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Talking banana reads twitch comments. Trolls attack. Author fights back(youtube.com)
2 points by jrauser 8y ago|0 comments
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by jrauser 8y ago
Could I have made a lot of money in software had the free software movement never started? Sure. Could I have had my particular career? Nope. Could the current world of a zillion startups enabled by cloud computing exist without the GNU pro
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by jrauser 8y ago
A followup: The GNU project was born while I was in junior high, gcc started when I was a senior in high school. Linux was started when I was in college. Stallman, in a very real sense, made my entire career possible. Likely yours too.
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by jrauser 8y ago
Wow, the close of Lessig's introduction is powerful. We have indeed not earned that freedom yet. > I don’t know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can fl
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by jrauser 8y ago
Amazon, as an organization, cares more about thoughtful, evidence-based argument than any company I've ever worked for and, I suspect, any company I will ever work for. Having left Amazon (twice!), this is the thing I miss the most.
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by jrauser 9y ago
The article says that to make more money, FB must "acquire more users and show more advertisements to existing users". There is a third option, which is to show higher efficiency (higher CTR) advertising to existing customers. Th
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by jrauser 9y ago
You could gather empirical data in controlled settings and make a model that relates the things you can measure easily (speed and downward force) to the things you care about (rock distance and control). I don't know for certain, but
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by jrauser 9y ago
According to http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/22/analysis-large-eff... , NC's efficiency gap is around -11, while anything in excess of +/- 7 is considered a very large gap, so by the efficienc
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Welcoming the Era of Deep Neuroevolution (Uber Eng Blog)(eng.uber.com)
3 points by jrauser 9y ago|0 comments
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by jrauser 9y ago
Is it possible that the game isn't zero sum? To lift a phrase from your second paragraph, is it possible that globalism favors wealthy owners of multinationals AND everyone else? You're right to point out the risks of vast wealth
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by jrauser 9y ago
I wrote a talk about this some years ago, "TCP and The Lower Bound of Web Performance." Here's a relatively recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8orjQLacTo
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by jrauser 9y ago
Even more than affecting my ability to achieve other goals, I think it might actually affect my health. After my last talk I tweeted[1]: "In the days before my recent talk, my resting heart rate was ~50bpm. The morning after, it&#x27
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by jrauser 9y ago
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, I write talks mainly because I want the finished talk to exist in the world. I think this is the same relationship an artist has with their art. That said, having given some memorable talks[1] at high-p
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by jrauser 9y ago
This is roughly my cycle. I'm finding that step 10 gets stronger and stronger. After my first talk there was no noticeable step 10. Several years and many talks later, I'm currently in step 10 and I think I might really never get
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by jrauser 9y ago
I write my talks mostly because I want them to exist. Why does an artist make art?
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by jrauser 9y ago
Almost certainly ggplot2 in R.
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by jrauser 9y ago
This is the correct answer. My advice for amazon SDEs is: either your manager puts operational excellence as their top priority or you need to find a new manager.
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by jrauser 10y ago
The most ferociously negative interview feedback I've ever written in my life was for a person who I thought lacked humility. In summation, I believe my exact words were "I don't care if he's God's gift to softwar
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How Humans See Data (41m)(youtube.com)
2 points by jrauser 10y ago|0 comments
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You CAN meaningfully average percentiles(rpubs.com)
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by jrauser 10y ago
:)
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by jrauser 10y ago
My point was not to qualify Jeff as a technical leader (though he is an excellent technical leader, IMO). Rather, my goal was to give people a sense for his leadership style, and what it's like to be in a high level meeting at Amazon.
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by jrauser 10y ago
This comment inspired me to recount a story from my time at Amazon: https://storify.com/jrauser/on-the-big-rewrite-and-bezos-as-...
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by jrauser 11y ago
I suppose if you've already memorized the arcane syntax of base R's plotting functions, along with a giant laundry list of highly customized visualizations available via libraries, then perhaps ggplot2 really is slower for explora
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by jrauser 11y ago
For more on this idea, have a look at pg's Before the Startup: "So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working." http://www.paulg
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by jrauser 12y ago
I have a talk in which I argue that if you can program, you have a huge advantage in learning statistics because you can simulate random processes and tinker with them to get an intuitive sense of the statistics involved. At Data Driven NYC