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by plandis 5y ago
I followed the math but I don’t know ML… Do practitioners really use “energy” and “conservation of energy”? That just seems overly confusing.
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by plandis 5y ago
Perhaps not what you’re looking for but if you can get through Griffith’s Quantum Mechanics you likely can get through Axler. I found it helpful to draw examples from QM when self studying in Linear Algebra Done Right.
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by plandis 5y ago
I never said GDPR is arbitrary legislation. In fact, I called it a good thing in my initial post. My point is that without legislation companies generally are not going to do things that don’t make them profit directly or indirectly. Aggreg
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by plandis 5y ago
> If systems are built with the requirement of letting users export their data, then the additional effort to do so is trivial. It’s unreasonable, IMO, to think that companies should have had the foresight to see legislation that would h
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by plandis 5y ago
There’s nothing that’s simple when you’re dealing with 10s of thousands of different datasets across many different internal team and service boundaries with their own security setup depending on the data that’s being stored. The cost of au
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by plandis 5y ago
Clicking a bunch of links is pretty accessible, perhaps you’re translating accessible to convenient?
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by plandis 5y ago
It’s a relative trade off though. People living in tents will still die to fires but also are going to be exposed to other risks that are likely way less prevalent in a windowless home.
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by plandis 5y ago
This person is a troll. For example here is one of their previous posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681090 “Ask HN: Ukrainians, why don’t you surrender?”
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by plandis 5y ago
I’m okay with this as long as it doesn’t impede engineering efforts from making smaller devices.
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by plandis 5y ago
> I don’t think it ever struck any of us that if we failed to study for an exam that it was anyone’s fault but our own. This is interesting to me. If you’re noting working through problems how do you get the feedback to even know if you
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by plandis 5y ago
> 1. Classes are not better if everyone is talking and asking questions. Often, this actually causes class to move more slowly and cover less ground and questions would be better after class one on one. Covering more material isn’t neces
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by plandis 5y ago
I’ve recently become a new father and have listening to a Cat Stevens song that your post reminded me of: “If they were right, I’d agree, But it’s them they know, not me.”
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by plandis 5y ago
Giving up any child seems like child abuse to me once you consider the mental trauma of a child who has to live with the fact that there is nobody to love and care for them.
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by plandis 5y ago
Perhaps I’m missing something but I really don’t see _how_ banning chess players shortens a war that those same chess players have no control over.
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by plandis 5y ago
Honestly I just wish I had classes which only allowed students who wanted to be there. So much of my public school education was wasted on teachers having to deal with some subset of students who wanted to do nothing but disrupt everyone el
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by plandis 5y ago
What is the purpose of the ban? Is it really doing anything to undermine Russia’s leadership? My guess is that this harms chess players who happen to be Russian but who have no control over the government and doesn’t do anything to hinder t
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by plandis 5y ago
I’ve only recently gotten into Kenji but he doesn’t come off as an asshole to me. Perhaps he’s grown up a bit since you last read/watch him?
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by plandis 5y ago
You could Google solutions very easily but I suspect if you can’t do fizzbuzz you couldn’t explain those solutions very well. I see fizzbuzz as a basic test to see if one can synthesize basic programming concepts and implement something tha
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by plandis 5y ago
I paired this with linear algebra done right and the two of them are great to simultaneously understand the computations and theory of what you’re doing.
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by plandis 5y ago
Fwiw, Griffiths QM provides an appendix with all the linear algebra you need to get through the book. People will definitely get more going in knowing about vector spaces but it’s not strictly necessary as long as you start in the appendix.
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by plandis 5y ago
I’m responding to someone who claimed this is a good fizzbuzz test which is different than the point of the article.
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by plandis 5y ago
I lead a team running very large scale distributed systems with almost a decade of experience and I could take a guess about what these elements and attributes mean but I don’t claim to fully know them. I also believe I’m fully capable of g
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by plandis 5y ago
I downvoted this comment because I think you’re being extremely condescending towards people who don’t like working from home. I go into the office explicitly because I have a family. It’s hard to work from my house now that my wife and I h
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by plandis 5y ago
I recently started working on implementing a user space IP/TCP implementation on my MacBook and honestly configuring the utun driver is a huge pain, there isn’t really any good documentation for it and I ended up having to reverse engi
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by plandis 5y ago
There are some groups who oppose effectively all taxes and seek to make paying tax as hard as possible so that other people will agree with them that taxes are a pain. For example see Americans for Tax Reform working to torpedo California’s
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by plandis 5y ago
Why would anyone want superfluous data stored by their government? What purpose does it have? In my mind, governments are like companies both are comprised of people making decisions which may or may not align with my personal interests. I
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by plandis 5y ago
Not to mention University of Washington is like $12k/yr and is a great school for CS. Literally a signing bonus at a large tech company is enough to likely pay off that amount assuming you went without scholarships or other tuition red
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by plandis 5y ago
> But the lack of absolute proof isn't an argument against masks in school. That's dumb. How so? It seems more ignorant to assume that masks would help more when the data we do have doesn’t show that. > Can children be swaye
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by plandis 5y ago
In Amazons case there are regulatory requirements for keeping around purchase history, tax, etc…
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by plandis 5y ago
Just because something is good for shareholders doesn’t mean it’s good for non-management employees or society at large.

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