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by superbcarrot 6y ago
It's a mix of people having to cut their own hair for the first time and people who wondered what it would look like to shave it being able to do so with lower social risk during the pandemic.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Geron's book is good but the first half of it should be stuff that you already know from Coursera. Maybe try the PyTorch book - https://pytorch.org/assets/deep-learning/Deep-Learning-with-...
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Is Google's AI research about to implode? No. (For reference see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... ) Seriously though - even if the points in the article were true, none of them i
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Write it in Rust obviously.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
One of the things that pushed me to cut down on my reddit consumption was how often you see people complaining about rich people or the "billionaires shouldn't exist" sentiment. I find it both concerning and not very well tho
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I think that I agree with the overall sentiment but this > abject failure of this tactic over the past decades to help their cause There isn't a consistent "they" that have a cause. It's a sentiment that moves through
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
- Some people do think about it. - Some people aren't interested in that kind of life. - Some of the people who are interested don't have the aptitude for it. - Some of the people who are interested and have the aptitude, don&#x27
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
They trained a language model on twitter data and extracted some of the sentiment from the training set. The antropomorphic language of "AIs which have become" is misleading.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
The idea of an AI agent "wanting" something (especially something it wasn't programmed for) is still strictly science fiction. We don't know how to start building something like this and even if we could, it seems unnec
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
How quickly does the mind go from "my career is stagnating and finding better jobs can be hard" to "this is the worst choice of career". One of them is a valid concern, the other is a gross exaggeration that people who a
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> because so many of the programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots Out of all the problems with programming as a job, this is around the bottom of my list.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
- market cap and features are completely unrelated. - in many people's minds cryptocurrency and bitcoin are synonyms - it's pointless to try to look for reasons in a market that's so detached from reality
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
One rule that I have is that if I need to repeat or rephrase a previous comment without adding anything new, I need to stop the conversation. 1. Comment by me. 2. Response by someone else. If my reaction to 2 is to reiterate 1, that's
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
The summary of the study you linked to points to the opposite of what you're saying: > Regression results suggest no statistically distinguishable relationship between IQ scores and wealth. > ... higher IQ scores sometimes increa
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Ask HN: How did you decide what type of developer to become? Any advice?
8 points by superbcarrot 6y ago|6 comments
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I think that it's okay to say this to yourself and look for a different type of work. Saying this to other people misses a couple of important points. - If you can reskill, you're very fortunate. Not everyone is in the same positi
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Medicine I seriously considered it when I was a teenager, decided to try out some more unorthodox fields instead, eventually wound up in software. Reasons why I would pick medicine - having a more tangible positive impact on the world and b
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
What people don't realise about Pixar is how much iteration goes into their stories - they're very comfortable with taking some idea and working on it from different angles until it's good. And there's a process there
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Ask HN: Who is your all-time favorite scientist and what makes them so special?
4 points by superbcarrot 6y ago|1 comments
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
That's appalling. Where do you live? I've never experienced or heard of this in the UK.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Can you recommend me some primer books on graphics programming which do not assume much mathematical background? Why not get the math background first? You're at university, now is the best time to take some math classes.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Yes, this is very easy to do exactly in the way you describe.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Does anyone else feel like: - they've missed an opportunity to get rich with minimal effort from crypto - still have absolutely no interest in jumping in at this point?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
It was pretty obvious at the time - after the iPhone 6 with the round edges and ugly antenna colors, the comically giant 6 plus, then a few months later the first Apple Watch (which few people wanted because it was advertised as a notificat
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
It shouldn't be some switcharoo that the company pulls off anyway. Every company that I've talked in the past year has clarified whether they are remote indefinitely or remote only while the pandemic lasts.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
You're right about the reduced cost but I can't agree that remote leads to improved corporate culture (that's largely personal preference though). > Every new startup I’ve seen in the past year has been 100% remote since d
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I still think that remote in general won't be that prevalent after covid. Remote with SF/NY salaries? I seriously doubt that they will keep this up long term or that many companies will do the same.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> But from now on you can get the inflated valley salaries from everywhere. You can't. Spotify are an exception and I doubt that they'll keep this up long term or that many companies will follow. And I think that that people ov
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> That's an exaggeration. At worst its 50%, but usually its ~80%. That's too high. In London getting 80% of equivalent pre-tax salaries in a big US city is virtually impossible. And then 1/3 of it goes to taxes and nationa
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I found it really useful and anectodally so have many other people that I know. From this and your other comments I gather that you aren't a fan. That's okay - it's a free resource and no one is forced to use it.

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