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by rpedela 9y ago
The problem with going around talking about a startup having the potential to be a $1T business is that no current Fortune 500 business is worth that much including Facebook and Google which have your business model. Therefore you look like
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by rpedela 9y ago
Here is some constructive criticism for your pitch. * It needs to be specific on what you are building. The Stripe blog post talks about that and gives good examples. * Avoid flowery prose like your first sentence, and "BTW speak"
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by rpedela 9y ago
Thank you for adding some nuance. So then would OpenGL be an OOP API?
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> If you have an implicit interface then you are implicitly doing OOP. Are you saying that having a set of functions is an implicit interface and therefore every program ever written that contains a set of functions is implicitly doing O
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by rpedela 9y ago
The functions are the interface. Just because the interface isn't formalized by a class or "interface" definition doesn't mean there isn't an interface.
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by rpedela 9y ago
I have a dog allergy and I would like to clear up a common misconception. Shedding dogs are usually worse, but hypoallergenic/non-shedding dogs can still cause allergic reactions. The difference is that there are less allergens in the
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by rpedela 9y ago
Some people don't like dogs. Some are scared of them. Some are allergic to them (like me). Yes it is a problem if everyone starts bringing their dogs everywhere made for people. I don't see anyone trying to bring their horse, cat,
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by rpedela 9y ago
For tabular data, I recommend using Duckling [1] which is a regex-based approach to data classification and it supports multiple languages. If you only need English, then Stanford CoreNLP's SUTime [2] will also work. You can extend eit
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by rpedela 9y ago
I agree with you in general but I agree with parent about the use of the word pivot and its synonyms in this case. By using that word in an interview, you are signaling inexperience which the OP is trying to avoid.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Didn't the article say Google, not Schmidt, gave $21 million to the think tank?
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by rpedela 9y ago
Isn't Sublime free with a suggestion to pay?
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Maybe all of their current customers are on the enterprise plan?
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People generally make more money at big companies especially when you factor in 401k and healthcare benefits. However impact is lower at big companies for the average employee. If you want a job with a large impact and good/great money
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by rpedela 9y ago
Postgres has materialized views.
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by rpedela 9y ago
> Its text search solutions come close to ElasticSearch, with - surprisingly - even better performance. PG search may be good enough for certain use cases, but it doesn't come close to the power of Lucene/Solr/ES. PG only
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by rpedela 9y ago
"Dark matter" is a term that means there is a discrepancy between the observed mass in the universe and how much theory says there should be. One possible explanation, and the leading hypothesis, is that there is some form of matt
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by rpedela 9y ago
Article which talks about the black hole simulation in Interstellar: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-blac...
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by rpedela 9y ago
I have found CoreNLP to be the best library for POS tagging, NER, etc and Gensim for word vectors and summarization. Others have recommended Spacy, but I have found it to be inferior to CoreNLP.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Our life planet data set is an N=1 so we are searching what we know. It is certainly possible life is found on non-Earth-like planets and isn't carbon-based, however we don't have any examples so we don't know what to look fo
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by rpedela 9y ago
March 2016 is pretty new, and I am happy for the repost because I didn't see it the first time and it is a very interesting idea.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Not really, not at the level necessary to rule out the existence of life. Both Jupiter and Saturn have moons that may have life based on our current understanding of life and its origins. And Mars may still have life that we haven't fo
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by rpedela 9y ago
Late to the party. As a search practioner, a formal proof would not convince me so I don't think sales would become a breeze with one. I am interested in performance but I am more interested in relevance. In my experience, sub-second p
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by rpedela 9y ago
It appears to do the vector similarity part but not the vector creation part and therefore not a gensim replacement. Am I missing something?
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by rpedela 9y ago
Is there any value to the code in failed attempts or do you just want a log of things you have tried? If the former, you could try a single experiment branch and use tags to denote different experiments. Add a tag when you finish an experim
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by rpedela 9y ago
That phrase is VC talk for no.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Has there been any progress on supporting 64-bit integers?
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by rpedela 9y ago
Great advice! Why not say that in the first place instead of shooting down the idea of a demo/portfolio? I think advice on the right kind of demo/portfolio is exactly what the OP needs, in addition to the other great advice you ga
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by rpedela 9y ago
I came to say the very same thing. There may still be problems with using SKIP LOCKED but it appears the core problem mentioned in the blog post would be solved by it.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Unless the demo is hello world level, relevant demos are almost always a net positive. They show passion and initiative. Given two candidates being the same, the one with the demo wins. Given ten candidates, the one with a demo is going to
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by rpedela 9y ago
Why is it "risky"? Pretty strong word to use to mean they may not impress the interviewer. Besides relevant demos are almost always good in my experience.

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