nilkn

69 ms·

661.
by nilkn 8y ago
For what it's worth, I disagree quite strongly with that review. The book is aimed at those with a pretty mature appetite for abstract mathematical reasoning, but not much specific knowledge in the areas of statistics, machine learning
662.
by nilkn 8y ago
Surely you're not trying to manage 40+ people yourself. Your "team" is actually a division or sub-organization that should have a number of managers or leads within it. You are not a manager but a director/VP. Your actua
663.
by nilkn 8y ago
Why is this such a bad thing, though? That's the critical part missing from your post. It seems to me that the idea is to replace unethical opt-out ads with ethical opt-in ads that don't track you. Besides that, Brave is a browser
664.
by nilkn 8y ago
Was Flooz a browser or just a digital currency? 1999 was a very different time as well for the internet. In particular, ads and trackers were not even remotely as pervasive and invasive.
665.
by nilkn 8y ago
I view these serverless cloud offerings as more of a business/staffing decision than an engineering one. It may not be less work overall, but it tends to outsource traditional ops work and replace it with work that ordinary developers
666.
by nilkn 8y ago
Is there really such a thing as culture-less food? The fact that Taco Bell, for instance, has struggled so much in some international markets suggests there might be a stronger cultural element to it than you’re giving it credit for. Yes, i
667.
by nilkn 8y ago
It depends on how the word is used. "You guys" is very different, for instance, than just "guys". As it happens, that's the usage in the title of this thread. I'm not saying there's no reason to reconsider
668.
by nilkn 8y ago
This is definitely a bit niche, but at first blush it's highly bizarre that you can get a natural cross product operation in three dimensions... and not again until seven. And then never again after that. It's a peculiar and inter
669.
by nilkn 8y ago
This seems like a competitor more to Fargate than to Lambda, right?
670.
by nilkn 8y ago
Is there any work being done to get it working again? More broadly, is there any way to know what is actually being worked on with Elm? The language is amazing but it feels left for dead sometimes. Yet there seems to be a decent amount of a
671.
by nilkn 8y ago
> Yes we could overprovision a single server with 5x the resources for the once a week indexing. You assume this is bad, but why? Your alternative seems to be locking yourself into expensive and highly proprietary vendor solutions that h
672.
by nilkn 8y ago
I can't imagine an experienced data scientist at Facebook is only making $135k in total. I'd double or triple that for experienced senior engineers (including non-cash compensation like RSUs, etc.).
673.
by nilkn 8y ago
Everything I've read indicates that you do still have to do the normal in-person technical interview gauntlet at each individual company. It's possible things have changed recently, though.
674.
by nilkn 8y ago
I run a team deploying machine learning systems in production, and I agree with most of this. None of us have a formal background in machine learning, and none of us have PhDs. We all came from traditional software engineering backgrounds,
675.
by nilkn 8y ago
> What public space offers infinitely scalable many-to-many communication? Public space is distance limited, these platforms aren't. Just because these platforms chose not to heavily regulate the content doesn't preclude their
676.
by nilkn 8y ago
This is a nuanced topic, but I think the subsequent cases you mentioned all make sense and are consistent with the proposition that certain social media sites actually should obey the "company town" precedent. Malls aren't an
677.
by nilkn 8y ago
There's less to delegate if you're a team lead with IC direct reports. The situation starts becoming a lot more complex when your reports are themselves managers or team leads.
678.
by nilkn 8y ago
I completely agree with this. It's actually hard to delegate too much. Almost all managers I've ever known have delegated too little. I think they're afraid that by delegating important parts of their job they're diminis
679.
by nilkn 8y ago
To be honest, 10-12 just sounds more like a small open office to me rather than a shared team space. When I think of a shared office, I think of maybe 2-4 people in a spacious private office. Even at 5 people you'd start to lose the be
680.
by nilkn 8y ago
I've had the same issue as well. I use Firefox at my home Windows 10 machine and really never miss Chrome. But for work I run macOS and find Firefox slightly intolerable. It's really unfortunate because Tree Style Tabs is a game c
681.
by nilkn 8y ago
I disagree that it's technically trivial for the audience this article is written for. The suggestions on the page are all as simple as using a particular browser, search engine, or browser plugin.
682.
by nilkn 8y ago
I don't think the author forgot the axiom; they seem to acknowledge that they just don't know of anything better in that case: > That's about the best you can ask for with a centralized infrastructure for the internet. A r
683.
by nilkn 8y ago
Aside from what others have mentioned, Firefox also has the Tree Style Tabs extension, which is not privacy related but for me has changed the way I browse the internet.
684.
by nilkn 8y ago
It would take a significant amount of charging inconvenience to get me to go back to wired earbuds instead of wireless. I can't speak for others, but for me wireless AirPods were a really dramatic improvement in the experience of liste
685.
by nilkn 8y ago
Presumably this service is not going to be free, and the overall cost for someone who plays a lot of games would probably be similar to just getting a $1000+ PC and using it for 3-4 years. Of course maybe the pricing will prove me wrong.
686.
by nilkn 8y ago
If your concern about Google is at that level (mine is), it's probably best to just use Brave or Firefox.
687.
by nilkn 8y ago
This sounds really interesting. Is this work available publicly? Could you comment on how you did this and what the pros and cons were (surely a compromise had to be made somewhere)?
688.
by nilkn 8y ago
I'm 29 and have mild tinnitus. In my case, I'm fortunate that it's only noticeable in a nearly silent room. Even a fan is enough to make it disappear. That said, it's still scared me. I'm convinced it came from year
689.
by nilkn 8y ago
This is not abstract math, and the article does explain what it's doing before presenting the code snippets. How can you explain or implement gradient descent without math? At some point I think you have to accept that this is a topic
690.
by nilkn 8y ago
For what it's worth, I didn't read the article at all, went straight to the final code, and had no issue reading or understanding it. The variable names seem fine to me. They're actually quite good, and I liked the convention

More ›