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by st1x7 6y ago
- For knowledge-base organisation - Obsidian. It's a nice program and it works with markdown files with some nice features like a graph view and support for LaTeX equations. I don't need to access these notes on my phone/tabl
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by st1x7 6y ago
Lex's podcast needs a special cut which includes only the guest's part of each conversation.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Probably has already It's a variation on the transporter problem from Star Trek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI
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by st1x7 6y ago
Even in the science fiction version of this, we're still talking about a copy. It's not you, you can't leave your body or be uploaded. It's just a digital copy that looks like you.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Very low estimate. I would be surprised if the actual number is less than 90% men.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Mostly men with a large margin between the genders. That's probably the most accurate answer you're going to get out of this. Looking at some tech surveys like stackoverflow for example, the ratio is roughly 10:1. You could argue
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by st1x7 6y ago
- there is a lot more to programming than CRUD and frontend - you're putting algorithms and data structures in the same basket as mathematics - algorithms and data strucutures are useful in pretty much any programming job including CRU
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Besides hoping that other people will also buy bitcoins and raise the price Look, you can't just limit our options like this.
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by st1x7 6y ago
The Economist
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by st1x7 6y ago
Give OP a moment to say hi before trying to convert them to the cult.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Harvard's CS50 course is by far the best complete-beginner resource - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T381L3iZyDTxR... It's completely free, it's accessible for people from various backgrounds,
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by st1x7 6y ago
1. Be extremely skilled at a fairly narrow domain that hasn't been explored very well. 2. Work hard on the project for a continuous period of time. 3. Be fortunate enough to have picked something that the rest of the world wants. And t
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by st1x7 6y ago
I think that you need a 7-8 hour work day to extract the 4-5 fully productive hours. You can't just tell people to do the 4 good hours and skip the rest.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Thanks for the response. I already work as a data scientist (no PhD, big company, a couple of years experience) and I'm much closer to the no-original-research software-team type of work. My thinking has been similar to what you descri
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by st1x7 6y ago
I require an explanation for the these red and green colors showing up on the 25th of December! Merry Christmas HN. :)
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Ask HN: Data Scientist without a PhD?
9 points by st1x7 6y ago|10 comments
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by st1x7 6y ago
> all in the marketing speak of "security" while the real reason is to better spy on its users Not really. Apple's vice is the tendency to lock down their platforms too much and we're seeing this with the new laptops;
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't know if this generalizes across the company. They still have brilliant technical people, some of the best ML researchers, have open-sourced increbidly popular and influential frameworks like React and PyTorch. Just because thei
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by st1x7 6y ago
I remember reading the subreddit in early February and questioning how much of what I'm seeing is legit and how much is the hivemind just blowing things out of proportion.
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by st1x7 6y ago
There is something of a resurgance lately since The Queen's Gambit came out on Netflix.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't know about this one. The special effects didn't age well, the plot and characters are generic, the overall message is too much on the nose, there's the word "unobtanium"... it's not great.
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by st1x7 6y ago
True. I was around 9 when I got into HP and 15 when the last book came out so it hit me right at the appropriate age where the books get slightly more serious as you grow up but you're still a kid who is into the book universe. The lor
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Rust Man, so many features and the syntax is so heavily annotated and the subjective feeling that everything you interact with is some vaguely defined overcomplicated computer science concept ("what you get back from this function
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's okay, the answers are different from reddit's answers and people are a bit more relaxed around the holidays so chatting about random stuff feels appropriate for a bit.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Dialogue audio was weirdly quiet That's Nolan for you. His sound quality (there is probably a more precise word for this) is appalling. A lot of the music in Interstellar is too loud while the dialogue is hard to make out. Same wi
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by st1x7 6y ago
Yes, they tried to end the show a couple of times but the last-last episode is lovely.
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by st1x7 6y ago
From wikipedia: > Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Examples from Deathly Hallows. Having no idea how to proceed
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by st1x7 6y ago
That's not an excuse for sloppy writing though. Even a book about magic needs a level of consistency within its own universe and when the quality is above a certain level, I'm prepared to suspend disbelief and go along with the st
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Man... there is way too much deus ex machina at every plot point of that book to give it any credit. If you have the end of the 6th book as a starting point and the end of series that Rowling had in
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by st1x7 6y ago
I was checking the live results page more times an hour than is reasonable for someone who isn't American and doesn't live in the US.

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