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Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data [pdf](aclweb.org)
3 points by lonesword 6y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 6y ago
I second this. I have worked with a bunch of undergrads (I am pursuing a masters degree in CS) and they had a thorough grasp of the math and could really contribute to the research agenda of the group. When I did my undergrad (in 2011-15),
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by lonesword 6y ago
I think he/she's being sarcastic - there's general tendency to regard google's version of "ai" as better?
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by lonesword 7y ago
> Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity And that's not necessarily a good thing. It is not just a language that dies, but a part of the culture also dies with the language. I do get the appeal o
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by lonesword 7y ago
> If you have never used Jupyter notebooks instead of an IDE, give it a try for a few weeks. It was the biggest boost I've seen to my coding productivity in literally decades Really? I seem to shoot myself in the foot a lot with jup
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by lonesword 7y ago
Microsoft too seems to be getting less hate than Google/Facebook. EDIT: Ok MS is not FAANG.
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by lonesword 7y ago
So the solution would be to not have democracy until the unwashed uneducated masses become otherwise so? The East India company would've agreed with you :p
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by lonesword 7y ago
You don't have to be mean. Claiming that algorithmic interviews is a proxy for IQ is also probably something that the powers that be at Google "pulled out of their ass". I don't see any data that says it's correlate
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by lonesword 7y ago
> I'm against the idea that people should be attached to "their" code (that is: the code they wrote). Can people _reaaally_ detach themselves from the code they write? After all, programming is a somewhat creative professi
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by lonesword 7y ago
Captain here. TVS and Bajaj are major motorbike manufacturers in India, and TVS had a model named "Apache" and Bajaj had a model named "Pulsar". Flies away
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by lonesword 7y ago
"Unhealthful". TIL that it's an actual word.
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by lonesword 7y ago
My guesses: 1. The previous generation did not have laptops. 2. The previous generation did not nearly have as many programmer/hackers/<late-night-computer-user-moniker> as we have today 3. Because of #2, nobody cared if a r
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by lonesword 7y ago
> Compulsive puzzle gene Did you observe this in _all_ of the mentioned 35 students in your high school? Do you think that an aptitude for puzzles is a de-facto pre-requisite? I know that it shouldn't be, but I'm wondering if y
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by lonesword 7y ago
The worst is when you expect Google to display a stack overflow question or a Github issue in response to your query, but instead what you get is a Quora answer. You already know that though the question matches (almost) your exact query, t
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by lonesword 7y ago
I am from India, and I remember the time when Quora got famous. I remember reading some quality content on the platform. Then "the masses" started answering questions just to rack up upvotes (or whatever Quora was calling it). Ima
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by lonesword 7y ago
> I've met a number of such prodigies in the course of my work If you don't mind, can you elaborate more on what kind of work you do? Do you run a school for the gifted (assuming such a thing exists)?
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by lonesword 7y ago
>This "use" of literature and history is reflected in my choice of reading: There is very little "heavy" reading listed here. And then he lists Dostoevsky and Homer. Those doesn't count as heavy reading? What cou
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Ask HN: What's the cheapest stand-alone camera that's better than the OnePlus 7?
2 points by lonesword 7y ago|1 comments
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by lonesword 7y ago
I am in a similar situation as you - I'm currently doing my Msc (Computer Science, in Germany) and cannot decide whether I would want to continue to a Phd or head back to the industry. However, I had worked 3 years in the industry _bef
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by lonesword 7y ago
And I can assure you that the trains are much much better than in other parts of the world (eg: India). In India, trains running on time are an exception, not the rule. At least all the German trains that I've been on were on time to t
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by lonesword 7y ago
I recently moved to Germany. I used to work as a software dev in India before this. I was horrified to learn that (urban) India has way better internet than Germany. When it comes to mobile data it's even more depressing - back in Indi
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Yet another kindle vs. paper books post(kevinmartinjose.com)
1 points by lonesword 7y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 7y ago
Since you seem to know a bit of history, would you happen to know how the name "Jose" (pronounced 'jos', without the 'e') came to be so popular in Kerala? My last name is Jose. And people outside Kerala pronoun
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by lonesword 8y ago
Just wait till Telegram open sources their code?
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Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better(kevinmartinjose.com)
367 points by lonesword 8y ago|216 comments
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by lonesword 8y ago
Nannayi varatte :)
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Lessons from learning to play the violin(kevinmartinjose.com)
2 points by lonesword 8y ago|0 comments
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Matcha: Easy to use text editor for writing math(mathcha.io)
2 points by lonesword 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you choose a graduate course in computer science? [Germany]
2 points by lonesword 8y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 8y ago
Reminds me of Daniel Shiffman's "Nature of Code". I started programming when I was 15 in Processing. Ah the good old days.

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