numinary1

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by numinary1 4y ago
Being old as dirt, my observation is that potential tech revolutions take ten years after the initial exuberance to be realized broadly, or three to five years to fizzle. Of those that fizzle, some were bad ideas and some were good ideas re
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by numinary1 4y ago
Still upset about Wikipedia too?
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by numinary1 4y ago
This is amazing. Great format. It would be cool to link original recordings too, but merely nice-to-have, not essential. I love being able to listen to the solos unaccompanied.
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by numinary1 4y ago
Large companies’ CEOs need to be wealthy in order to be in the club with others whose influence might matter. Wealth == Power.
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by numinary1 6y ago
Kapton insulation was not shown to be the root cause of the crash of Swissair 111, nor was it entirely ruled out. https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/1998/a98...
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by numinary1 7y ago
Right, excuses carry no weight. Got it. Agreed! But fuck football coaches and sports analogies for business. Sports is a zero-sum game. Business sometimes is,sometimes isn’t. Depends on agility, creativity, and the market you’re in. If yo
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by numinary1 7y ago
Yes, this!
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by numinary1 7y ago
Democracy is ostensibly majority rule (don't nitpick). The majority of people are poor. Therefore, democracy is the rule of the poor (Aristotle). We do not live in a democracy.
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by numinary1 8y ago
Sometimes what you need is change. I am sixty-five years old. I was a programmer for fifteen years, started a consulting company, then a software business. Was acqui-hired. Became VP Product Dev over 27 locations, 1200 developers, hundreds
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by numinary1 9y ago
It's a thing, isn't it? I mean, as words and phrases go, it at least means something , like not just front-end, back-end, or client-side view-model reducer mapping specialist. AI is much close to fully content-free.
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by numinary1 9y ago
What's up with the phrase, "Still programming?" Would anyone think it odd for a 60-year-old physician to still be doctoring, or a 60-year-old lawyer to still practice law. Or for that matter for a 60-year-old artist or craft
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by numinary1 9y ago
This discussion misses an important element, the skill of the interviewer. It is unsurprising that unskilled interviewers' assessments are poor predictors of future performance. It would be interesting to measure the accuracy of interv
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by numinary1 10y ago
The Triumph of Politics by David Stockman - totally changed the way I understand the operation of government.
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by numinary1 10y ago
All the time
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by numinary1 10y ago
Never ever take any kind of test before talking to a person, preferably the hiring manager. Not even for fun or practice.
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by numinary1 10y ago
If you're seeking work: If you want to be in demand, be the machine learning person for __________ , electric energy revenue protection, or healthcare payer fraud detection, investing, or supply chain. Pick a specialty. If you're
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by numinary1 10y ago
That certainly makes sense since the problem has a higher likelihood of stemming from the same root cause, but also speaks to how little is known. So include the social graphs of people who are on antidepressant discussion boards and pick u
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by numinary1 10y ago
It seems to me that many of the drugs in this category are effective sometimes for some people. People I have known who were suffering acutely often cycled through several drugs, sometimes in combination, dosages etc. It appears to me to be
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by numinary1 10y ago
@dilemma's suggestion is the right one. The best way to use powerpoint is DON'T USE POWERPOINT to create your presentation. For example, if you use PPT shapes and text objects on a slide, and somebody tries to view it on a differe
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by numinary1 10y ago
Exactly what I saw. Your expectation is correct.
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by numinary1 10y ago
When I was working on a recommender for television shows, I ran SVD on a large User/Item matrix to create a low rank approximation, essentially reducing thousands of user features (TV show preferences) to user vectors representing twen
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by numinary1 10y ago
Perhaps the best minds are thinking about the challenges of teaching middle school special education in Detroit or how to deliver basic healthcare in East Africa. Are the minds of marketers better? Really?
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by numinary1 10y ago
Use the opportunity to learn: (1) What it is that attracted the potential investor to your idea; (2) What they would require of you in order to make an investment. Investors can be a distraction, but when the time comes to raise money you n
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by numinary1 10y ago
Q: What is the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist? A: You can negotiate with a terrorist. Methodologies are useful as tools used by developers to organize their work and make themselves more productive. When methodologists e
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by numinary1 11y ago
The arrogance of the subtext that machine intelligence is nothing like human intelligence and therefore inherently inferior and nothing to be afraid of is more disturbing than the prospect of artificial intelligence gone awry as it reminds