nikofeyn

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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it is indeed patronizing and presumptuous, although i must assume it was well intentioned. i was adding commentary to an internet discussion board, not applying for a job. plus, they just made up a job profile which isn’t accurate, so even
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i am not advocating hiring purely on potential. and of course i view it from the employer's point of view as well. you simply can't hire well if you ask what amounts to puzzle questions in interviews. it doesn't address what
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Let the other guys stress office politics and fear for their job if they take vacation. You're the guy who knows what this job market is like, and that you have options. as someone currently job hunting, i feel this is overly opti
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> The Western World puts truth above control. you can’t be serious about this. when has the truth mattered in the u.s. in recent times? in the u.s., companies control the government and people. in china, the government controls the compa
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
yes, it's really sad. i feel like the ML and lisp dialects are all we ever needed. having these two languages allows so much. they're perfect for getting stuff done and they're perfect for creating new languages. there's
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
no problem. i saw on this account’s summary that you do pdf generation. there are two good books on ocaml, and the second, more ocaml , has a project on producing pdf files. so that seems like it may be of interest to you. https:/&#x
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
https://fsharp.org/use/linux/
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
well python is often loved for how clean it is. however, i believe f# (or any ml dialect) is much cleaner than python in terms of syntax. and not only is it cleaner, it is more consistent, which is due to its ml ancestry. python is often lo
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it is truly amazing to me that an ML language never made it mainstream. an OOP-enabled ML like F# or Ocaml beats the pants off of the likes of something like python, but here we are where python is taking over the world. and everyone else i
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i am curious if you considered f#.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why is this so bonkers? it seems like it's just basic patterns of method overriding and operator overloading. if people think this is so magic, it's almost as if lisps, schemes, and prologs never existed.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
a subway map has little to do with a geographic map. only the nodes and time traveled between them matter. the shape of the actual routes is immaterial.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
the author of TFA probably thought the desire for correct shape in a map is implied and wasn’t trying to defend against map pedantry. of what use is a map if the shapes are wrong?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it's a theorem of differential geometry that we cannot have a (perfectly) accurate 2d map of the earth.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
has JPL ever investigsted alternative real-time systems? say a real-time ML (as in sml, f#, etc.)?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
what i was getting at that the term "emulation" is rarely used, at least from my experience, in this context except in cases where something is truly faking it like game emulation, OS emulation, hardware emulation, etc. i personal
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
your patent is an example of what's wrong with the software patent industry. i don't mean to be rude, although you did feature it promo prominently as the first bit of information about you on your resume. i mean, does soundcloud
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i do not feel perfectly safe or fine with humans driving. i hate driving in the area i live because no matter how much i pay attention, it is simply an unsafe environment with the amount of cars, scooters, bicyclists, and pedestrians within
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
what does he mean with regards to GPUs and CPUs "emulating"? they are computation machines doing computations. an algorithm running on one or the other isn't emulating anything in this context. running on "bare metal&quo
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
there is something fundamentally different between a machine and human. how the brain operates is not well known, so to claim our brain is a neural network made of meat is just a guess. the truth is, people have a lot of experience with oth
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i certainly agree there is plenty of systematic elitism out there in the world, but i don't think problem set vs. homework plays a part. haha.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why? and just to clarify my why, it really bothers me that people who do python tend to only want to do python, as if it's some advanced, modern language and the only choice for doing code if you don't like c# or java or c++. it&#
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this is terrrible. no births in this population, and i think they have had at least two deaths in the existing population this past year. in may of this year, the southern residents were not seen by researchers, at all, which is unheard of.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why are there so many (and seemingly exclusively) negative posts about china on hacker news?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this made me think of the book disciplined minds . while not directly related and is more focused on behavioral, managerial, and systematic issues, it is a very interesting look into who controls the direction of research, work, and perspe
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
there are other accelerator architectures and approaches that are not just scaled versions of the LHC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i haven’t read your linked article yet, but your comment reminded me of adam curtis’ documentary, all watched over by machines of ever loving grace . it covers the idea that the internet’s decentralization was supposed to liberate us but h
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
not exactly.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
do you know an ML language like sml, ocaml, or f#? if not, you should really give one a go, especially f#. the conciseness and cleanliness is just as good if not better than python, and there are far more options for data modeling and expre
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i don’t understand this viewpoint at all. you and i must live in a completely different world, as i feel i am surrounded by mediocrity with myself included. everywhere you look are humans acting more like humans the animal instead humans th

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