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by skadamat 10y ago
This is a somewhat relevant read - https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-slow-decay-of-americas... Basically discussed shift from discussion in politics about democracy to economics.
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by skadamat 10y ago
Also try out Figma. Switched to it a few months ago and it's been mostly awesome (some meh stuff like shoddy offline support)
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Stitch Fix Algorithms Tour(algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com)
5 points by skadamat 10y ago|0 comments
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by skadamat 10y ago
I'm guessing Greg means handling a problem / process end to end. Not saying "I'll just do the initial phone screens when recruiting candidates" but just doing the whole thing without passing the buck to someone else
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by skadamat 10y ago
Many have gotten research engineer jobs (vs. research scientist). Check out the profiles of research engineers at places like Apple, Facebook, and OpenAI. Knowing deep learning is an advantage in these roles even if the job is primarily sof
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by skadamat 10y ago
Hey I work at Dataquest (dataquest.io) and we have a lot of intermediate & advanced Python content. It's all done through an in-browser coding environment which lets us do answer checking and so on.
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by skadamat 10y ago
It's pretty well documented that people at SpaceX work 80+ hours a week consistently: https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-a-week-does-a-typical-S... http://spacenews.com/op-ed-3-things-to-know-if-you-w
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by skadamat 10y ago
Super cool! I used to use Taskforce and actually cold emailed you way back in the day (4 years ago?) back when I didn't know much about web development!
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Interactive Tool for Training Neural Networks(aetros.com)
1 points by skadamat 10y ago|0 comments
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by skadamat 10y ago
Ha you should watch Thiels talk at SXSW on luck, just to get the whole picture / his context.
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How to Make a Slack Bot That Apartment Hunts for You(sf.curbed.com)
1 points by skadamat 10y ago|0 comments
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by skadamat 10y ago
Technically, at HARC - https://blog.ycombinator.com/harc
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by skadamat 10y ago
They collaborate together at YCR / HARC!
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Interview with Hashicorp’s Seth Vargo on Managing Secrets Better(softwareengineeringdaily.com)
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Building a data science portfolio: Storytelling with data(dataquest.io)
5 points by skadamat 10y ago|0 comments
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Download Panama Papers Dataset(offshoreleaks.icij.org)
1 points by skadamat 10y ago|0 comments
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How to work with large JSON datasets using Python and Pandas(dataquest.io)
3 points by skadamat 11y ago|0 comments
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How to Compare Databases(softwareengineeringdaily.com)
2 points by skadamat 11y ago|0 comments
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by skadamat 11y ago
Wow this is incredible! Super fun :)
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by skadamat 11y ago
hey, you're missing a link / email addres!
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Human-Computer Symbiosis at Stitch Fix, a Top Data Science Startup(dataquest.io)
2 points by skadamat 11y ago|0 comments
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by skadamat 11y ago
I've found Apple Music to be better at music discovery & recommendation but Spotify to still have a superior product (iTunes is a mess now)
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by skadamat 11y ago
Watson doesn't have much unique computer vision capabilities unfortunately. They did some good work in NLP a decade ago but not added much since
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by skadamat 11y ago
Agreed, but I liked that he walked through the reasoning and the processes that inform that conclusion. The more something looks like a mystery, the less we understand it / the less scientific it really is.
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by skadamat 11y ago
So maybe the reporting was off :)
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by skadamat 11y ago
Not sure how this is visual, neat post either way!
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by skadamat 11y ago
Don't be disappointed! I think the point of this call to action is to raise awareness and keep the discussion going, not to mention every single solution.
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by skadamat 11y ago
I think this is exactly Bret's point that he makes in the essay. Citizens aren't empowered to find out for themselves and are instead asks to trust smart people: "And why trust them? Their rhetoric is catchy, but so is the ho
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by skadamat 11y ago
Spot on!
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by skadamat 11y ago
If you liked those interactions, I'd check out the iPad app Al Gore / Bret worked on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-edAGLokak

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