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by nilkn 9y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I did recycle whatever I could from the leftover materials when I was subscribed. My apartment complex made it very easy to do so. Either way, needing to recycle is not unique to Blue Apron at all. You can e
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by nilkn 9y ago
I agree, but the same applies to a lot of materials accumulated from grocery store shopping. Like I said, I do think Blue Apron ends up being more wasteful in the end, but it doesn't strike me as an "astounding" difference.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I didn't miss them. I mentioned them, and they are recyclable.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't remember receiving any dry ice or styrofoam. The ice pack is recyclable. You just have to let it melt and empty out the water. There's a foil liner which is also recyclable. If there's no recycling option near you, yo
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by nilkn 9y ago
I've subscribed to Blue Apron before and, regarding waste, it doesn't seem much different from going to the grocery store. Meat ingredients like chicken breast, salmon, and beef are individually wrapped exactly like they are in th
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by nilkn 9y ago
This is why I still use an old-school limo company ("limo" as in fancy black car, not a real limousine) for airport pickups/dropoffs in my home city. Years ago I found one that's extremely reliable and trustworthy. Nearl
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by nilkn 9y ago
I've ended up using "big data" tools like Spark for only 32GB of (compressed) data before, because those 32GB represented 250 million records that I needed to use to train 50+ different machine learning models in parallel. Fo
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by nilkn 9y ago
I think there's a middle tier of problems that don't need a distributed cluster but can still benefit from parallelism across, say, 30-40 cores, which you can easily get on a single node. Once you know how to use Spark, I haven&#x
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by nilkn 9y ago
Spark is a fairly generic data processing engine with excellent SQL support, and its DataFrame structure is pretty similar to a pandas DataFrame. It can be really useful even on a single node with a bunch of cores. Spark's MLLib also h
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by nilkn 9y ago
In my opinion, if you know you're going to be working in an open office setting, you should try to be courteous and minimize the negative impact you have on your coworkers. I think you should be willing to make the choice to use a quie
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't think I follow here. The goal of training the network isn't to encode the training data in the model, but rather to build a model that generalizes well. If the neural network has just memorized the training examples, the
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by nilkn 9y ago
This might be a dumb question, but let's say that for whatever reason on a specific problem it's much easier to train a neural network that generalizes well than a decision tree. Why not train the network, then build an equivalent
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by nilkn 9y ago
My understanding is that the anxiety isn't about a fear of programming being automated in the near future, but rather about ML growing into a required, essential skill for a software developer in the next few years.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Suppose your dataset consists of the following points. (1,5) (2,3) (3,10) (4,4) Clearly there's really not a linear relationship between the first coordinate and the second coordinate. In other words, if you plot these four points and
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by nilkn 9y ago
Unfortunately this didn't really clear up my confusion. In particular, the points brought up by the second answer there seem relatively unresolved. Why should DO graduates be growing significantly faster in number (proportionately) tha
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by nilkn 9y ago
I've tried to play the iPad and iPhone portable versions of Minecraft, and only having touch-screen input just didn't cut it for me. The Switch has real gaming inputs, and I think that's going to make a huge difference in the
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by nilkn 9y ago
As a straight male, my answer is dead simple: female voices are attractive, pleasant, and comforting to me in large part because I experience romantic attraction exclusively towards women. I can't speak for non-heterosexual men or for
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by nilkn 9y ago
Many of these speakers are actually invited by students. So I don't think it can easily be concluded that the majority of students don't want a thing to do with them. The majority of students are not involved in these violent prot
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't think it's a waste of time. Even if you can't straight-up get a pure data science job, you can still benefit from having this background: (1) You could focus on building data processing platforms using, e.g., Spark. T
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by nilkn 10y ago
That's an argument for snatching up one of these people per team, but not an entire team of them. The analogy being made I believe is that there's simply no benefit to having two or three quarterbacks on a single football team. It
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by nilkn 10y ago
(3) makes me deeply uncomfortable. Facebook already has a terrible reputation on respect for its users. How could I possibly trust it if its leader is running for President and now has a huge motive to make sure he's seen positively on
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by nilkn 10y ago
It's really not marginally more work. I think it'd take me at least three hours a week to plan out meals like Blue Apron does and acquire all the ingredients myself. That's a ~42% increase in time spent if you wager 7 hours n
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by nilkn 10y ago
I think it depends what aspects of "cooking" you value. Some people really enjoy the meal planning part. Some people really enjoy picking out fruits and vegetables at the store. But others don't like planning out meals for th
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by nilkn 10y ago
With all due respect, I think you've completely missed the point of something like Blue Apron. It's not about saving money at all. It's for folks who enjoy cooking, but want to completely avoid trips to the grocery store or a
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by nilkn 10y ago
Lyft desperately needs to expand the list of cities they serve. I'm in Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, and for several years Uber has operated here but Lyft still doesn't.
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by nilkn 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if the following image depicts programmer working conditions at Uber? https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/22/business/24travis... If so, I don't see
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by nilkn 10y ago
Is this answer on their FAQ an outright lie, then? https://unrollme.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200243036-If-... > we don't store any of your emails on our servers. Either way, I just deleted my Unr
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by nilkn 10y ago
Facebook has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption among certain demographics in the US. Your news feed is designed from the ground up with powerful artificial intelligence to become an echo chamber, and lots of FB users just don&#
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by nilkn 10y ago
I've used vim for a long time and simply don't bother with different configurations for different special cases. I also never bother with GUI versions. Just always use the terminal and only use plugins that are cross-platform.
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by nilkn 10y ago
I think the idea is that employees with kids are being given extra perks at work because they have kids. Viewed abstractly, the parents are being compensated more than the non-parents, when all forms of compensation -- financial and otherwi

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