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by maliker 5y ago
I agree. I read: "Middle managers are often graded on the work of their team, which means that they are actively incentivized to steal work and do little of their own." Seems like they would be incentivized to help their team perf
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by maliker 5y ago
I've received an ARPA-E award. So a similar process and competition level. First you submit a 5 page concept paper, and if that's acceptable you write a 20 page full proposal (answering the Heielmeier Catechism in detail[0]). If y
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by maliker 5y ago
This brought to mind opensourceecology.org, which was going some work with compressed earth brick buildings. They were getting a lot of attention five or so years ago. Good to see they’re still working towards their goal and are in good com
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by maliker 5y ago
I agree that the M1 doesn't look good for high performance computing right now or anything with poor ARM support. But strategically, I think Apple is in a good spot. For heavy computation these days, I always remote into another machin
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by maliker 6y ago
I did the math on rent vs. buy in the city of Washington DC and it was basically the same cost, so I went with renting for the ease and increased flexibility. Seems like the article is suggesting a mechanism for forced savings (i.e. part of
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by maliker 6y ago
In my team, we write a half page of user stories up front so we're all clear one who the user is. After that it's all iterative prototypes that get shown to clients. They're a lot better at giving feedback when they have some
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by maliker 6y ago
Kudos to you. It’s a new and innovative technique, seems like it could help many more people, and you showed how it would work in practice. I thought being able to do the crypto trade directly on you website was a nice touch—definitely show
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by maliker 6y ago
One of the nice feature of print debugging I like is that I often end up leaving some of the print statements in for logging purposes.
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by maliker 6y ago
There’s a great talk [1] on how SciPy chose their new default colormap viridis to replace the rainbow colored former default “jet”. Turns out that there have been good studies on how the wrong colormap can lead to bad decisions in medicine,
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by maliker 6y ago
Does that negate the original poster's point that "Making transactions, relaying them, validating them and storing them have negligible energy cost."?
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by maliker 6y ago
I've been wondering about this. Once all the easy to get blocks have been mined, the energy consumption of the network will drop to negligible amounts? Is there a source out there that explains this and when it will likely happen?
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by maliker 6y ago
I'm a big fan of cheatsheets. Not so much as a reference, but as a learning resource to edit and record the subset of commands that I need. It's worked pretty well for me for regexes, pandas, etc.
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by maliker 6y ago
Yeah, the app store has become a source of a lot of controversy around policies, so signing up for more public criticism of how they handle a package manager is probably a headache they don't need.
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by maliker 6y ago
My ELI7 understanding is that python installs required modules (libraries) at the system level by default, and doesn't have good support for installing modules into local directories like node/C/java/etc. does, which lea
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by maliker 6y ago
Everything in homebrew auto-updates on new installs, not just python. Databases, CLI tools, etc.
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by maliker 6y ago
I'd be perfectly happy with homebrew if it didn't auto-update all packages when installing something new. E.g. I do `brew install ffmpeg`, and as part of that it upgrades python from 3.8 to 3.9 (???), breaking imports in all my sc
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by maliker 6y ago
I think we're only a couple years away from having highly productive computers with us all the time, but I think it's going to come through head mounted displays. There's been positive reports on the nreal[1] glasses user exp
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by maliker 6y ago
Great job with Photopea! Definitely the best image editor with Google Drive integration.
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by maliker 6y ago
I've been doing something similar with google drive (been too lazy to choose a standard file format). Kudos on having the discipline to put some structure into it with markdown, add a frontend, and share it!
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by maliker 6y ago
Since you've got everything in a git repo it would be really easy to diff/fork/merge other folks' knowledge bases. Probably not useful to you personally since there aren't forks out there yet, but it's cool to
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by maliker 6y ago
Mike Bostock, the creator of the visualization language D3, also created a javascript notebook product called Observable [1]. I like the idea of doing everything in the same language, but I can't give up the python scientific computing
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by maliker 6y ago
The thinner your backend, the thicker your frontend. I much prefer writing in backend languages (e.g. python) than in frontend languages (e.g. javascript). And as someone else pointed out, you can't enforce security on the frontend. Th
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by maliker 6y ago
Effect size... around 5% improvement in the FSIQ score. Not very big. Although the dose of 800 IU/day was small.
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by maliker 6y ago
Someone at Wolfram built something similar that I thought was cool: https://blog.wolfram.com/2009/02/26/exploring-logo-designs-w...
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by maliker 6y ago
Yes, thank you, definitely correct. So it's more like 4 accident/million miles from this dataset, although another poster made a good case that Waymo's data includes minor accidents that aren't in the data I looked at, w
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by maliker 6y ago
Great analysis and new data!
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by maliker 6y ago
Thanks! I missed that definition in the article. Updated the ratios. So it's actually 3.7x more accidents not 1.5x. Definitely changed my conclusion.
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by maliker 6y ago
I omitted the simulations in the Waymo count. Good idea to add them in?
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by maliker 6y ago
That's around 7.71 crashes/million miles driven by Waymo. By comparison, US national statistics from 2018 [1] are around 2.08 crashes/million miles driven. Seems like they're far from human performance. There are ton of
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by maliker 6y ago
Cynical, and I disagree. If you’re somewhere that prizes appearance over results—which I’ve never seen—then change jobs. I was promoted from engineer to manager. How did I do it? Started doing more of the work my boss did like client manage

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