mdifrgechd

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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Re: the comments about incendiary content and maximizing attention. This is what every news outlet tries to do. The only difference is that FB is better at it. It reminds me of the controversy about targeting ads towards protected categorie
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
> Its like instead of building something good or getting techie buy in they've instead tried to lobby governments to make it mandatory for some enslaved customers Haha, yes, you are literally describing the business model of SAP, Or
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
> Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of resources to target the socioeconomic factors that lead to crime? Nobody wants to vote for those things, you misunderstand what problem governments are trying to solve by being tough on crime
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
I was in a roughly similar situation, I got a job as a (pretty junior) management consultant. Learned a lot about how different businesses work but had to deal with being bossed around by people 10yrs younger than me and realize that nobody
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
> A lack of Toilet as a Service products? Exactly! What do you think a sewer system is? It it literally a subscription to having your poo taken away, by a method requiring huge capital costs, major maintenance, a monopoly operator, etc.
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
For this kind of application, I'm a big fan of this idea [1] (there is a more recent example of something similar out of the UK but I can't find it now). It uses a mechanical "flush" mechanism that basically just individ
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Personally I favor governments investing in carbon sequestration + other alternatives that let people live the kind of lives they want to live (and dont favor people who are already comfortable having come up in an older regulatory regime).
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Or puritain instinct, many people can't stand the idea of others enjoying themselves so look to find some reason why doing anything fun is bad.
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Hasktorch is a Haskell interface to Pytorch back-end(github.com)
4 points by mdifrgechd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
I have found this a problem in real life too - people often assume that when you are asking for help you are asking for them to become a strategic partner that is going to shape your overall approach to the problem. For example, getting som
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
I've thought about this too. The voice and content that dominates in online discussions for example is very different than my experience with in-person collaboration. I don't know if it's better or worse, but different skills
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Ok understood. The "near field" comment made me think it was the same thing... I don't understand how this works then (not a criticism, just a walking back from thinking I got it)
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
This reference from 2007 wherr a lab at MIT demonstrated wireless power transfer, may be relevant for explaining inductive coupling and the idea that this is not radiative (far field) power transfer - correct me if this technology is fundam
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
It's a good question and probably depends more on your personal circumstances than the job. I have often felt like leaving when I didn't agree with some core aspect of my org (product, culture) but I try to be pragmatic and accept
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Thank you. So am I correct that he had created a type (for lack of a better term) representing a number of pushes and pops. And the monoid is the algebraic construct that let's us combine those types. So faced with a string of square b
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
I Googled around too and this was the most satisfying one I found: https://medium.com/@michelestieven/a-monad-is-just-a-monoid-... The author defines a monoid early on, in terms of the three properties that someone els
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
I went from MS word to Google Docs for writing professional reports, and there is no comparison. For basic stuff, Google docs is fine, and they definitely have a better model for collaborating on a document. But docs feels 90% done - it is
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Multiple Dispatch in Python(fastcore.fast.ai)
2 points by mdifrgechd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
The headline is odd, this has been going on for 870 days, as documented on his site. It looks like the last update is from 2019. The headline reads like he cant come in for the next 870 days.
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
It's really odd to me that the above was down-moderated. I don't agree with it either but it seems a very valid perspective. What am I missing?
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by mdifrgechd 6y ago
That may be true for introductory level material bu t in my experience is not true at all of research in the hard sciences. Where actual advances in the state of the art are involved, there are debates about everything from the best approac