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by plants 5y ago
Wow, hiking the AT is currently my quitting plan as well, but for 2022. Excited to see that you aren't experiencing extreme post-trail depression - I know it can hit hard for some people :). I hope to be in a very similar place/st
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by plants 6y ago
look for vacant units in your building (if you're in an apartment) and see if you can negotiate a lower rate with your landlord based on the price of the units that are currently up for rent. if you're not in an apartment, you mig
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by plants 6y ago
My rudimentary understanding of most reinforcement learning systems is that there is an "probability of optimality" associated with each action. Wouldn't there be a way to make the AI take the Nth optimal move or vary the deg
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by plants 6y ago
so absurd. why is it $129/year to remove myself from lists that I didn't consent to be added to in the first place?
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by plants 6y ago
I am so glad I am not the only one that feels this way. In high school, I didn't have to take a single probability/stats class. In college, as a CS major (!!), I had to take a single intro stats class that was completely insuffici
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by plants 6y ago
This is sadly so consistent with what I'm seeing at a big corporation. We are working so hard to make a centralized ML platform, get our data up to par, etc. but so many ML projects either have no chance of succeeding or have so little
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by plants 6y ago
Here's a really comprehensive genre map: http://everynoise.com . It's not going to give you the history of a genre, but wikipedia probably can.
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by plants 6y ago
Asking for the benefit of me and others since this is on the front page now - are there any resources this comprehensive for any other field of study? This guide is amazing and I've failed to find anything else like it. I was specifica
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by plants 6y ago
This is hilarious, I realized the exact same thing about the F-91w after wearing them for 3 or 4 years. Another alternative is the Casio F-84w, which is almost completely identical to the F-91w. It's slightly more expensive, but the de
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by plants 6y ago
Small sample size, but this is consistent with what I've observed in some specialized people... For example, I have an uncle that is absolutely brilliant. He's an excellent lawyer and can remember any fact that even slightly inter
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by plants 6y ago
I've been looking for dumb phones with just talk, text, and GPS in the US for years (at least two) now. The closest thing I've found is blackberry. I just want a phone that 1. can get me to my destination if I'm lost and 2. d
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by plants 6y ago
Those are two of my favorites also, especially "In the Penal Colony." For anyone looking for more, I would add "The Burrow" as great introduction to the weirdness of Kafka as well.
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by plants 6y ago
That said, anyone reading this shouldn't let this experience deter them from trying caving at least once. Caving is one of the most underrated and obscure outdoor sports, mostly because it's really hard to go caving without an &qu
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by plants 6y ago
of course, there is a PG essay about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/noob.html
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by plants 7y ago
gender.lower().startswith('m')... done! :)
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by plants 7y ago
great resource! thanks!
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by plants 7y ago
I've seen this claim around a lot - is there a handy link that shows the testing that NY is doing and/or their true positive rates as compared to other regions?
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by plants 7y ago
Borges loves exploring these extremes. He also looks at the concepts of singularity and infinity with regard to language in "Undr" and "The Library of Babel," respectively. In "Undr," the poetry of a society ev
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by plants 7y ago
This is so true. Every comment I see on HN regarding welding paints it as the counterpoint example to a college education/getting a white-collar job. I have a brother who gets worked to the bone welding for about $15 an hour. He can ge
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by plants 7y ago
As someone who is super interested in genetic engineering, are there any survey papers/online courses/intro textbooks that someone could recommend as an intro to either modern gene editing or using probabilistic techniques to dete
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by plants 7y ago
Ugh... I check online for exactly this every 6 months to no avail. I see the same things turn up - lightphone, punkt MP01/MP02, Nokia phones with KaiOS. I have tried using a "dumb phone", which works for 90% of what I want to
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by plants 7y ago
Good handheld GPS units are expensive. Plus, you look eccentric - to say the least - carrying a handheld GPS unit in addition to your phone.
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by plants 7y ago
Really depressing. Between work, long commute, gym, and part-time grad school, I have 18 free hours a week out of 168. Makes me wonder what the hell I am doing when I have other hobbies that I would love to be pursuing. Most of the time I s
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by plants 7y ago
If you are familiar with the Iliad, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that every man in the Trojan War probably had PTSD. It's one of the most unrelentingly brutal books I've ever read
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by plants 8y ago
That's about my experience too, having done only two classes so far. One of the largest downsides (in my experience) is never meeting/hearing from the instructors of the courses- the TAs are almost solely responsible for running t
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by plants 8y ago
It's reasonable to expect that of people, but why of companies? Isn't a company like Amazon's moral compass guided solely by legal obligations?
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by plants 8y ago
How do you do anki with something like lecture notes? Do you just chunk the lecture notes into bite-size pieces and then review them as flash cards?
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by plants 8y ago
That seems like it's _always_ how it is with stats... I find it very easy to get lost in stats presentations and articles with my STAT100-esque-understanding of simple random vars/distributions/PMF+PDFs
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by plants 8y ago
You can play MP3s, but the user experience for the music app is pretty bad in my limited experience using it
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by plants 8y ago
Hacker news is addicting, but there is a noprocrast setting that only allows you on the site for maxvisit minutes at a time and doesn't let you back on until minaway minutes have expired. I just turned it on this week and it has change

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