rg111

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   by rg111 3y ago

   I get your point for vanilla Python docs. Content farm pages can be more helpful for quick look ups here. But if you use Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, etc., you know how fantastic the official docs are. They are much better than content farm crap.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   I have used Brave search for some days. It's extremely bad. You can see for yourself.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   Honestly, nothing can beat being active on Twitter/X.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   That's not how axes work. That's not how dimensions work. And that's definitely not how lines work.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   Gebru always stuck to me as an activist rather than a scientist or an engineer. She has a strong resume but we all know how DEI is nowadays. So, I tried to find sole authored works of her and could not up with even a single one that is of h
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   by rg111 3y ago

   Showly. Syncs automatically to trakt.tv. There's also Letterboxd. I am thinking of just moving to a G-Sheets document.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   For me: 1. The Wire 2. Breaking Bad 3. DarK (German) 4. Halt and Catch Fire 5. Bosch Others- True Detective S01, S03, Westworld S01, Generation War (German), Happy Valley, Mindhunter, Mad Men, Silicon Valley, The Sopranos, The Fall, Band of
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   by rg111 3y ago

   What are the other four in your best five list? I really liked The Americans, too.
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   by rg111 3y ago

   I had this problem. But I bounced back and doing as expected in my life: 1. Read "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. Follow the guidelines as much as you can. 2. Exercising and meditating made me focus much better. Read "Mind Illumin
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Having a good circle of friends or being part of a serious book club. You form personal connections with people of similar taste. You get goos recommendations from such people. There are books mentioned inside books and movies that you like
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    by rg111 3y ago

    It has gotten more closed in its approach. I cannot download my own data anymore. And the UI was always bloated and clunky.
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Contrast lighting. For me, it was a strip of white LEDs fixed at the back of the monitor. Very comfortable for the eyes. You can also buy a 5$ table lamp and it away fron the monitor at the back of it.
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    by rg111 3y ago

    - Movies: Four Lions, The Other Guys - Music: I know these are considered classic, but not many people I know actually listen to these- Jazz from 50s/60s- especially Miles Davis and John Coltrane. - Books: Mind Illuminated by Culadasa
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Remote work has a number of advantages: 1. Climate- the amount of energy we need and emission of SOx and NOx reduces drastically. 2. Brain Drain- The brain drain of talented, cultural people from small towns to cities leaves those towns in
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Hi, why don't you try working with Indian publishers? When that book is published, you can try getting the same book published in the west. I have worked and known many Indian men and women in the US. They markedly are less prone to ra
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    by rg111 3y ago

    k-Means Clustering mainly. Also tSNE and PCA. I think it is safe to call PCA a kind of a clustering in chosen components space, although it is classified under dimensionality reduction techniques.
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Thanks to everyone who answered. And I now notice that autocorrect made Project -> Program. :/ I will keep a watch here for more responses.
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    by rg111 3y ago

    What about MEGA? Been using this way for years.
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    by rg111 3y ago

    I want to seriously invest some time into properly learn a functional language. My goals are simple- write small scripts, solve programming problems in sites like Codewars, Leetcode, Euler Program, etc. And yes, having the "functional
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Same goes for me. Blue light filtering + glasses make me feel comfortable and good. I don't care if it is placebo. I wear prescription glasses anyway, and I pay about ~5 bucks extra (two years per glass), and blue light filters are fre
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    by rg111 3y ago

    I have seen multiple studies, news, etc. saying this and also blue light filters, but I don't change anything. Because, blue light filter and blue light glasses do make my eyes much more comfortable . It might or might not improve sle
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    by rg111 3y ago

    When Buddhism arose and developed, India was a rich country. Much of the area was under King Bimbisara who was a powerful and just ruler. Crime was rare. Rule of law prevailed. Economic activities such as trade were booming. It was one of t
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    by rg111 3y ago

    I find those awfully long, very sparse, and not much bang (solid content) for the bucks (time spent). Two great funcprog resources that I know of are: 1. Functional Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton [0] 2. OCaml Programming: Correct +
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Best beginners' Discrete Math MOOC I have ever seen: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEAYkSg4uSQ2Wfc_l4QEZUSRd...
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    by rg111 3y ago

    The author would do himself a great service if he chooses some other resource for learning algorithms. CLRS isn't bad. It is meant for a reference, and it also assumes that you are taking the course in college with an instructor teachi
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    by rg111 3y ago

    > there is no path from the current Virgin Galactic launches to something that is not a very expensive space ride for rich people Lack of farsightedness in this thread is weird! Science doesn't work in a linear manner. When Ramanu
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    by rg111 3y ago

    > there are long term storage practices you can follow Can you please point me towards some resources?
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    by rg111 3y ago

    This was my first thought reading this article. I am not an expert and my knowledge is limited. When he mentions the prices of the wafers, does it come with the bad yields or without?
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    by rg111 3y ago

    AI is not just LLMs. As I keep mentioning on HN. AI is real results + hype as opposed to crypto of only hype. A computer of this size will be immensely useful for training Vision models very quickly, as well as other kinds of models. Why on
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    by rg111 3y ago

    Not that. You try the link that says Single Login. I use ZLib since before it was popular. So there was near zero risks of scam sites.