tchalla

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by tchalla 6y ago
It is respectful to at least attempt to pronounce names from different cultures. In many cases, I totally understand it is difficult. In those cases, an attempt is great. In this case, the syllable F exists in Latin and I don't see why
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by tchalla 6y ago
There are many other sports (tennis, cricket etc.) that don't either but there's a limit on "resources" and it does correlate with time.
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by tchalla 6y ago
> And many non-professional athletes going out for a tryout will be put into artificial situations as well instead of being placed on the team and taken to an actual competition for their trial, it doesn't mean that tryouts are fund
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by tchalla 6y ago
> Whether linked list questions are appropriate or not is another matter, but at least they're in the correct domain. It is not just "another" matter, it is THE matter. The correct domain is a vast space. The OP wants the
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by tchalla 6y ago
> It is something I think everyone has seen or done in school so should be pretty easy. Here are some things everyone has seen or done in school : proofs on in theorems on geometry, integral of an obscure function. I am pretty sure it sh
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by tchalla 6y ago
> I tend to ask medium difficulty questions because I am looking for 1) ability to reason through a problem and 2) professionalism and motivation for a career. Congrats! You are selecting for people who 1) rote problems for interviews an
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Want a vaccination appointment? It helps to know a Python programmer(nbcnews.com)
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New U.K. Currency Honors Alan Turing(text.npr.org)
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The prehistory of biology preprints:A forgotten experiment from the 1960s(fermatslibrary.com)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> I don't think this is easy, but it's not as impossible as you make it out to be. There are many things which are easier for you but others take more time to do the same. This doesn't mean the person who does it within 30
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Microsoft to Ease Workers Back to the Office Starting Next Week(nytimes.com)
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Ikea France on trial for snooping on staff and customers(bbc.com)
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by tchalla 6y ago
Germany had to temporarily suspend vaccination for 2 days due to a legal requirement. Here’s an article which explains different angles to it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/world/europe/europe-v
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by tchalla 6y ago
In you view, why do you think the society has an issue when a “machine “ makes a decision vs a human? Can you think of a legitimate areas where trust in machine outputs wouldn’t be favoured vs a human?
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by tchalla 6y ago
Wipr is really good. https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
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by tchalla 6y ago
DeepL is pretty great for most European languages. Here's a comment on difficult French text from a previous HN submission [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15123833
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Virtual Land Prices Are Booming, and Now There’s a Fund for That(bloomberg.com)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> Nations that are overcautious may lose far, far, far, far more lives thanks to covid infections than an extremely rare handful of blood clots which haven't even been tied concretely to the vaccine yet. The risk reward analysis on
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by tchalla 6y ago
> Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to cater to enterprise clients. How do you come to that conclusion? All data from Wikipedia is free for everyone as done
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by tchalla 6y ago
In your opinion, how can the Wikipedia goal of separating commercial and other users be managed?
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by tchalla 6y ago
What’s the process to decide (1) Energy usage of applications and (2) How to prioritize ban on applications which exceed a certain threshold?
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by tchalla 6y ago
Is that your personal opinion? Research seems to disagree. Citations in the previous link.
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by tchalla 6y ago
The number of cases or deaths are conditional on the cases in the general population, it’s not an absolute number. The cases for AZ - 7 cerebral vein thombrosis in 1.6M vaccinations - which is higher than in general population. AZ will get
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by tchalla 6y ago
The decision is also due to legal issues, at least in Germany. The number of cases for clots exceed the threshold. The govt has no choice to stop or face lawsuits since it is a state vaccination program.
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by tchalla 6y ago
Algorithmic bias is not ONLY a data problem, it’s also a model problem [0]. The bias from model developers are coded via learning rates, network hyper parameters and objective functions. [0] https://twitter.com/sarahookr&#x2
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The $69M JPEG(text.npr.org)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> In my opinion black-box algorithms have no place in government, and for this reason it's critical for the government to develop the expertise to develop and understand models themselves, so they aren't reliant on the trade s
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by tchalla 6y ago
> I think it took a while for the Ballmer effect to kick in at Microsoft. Tim Cook is about 2/3rds through of Ballmer's tenure. If you were to take a bet today, do you see Tim Cook doing the direction of Ballmer?
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Shortest path between two points when route traverses a changing network, solved(science.ku.dk)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> Serving richly spiced stews was no longer a status symbol for Europe's wealthiest families — even the middle classes could afford to spice up their grub. "So the elite recoiled from the increasing popularity of spices,"

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