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by stedalus 8y ago
Julia Hirschberg gave a keynote at this year's EMNLP on this topic. Short answer was that ML can do better than trained humans in some cases, but very far from "almost any". I don't think EMNLP has posted talk videos yet
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by stedalus 8y ago
This is pretty good advice overall. One small change I suggest is to take it easy on Design Patterns and the like. I’ve seen people in OPs position (general smarts but limited production experience) turn into architecture astronauts and sta
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by stedalus 9y ago
Click is nice, but for my money, Fire is what Click should have been. https://github.com/google/python-fire
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by stedalus 9y ago
Tesla is the only major manufacturer using induction motors that I know of. Everyone else is using synchronous motors with permanent magnets.
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by stedalus 9y ago
Your Python example doesn't really support your argument. Python succeeded for data analysis and scientific computing in part because it provided easy access to existing numerical libraries written in C and Fortran. So you got the best
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by stedalus 10y ago
I was once a physicist and I never understood it either. Maybe because a lot of software they produce is a blob of code?
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by stedalus 10y ago
Still much denser. Around 150 ft^2 per employee. https://www.google.com/search?q=square+ft+per+employee
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by stedalus 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...
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by stedalus 10y ago
To be fair to Zakarin, the finish is substantially steeper than the section Peter was on, and he had just spent the 30 minutes on the rivet to get the stage win.
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by stedalus 11y ago
There's a difference between "restricted stock" and RSUs. The first means you get all the stock up front but it has a buyback provision that goes away over a vesting schedule. The second means actual shares are released over
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by stedalus 11y ago
Or if the option grant has early exercise.