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by psyklic 8y ago
The portion I excluded clarifies that "special fees" include: energy charges, convention fees, resort fees, and parking fees.
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by psyklic 8y ago
I recently booked on Hotwire in Europe and was charged an undisclosed "city tax" at the hotel. In the Hotwire fine print, it states: "Hotwire rates do not include special fees charged by hotels upon check-out. ... Customers w
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by psyklic 8y ago
Raymond Smullyan also got his mathematics PhD from Princeton at 40.
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These are structured as: Do you choose (A) alone, or do you choose (A) and (B)? (A) is often benign and (B) is often something the subject thinks is a good fit. So, in some ways these seem like "trick questions" - I wonder what ha
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by psyklic 8y ago
A skilled software engineer who is good at math could probably take some MOOCs, build a portfolio, and do well at data science interviews that emphasize coding. Many interviews often just ask ISL-level questions (Introduction to Statistical
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I also was majorly, majorly deceived about my equity stake, even though I was one of the two all-in founders and built both of our products. I suggest you insist on helping with the initial legal. Have your own lawyer review the documents.
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by psyklic 8y ago
I am a big fan of WSL. It is fast, and you can run many different Linux distros side-by-side. There were some quirks in the past, but it almost always just works. I see it as a serious alternative to using a Mac or Linux machine. In all fai
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by psyklic 8y ago
My most successful day with kids was showing them Processing. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. Every hour or so I'd go up and show something new. Even after the first day everyone ended up with some really creative art pieces.
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Nearly every dating site allows you to officially put you're looking for friends. It's the whole idea that people want to ideally marry their best friend, or that people want to be friends first before dating. In my experience, ne
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by psyklic 8y ago
I founded a company that did this. Despite our best efforts and aggressive marketing campaigns, it turned into a dating site. For example, messaging almost entirely stopped when we only matched same sexes. We found that even if the app is u
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Nice work! The internal use of e^x also was confirmed below for the Windows 10 calc (using another method).
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Fantastic, that confirms it! And kudos to barbegal for recognizing the base.
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There seems to be a clear pattern for > 5 digits after the decimal: 5 digits - Valid: <=0.39794, Invalid: >=0.39795 10^0.39794 < 2.5 10^0.39795 > 2.5 6 digits - Valid: <=0.043429, Invalid: >=0.043431 7
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Confirmed, on mine .43407 gives "Invalid input". I was getting "Invalid input" earlier for 0.00001 and 0.00003 (the first two examples I tried), but now they seem to work. EDIT: Manually typing in 10, the x^y button, the
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by psyklic 8y ago
It seems that 0.00001 gives "Invalid Input", but 0.00000001 works. EDIT: Strangely, now all inputs seem to work, even 0.00001 and even when I restart the calculator. Not sure why ...
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by psyklic 8y ago
Galileo is catching up too. There is a supported device list here: https://www.usegalileo.eu/EN/ . In addition, Galileo was just added in a recent software update to some Garmin watches. (Interestingly, they have suppor
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by psyklic 8y ago
I prefer references so I have more information available to assess the validity myself. If an author makes assertions without evidence to back them up, then they are much less credible. Having many recent studies available to back up a hypo
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It sounds like you would most enjoy a Calculus book that introduces you to Real Analysis. So, take a look at Spivak's Calculus, which is rigorous and written for people passionate about math. Another rigorous alternative is Apostol&#x2
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Science (and especially mathematics) is all about increasing human understanding. A neural network that makes correct predictions would be very interesting to both engineers and scientists. From a scientific perspective, the fact something
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Also a search such as 'asdf' or '-50a' seems to crash it, e.g. https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
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It shows the exact options the author used if you click on GCC: Version: 8.1.1 Options: -std=c11 -O1 Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
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I recall when I worked on projects for free and was more timid. Just for perspective: First, even though you worked for free, recognize that your work very possibly had great value to this company. Even if you feel you were a beginner or th
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I assume your PhD would be scientific or technical? If so, doing a regular PhD you would be paid tuition plus $25-45k/year (with research/TA/etc). With this in mind, assuming a five-year PhD: 1. Choosing the first option, you
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by psyklic 9y ago
Confirmed. Earlier today I rewrote some (non-NumPy) Python numerical sampling code in C and it was a 100x speedup.
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You would see this syntax in a typical mathematical logic class. It ANDs (&) together each statement before and after the ->. Here, we might say -- Ha: a is Human, Ma: a is Mortal. Then the first example says: "((For all x, if x
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It's the same with computer science, or any other field. The best, most motivated people will naturally have breadth and depth due to their own voracious curiosity, without thinking about the distinction at all.
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There is a really cool use of clustering with these scatterplots to do color quantization (i.e. reducing the number of colors). If you want 16 colors, just find 16 clusters and their centroids (e.g. let k=16 for k-means clustering). Replace
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The less visible you are, the easier it is to throw you under the bus. For example, suppose you don't give any interviews, never sign anything for the company, never pitch to investors, etc. Then, it is easier for them to pretend you n
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Of course, I'm sure this highly depends on the individual person, the type of work, and the project itself.
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In my experience, typically the junior's suggestion can possibly be done. However it often would be complicated to implement well, and I would be concerned how long it would take the junior to complete (if they would complete it satisf

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