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by rg111 4y ago
Almost everything is web now. Have friends in TCS, and they get a lot of government contracts. Almost everything is accessed through web GUIs nowadays.
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Microsoft, Oracle have significant lobbying power within the government and PSUs. This was true ten years ago. Not aware of the situation now. Indian PSUs pay millions of dollars for sub-quality software.
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> and two of them are Mother Teresa and Rudyard Kipling, who did not have to suffer from the Indian educational system Asia's first Nobel Laureate, RN Tagore also did not suffer Indian (British colonial) education system. He was hom
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by rg111 4y ago
I saw an actual Tweet by Gebru that said some loss functions are more racist than others. (I am not making this up.) Yes, she literally said that. I read some of her other work, and found little to no substance. She is mediocre at best. I w
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I am not sure that I am good at programming. I am certainly not as good as the HN-type second generation SV kids who started programming at four. Given that, I do work at a lucrative position doing cutting-edge work. What made me get prog
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> I quickly moved to the vectorial drawing tool I had handy: keynote. It’s really not made for that [...] You would be surprised at how many figures are drawn with PowerPoint on papers at top Machine Learning conferences.
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Thanks. I like learning new stuff, and expand my mind. There are many courses on my to-do list that I learned about from HN. I have found Sedgewick's course to be very dry (not intellectually, but physical vibe-wise) as well and was an
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What I do now, I gather some 10-20 EPUBs purchased from different sources, then batch convert them to MOBI using Calibre. Then I add them as attachments to my mail and use Send-To-Kindle. The MOBI files are barely hundreds of kilobytes, and
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What are some others, if you don't mind?
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Tangentially related, but I have found the PL course [0] on Coursera taught by Dan Grossman to be really high-quality and engaging. Learned a lot from it. [0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
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No dice there for me. I have entire full-semester university courses in my list. If working through them 5-7 each day, I can finish a full-semester course- with psets, midterms and assignments in 20-30 days. Even if I take a few weeks off,
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> and you're already in the hundreds of different opinions! No, you aren’t. Beause there are overlaps. (Seen Venn diagrams, btw?) > with ZERO external information This is a very bad advice. When you don't read those thre
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> Ok, but the problem is, _which_ book? I have solved this particular problem but have myriads of others. (See my main comment on this thread.) First, when you are looking for a book in a particular topic, search Kagi/You.com, and s
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Yes, I suffer dearly from it. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed, it causes cognitive paralysis and I just mindlessly browse HN, Twitter, Reddit etc. Or I just go on accumulating stuff . I append to my list of to-read books, to my to-read pape
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> Information, like fast food, is easy and cheap to produce today, mostly horrible for long-term health Agreed. But there are sooo many good, high-quality contents as well! It's very hard to make a choice and stand by it.
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ISL Adapt uses ML to make water treatment cleaner and greener(amii.ca)
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I personally write and maintain OSS primarily because it is the greatest form of track-record. Open Source code speaks volume about your code quality, design decisions, regularity, resourcefulness, and such qualities. I have gotten intervie
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KDEnlive, Blender, and Da Vinci Resolve(very rarely). Kapwing for quick demos, bug-reporting videos and such.
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Da Vinci Resolve has nice experience on Linux as well.
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Exactly. > "But lack of stress doesn’t automatically make you a good person." This. Lack of stress only makes it easier to be nice, and stress makes it harder. That does not mean that a person without stress is automatically
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The world is not a zero-sum game like it was 250 years ago. I am not a company in a low-margin, huge-scale business. I am a person. A human being. I do not need to "ruthlessly beat my opposition" to be happy and comfortable. And a
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While not a substitution for scientific study, I always knew this. When people are comfortable themselves, they tend to be more kind, understanding, and altruistic. I also suspect that this is also a long-term phenomena as opposed to the
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- The Little Schemer - The Algorithm Design Manual - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Elements of Computing Systems (nand2tetris book)
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I have a question. When you say that you are going to write a book titled "When Machine Learning Fails", is your book going to based on the boundary, the limits of machine learning or is it going to talk about obvious limitations
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I just use forced Night Mode offered by browsers like Brave and Bromite on Android and Dark Reader on Firefox. Very good experience. All the pages I open are in Night Mode, too, as opposed to Night Mode only on HN.
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I highly suggest physical devices over any other approach. Buy an RPi or an Arduino, and make cool stuff with it. Let your kid watch and help. Then teach them basic Python and let them write parts of functions/scripts with MicroPython.
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by rg111 5y ago
I use Feeder [0], downloaded from fdroid. [0]: https://gitlab.com/spacecowboy/Feeder Sadly, I accumulate much more feeds than I read. Just like podcasts. I subscribe to too much of them. Download a lot of episodes, and
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I really love the Racket discord. Very warm, welcoming, and helpful. The Rust discord is also a nice place.
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There are SWE degrees, already. There are also IT degrees.
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Read these books- - Innovators by Walter Isaacson - Code by Charles Petzold - The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold - Where The Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner - The Information by James Gleick

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