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by rg111 4y ago
I work in Deep Learning and I have been using Pop OS entirely for more than one year now. The experience is really good. It is not too polished and not too barebones. And it is extremely reliable which, in my personal experience, matched by
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by rg111 4y ago
> The main incentive to use Blockchain for payments is that it is decentralized. Some might say that the main incentive is not decentralization, but immutability of records and maybe trustless computing.
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> as an example of the type of fraud that is the signature of mania That's the social aspect of it. I clearly mention that I am asling about the technical aspect of it.
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That is what I tend to think. I do not know enough to have an educated opinion. But, intuitively it feels like the technology can be used in a lot of novel fields. And might find new applications.
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by rg111 4y ago
Can you explain why you feel so.
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Ask HN: Should I learn the tech behind crypto even if I don't want to own any?
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by rg111 4y ago
Hi. Some great projects. What's more commendable is your dedication towards your projects and seeing them through to end- to the point that they are actually useful. This is what I truly admire. I have a question for you. What is the t
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by rg111 4y ago
You do not say how. If you mean in terms of productivity, I agree with you. Having a clear boundary between workday and free-time is a clear productivity multiplier for me. This is much better than one more extra day-off. I can also maintai
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by rg111 4y ago
> home to 1.6 billion people Where did you get that number?
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by rg111 4y ago
> the time I spent learning Octave/Matlab for Andrew Ng's course was 100% wasted time Really? If you have programming experience, you don't really need to learn Octave. Some formulae were the code. In case of others, t
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by rg111 4y ago
I did everything in Octave. And it was a great learning experience. Octave is very easy to learn if you have previous programming experience. You won't _write_ programs a lot. There will be cookie-cutter code, and you will fill in some
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by rg111 4y ago
It is a dark pattern, but you need to agree to receive promo emails. No thanks. Come June, I will just check manually.
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by rg111 4y ago
Oh yes. The things I learned here helped me gain a solid foundation, which, in turn helped me learn Deep Learning. And Deep Learning feeds me now. The good thing about this course is that it is not Math-shy. It is not rigorous in terms of M
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by rg111 4y ago
Jeremy Howard came off as anti-intellectual to me. He is always like "oh math is nothing... you do not need math... math is not needed" and stuff like that. Other than that, fast.ai is a great resource, and Jeremy Howard is a grea
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by rg111 4y ago
The only downside of [2] is that is is taught in Keras + Tensorflow rather than PyTorch.
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by rg111 4y ago
All videos of all courses in Coursera are free. You can watch them fully without providing your credit card info. There are two types of courses in Coursera- free and paid. In case of the paid courses, you can go to the course and navig
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by rg111 4y ago
Unrelated, but I read much of your Classic Computer Science Problems in Python. And it is really a great book. Especially suitable for people in junior roles right now or people in any kind of role with a knack for solving interesting probl
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by rg111 4y ago
I remember these from yesterday: 1. Quotes on abstraction 2. How does jpeg represent images Google gave me bunch of spam, but Kagi gave me sites I could actually learn from. In case of code.you.com vs. Google: 1. Write a re
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by rg111 4y ago
> It's not a Google problem Oh it is definitelt a Google problem. I was in mood yesterday and I tried Google versus Kagi and You Code. Results of N out of N queries in other search engines were miles better in other search engines
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by rg111 4y ago
You are just hoarding data which is a different "hobby" and piracy is merely a component of it. And, yes, this hobby is expensive. Do not go around saying that piracy is expensive. There is also a similar side to it. You are _st
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by rg111 4y ago
Yes, Discord + uBlock origin on Firefox or Librewolf is the way I use Discord. uBlock catches a lot of trackers, too. I use TrackerControl [0] and DDG browser's tracker blocking feature. Discord is one of the worst offenders. I simply
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by rg111 4y ago
This is completely based on personal experience, and a significant amount at that. Most Indians who study Physics/CS/Math/Engg. do that because they want a high paying job and social prestige. Most Americans who study these,
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by rg111 4y ago
Not a book, but Dan Boneh's Crypto course on Coursera is rad. Really enjoyed it and learned a lot. (Note: My job is not related to cryptography in any way.)
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by rg111 4y ago
A paper notebook for long and intermediate term goals. I am picky about it. Thick paper and fountain pens. This is where I track my experiences with trial-and-errors with many sides of my life. Obsidian is used as a personal wiki where I tr
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by rg111 4y ago
I don't know why HN folks do not use or mention Asus much, but their mid to high range laptops are surprisingly good. Try Asus TUF series. I can vouch for them.
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by rg111 4y ago
This seems interesting, and I do not know much about this space. What are some alternatives aside from Gumroad? How do they compare?
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by rg111 4y ago
I do not care about the Google IO. But my reasons are far from everyone else's. I work in ML. And if there's any thing that is cool and/or I should care about, it always trickles down to me within some weeks.
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by rg111 4y ago
I agree with your daughter. No chance in hell I will use a wireless headset. I was gifted a wireless headset some years back, but I have always used it with wire. I do not want to charge another thing. There are already too many things that
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by rg111 4y ago
Sorry, should have been more clear. My bad. What I meant was if an algorithm had to "choose" between _trying_ to maximize views over all videos over all users, and _trying_ to maximize niche users' watch time, it would choose
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by rg111 4y ago
- Linear Algebra : Gilbert Strang's book + MIT OCW video series. Alternatively/additionally Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. Must watch 3blue1brown series on LinAlg. - Analysis : Spivak's Calculus (yes). Unde

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