potbelly83

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by potbelly83 1y ago
Exactly! The majority of drone enthusiasts are insufferable, repeating the old mantra, "FAA allows to do what we like". I can't wait for some of these cases to hit the supreme court where they can put a stop to applying laws
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by potbelly83 1y ago
Yeah, yeah, this is what every single drone hobbyist parrots on about when asked this question. However, when was the last time someone was actually charged and convicted (criminal not civil) for shooting down a drone flying over their prop
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by potbelly83 1y ago
Why not just grab a hymnal and go through that? Edit: Happy to be downvoted, but at least explain why you disagree with this.
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by potbelly83 1y ago
Honestly, these studies don't make any sense. Australia in the top 10? Sure, if you already own a house, but if you're renting there's no way your quality of life would be better than say a mechanic owning 3 acres with a 3000
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by potbelly83 1y ago
It's not the AI doing math wrong as a lot of people are commenting. It's the way it's parsing your sentence. When it reads 'the present value of $100' it thinks that today's value of the investment is $100, and
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by potbelly83 1y ago
Agreed. As someone with a PhD in pure math this is a pretty bad article, attempts to be informal, but then presents a bunch of theorem/defns. Not sure who his intended audience was here. Nicer approach would maybe try and approach the
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by potbelly83 2y ago
Sigh.... I'm not sure what the audience for this book is. Anyone looking to learn the math behind Machine Learning would be much better served learning just what they need and expand their horizon as the need arises. I'm not sure
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by potbelly83 2y ago
If you read to the end of the article he actually lists the pros/cons where this is mentioned. That aside, the point of the article is maybe not so much using C++ regex but a technique to integrate C++ code into C code.
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by potbelly83 2y ago
It would be nice if they described Euclid's argument in its original geometric form rather than converting it back to post 1700 algebra notation.
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by potbelly83 2y ago
Yep growing up in Australia they were a very common thing (and this was only 20-25 years ago).
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by potbelly83 2y ago
It's not immediately clear (though I'm sure it is true) from reading the article that F(\pi) + F(0) != 0 (assuming \pi = \frac{a}{b}). Given that F(x) is an alternating series, maybe F(\pi) = F(0) = 0. (again I'm sure this is
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by potbelly83 2y ago
Ha... It's not that they can't do it now, it's just Google fear the uproar the woke brigade will inevitable make about how dare Google classify poor black neighborhoods as unsafe. But yeah I agree with you, that feature would
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by potbelly83 2y ago
thanks! appreciate the reply
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by potbelly83 2y ago
I'm confused why are they trying to implement name mangling in C? Are they trying to use the C++ compiler to implement the RAII assembly code and then link that back into C? Wouldn't a smarter approach be to do a C version of what
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by potbelly83 2y ago
It's funny one of the guys Simon's hired from IBM Watson to help him make the breakthrough, Peter Brown, was an avid fitness nut. Not sure the smoking and lack of exercise was the reason for his success! I think the main story beh
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Not unless you're trying to get a job in Australia :)
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by potbelly83 3y ago
The crazy thing with smoking is that now organized crime have taken over selling cigarettes causing more crime. God forbid they actually help people by doing things like providing affordable living accommodation! Though I think Australians
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Best to stick with the cooking/crossword section with the nytimes...
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by potbelly83 3y ago
There's been a lot of discussion in these comments regarding the author's definition of intelligence. What I haven't seen people address is the author's correct (in my opinion) criticism in the amount of data needed to t
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Exactly, case in point is the abundance of mask wearing in Asian countries. They seem to go about their lives just fine.
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by potbelly83 3y ago
If only the current generation of software engineers actually followed this advice :)
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Speaking from experience working at both FAANG and non-FAANG, the worst part about FAANG is that compared to small-mid sized companies the work just isn't that interesting.
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by potbelly83 3y ago
I'm not talking about UI things I'd like, I'm talking about existing UI that is broken/buggy. i.e. This kind of thing https://support.google.com/docs/thread/89723040/bug-docs-dra...
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Honestly Google's a joke. They spend so much time on pie in the sky stuff, but simple stuff (which makes my life miserable), like buttons getting hidden in Google Docs get completely ignored. Guess that's what happens when you onl
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by potbelly83 3y ago
Yep people who think the US was once some stable well run country need a good history lesson. This comes from an immigrant to the US happy to grow old here.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Agreed. For starters we can start charging with treason any CEO who outsources jobs to China. The likes of Tim Cook et al. make me sick. With a straight face they talk about DEI, BLM, and all the other catchy liberal phrases, while single h
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Honestly as a senior engineer at a FAANG like startup, coding is but a small part. Most of my week is split across - coding - architecting systems (if we're in the design phase of a project) - writing design documentation - researching
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by potbelly83 4y ago
I think we're moving back towards a 90s version of the web again. No search, just a list of hand curated sites of people who's opinions we trust. The only thing is now these will be likes specs of gold drowning in a sea of shit.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Yeah in a large subset of the population (I think between 50-60% if i'm not mistaken), but then what about the other 40% ? That's the thing with health nutrition, you can't really generalize very well.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
I also wonder how, if they go fully automated, they handle the use case of a medical emergency. Who decides if the plan should land and where (the destination, on route, etc..)? It seems even if everything is fully automated they'll st

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