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by npalli 4y ago
Seven years ago someone at Google estimated that there was 2 Billion lines of code in production to support Google Services [1]. Given this was seven years ago the number is probably much higher now and a large chunk of it is C++. Clearly
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by npalli 4y ago
This is a big topic but as far as Demographics go, China is by far the worst placed big nation due to their one child policy and inability to support more than one child due to modern costs. If that were the only factor or even a major fact
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by npalli 4y ago
Look, you are over 40. Who exactly are you trying to attract with a full head of hair. At this point in your life other accomplishments should dominate others' opinion of you rather than hair. Anyways, if this is an emotional thing for
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Penrose: Create beautiful diagrams just by typing math notation in plain text(penrose.cs.cmu.edu)
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by npalli 4y ago
Curious what you imply by readers being Indian Immigrant. Ironically, the abortion rights in India now are far more favorable for women than the US even though India is very religious and economically backward. Indian society has come to th
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by npalli 4y ago
Regarding Azure, it is quite possible the primary developers are corporate/in-house types and not big on responding to this particular survey. About 70,000 developers (in total) responded which is a small fraction of the developer univ
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by npalli 4y ago
This approach of data maximalism seems to work well primarily for NLP and CV. However, there are lot of domains where throwing every feature without some consideration of information will not get you good results. To take a simple case, you
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by npalli 4y ago
"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" - Keynes. Why does only taking short position qualify one to speak on this issue. You could be right but get wiped out in the short term when the mania drives these sh
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by npalli 4y ago
The 30 year mortgage rate went from under 3% to over 6% so the monthly payment on a $500K house went from $2100 to $3000. Don't believe anyone got that big of a raise. Entirely predictable.
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by npalli 4y ago
To be fair, if you are a writer it might be better to work primarily with paper and pen as it allows quite a bit of flexibility in how you organize/edit the text while keeping everything in front of you. Having done the paper/pen
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by npalli 4y ago
One downside of a long 2 month sabbatical is the startup cost of getting back into the productive mode could take some time as things would be forgotten. I suspect there is a inverted U for productivity and length of break in your job. A be
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by npalli 4y ago
There was substantial discussion on this topic a few days back when it was linked to the Uber blog entry from the two authors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31698503
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by npalli 4y ago
Not every book needs a detailed reading of every word. If you are reading poetry or a key technical book, sure, you will need to focus on each word but there are lot of books where either you can assume lot of filler (business books, light
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by npalli 4y ago
The article discusses how the two mathematicians (Spielman and Teng) came up with Smoothed Analysis for Algorithms (as opposed to Worst case) which gives insight into why Simplex works well. We introduce the smoothed analysis of algorithms
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Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs(blog.coinbase.com)
778 points by npalli 4y ago|593 comments
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Sequoia Capital: Adapting to Endure [pdf](s3.documentcloud.org)
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The worst of both worlds: Analysis of errors learning from data in psych. and ML [pdf](users.eecs.northwestern.edu)
1 points by npalli 4y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 4y ago
Just download the pdf, looks better TBH. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GReNZ9fbI4203esUwGzqqLVg1El...
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by npalli 4y ago
I found the title of the speaker sort of ironic. Doesn't bode well for someone trying to create a culture of innovation. "Head of Innovation Office and Strategic Projects at SAP Business Process Intelligence"
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Bits of advice I wish I had known(kk.org)
1109 points by npalli 4y ago|634 comments
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by npalli 5y ago
Great essay, deeper than being about just Bayesianism. In the essay David talks a lot about explanations and what is good one v/s a bad one. The short TED lecture by him gives a deeper insight into his explanation of why good explanati
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by npalli 5y ago
Your own link states -- Overall YJIT is 33.4% faster than interpreted CRuby! On Railsbench specifically, YJIT is 32.4% faster than CRuby!
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Revising Down the Rise of China(lowyinstitute.org)
5 points by npalli 5y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 5y ago
A bit harsh to call it inane observation. Going by the original example, the challenge is the lack of good c++ libraries for common tasks in systems programming (like Sockets, or networking - still experimental after 40+ years!!) and the on
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New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers(anderson-review.ucla.edu)
109 points by npalli 5y ago|60 comments
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by npalli 5y ago
Not sure why the Fortran code is that much simpler, I mean if you don't want to futz around with the IO stuff, C++ can be lot more straightforward. #include <iostream> int main(void) { float height, dist; std
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Sugar Consumption and Obesity(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by npalli 5y ago|1 comments
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How quickly do algorithms improve?(news.mit.edu)
57 points by npalli 5y ago|20 comments
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by npalli 5y ago
How is this different than private label goods sold by all retailers?
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State of AI Report 2021(stateof.ai)
3 points by npalli 5y ago|0 comments

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