infrastructure projects - e.g. inland rail and port upgrades. That’s on top of t
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Define “not much”. The idea sounds nice but how do you execute on it? Should Australia tax or ban rare earth exports to try to force value add industries here? That would go against our position as a stable supplier and would seem more like
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I don’t know of any particular taxes on technology goods in Australia. There’s 10% GST but that’s paid by consumers. For companies GST on inputs is all deductible.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Australia has some of the lowest import / export tariffs in the world. I.E. they’re generally zero or close to.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Australia is a relatively small market located far from global supply chains with relatively high energy, capital and labour costs. I think we need to be selective about which industries we promote, especially if the industry will only be v
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I quite like the shopping centre experience in Australia. I went down to the my local centre today. It was vibrant and absolutely teaming with people. We shopped around and the kids had a good time in the play area with other kids. Despite
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by jeeeb 5y ago
This seems like a very weak moral argument. In the specific case you mention making it illegal doesn’t remove the underlying economic imperative. It just punishes the women for being poor and needing the money. More generally it takes away
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I’ve been looking (preliminarily) recently at using movement data to improve object detection performance on video frames. The primary challenge I can think of is that the different network structure required makes transfer learning a featu
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by jeeeb 5y ago
My experience is that this doesn’t necessarily hold true in practice. The concurrency primitives being used are different. I’ve put a war story below :) but it’s kind of beside the point. My main point was that other DBs like PostgreSQL imp
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by jeeeb 5y ago
In my experience SQLite is fine for single process concurrency (just push everything onto a worker thread). However multiprocess concurrency support is very primitive even with WAL support enabled. Internally SQLite relies on file locks to
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by jeeeb 5y ago
It’s even slightly more subtle than that. Python multiprocessing doesn’t use fork on Windows. It starts a new process and so shouldn’t be affected by this. So to trigger this you need to have num_processes != 0 on your DataLoader and be run
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I always randomly log a sample of my inputs to TendorBoard to manually review what my training data actually looks like and (hopefully) pick up on bugs like these. Similarly I find logging high loss inputs very informative. Coincidentally
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Didn't realise Linux did seamless GPU switching these days. It's good to know. Personally I wish they'd move to proper driver isolation though. Agreed about the BS. Honestly I'd pay more money to get rid of it and have t
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Can’t say I agree with this. I’ve been using Windows as my daily driver for the last decade since switching back from Mac+Linux for work reasons. Honestly there’s lots to like in Windows 10 even if there’s a bit of bloat around the edges. I
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Historical post-WWII housing stock in Japan was for the most part pretty... bad. Not the kind of thing you’d want to keep around. Also construction standards for earthquake resistance changed (iirc in the late 90’s) so values even for renta
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Another point on this - even if current inventory levels were known precisely (generally they aren’t), whether an item is currently available is not what is of interest. Rather what is of interest is whether an item will be available when a
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by jeeeb 6y ago
There’s usually a fair few features that can be incorporated into demand prediction: trend, seasonality (daily, weekly, monthly..), special events (e.g. Easter eggs selling faster near Easter), weather, restocking time etc. I imagine you co
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by jeeeb 6y ago
Huge respect for your work on SQLite. I can’t say I agree with this though. > If you change the history to something that is materially different, which rebase does, then you are lying about the history. You cannot white-wash this fact.

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