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by rrwright 5y ago
thatDot | Remote | Full Time | https://www.thatdot.com The project you'd work on: https://quine.io Distributed Systems Engineers: Mid- and Senior- Levels Director of Engineering thatDot has created the world fir
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by rrwright 5y ago
thatDot | Remote | Full Time | https://www.thatdot.com The project you'd work on: https://quine.io Distributed Systems Engineers: Mid- and Senior- Levels Director of Engineering thatDot has created the world fir
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by rrwright 5y ago
thatDot | Remote | Full Time | https://www.thatdot.com TL;DR: https://that.re/tldr Deeper Tech: https://www.thatdot.com/technology Distributed Systems Engineers: Mid- and Senior- Levels that
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by rrwright 5y ago
thatDot | Remote | Full Time | https://www.thatdot.com TL;DR: https://that.re/tldr Deeper Tech: https://www.thatdot.com/technology Distributed Systems Engineers: Mid- and Senior- Levels that
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by rrwright 5y ago
For guidance on this topic, I’d recommend the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. I think the relevant part of the book would advise that loving what you do requires sticking with it long enough to develop mastery; and the opposite pattern of
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Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02
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I realize he’s writing from the Thomist tradition, and so his peers let him get away with such things… but assuming platonic essences exists and are simply given to our minds, and then using that to base the argument for how an intellect ap
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by rrwright 5y ago
So far, “Turing’s Cathedral” by George Dyson is the best von Neumann biography I’ve found—though it’s not explicitly a biography of him, but of the development of the computer (and the Princeton IAS). It includes lots of other characters wh
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by rrwright 5y ago
I’m the creator of thatDot Connect [1], a distributed asynchronous streaming graph interpreter, where we’ve been working on exactly this problem for about 7 years now. Scalable distributed graph processing has so many applications! We were
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by rrwright 5y ago
Before the pandemic, I would walk 45 minutes to and from the office each day. It was magnificent time to think. I’d often leave the office thinking about a thorny technical problem, and on the way home, inspiration would strike. That happen
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by rrwright 5y ago
I've found this python library helpful for thinking about how to use/convert categorical data to numeric data: https://contrib.scikit-learn.org/category_encoders/
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thatDot | Remote | Full Time | https://www.thatdot.com TL;DR: https://that.re/tldr We're hiring backend and frontend software engineers. We have built new capabilities for categorical anomaly detection and
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by rrwright 6y ago
A recommendation for the book. It was excellent.
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by rrwright 6y ago
Act 3 Scene 1 of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare: https://www.sparknotes.c
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by rrwright 6y ago
Website link: https://depict.ai/
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction(worrydream.com)
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The `say` command line tool. It will cause a synthesized voice to speak out loud whatever follows that command via text-to-speech. This is especially useful for pranking your loved ones for whom you have remote shell access. ssh in and caus
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by rrwright 6y ago
I strongly agree with this recommendation. And though it isn’t meant to be related, I think of “Decoding Reality” by Vlatko Vedral as being a spiritual successor and deeper dive into information theory (from a theoretical physicist’s point
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by rrwright 7y ago
Akka is what you’re looking for: https://akka.io/ It is very deliberately inspired by Erlang and used widely in JVM applications.
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Pentagon DoD contracts — Jedi.
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by rrwright 7y ago
Maybe. Almost nothing is straightforward about fair use.
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"This means that the production of nucleotides is essential to keep cells young," Delfarah said. "It also means that if we could prevent cells from losing nucleotide synthesis, the cells might age more slowly." Am I the
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by rrwright 7y ago
Reminds me of this poetic data visualization: https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HJFYm4uQ-
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From the abstract: “Statistically significant results were more likely than nonsignificant findings to be published in the study abstract than in only the full text (P < 0.0001).“