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by steev 7y ago
Do you have any thoughts on a 32" 4k? I am struggling to decide if I should go with an ultrawide or just a standard 32"
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by steev 7y ago
It is not true at all. I have a family where I am the one primarily taking care of the (very young) kids (wife works long hours) and I have a job. I find time to keep my skills sharp. If you take 15-30min a day, every day, you will have no
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by steev 7y ago
It is far from saying that. At best it's more like saying a car mechanic should understand how a car works (e.g., how does an internal combustion engine work) even though most car mechanics spend 80% of their time changing oil, oil fil
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by steev 7y ago
Agreed. I didn't finish the article. I was hoping the author would tell me what "show, don't tell" means, why it is said, and maybe even an example. I have a guess of what it means, but as this is the first time I have e
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by steev 7y ago
This is great for researchers in Africa and the surrounding area, but it seems a simpler solution would be for the CS community to move towards placing greater weight on journals, rather than conferences (like just about all other disciplin
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by steev 7y ago
GPU parallelism is highly specialized and requires very specific workloads (e.g., many linear algebra workloads). GPUs are a bad choice for general parallelized tasks.
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by steev 7y ago
You are correct.
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by steev 7y ago
I would say for technical interviews you should stick with LeetCode. Project Euler is more mathematics oriented.
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by steev 7y ago
Legitimate question: then what does good Go code that is written by good Go programmers do/look like? Wrap `err` in `errors.New("some function failed", err)`?
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Ask HN: Why do people use TM when talking about non-trademarked terms?
1 points by steev 7y ago|1 comments
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by steev 7y ago
You are very lucky. I had three students in my office hours recently and of the four of us, all with butterfly keyboard MacBook Pros (some with the updated keyboards), three of us have had keyboard issues such as the spacebar double registe
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by steev 8y ago
It is complete nonsense and indicates to me the OP doesn't really understand the field as well as they think. As someone who has gone through all the exams, the upper-level exams test aspects of the industry in incredible depth and is
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by steev 8y ago
I think a better comparison in situations like these is to look at the cost of buying a house. While renting may be the norm in places like SF and NYC, in the midwest the norm for people making a good living is buying a house. I imagine the
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by steev 8y ago
I have not gone to graduate school at a place like MIT or Harvard, but I have done graduate work at both a top 30 and a top 60 school. There was absolutely a difference in quality of research, professors, and coursework at both schools (STE
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by steev 8y ago
I'm not the OP, but I can say that pursuing anything where you have to spend large amounts of time learning on your own to achieve a deep understanding of a topic gives you valuable learning skills. I find people from these paths typic
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by steev 8y ago
Are you asking the OP if they automate bill pay or are you trying to say you use automatic bill pay?
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by steev 9y ago
I'm guessing the kids want the notifications and the mom doesn't want to go in and modify the setting in all the apps across all the phones (I sure wouldn't). I think an easier approach would be to simply put them into do not
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by steev 9y ago
I mentioned this to my wife (who is a doctor) and her response was basically "no duh." She said they learned about this in med school. Her explanation was that this is typically happening to people who rarely exercise and then all
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by steev 9y ago
Do you have any recommendations on sources to read about this? Everything I've read discusses the use of the Hessian to not only determine you are at a saddle point but to also use its eigenvalues to escape.
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by steev 9y ago
This is correct - second order methods are great in theory, but they are generally computationally prohibitive for high dimensional problems.
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by steev 9y ago
The parent explicitly refers to Netflix, not "nf" or "Nf". You might say it was clear from context, but for at least two people that read the comment it was not at all clear. It's not a big deal, I'm just alway
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by steev 9y ago
I agree - all the talk about "this is the end of the internet as we know it" makes it really hard to understand what is _really_ going on. I get the sense a lot of the rhetoric I see on reddit and hn are people reading blog posts
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by steev 9y ago
I know this is a little off track from the pertinent argument, but why abbreviate Netflix? You aren't saving any time in typing out your response and it can only serve to confuse the reader (I also had no clue what Nf meant).
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by steev 9y ago
I would roughly classify them based on use cases: * If you are working on research such as optimization or other improvements on the algorithms of training neural networks, PyTorch is a better option as it is (in my experience) much more un
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by steev 9y ago
I agree that practice is equally important, but you certainly need to have an understanding of the material and what is going on prior to implementing something or working through a proof.
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by steev 9y ago
It will likely have a negative impact on your initial job search; however, once you get a job it will become irrelevant. A lot of times HR systems filter out candidates below a certain GPA threshold. As a hiring manager, the low GPA would s
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by steev 9y ago
This is specifically addressed in the article at the bottom as a note.
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by steev 9y ago
Proof-heavy papers can take days or weeks to understand. It takes multiple reads, working through the math on scrap paper, and frequently discussing proofs with colleagues. My process is generally to read through the paper a couple of times
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by steev 9y ago
1. Type of problems I'd be working on 2. Whether or not the company allows remote workers 3. Salary range
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by steev 9y ago
Certainly it varies by field, I don't know a whole lot of English PhDs in industry, but are a multitude of industry jobs require STEM PhDs (e.g, research positions, quant positions in finance, etc.). Whether you agree those positions

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