jtloong

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by jtloong 7y ago
Thankfully I was able to find an old Kindle DX (a discontinued line) on Ebay that has a 9.5 inch screen which is legitimately the perfect size for PDF books & papers. Super happy that I was able to find one for pretty cheap. I'd su
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by jtloong 7y ago
True but most of the content of the article is based around Pearl's thoughts on the field.
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by jtloong 7y ago
Why is this functionally different than setting a public goal for yourself on Goodreads? A site that already has a large extant community?
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by jtloong 7y ago
Is it that much different than Redditors rehosting images on Reddit/Imgur? I find the functional design of the site terrible but there's tons of popular sites that are based on hijacked content.
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Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions(joshualoong.com)
41 points by jtloong 7y ago|3 comments
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Metrics for Software Startups – A Multi-Vocal Literature Review(arxiv.org)
4 points by jtloong 7y ago|0 comments
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by jtloong 7y ago
There are a decent number of companies that use NLP voice recognition when you call their support lines. So when you call, instead of pressing a number on your key pad to move through the directory you can speak it. In that same vein, I&#x2
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by jtloong 8y ago
I mean Facebook buying Instagram isn't really innovation. In terms of business strategy and feature enhancements, for sure its been great. But that's not really what I'd call innovation.
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by jtloong 8y ago
No. We still have a poor understanding of the exact way neurons code information and store information. This page shows some of the current theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding#Hypothesized_cod...
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by jtloong 8y ago
Not sure what you're asking, but if you want to run simple Python scripts you could run them through [Termux]( https://termux.com/ ) on your Android phone. You can even write them in Termux using vim or something too.
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Finding the Most Published Author in the New Yorker(joshualoong.com)
2 points by jtloong 8y ago|0 comments
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by jtloong 8y ago
I'd definitely recommend checking out Goodreads. There's a lot of great niche groups, as well as following other people with similar interests you can discuss books with them in your feed.
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by jtloong 8y ago
Wow this is the perfect analogy.
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by jtloong 8y ago
I think she followed up a few years later and said that the bad situation she was in was unrelated to her leaving Github. It was mostly the time commitment of maintaining many open source projects.
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by jtloong 8y ago
I think it needs to be both. Accessible in it's raw format as well as approachable for non-technical users to interact with public information.
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Towards a theory of software development expertise(blog.acolyer.org)
27 points by jtloong 8y ago|2 comments
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by jtloong 8y ago
This is what the whole digital government movement is trying to change. Public sector organization's in the UK (GDS), Canada (CDS, ODS etc), Singapore (GovTech Singapore), even 18F in the US, are all trying (and relatively succeeding e
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by jtloong 8y ago
They could also download their Twitter archive which is just a csv https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...
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by jtloong 8y ago
You could browse through TechCrunch's "cleantech" tag for interesting companies breaking news in the space. https://techcrunch.com/tag/cleantech/
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Custom Git Commands: Making Git-Status-Size(joshualoong.com)
1 points by jtloong 8y ago|0 comments
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by jtloong 8y ago
I mean with a Python and Jupyter Notebook workflow it is incredibly easy to share the work and understand what's going on if there's base level of knowledge. All the simple formula stuff and basic data handling (using Pandas) woul
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Fitting Polynomial Regressions in Python(joshualoong.com)
1 points by jtloong 8y ago|0 comments
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Canadian Digital Service: Supporting more users with gracefully degrading React(digital.canada.ca)
1 points by jtloong 8y ago|0 comments
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by jtloong 8y ago
Do you guys have internships on the Goodreads team?