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specproc
4y ago
In all seriousness, isn't the whole point of the beta (besides marketing) to identify and prune behaviours that are undesirable from a corporate perspective? This will inevitably result in reduced functionality.
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4y ago
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
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4y ago
I used to work in the humanitarian sector, which is frankly a complete shit-show. I once was drinking with our local EU humanitarian representative, a grizzled veteran of many missions. It's his job to oversee projects running on EU mo
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4y ago
I've already had the SEO guy at work ask me how we might go about influencing model output. What a time to be alive.
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4y ago
A key component is project management, which is a job which requires a considerable amount of engagement, technical understanding, people skills and financial savvy. I was effectively the PM for our renovation, and it turns out I suck at en
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4y ago
Big range. Could get them for a quid in Bradford in the early 00s, I heard the nineties were a lot more expensive though that was before my time. Obviously they were all way better back in't day.
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4y ago
Miniature painting. 3D printing is totally revolutionising everything, it's a really cool time to be into the hobby. I also just had the best new years I've had in ages. Bunch of old friends in a rural house. Loads of food, modera
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4y ago
This is very well-written. I often struggle with formal explanations of complex and abstract ideas, but the author is getting this across very well. Good stuff.
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4y ago
This works really nicely for clustering in NLP pipelines.
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4y ago
Aye, but for the average internet user, these spaces are very important. I'd also argue that the point holds primarily for search, Google has been pretty much crippled by junk content. There's very much a point here.
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Soviet Console Restoration
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4y ago
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specproc
4y ago
We got six moves in to the Kings before it started giving wrong moves.
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specproc
4y ago
I've given it drugs, it quite liked it.
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specproc
4y ago
I guess they must have changed something in the matrix. I swear to god my output had my name.
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4y ago
Aye, this is what I was thinking.
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4y ago
Thankfully none of this is even close to my resume.
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4y ago
$ pdftotext -layout Resume.pdf output.txt $MYNAME Email: my.name@email.com Summary A motivated and detail-oriented software engineer with experience in web development and data analysis. Skills
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4y ago
$ pdfinfo Resume.pdf Title: $MYNAME Resume Subject: Keywords: Author: $MYNAME Creator: LaTeX with hyperref package Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.19 CreationDate: Sun Mar 1 16:44:34 2020 ModDate: Sun Mar 1 16:4
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4y ago
I just ran pdfinfo on ~/Documents/Resume.pdf. It had my name on it, that's messed up.
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4y ago
I had an imaginary night out with it.
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specproc
4y ago
Yeah, this. Such a cool and interesting scene.
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specproc
4y ago
Has anyone actually played this? Like, really played it. I've tried a couple of times and never got that far. I'm in awe from one perspective, but not entirely sure what of, from another.
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4y ago
Yeah, me and 4 others and 40K, at 40.
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specproc
4y ago
Nah, professionals for sure. Think Panama Papers type stuff. Though there are volunteering opportunities through orgs like datakind.
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specproc
4y ago
Reliefweb is the humanitarian one, idealist is a decent general one, charityjob is the big UK one. Lots of stuff on normal national job boards though, I tend to filter for it.
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4y ago
Yeah, I guess with any sort of organisation, corporate, academic, non-profit or otherwise, there's a tonne of variety. I've mainly been a non-profit boy, some have been great, others a completely shit-show. I'm European, and
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4y ago
Non-profits are very different to corporate environments. Not without their own issues and bullshit, and less well-paid, but considerably more easy going and potentialy a lot more fun. Some people like the idea of doing something meaningful
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4y ago
Yeah, most of the academics I know are miserable. I'd still love to do a PhD sometime, but without feeling the need to turn it into an academic career.
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4y ago
I went the other way, started in the charity sector then moved into tech, well, tech roles in non-profits. Totally get the impulse, and also why "doing meaningful work like supporting freedom on country X" doesn't appeal. Wha
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4y ago
Aye, moving somewhere brighter -- also from the UK -- completely dealt with it for me. Getting a dog also helps a lot. I'm required by a sacred and ancient inter-species oath to be out of the house for a minimum amount of time every da
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