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by myaso 9y ago
I personally find a lot of the material about cognitive biases hard to swallow -- I was forcing myself really hard when I read Kahneman's book. There were some good points but while reading it something just seemed off in a way simil
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by myaso 9y ago
Great, these who want to build these things will simply hire people who don't subscribe to this oath ... And now the organization will be populated by a whole tribe of people who have no qualms about doing this -- does that sound lik
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by myaso 9y ago
You beat me to it by a day! And here I thought I was being clever. It's amazing how Xerox PARC's lineage can probably be traced to this essay, that's not the only interesting thing about it :) Vannevar Bush's writings ar
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by myaso 9y ago
Smartphones are much harder to lock down than a laptop. I don't know about the iPhone but Android makes it a pain in the ass -- don't suggest stuff I've looked very hard already, some things you could do are simply impractica
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by myaso 9y ago
There is probably a lack of executive tlc to go around for all their stuff. I don't get it either, they break things that work already -- I simply cannot trust anything they put out that isn't search/Android/Google AI st
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by myaso 9y ago
He got crucified because he didn't make anybody laugh -- now he will be paraded around as a poster boy for the alt-right or w/e. Aren't autistic traits highly prelevant in programmers? Isn't it also true that those trait
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Ask HN: Best resources on algorithmic coding theory?
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by myaso 9y ago
Pay walled, but I don't even need to read the article. If you have a working proposal for consuming information faster than my eyes and ears can do it and also a working proposal for controlling a computer faster than I can do it with
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by myaso 9y ago
Just for parents? Why not just give all users the ability to block certain usage patterns and access to applications -- kinda like the StayFocusd plugin for Chrome. Hell, charge a monthly fee to access the web interface to manage it; you ge
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by myaso 9y ago
Depends on the company, maybe some methods seem primitive by our standards but they can be extremely effective nonetheless. I strongly suspect a lot of it unnecessary, I've seen a VC funded startup tackle the same problem that someone
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by myaso 9y ago
This is really interesting. Given how open most development tools are and the fact that users will constantly generate data makes them a natural environment for deep learning based productivity plugins. But we can't have nice things :
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by myaso 9y ago
You use a wiki in a different way than a journal -- journal entries you write once and maybe read again. You can iteratively prune and refine a wiki over time.
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by myaso 9y ago
I went through something similar. I started keeping a journal. Also start a personal wiki, I use vimwiki and it's the best habit I ever developed -- it really helps to organize your thinking, you will also understand yourself better. D
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by myaso 9y ago
It really depends. For learning and using ML/DL it hasn't helped me much, the bottleneck is stats and linear algebra for that field. Even if it helps, is it the most valuable and broadly useful tool you can add to your current too
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by myaso 9y ago
Definitely, Griffith's Electrodynamics was a lot of fun. Still fondly recall working through the problems.
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by myaso 9y ago
Ugh. Don't do that. The water is disgusting in Ontario. There are some pretty strong guidelines regarding eating fish from there too. Heard stories from people who need to test it and filter it for injectables. It's not out in th
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by myaso 9y ago
You need a certain fraction of people willing to just do the required work without complaining -- there is only so much schlep a person can tolerate; certain factors like marriage, children, a mortgage, sick parents, and sense of duty can r
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by myaso 9y ago
Sorry, must of given off the wrong impression. I'm quite happy with FP in general, I'm just aware it is possible to write some pretty horrendous things. But yeah you are completely right about (4), at some point it doesn't se
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by myaso 9y ago
It wasn't just the 90s, sometime after like the late 2000s meeting people online organically became hard. I guess everyone who wanted to could just go on FB now. It's like everyone got put into their own little box. Discord would
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by myaso 9y ago
Does the code actually work? Wouldn't you need to create a instance within meta_dec and return the result of the __call__ method. See at first glance I won't think it would work if I didn't know __call__ is a magic method in
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by myaso 9y ago
So just a function that returns a closure? It can be a real pain to read code like this if it's overdone -- I really would need to trust somebody to let them go meta at their discretion.
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by myaso 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Found some data: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o... -- and also found this gem http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/drug-use&#x2F
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by myaso 9y ago
The thing that I don't get about this opioid crisis is I keep hearing about it but I have never really seen the corresponding human misery being captured in photography or film -- I see and hear words but I can't gauge the magnitu
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by myaso 9y ago
Again I agree ... it is nice to know the option exists but the value of this option isn't static at every point in time or every context -- the mere existence of it creates a certain level of bullshit that needs to be put up with.
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by myaso 9y ago
I think Python would be the best choice for an absolute beginner, I almost always recommend it when I'm asked what to start with -- it's objectively more pleasant to use than js. The thing about js is, you can get your hands dirty
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by myaso 9y ago
Both, and yes I quite disagree with you in some fundamental way. They have a specific niche while being severely over hyped.
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by myaso 9y ago
Blockchains solve one piece of a puzzle I can trust the transaction to go through but I can't trust the ecosystem that it operates in -- I'll leave the definition of trust purposely ambiguous. Despite all their flaws the syste
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by myaso 9y ago
Not that I'm a manager but I enjoyed High Output Management by Andy Grove. It's short and sticks to KISS, I don't really subscribe to the belief that dealing with people is something you can learn from books -- The Art of W
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by myaso 9y ago
Naw. Take a look at the percentage of GDP the US spent on the military -- 3.3% according to wikipedia, higher than average overall but less than average if you look at other countries that are actively using their militaries -- not necessar
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by myaso 9y ago
Life is not a need or a natural right. Nature can continue to grind on regardless of what you think. It seems you think that having other people enforce a system that offers you guarantees is something you are automatically entitled to havi

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