samvher

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Molly White: Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending [video](youtube.com)
8 points by samvher 2y ago|0 comments
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by samvher 2y ago
Seems like there might be some survivorship bias here, right? You teach students who made it to a top university because they thrived in the classical setup which is the most common one. Presumably your preferred teaching style aligning wel
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by samvher 2y ago
I am interested, would be happy to connect in whatever way works. My email is on my profile.
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Ask HN: Best of publicly available CS/engineering courses?
3 points by samvher 2y ago|0 comments
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by samvher 2y ago
> I always come back to AlphaFold [an AI system from Google DeepMind that computationally predicts protein structures]. In 75 years we figured out 10,000 protein structures; AlphaFold has figured out 200 million. If it were human, it wou
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by samvher 2y ago
What a terrible title for the content of the article. Only the first few paragraphs provide some support of it, but not directly but rather through linking out. Of course setting "shrinking the economy" as a goal isn't going
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by samvher 2y ago
For a long time already I've wanted to make the leap towards learning dependently typed programming, but I was never sure which language to invest in - they all seemed either very focused on just proofs (Coq, Lean) or just relatively f
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by samvher 2y ago
Why do you say that? I feel out of the loop
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by samvher 2y ago
> somebody who is actually 'the most capable and most effective' will simply be running their own business, why would they waste time climbing the ranks Maybe I'm being naive, but I think a large part of running a successf
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by samvher 2y ago
There's still some really good stuff out there. I just finished the General Chemistry courses on EdX and they're really good (with a very quiet discussion forum that's still visited by MIT staff). The Finance MicroMasters was
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by samvher 2y ago
“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you
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by samvher 2y ago
It has pros and cons, like anywhere :) If there's specific things you want to know, feel free to email me at the address in my profile.
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by samvher 2y ago
My impression is mostly the same, but to add to the point about embarassment, native speakers will often not correct adults making mistakes in their language (and avoid showing that a mistake was made) while the same person would correct a
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by samvher 2y ago
I'm Dutch, my girlfriend is Croatian, we speak English to each other, we live in Costa Rica where my daughter goes to school as well. I speak Dutch to my daughter. My girlfriend speaks Croatian to her. My daughter goes to school in Spa
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by samvher 2y ago
This hurts to read. At my previous employer I more or less carried the technical part of the organization, but also had strong opinions about high level strategy and equity (in terms of pay distribution across staff). In my defense, it was
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by samvher 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperRogue (not exactly the effect in the video you responded to, but similar category)
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by samvher 2y ago
I don't know where you are in your journey, but I found these resources very helpful to better understand digital logic and CPU/GPU architecture: 1. https://learn.saylor.org/course/CS301 2. https:/&#x2F
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by samvher 3y ago
I also think there might be more of a heat gradient in the moka itself, i.e. the upper compartment including the vertical tube might end up with a lower temperature throughout the process.
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by samvher 3y ago
Yale has an online course "Listening to Music" that covers quite a bit of music theory. I quite enjoyed it: https://online.yale.edu/courses/listening-music
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by samvher 3y ago
Just tried out his suggestions combined with some of the comments there (what I tried: put boiling water in the moka to start, pre-heat my electric stove while preparing the moka, use a full but not overly full basket, and avoid sputtering
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by samvher 3y ago
I'm in the last course of my third micromasters now so I guess I can share some perspective and experiences here. I completed the Data, Economics and Development Policy one around 2019 and it definitely contributed to a job / care
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by samvher 3y ago
Just to clarify, not my project! :)
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by samvher 3y ago
Different Sam! :)
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by samvher 3y ago
Sure: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
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by samvher 3y ago
> 4. Teach changes of variables This has been something that always seems a bit magical to me, when someone comes up with an obscure change of variables that completely simplifies the problem. I'd love to learn this in a more struct
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by samvher 3y ago
I had the same positive experience with Software Foundations. There is another book somewhat derived from it (if I understand correctly) using Agda instead of Coq: https://plfa.github.io/ I haven't had the chance to go
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by samvher 3y ago
What are the footguns you've run into with D-optimal designs?
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by samvher 3y ago
I'm in biotech (as a software engineer/data scientist) and here this stuff is used a lot. Experiments are very hands on and expensive in terms of inputs so you want to be efficient with your use of them. Bayesian approaches (e.g.
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by samvher 3y ago
I thought I was pretty statistically literate, but learned a couple of new things here in the discussion, and this was not a tool that I would have thought of using before (now, in certain situations, I might think of it).
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by samvher 3y ago
This is so recognizable! I also got a strong interest in programming 1998/1999-ish and also had only a Mac at home. I emailed the guy who authored a chess application (his email was in the splash screen) over our dial up connection. He

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