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by smus 5y ago
Have you studied math? No mathematician would call algebraic topology discrete math, nor for that matter almost anything else on that list.
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by smus 5y ago
>Is it wrong to use my gpu playing video games all day, or is the moral panic only applying to certain uses of computers? Is it wrong for you to leave a warehouse full of computers idling to play a computer game? Yes. This is one of the
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by smus 5y ago
Jesus, glad to hear. Will certainly never work at Atlassian.
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by smus 5y ago
If you aren't at least living in a comfortable 1 bedroom apartment in a desirable location while contributing 30-40k in savings every year off 150k, you are seriously mismanaging your finances. I guess 150k is scraping by if you blow 5
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by smus 7y ago
>On climate BA might win on paper, but personally I like to have actual seasons. Nice, I've lived in both and Chicago winters made me want to kill myself. If all else was equal I'd pay significant sums to live in the Bay Area s
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by smus 7y ago
Yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me there's a better way to move large quantities of people than each one sitting on the highway in their own personal metal box
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by smus 7y ago
I would suppose that packing people into high density housing is great for efficient distribution of goods, and seeing as dense megacities support great public transit I would wager that this is clearly better for the environment than the a
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by smus 7y ago
>You'd have to start you commute previous day to get to the office by the morning. Or, you know, build actual public transit
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by smus 8y ago
Hacker news jumps at any opportunity to write off ML
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by smus 8y ago
To be fair to the above it's a pretty central factoid that is mentioned more than a few times, but yes, I agree with you.
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by smus 8y ago
I think the dumb part that no one's talking about is it's a competitive game. It'd be like saying "the Eagles beat football to take the superbowl."
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by smus 8y ago
You'd be surprised, the Melee scene is fairly old on average. I compete regularly and I'd be shocked if even 5% of the scene is younger than Melee.
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by smus 8y ago
What? AlphaGo doesn't use ANY human data. And computers are performing better than humans on image recognition tasks.
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by smus 8y ago
And programmers exist at the mercy of farmers. What's your point?