patrick_halina

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The Canadian Armed Forces are seeking ruggedized wind turbines for the Arctic(canada.ca)
2 points by patrick_halina 4y ago|0 comments
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Pinterest is moving into a new office space in Toronto and they are hiring(blogto.com)
2 points by patrick_halina 5y ago|0 comments
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by patrick_halina 6y ago
Hey there’s also Canada! We don’t have San Francisco salaries but Toronto tech blows away the EU. With a job offer, you can get a visa in a few weeks.
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by patrick_halina 6y ago
If you can survive the cold, there’s lots of tech job openings in Toronto at top tier companies. You won’t make as much money as the US but you can buy a house in downtown Toronto for $1M US. Once you get a Canadian citizenship, it’s possib
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by patrick_halina 6y ago
RL is a good theoretical solution for personalization: given a user state, select an action that maximizes a long term reward (eg. revenue/engagement.) It’s tricky building the implementations because unlike Go/Chess/Atari it
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Ask HN: Best Apps/Systems to Organize Reading Material
13 points by patrick_halina 6y ago|10 comments
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by patrick_halina 6y ago
Absolutely. Art vs. business. If you're happy painting a masterpiece even if nobody sees it, then you only really need advice on how to make beautify art. I think most artists want an audience, and that requires skills on the business
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by patrick_halina 6y ago
I used to work for Zynga. My advice is to think about how you'll gain users. The mobile gaming world is basically user arbitrage. You buy users (via the ads market) for X, and if you make more than X, you print money. It's helpful