septimus111

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by septimus111 1y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience.
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by septimus111 2y ago
There is adverse selection at play. The top/world-class programmers are too busy to write blogs.
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by septimus111 4y ago
What annoys me about using Apple products recently is the glitches. When I scroll up to find very old messages on my iPhone, it randomly snaps back to the most recent message. Trying to edit text on a touchscreen is also still a nightmare i
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by septimus111 4y ago
Yes it could be that they got a bad review from someone else and retaliated on the wrong person. Where is the fun in not getting peeved by these things though? ;)
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by septimus111 4y ago
This is an excellent point! I suppose I could normalize by the number of total reviews. It hasn’t been an issue so far as I am only filtering out cases when there are multiple reports of the same issue, and I care more about eliminating bad
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by septimus111 4y ago
This is why there is such “grade inflation” in reviews. The way I read reviews is now: - look at the reviews with lowest ratings. They have the most signal (the walls were paper thin and the bathroom was dirty) as opposed to positive review
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by septimus111 4y ago
I had a non-masked Uber driver report me for not wearing a mask (I was wearing one). It was very strange, my guess is they didn’t like me for some reason and used the feature in a petty way…?
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by septimus111 4y ago
Any time I’ve looked into passive income, I’ve come to the same conclusion: the simplest and most effective way to increase my income is to focus my energy on improving my main career.
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by septimus111 5y ago
If you can't find someone to review your stuff, is there someone you can raise this with who might be able to help? It sounds like a management/communication issue.
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by septimus111 5y ago
Moka pots make great coffee but I found it really hard to get the brewing right - the most important factor was the grind size. If I change it even slightly, I get much worse results and unlike Aeropress there are fewer other variables to a
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by septimus111 5y ago
"Directness" is an excuse that I sometimes hear to justify aggressive or rude behaviour, but it's possible to be direct in a polite manner. "This new plan is stupid" is rude, whereas "I'm frustrated about
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by septimus111 6y ago
I have started unsubscribing to any subreddit the moment I notice a post is generating a negative emotion. Nowadays my feed is mostly woodworking, cooking and photography.
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by septimus111 6y ago
I would encourage everyone who struggles with procrastination to try CBT techniques as described in "Feeling Good" by Dr. Burns. These address the psychological reasons for procrastination directly.
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by septimus111 8y ago
CMU stats courses are stellar - especially this one, which was written by Cosma Shalizi, I believe
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by septimus111 9y ago
I agree - and what about all the high end bars/cafes/shops full in the same areas? Working at startups has become a relatively comfortable lifestyle for twenty-somethings who don't necessarily generate value.
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by septimus111 9y ago
From a pedagogical point of view, I think it's a very strange choice to go with gradient descent in this case. It makes linear regression look like something much more complicated than it actually is. People might be misled into thinki
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by septimus111 9y ago
This is a great article. One thing I can particularly relate to is when working on a 'blue sky' project, how easy it is to rationalise away the obvious red flags and keep going until everything falls apart. When one has invested a
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by septimus111 9y ago
I spent a lot of time messing with PDEs as a student but sadly that knowledge hasn't been very useful - I've only seen them come up in quite specialised areas like optical flow...
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by septimus111 9y ago
This is a great list of the main concepts to know.
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by septimus111 9y ago
These are all brilliant books, but I feel like anyone who is ready for them wouldn't need to be asking this question.
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by septimus111 9y ago
Not knowing anything about you, I'll assume that - you are starting with the equivalent of a high school level of maths - you want to take a ML course or read an ML book without feeling totally lost As some commenters have said, Calcul
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by septimus111 9y ago
This is something I want to believe, but history shows us that scientific progress often comes with the loss of traditional, magical views of the Self and of the universe which are taken for granted: Newton "unweaved the rainbow",
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by septimus111 9y ago
I agree that it's a shame our society doesn't place more importance on these 'grand visions'. That being said, I think the reason so many people are learning programming and studying computing is because there are big co
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by septimus111 9y ago
I think we are going to see a lot of interesting artistic applications of AR. There is a lot about FB that I don't like but this here is a good thing.
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by septimus111 9y ago
This is just entertainment - hardly anything to get depressed about. What's so terrible about giving people a bit of joy and fun?
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by septimus111 9y ago
So much cynicism here! Facebook knows they have to appeal to teenagers and so they are working on features that do (c.f. success of Snapchat). Yes, perhaps it would be better if teenagers spent their time reading Kant instead of sharing sil
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by septimus111 9y ago
Thank you. It's just too convenient a time isn't it?
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by septimus111 9y ago
Ummm... I'm sure Uber's PR team had absolutely nothing to do with this article ;)
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by septimus111 9y ago
That does surprise me, in a good way! My concern, aside from salary, would be job security - in London it's possible to find a new job within days... I will look into Edinburgh :)
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by septimus111 9y ago
Well yeah, his contributions are immeasurable, my argument is more about the social utility of placing the money there.

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