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by nilkn 8y ago
What sorts of positions are we actually talking about here? How many companies actually need a research lab? I don't think anyone contests that a PhD is very useful if your job is to actually write and publish papers, attend conference
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don't disagree -- I wrote as much in my own post. The site is okay once I've unsubscribed from virtually everything it throws at you by default and instead subscribed to a heavily curated selection of subreddits that I found ove
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by nilkn 8y ago
Between... * feeling completely overrun with sensationalized politics; * the new design feeling sluggish and painful even on my maxed out late-2016 MBP; * the general community feeling more hostile and downvote-heavy than ever before; * and
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by nilkn 8y ago
I think maybe you're reading something between the lines here that isn't actually there. I think I'd summarize this article as being about groupthink more than anything else. The wine world is overwhelmed with all sorts of ru
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by nilkn 8y ago
Right, I can fire up vim on pretty much any old server out there and get a familiar editor. It may not have my vimrc and may not have a few plugins that I like, but none of that is crippling if you learn to appreciate and use vanilla vim an
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'm not even convinced Watson is a platform. My impression is that it's just a consulting division of the company that deploys teams to build solutions that are in some way related to AI, with each solution or implementation poten
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by nilkn 9y ago
You will have no trouble then pointing out the precise mistake in the calculation.
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by nilkn 9y ago
With all due respect, this reply isn’t going to fly. This is a pretty pretentious copout that attempts to end the exchange while saving you from needing to provide any details or engage with the underlying material in any way. I provided a
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by nilkn 9y ago
Indeed -- this is illustrated in my example below where one moves an object at 1mph (fixed speed) for about 283 million years until it's 4 * 10^12 km away from the Earth, where the escape velocity is right around 1mph.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Escape velocity is reduced based on distance because gravity itself is reduced based on distance. This is obvious from the the expression sqrt(2GM/r), which is the escape velocity at a distance r from the center of a spherically symmet
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by nilkn 9y ago
No, it's explicitly defined as a speed or velocity, not as acceleration and not as energy.
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by nilkn 9y ago
This is simply false. The needed escape velocity decreases with distance from the planet, so applying a change over a long period of time actually can very materially change the requirements. To give an example, if you provided propulsion t
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by nilkn 9y ago
It would probably be enlightening to read the sentence that immediately followed.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Escape velocity is actually only necessary for launching ballistic objects such that they will never return to the surface of the planet over an infinite amount of time (assuming no other interactions occur). It's not necessary when yo
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by nilkn 9y ago
While intended as light humor, this actually seems like a really damning argument to me. It's conceptually similar to overfitting a machine learning model by aggressively tuning hyperparameters without proper cross-validation, etc. Wha
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'd really enjoy seeing a modern ARPG that is legitimately unsettling and dark in the way that Diablo was (and D2, to a slightly lesser extent). We've got D3, which has really fun gameplay but feels commercialized and looks like W
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by nilkn 9y ago
I do worry that this is deeply circular logic. Words like "challenging" are considered strongly masculine by the Gender Decoder they linked to. I don't see how calling that word masculine is doing anything other than entrench
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by nilkn 9y ago
This should probably be a response to fareesh's top-level post. My comment was just to say that Trump's margin of victory -- however you want to analyze it or state it -- doesn't have any bearing on what motivated Trump voter
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by nilkn 9y ago
Even applying such retroactive analysis to determine the smallest set of people who could change their votes so as to alter the election result, that doesn't imply anything about why Trump voters voted for Trump. That doesn't mean
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by nilkn 9y ago
Quora suffers from an extreme cult of personality where answers are primarily upvoted these days based on the popularity of the writer and rarely on the quality of the answer.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Penrose isn't just a distinguished scientist: he's one of Hawking's most famous collaborators. The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems are named after both of them. They were jointly awarded several prizes/medals too.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I think in the back of my mind I always thought of Hawking as being immortal. He lived for over 50 years with a debilitating terminal illness, and yet his accomplishments so vastly exceeded the capabilities of his body. It’s hard to believe
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by nilkn 9y ago
Redis supports at least two forms of persistence: (1) periodic checkpoints; (2) writing an append-only log which can be periodically compacted to save space.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'd agree that Tesla's all-electric powertrains offer a better everyday driving experience than a traditional internal combustion engine. However, we're talking about $70k-$100k+ cars here, and there are some really competiti
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by nilkn 9y ago
Was the project the person was working on having any success? If so, you might be unfairly ignoring their positive contributions and focusing only on this one negative sign that you observed.
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by nilkn 9y ago
It worked out for me long-term. It really depends on a lot of factors. In my case: * I didn't actively seek out employment elsewhere. A place I'd interviewed at and turned down in the past contacted me again after they'd fini
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by nilkn 9y ago
> personally my arm would be bouncing all over the place from car motion when the arm is extended that far. Good point -- this screen would be basically unusable in much of Houston, TX, due to rough roads.
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by nilkn 9y ago
As a hiring manager I've often noticed the same. There's a weak positive correlation between candidate quality and the resume being one page in LaTeX. There's a weak negative correlation between candidate quality and the resu
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by nilkn 9y ago
For anyone interested, Doug DeMuro's video on the Model 3 is probably the most informative I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6VqldjTT8
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by nilkn 9y ago
I can't speak for chadash, but I'm pretty sure most folks who know to ask questions like this are probably going to pass the interview. They'll ask the right questions, and the problem will be simplified to a form that is sol

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