kevinskii

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by kevinskii 6y ago
I'm not so sure. I would probably choose a vocational apprenticeship over a B.A. in Sociology from State U.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I appreciate your excellent work in maintaining the discourse, but there just isn't any serious interpretation of that quote which could have been more charitable. You'd really have to stretch to get away from the clear implicatio
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by kevinskii 6y ago
"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and
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by kevinskii 7y ago
I agree it's pretty sensationalistic, and I almost ignored it for that reason. But it turns out that it's actually well worth a read if you can get past that one flaw.
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by kevinskii 7y ago
I think the focus is the same. Flattening the curve effectively means reducing the R0, and the steps being taken now could theoretically get it below 1.
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by kevinskii 7y ago
Tbis is very good advice. When I applied to some startups a few years ago and saw the kinds of equity games they were playing, I decided I would never accept a substantial equity offer without first having it vetted by a lawyer. Even if you
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by kevinskii 7y ago
I was a sonar tech on a Los Angeles class sub in the 90's, and so much of the training we did was explicitly based on lessons learned from the Thresher and Bonefish disasters. I agree they saved a lot of lives.
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A Deep Dive into Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) on Recommender System(blog.rosetta.ai)
4 points by kevinskii 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 7y ago
Yes. Humans are currently much better at recognizing subtle danger signs and planning accordingly. As one example, let’s say you have a right turn a few hundred yards ahead of you. There are no cars behind or beside you, but there is a long
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by kevinskii 7y ago
It has been a few years since I looked at this, and it looks like a lot has been added since then. It's certainly worth a look. But at the time I found Allen B. Downey's "Think Bayes" to be a more thorough and comprehens
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by kevinskii 7y ago
Yes. The air-gapping isn’t ideal, but trying to get our IT org to accommodate a Linux workstation on the network just isn’t worth the hassle.
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Hikvision Markets Uyghur Ethnicity Analytics(ipvm.com)
7 points by kevinskii 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 7y ago
We're currently running a single NVIDIA RTX2080 with Tensorflow 2.0 on a Windows 10 station. We'll soon be switching to a standard multi-GPU rig running an air gapped Linux distro. Linux seems overall much better for ML because of
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by kevinskii 7y ago
It could be. But small companies often give their employees inflated titles, where a "VP" is actually a small team lead with no executive responsibilities.
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The Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe(technologyreview.com)
4 points by kevinskii 7y ago|0 comments
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An Ode to Being Old(outsideonline.com)
1 points by kevinskii 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 8y ago
The listing in question does fit the definition of a flophouse, per your Wikipedia link [1]. It might not fully match the traditional conception of a flophouse, but it seems fair to call it one. [1] "flophouses...have been used for
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Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?(longreads.com)
1 points by kevinskii 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 8y ago
Thanks for the tip about gmail's "+" support. I'll start using it. I don't think it does anything to keep your email address private, though. Recovering the original valid email address from "John+uniqueidentif
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Windows Machine Learning(docs.microsoft.com)
2 points by kevinskii 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 8y ago
Agreed. The "main source" link contains pretty much the same info but without the affiliate marketing: https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
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by kevinskii 8y ago
I also thought the topic seemed too thin to stretch into a full book, and I almost didn't read it. But I'm glad I did. I agree with other commenters that the signal-to-noise ratio was surprisingly high.
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Intuition behind Shannon’s Entropy(medium.com)
1 points by kevinskii 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 8y ago
I downvoted you not to express disagreement, but because I think your comment detracts from this particular conversation. I suspect others did for the same reason. However: Some of your other recent comments are spot on. The upvotes are on
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by kevinskii 8y ago
There may be a tiny minority of farms in pristine locations that will eventually get pushed off their land, but I suspect the vast majority are in areas where the land is absolutely undesirable for anything besides farming. If you've e
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by kevinskii 8y ago
I accounted for the three watches in my comment.
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by kevinskii 8y ago
I was on a nuclear sub from 1996-1999, so it's possible that my observations are no longer valid or don't apply to surface ships. But I suspect that my assessment would be the same even today. I worked with enough surface sailors
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by kevinskii 8y ago
An over-crewed ship can still have an overworked crew. It’s just that much of the work isn’t really necessary.
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by kevinskii 8y ago
My experience in the navy was the opposite: Ships were typically crewed with about 1.5X the number of sailors that were actually needed. I always suspected this was partly because lots of sailors means a big navy base, and a big navy base m
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by kevinskii 8y ago
This is very interesting. Do you have any sources? I can't seem to find much.

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