jplahn

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by jplahn 12y ago
I wonder if any NLP approaches could yield an improvement on this? I immediately think of doing some NER on the review (looking for the title, authors, chapters, even specific topics) and if none of the above are mentioned, or at least not
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Virginia Tech's VR Room(theverge.com)
2 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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Helping with SEO
1 points by jplahn 12y ago|2 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
Because a lot of people go through the aftermath of being fired, so having somebody else to empathize with is nothing if not a reminder that you're not alone.
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How can I reassure users that feedback they provide will be anonymous?
1 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
I find it interesting that you found it harder to maintain a long-distance while an undergrad, especially because from personal experience, it would be easier that way (IMO of course). I'm also an undergrad and what I largely find is t
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by jplahn 12y ago
I think the keyword is "alternative".
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BattleBots is back after 10 years(gizmodo.com)
1 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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Specific cases of Privacy vs. Security
2 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
I find this a fascinating topic to think about because I've had so much experience with it. Sports have been a significant part of my life ever since I was in 1st grade. I played several varsity sports throughout high school and had op
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by jplahn 12y ago
I would love to throw some sentiment analysis at this and see what could be conjured up. Maybe nothing because the sentiments would likely all be very similar and it would be hard to fine tune it enough, but it still might be an interesting
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Every Maxis Sim Game Ranked(pastemagazine.com)
1 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
Yep, the extent of any programming we did with it was writing a bunch of facts about family relationships and then asking questions about relationships. Basic stuff. It was interesting, but hardly ground breaking.
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by jplahn 12y ago
We had to use Prolog in my comparative languages class last semester and it was interesting, to say the least. With any class that brushes over a topic, I didn't get a full appreciation for what it can do, but it was an interesting par
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by jplahn 12y ago
From the article, it seems like you still can, you'll just pay a higher price. If you want next day shipping on one item, you can do that; you just won't reap the benefits of their bundling idea.
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by jplahn 12y ago
In the most general sense, significant algo/data structure knowledge was necessary to even make it through first round interviews. Off the top of my head, over the course of interviews with a handful of companies, I had to do several d
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by jplahn 12y ago
> "If you can read and understand documentation, understand fundamental concepts like OO or functional paradigm, and understand what a stack is, a closure, recursion, the difference between an integer and a float, or a character and
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by jplahn 12y ago
Fair enough, I can definitely see that being an annoyance. Especially in the context of this being a light library, it's undoubtedly going to be utilized with any number of other libraries. Good point.
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by jplahn 12y ago
Maybe I'm just naive (probably), but is it really that off putting that the casing convention isn't the same? To be honest, I don't know what most languages "are" with regards to the casing convention..and I've
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by jplahn 12y ago
I would agree that getting a license in the US is significantly easier than in Europe. I'm American, but I lived in Scotland for 7 years and go my first drivers license there. I was told the pass rate was around 40%, which may or may n
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by jplahn 12y ago
You're missing the entire problem with this premise. Somebody torturing a man that has his family held hostage is entirely different than state sponsored torture. I think that should be obvious. People understand the fact that on the b
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by jplahn 12y ago
I'm going to have to agree with this. After dreading the impending interview process I would have to go through this fall, I can't imagine working for a company that doesn't have it. For all the short comings of this process,
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by jplahn 12y ago
As has been said, job applications are a fickle beast. Just because you found success within a few weeks does not mean it's the norm. From personal experience applying to jobs as a soon to be graduate, I know many of my friends with si
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by jplahn 12y ago
I think, by and large, it likely is true. That's not to say that it always holds true and it might be swayed by the strength of programmers in YC, but I think it's definitely correct more often than not. It may also be based on th
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by jplahn 12y ago
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan I've been negligent towards fiction lately, but I wanted to change that because it's always been my first love. So to do that, I started reading Flanagan's novel. I cannot
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Dropbox lands in Seattle(blog.dropbox.com)
3 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
I'm definitely going to have to look into this more. One thing I _love_ is writing, regardless of the format. While I enjoy writing code, there's something about eloquently explaining something on paper that feels amazing. I start
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by jplahn 12y ago
For any cynicism this might promote regarding FB's "real" intentions, internet.org was one of the things that I found most intriguing while interviewing there this past fall. Several engineers that I spoke to where genuinely
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by jplahn 12y ago
While I understand the sentiment, I only used a single resume for all of my applications this past fall. But I think the reason it worked is that I knew what positions I wanted to apply for and they were all similar(ish). So my resume match
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by jplahn 12y ago
I think one existing without the other could certainly be the case in the nearish future. Not everything they're doing is tied into the Facebook site.

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