sun_n_surf

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by sun_n_surf 7y ago
Came here to say this. What fantasy world are these guys living in? Most people I know barely get weekends to themselves, what with work being pushed passive aggressively through WhatsApp. And no, it is not a choice. For every person who de
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by sun_n_surf 7y ago
What do you mean available here? I can't see a link to the book?
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by sun_n_surf 7y ago
Of all the things that I thought I would never see on HN. However, this is a technical review, and needs an advanced formal economics education to appreciate.
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by sun_n_surf 7y ago
Hey man, I am like 35 and alone all the time.
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by sun_n_surf 7y ago
I actually have a different problem -- not sure it is one that I can legally solve. I have 10 years of lovingly curated YouTube videos playlists, which, now when I look into the older ones, are a barren wasteland of "Video removed&quot
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by sun_n_surf 8y ago
Open roles for Azure & GCP might remain open for longer because of lower supply and poorer matching, not because of higher positions being searched for. The AWS talent market probably clears more easily given that it has existed longer.
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by sun_n_surf 9y ago
Not more of this pearl-clutching sensationalist reporting. India has shown no signs (any more than before) of the Hindu nationalism that was supposed to sweep the nation once Modi came to power. He is no more Hindu nationalist than Shashi &
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by sun_n_surf 9y ago
Ba dum tiss
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by sun_n_surf 9y ago
Least squares, gradient descent and linear regression separately? I get that he wants to point out the profundity and universality of the ideas encompassed in those techniques (& models; least squares and gradient descent are rightly th
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
This is not as bad as it sounds. You need to consider the absolute numbers than the relative percentages for languages like C++. Programming is more accessible than ever before, more jobs require some element of programming than ever before
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
Lol, it's a trap. I get an untrusted certificate.
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
Netflix is now basically an OTT TV channel. This puts to rest the content aggregation platform model for video which, unlike music, is highly differentiated with higher cost, which rules out commoditization. This basically reduces online vi
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
`C CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA` I laughed way harder at this that it warranted.
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
Not sure I quite understand your math here. The largest R3 instance is the r3.8xlarge with 244 GB of memory. 4 times of that would only get you to 1 TB. Also, this: "DRAM is valuable precisely because of its speed", is wrong ( htt
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by sun_n_surf 10y ago
Ah, Noah "I didn't get kicked out of academia for not producing research and being a low-brow blog hack, I left because SFO" Smith.
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by sun_n_surf 11y ago
Time series econometrics on HN? Wow. I have a PhD in Econometrics too. I have met her at seminars and she is a wonderful lady with some good quality publications. But this is a fluff piece and she doesn't have any seminal contributions