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by lr1970 4y ago
> If I can avoid an index variable, I’m going to have less bugs since I won’t have to index. Not only that. In safe Rust vector indexes are always bound-checked that slows execution a little bit. Iterators over a vector, on the other han
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> I wasn't surprised that BMW, Tesla or Ford would do something like that. Sorry to be pedantic, but it was GM not Ford mentioned in the article.
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> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not b
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The difference between theory and practice is greater in theory than in practice.
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Interesting project but according to the github history it has had only one official release in 2017 and there has been only 34 commits so far this year. Is the project in low maintenance mode?
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> If it can give better outcomes wouldn’t it be more unethical not to use it? Better outcomes by what metric? If out of two people after the operation one will live 5 years and another 6 years -- which one would you choose? How would you
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As someone doing ML for a living this development scares me. Trying policy to de-bias dataset against prior policy (which is changing with time by the way) is very difficult. And any new policy will effect the outcomes and new datasets goin
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> If I'm going to read one book about Bell Labs, with the goal of learning things I can apply to the current day, which book should I read? The "Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner comes to mind. It is quite accurate.
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> But hey, at least we got C and Unix out of it. And transistor [0], laser [1], CCD image sensor [2] to name a few more. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor [1] https://en.wikipedi
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iPad Pro (12.9 inch) + iPencil + GoodNotes (with zip-file backup) gives me best of two worlds. I scribble my notes with iPencil in GoodNotes. GoodNotes does OCR and its search functionality is good. It allows for backups in a form of zip ar
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Yes, it started with Barrett but became painfully obvious under Otellini. When Steve Jobs asked Intel to build a chip for future iPhone Otellini said no -- one of the biggest strategic blunders. Also in 2005 Intel paid Dell not to use super
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> For most of it's existence, if Intel had missed a manufacturing node in Moore's Law, it would have been rightly recognized as an existential threat, and it would have become the #1 focus of the CEO and the rest of the company
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> I have a theory - tree based models require minimal feature engineering. Actually, the whole premise of Deep Learning is to learn proper feature representations from data with minimal data preprocessing. And it works wonderfully in CV
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All 10 pieces of Decalog (Dekalog) are worth watching. Kieslowski is one of the greatest film directors of all time.
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> I always see this and I wonder what other people are doing wrong. pip and a requirements.txt has worked for over a decade (along with virtualenv.) Because python is just a tip of the iceberg. Python in Machine Learning is a glue and AP
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> In NYC the most dangerous areas are pretty far out from Manhattan East Harlem (part of Manhattan) is as dangerous as the Bronx and is very different from the Chelsea where you live. Manhattan is not a uniformly safe place. Also, NYC su
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I found that the following book is much better suited for programmers with C/C++ experience: "Programming Rust, 2-nd edition" by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. S. Tindall [1] [1] https://www.oreilly.com&#x
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This study uses polars [0][1] -- a new Data Science library written in Rust (core) with bindings to Python and Javascript. Perfect replacement for pandas. Polars' claims to fame are speed (faster than pretty much anything out there [2]
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When you are coding in Rust for tiny MCU sooner or later you would code some functions in assembler or in unsafe Rust. At this point Rust does not provide much of the advantages over Zig as far as safety guarantees are concerned. Lightweigh
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Your interview process is very one-sided. It is quintessential "we interview them". Even meeting your team is framed as "Presentation of technical assignment to the team". In reality, it should be more like dancing tango
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> Looking at a recent page of that course, the recomended books are * F. Halzen, A. Martin, “Quarks and Leptons: An introductory course in modern particle physics” (Wiley 1984) * D. Griffiths, “Introduction to elementary particles” (Wile
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IMHO, the process of software project development is iterative and non-linear. Writing some docs followed by some code, then writing/editing more docs, then more code, tests, experiments ... rinse and repeat. I found that any rigid str
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> The timespan is too short for evolution to have had a considerable impact. I am not talking about evolution as in developing new species but about survivability of naturally occurring variations. Modern humanity timespan is not enough
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> Or do you seriously believe all prehistoric humans had 20/20 eyesight? The prehistoric realities were harsh and nearsighted individuals had little chances of survival and procreation (natural selection). In the modern society perf
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> If history is a guide, then you are correct. But I believe complexity is fractal Actually, "combinatorial" or "exponential" would be better words to describe complexity explosion. The number of possible cases/s
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> In my mind it is one of the most beautifully written books in the history of modern English. It is interesting how truly by-lingual Nabokov was. He wrote Lolita in English and then translated it himself into Russian. The original and t
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> I don't know whether Algebra I is above or below what eighth graders can be expected to do I went to school in Eastern Europe in the eighties. We had algebra (and separately geometry) since 7-th grade. Also physics, chemistry and
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> Amazon rejected my review. It's against Amazon policy to let others know that sellers are buying reviews. In a zero-trust marketplace it is impossible to ascertain the truthfulness of such statements. Let say, you a seller on Amaz
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> The author is 17 and writing code (and posts) at this level? The kids are all right. He is a talented kid from Kazakhstan. So nice to see this here after all that Borat nonsense badmouthing Kazakhstan just for cheap gigs.
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> Who steals people's used notebooks? Or new ones? Your nice bag or backpack gets lost or stolen with a notebook among all other things you put in there. You can replace a phone, a driver license, but you cannot replace priceless im

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