mirceal

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   by mirceal 8y ago

   I think you need to differentiate between knowing about something and knowing about the precise label something has.
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   by mirceal 8y ago

   Technically, VCs are not loaning you money. They’re more likely betting on you. It’s true that maybe they’ll be more reluctant to place big bets, but as with everything in life the VC optimism is cyclical.
3. 573.▲
   by mirceal 8y ago

   A friend that’s more optimistic about Strong AI once said that the ML that goes on today will probably serve the purpose of driving the peripheral sense organs of a future AI. Although it stretches a bit what’s possible today I could see th
4. 574.▲
   by mirceal 8y ago

   I would not call it the “AI winter”. If you look at what people have called AI over time, the definition and the approaches have evolved (sometimes drastically) over time. Instead of being stuck on the fact that deep learning and the curren
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   by mirceal 8y ago

   Thanks. I was already doing this even though I don’t know of any law that requires it where I live. You learn something every day.
6. 576.▲
   by mirceal 8y ago

   Pardon my ignorance: what is a “move over” law? What do you need to do?
7. 577.▲
   by mirceal 8y ago

   Like despair in short sprints? Agile despair? In all seriousness, in my experience, all things worthwhile are not started as an “official” project. They start either as a skunkworks project or something someone does on the side.
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   by mirceal 8y ago

   People are suckers for complex, over-engineered things. They associate mastering complexity with intelligence. Simple things that just work are boring / not sexy. I’ll be in my corner doing asking “do we really need this?”/“have y
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   by mirceal 8y ago

   So you have big data. Now you just need the big hardware /s
10. 580.▲
    by mirceal 8y ago

    My favorite, goto, on this one: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/10/how-complex-systems-fail... The truth is that by “fixing” the root cause you will sometimes destabilize the complex system you are running.
11. 581.▲
    by mirceal 8y ago

    You know you’ve made it when you have Knuth on standby under the table
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    by mirceal 8y ago

    I said he had a vision, not that the vision made sense
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    by mirceal 8y ago

    Yeah. Thanos had a vision and executed on it. Depending on who tells the story one could easily see him as the hero.
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    by mirceal 8y ago

    Multiple things: 1) Camunda w/ a Postgres RDS DB. Works for more complex stuff that’s expressed in BPMN 2) If the workflow involves mostly automated stuff and is not running for years, AWS SWF (usually coupled with an API for checkpoin
15. 585.▲
    by mirceal 8y ago

    Hah. The tricky part is that some people will learn, some won’t. Some people will look back and cherrypick only things that worked and call it experience. At the end of the day, the question to ask is: who is responsible for the product? If
16. 586.▲
    by mirceal 8y ago

    yes. you're bored. yes. it sucks. But why is this megacorp less efficient than a small company?
17. 587.▲
    by mirceal 8y ago

    I would tend to agree and rephrase the observation as "the lack of efficiency is due to the added redundancy needed to ensure a higher likelihood of business continuity"
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    how many cans of beer can you fit in a school bus parked inside of a datacenter on the moon?
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    follow up: do you know that everyone is a mutant?
20. 590.▲
    by mirceal 9y ago

    if you've lost 100k, you had 100k to spare. agree it was an expensive lesson.
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    While I think everyone would agree that as an engineer you may look at things in a different light this does not explain it. Let’s not make this about engineering. This is a psycho that deserves to be isolated from society for what he did.
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    In the universe where I live. Colleagues holding onto the stock and scratching their head when they hear I sell on vest.
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    this may be an unpopular opinion (especially if the stock is doing well) but I've also done the exact same thing (sell on vest + diversify).
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    Alexa, turn off Google Assistant. In all seriousness, this is just sad.
25. 595.▲
    by mirceal 9y ago

    Too long, too much introspection coupled with guessing basically. You don’t just get fired out of the blue - this probably started and ended as a conflict between the new guy and the rest of the team (or key people in the team) Most times
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    Know it’s an expression, but not sure how pay grade factors into an argument like this.
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    Thanks. Will give it a shot.
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    Does not look like it’s launched/final yet... what os do my you need to run it?
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    How would a self driving car be impacted by a failure like this? Can the onboard computer still drive the car (and has a sense there’s something wrong w/ the steering) or is it just dead in the water?
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    by mirceal 9y ago

    What’s your opinion of languages that can do stuff like this, dynamically at runtime? And it’s even better: you can define, augment, redefine or remove classes at runtime.