nafizh

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   by nafizh 6y ago

   I don't get it. I still need to have a health insurance through which I already have a primary care provider. Why do I need to buy this then?
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   Ask HN: Is there a service that sends out excerpts of a book to email?

   1 points by nafizh 6y ago|0 comments
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   The author has also kindly posted a solution manual for all the exercises [0]. Last time I checked (year ago) this wasn't available publicly. I love books that have solution manuals available, crucial for self-learning. 0. https:/
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   How is it a fair playing field if US companies can't do business in China, and Chinese companies can do in US?
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   Goals shape the present, not the future(sive.rs)

   1 points by nafizh 6y ago|0 comments
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   My point is WHO failed the world by trying to be politically correct with China and not listening to Taiwan. Here is how Taiwan dealt with it from the outset [0] and what Taiwan says about WHO [1]. 0. https://www.telegraph.co.uk&
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   Tweet on January 14 [0]. "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China" 0. https:&#
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   With all the debacles from WHO including the most disastrous one of trusting Chinese authorities and declaring there is no human to human transmission till January, I think I can be forgiven for not taking anything WHO says seriously anymor
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   by nafizh 6y ago

   I don't get it. Who are they outsourcing it to?
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    by nafizh 6y ago

    So, Trump gets the blame for appointing Kavanaugh, and not credit for appointing Gorsuch?
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    U.S. to Expel Chinese Graduate Students with Ties to China’s Military Schools(nytimes.com)

    4 points by nafizh 6y ago|0 comments
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    Paypal closes its customer service(paypal.com)

    27 points by nafizh 6y ago|20 comments
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    by nafizh 6y ago

    If you want to learn LA by coding, coding the matrix by philip klein is a really good book. He even has his Coursera lecture videos (not available on coursera anymore last I checked) up on his website.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Will this be a good book to learn your first functional language?
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    People are luring Instacart shoppers with big tips, then changing them to zero(cnn.com)

    2 points by nafizh 7y ago|1 comments
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    How does this work for normal video calling e.g. calling your parents? Every time I want to talk with them, sharing a video link with them first seems to create a friction. I badly want an alternative to the awful Skype.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Can you please point to such a tutorial? I am interested.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    If you have no background, why would you want to learn the basics in a language no one uses rather than the dominant language / framework of the specific domain? Seems to me an extra cognitive load to bear.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    All these building NNs in haskell, ocaml or another language solving an extremely simple problem which is ok if you want to just have some fun. But if the proponents are really serious they would put out a detailed tutorial solving a comple
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Well, most of us can't afford a secretary like him.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Frankly, just solve an important problem with BNNs in a meaningful way with advantages that only BNNs bring (e.g uncertainty estimation) and you won’t have to write blogposts defending them.
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    Teaching Linear Algebra(bentilly.blogspot.com)

    5 points by nafizh 7y ago|2 comments
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    >Allen is spending his remaining days wrapping things up. The coffee machines are going away and he’s now giving tours of the campus to prospective buyers, including Chinese buyers. This reminds me talks of China buying up land and prope
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    As far as I understood, a large reason for the backlog is the H1B visa abuse from Indian companies.
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    The employment green card backlog tops 800k. A solution is elusive(washingtonpost.com)

    4 points by nafizh 7y ago|2 comments
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    What would be a good resource to learn Lisp in terms of problem solving or doing projects? I feel I only learn something when I use it to solve a problem in the real world.
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Thanks!
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Can anyone tell me what's the font used in the article? It's beautiful.
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    S. 386: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019(govtrack.us)

    1 points by nafizh 7y ago|1 comments
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    by nafizh 7y ago

    Sundar Pichai is the Steve Ballmer of Google. Google has lost a lot of street cred under him, and it seems they are happy with long may it continue.