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by screye 4y ago
That's like asking if a CS101 course is useful. It is unlikely that you could build a major product with it, but it could tech you neat tricks to speed up some parts of work. Also, similar to cs101, it is a necessary first step towards
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by screye 4y ago
> I can't trust myself. Cause: I'm simply incapable of doing things I've set out to do. My ADHD alarms were going off right as I saw this. It is exactly how I characterized my struggles with ADHD too. If anything, I have h
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by screye 4y ago
I makes sense to completely disregard language when looking at modern NLP solutions. In some sense, 'hand engineering' anything is looked down upon. Transformers and scaling laws have made it such that the only thing that truly ma
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by screye 4y ago
I am a big fan of Murphy's ML book [1]. [1] https://smile.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Machine-Learning-Intr... It covers almost all the math you'd need to start doing ML research. I find it to be the ideal 'one
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by screye 4y ago
I am going to address the elephant in the room. "[1.] Can a country train mediocre domestic performers to the productivity of the top 1% of other nations, while staying competitive?" OR "[1a.] Can America's 25th percenti
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by screye 4y ago
My intuition is that those are 3 of the select few companies that are not in a bubble. I would add Google and Amazon to that list too. They make insane amounts of money and continue growing at a steady pace. Apart from Facebook, they have a
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by screye 4y ago
> single day in Paris The 'Paris experience' famously does not scale to the rest of Western Europe. Getting mugged/fleeced by someone on day 1 in Paris is a ubiquitous experience that I have never heard be replicated anywh
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by screye 4y ago
> make the city centres safe, clean, friendly places Agreed. Exactly as most of the rest of the world has done. In the developing world (India, China) and the old west (Europe), cities are the place to be. They are safe, easy to get arou
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by screye 4y ago
It gets even more ridiculous if we try to use 'physical' differences. It then becomes about genes. Guess what ? Everyone who lives out of Africa has a common-ish ancestors as far as 80k years ago. So, Africans are significantly mo
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by screye 4y ago
The hiring process is racist all-right. But, the direction of that discrimination might not always align with the most commonly held intuitions.
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by screye 4y ago
What makes arbitrary geographic borders markers of diversity ? The language, religious practices, food, festivals and traditions change every 100 miles in India. It is an old civilization with as much or more diversity than all of Europe. S
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by screye 4y ago
I have come to realize that NYT is considered the newspaper of record, not because it is likely to be correct, but because they eventually change their stance to match the consensus. Their shift in reporting on the Rittenhouse case and LabL
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by screye 5y ago
I have resorted to find individual curators of vibrant anarchy. Reddit and Youtube are the most common sources. RedLetterMedia helps me find weird movies without any mainstream appeal. r/NearProg, r/ListenToThis and r/progmet
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by screye 5y ago
> to co-opt any emerging dissent and counter-culture almost immediately It has to do with the nature of the dissenters themselves. Nowadays they are politics / social media wannabees. When corporates coopot your movement, they make
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by screye 5y ago
Trying to play a broken game honestly, is a losing proposition. Social taboos get established to keep the winners winning. Go find yourself a gold digger. It is fine. Maybe go date women in cultures where 5.6 is not too short. Hell, I'
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by screye 5y ago
200X more matches 200 x 0 = 0 ;( Jokes aside, percieved attractiveness privilege is by far the most prominent form of discrimination in society today. (After wealth) Watching good.looking people coast through hard things purely
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by screye 5y ago
It also has to do with very few posts about genuinely ground breaking projects. I have personally found it rather difficult to tell the wheat from the chaff. If you have any suggestions on promising projects in the space then please do link
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by screye 5y ago
It is a fairly common problem. We extrapolate our perceptions of the world from our peer groups. I had to suppress my urge for saying I am underpaid at $200k, because my non-tech (still STEM) MIT & Harvard grad-student room-mates would
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by screye 5y ago
OP was nice enough to answer a pretty intimate question. You’re just insular We don't know this person personally, so it would be wrong to make assumptions about their communication. you’re not really any smarter You
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by screye 5y ago
Oh yes, I misspoke. > back down to normal I agree. By down, I meant going back to being 2-3% higher than inflation and not being literally 'free money' by being behind inflation. > Inflation is not in the interest of workers
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by screye 5y ago
> I make $4-500k as a software engineer in the midwest This is a massive outlier though. In your case, the exception proves the rule. The rule: "The 1% of Nurses that found a partner in the US top 1 percentile will be able to quit t
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by screye 5y ago
Not to be mean, but 'leave nursing' and then what ? Nursing is a well paying middle-class job without a lot of transferable skills to other professions. Don't say programming. It isn't the solution to everything. Other
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by screye 5y ago
FAANG companies have P/E ratios orders of magnitude higher than 'traditional' industries. They are expected to make a 'lot of money'. Making 'good money' will lead to stock crashes as we saw with Meta and
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by screye 5y ago
Speaking of a recession, I hope the recession isn't another massive redistribution of wealth into the hands of an older generation. Housing has continued shooting up, as those in the 30s find themselves with fewer assets to buy it with
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by screye 5y ago
> social distance created by a large IQ gap A few genuine questions. Have you found the gap to be self-imposed (the kind where you struggle to keep a conversation going with a stupid person) or is the result of projection by your peers (
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by screye 5y ago
I have been sceptical of online schools and will continue to be a sceptic. Khan Academy is one of the most competent organizations to try such a thing, but I deem the problem to be completely intractable. In person learning is about learnin
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by screye 5y ago
Calling Modi a hindu nationalist wipes out centuries of nuance from the Indian political conversation. Hinduism has been the only religion over multiple millenia to shelter a plurality of other religions relatively peacefully despite being
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by screye 5y ago
Desi here, like Tulsi more than Kamala. I'd say Kamala is more disliked than the average white person too, because she panders so incompetently. I have not heard great things about Pramila Jayapal either.
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by screye 5y ago
There is a truth to what both of you are saying. Because from what I know Kamala is disliked among both Indian citizens and Inner-city black communities.
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by screye 5y ago
I think this might be the best moment on HN, to talk about my my love of 'One Piece'. The highest selling comic-book by a single author of all time. The joy of exploration, 'cool' moments, downright insane attacks, frien

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