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dw - Deutsche Welle. "Germqn Broadcast". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle A broadcast service for promoting the language and culture to an international audience. A bit like "Voice of America
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Here is the transcript of a recent, interesting audio podcast with Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe. https://www.recode.net/2018/10/20/18002614/anne-wojcicki-23a... I think what she argues in the podcast
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I think this Haskell version (pugs) came at a time when perl6-development was somewhat stuck, and it enabled the Perl 6 developers to test new language constructs on an improved runtime (I believe); so Haskell was actually key to Perl 6 de
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I'm also from Germany, and going through some treatments right now (Surgery/Orthopedics) and I think this comment is too harsh. It overemphasises that some doctors may seem arrogant, or staff may have a negative attitude. For ins
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Is it the content-preview (however small), the content-gathering or the linking that will cost money? Google could (re-)write the headlines and micro-summaries themselves (using machine-learning technologies) and just provide links, without
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So, 125 Million US$ revenue / 566 employees = $221000 revenue / employee. Not bad for a software company. According to my own personal regression analysis I did many years ago, a company is sustainable with at least $50000 revenu
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I like the talk by Ryan Dahl, node.js inventor Original Node JS Presentation, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY In 2018 he gave a follow-up presentation "10 things I regret about node", but that pr
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One of the authors, Prof. Hyndman, was also a moderator on stats.stackexchange.com . See https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/159/rob-hyndman
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Maybe another influencing factor is parents who prefer that their toddlers only have contact with children of other parents who are somewhat like them. Thus, children are encouraged to create fewer friendships from an early age on. The pa
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Was the full list of heroes supported in theses showmatches? Or was this also restricted to a subset of, say, 15 out of 150 (or whatever that number is)? The announcers/casters were a bit ambiguous about this, AFAIK they said somethin
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Recently, there was a long autobiographic thread on twitter about a young US woman who could not make it into an adequante job in the gaming industry, simply because she is a woman. For women, it seems to be very hard to find a job generall
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I'm from Europe, and I like the Paul Graham Essay from 2006, http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html , where he claims there are 3 necessary conditions to build a startup ecosystem in any city or region: 1. A lar
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I don't think Juncker has ever used such cards anytime when me works in Brussels or elsewhere in Europe.
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Almost always there will be less opportunities of that niche in the future; and it is probably difficult to get promoted (or build a career) on the basis of a technology that will be replaced in the long run. Maybe if you have software proj
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I have re-created a CGI Script that we have programmed years ago, when some Russian geologists were visiting our institute. This visualises a generalised lithological log: That means, some of the rocks recovered from the hole, and their thi
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This twitter user Massimo/Rainmaker1973 is constantly posting interesting content he finds on the internet, 7 days a week. Sometimes I wonder if it is actually not a single person but a small team of enthusiasts, scientists, experts an
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Using ideas contained in this script you can execute tidyverse commands with R on the command line: https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-comman... I was not able to commit its options to long term memo
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"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling" Course. https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/76-introduction-t... It is an introduction to NetLogo (a free simulation software and a Programming Language), but in
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What about pregnancy-related diabetes? Some textbooks have it as a 3rd independent type of diabetes.
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maybe it's also - microbiome activities - epigenetics - what you eat at a young age
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In the German Wikipedia there is a photograph of the lecture timetable, University of Berlin, 1928. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Ne... Von Neumann's scheduled his l
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Here is an omegataupodcast episode about flying this thing: http://omegataupodcast.net/91-flying-the-sr-71/ Episode 091 – Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (March 31, 2012, 7:27 PM) "In this episode we discuss the world&
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If it's a startup, I'd think twice. There's no guarantee that you'll be happy at the new company, especially if it is not profitable. Bureaucratic stuff can take time in Germany. Learning the language can challenging. Th
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Is it OK to be a Luddite - by Thomas Pynchon 5-10 page long essay about "technology scepticism", from 1984 . A perspective on digitization of society, then and now.
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Books by/about landscape-photographer Edward Burtynsky https://www.google.com/search?name=f&hl=en&q=burtynsky+book Photos of landscapes overused by humanity, e.g. quarries, dried-up land, oil fields, etc
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Your question was asked many times on Quora, and ML celebrity-scientist Andrew Ng himself contributed some answers. See all of his answers here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Andrew-Ng I like this one of his answers:
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Make an intense effort to learn a foreign language, say for one year or so. Makes it easier later in life to start again, or to learn a third one if you must.
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I'm GenX, but for my generation and Millenials I'd add "Fine China ownership", "Opera visits", "Stamp Collections", and a few others to the list. With "Matchbox Car Collections", I'm n
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In East Germany before the unification, lifestyles were more traditional. Moreover, there were incentives to start a family early in life. Perhaps most importantly, young families would get priority treatment when applying for newly-built a
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I'm German. I think this idea "Get a degree in Germany" is not impossible, but it would be quite risky for Americans. There are just too many unknowns or uncontrollable factors. Many subjects, say Biology, are actually diffic

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