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by psv1 7y ago
Very unlikely. 1. The probability of some paradigm changing breakthrough in AI over the next 10 years - the kind that can potentially give you the massive market returns - is extremely low. 2. The breakthroughs that will happen will most li
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by psv1 7y ago
> What will the best performing S&P500 stock of the 2020s? If you had asked the same question 10 years ago, no one would have guessed Netflix... because it wasn't in the S&P500 at the time.
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by psv1 7y ago
> Start ups do work on cutting edge tech, you just need to be at the right one. Sure, let me put it in a different way - working on cutting edge tech isn't dependent on the maturity of your company.
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by psv1 7y ago
> I envy those working in startups on cutting edge tech. Those at FAANG making real impact on the world. Startups don't work on cutting edge tech. FAANG employees aren't making any more of an impact than you're making wher
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by psv1 7y ago
For version control? Use version control.
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by psv1 7y ago
> feels a lot more bulky, especially Vim. > I think I can live without syntax highlighting This is the fussiest of fussy problems. I can't imagine how vim can feel bulky, and how bad it needs to be for you to be willing to trade
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by psv1 7y ago
Important features of any good setup: - you consolidate your finances in the minimum number of accounts & cards - you have a couple of months of expenses as cash in a current or savings account - you pay off your credit card in full eve
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by psv1 7y ago
> it is still often true that you get what you pay for Hasn't been my experience at all - in fact I haven't noticed a relationship between quality and price of textbooks in either direction. > you spend so much time and effo
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by psv1 7y ago
R - it's already good just not quite as good as Python.
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by psv1 7y ago
"Related" = Where they copied from.
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by psv1 7y ago
> Predicting problematic positions This is a problem for finance, not banking.
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by psv1 7y ago
Why are you looking for an alternative if Trello fits your use case perfectly?
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by psv1 7y ago
Are you talking about risk of fraud, risk of credit default or anything else? Either way there are already quite a few companies doing this at very large scale, which shouldn't discourage you - just means that you can find some good re
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by psv1 7y ago
I use Google's products because they're good (Search, Youtube, Maps, Docs, Chrome up until last week's update). If my account disappeared tomorrow, I would lose a few non-essential files on my google drive and that's abo
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by psv1 7y ago
> "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder", because it's dauntingly long and I'm feeling masochistic. The length on its own isn't that big of a problem. But if you want a simple idea which can be explained t
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by psv1 7y ago
While you're thinking about your predictions, I recommend to have a glance at the 2010 thread - it's a great mix of predictions that are: - hilariously wrong - things people will still predict today for the next decade - occasiona
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by psv1 7y ago
Yes, I would mind. A lot. You aren't hypersensitive. Run and don't even think about it twice.
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by psv1 7y ago
> To give an example, Rstudio does only one thing at the time, you are running a code, you cannot open a data frame even to look at it. This isn't specific to R or RStudio. Start running a slow process in your Python IDE of choice,
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by psv1 7y ago
There are many great things about R that you can point out - Shiny is not one of them.
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by psv1 7y ago
My job is pretty much only writing R code and managing R models running in production. I still don't understand what your product offers that I don't already have, or how it achieves what it claims to achieve. Copying and pasting
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by psv1 7y ago
After a couple of minutes on their website I still can't figure out what advantage this offers over using RStudio as an IDE and/or running scripts with the default CRAN R installation.
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by psv1 7y ago
I trust them in the sense that I've used 23andme and then shared that dataset across a few other similar services. The actual utility was questionable - it fell in the category of expensive info-tainment for me, but I might just be bia
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by psv1 7y ago
Can I anti-recommend Taleb? Maybe it's his delivery that puts me off but I just find him absolutely insufferable.
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by psv1 7y ago
I'm moving to London next month and I'm already feeling a weird mix of excitement and absolute dread.
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by psv1 7y ago
Have you tried or considered hallucinogens? I'm not suggesting that you do, just interested in your perspective considering how severe and long-lasting your depression seems to be.
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by psv1 7y ago
Nice. These are also great tips for people in permanent roles.
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by psv1 7y ago
Being in the UK, I'm surprised to see it on the good side of a SWE compensation comparison.
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by psv1 7y ago
Just because it might be possible doesn't mean that it's worthwhile at all.
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by psv1 7y ago
> Rust doesn't have to replace anything. It can be used to create complementary packages especially ones that use C/C++. I'm not sure that I understand correctly - are you suggesting that people use Rust as an additional l
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by psv1 7y ago
Rust can never replace Python as a front-end because it's compiled and not all that flexible or user-friendly. Rust can't currently replace C or C++ at the back-end because it doesn't have good enough support for GPU computin

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