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by tom_b 10y ago
Credits rarely transfer into a major or minor program of study regardless of source institution. Waiving of requirements to opt into higher-level coursework is fine. That's rarely what students want. ITT is just the worst example of
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by tom_b 10y ago
Clojure. At stockfighter.io and HackerRank, I enjoyed practicing my Clojure hacking skills. HackerRank supports Clojure as a language that is submitted and run against automated test suites for challenges. At stockfighter.io, you can choo
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by tom_b 10y ago
No. That's the safe, short answer. Are your customers actually writing SQL for executing against a database or is your app generating SQL? If instead the app's purpose is to provide a "power interface" to access data (
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by tom_b 10y ago
#2 - Build an agent to win online programming competitions. Given that online programming competitions tend to fall into distinct classes (dynamic programming, algorithmic challenges, graph problems, string problems), this seems maybe more
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by tom_b 11y ago
I am a non-minority, CS graduate of a HBCU. There were amazing hackers in my program. I believe there were around 200-300 declared CS majors across all levels when I graduated. Numbers are down from those peaks now. My institution was h
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by tom_b 11y ago
Interesting research results contradict HIIT as a pure general guideline for everyone (I think alternating between both is an excellent approach though). "Given that ∼20% of subjects fail to improve aerobic capacity with intense endu
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by tom_b 11y ago
Hi. The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is a tech hub and has been for years, with a number of big IT companies in Research Triangle Park (RTP). RTP is kind of the center between those three cities. RTP historically has a bunch
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by tom_b 11y ago
I think there is a distinction to be made here in questioning patient outcomes and questioning the relevance of genomic sequencing in treatment decisions. Don't you think it is fair to say that high throughput data (whole genome sequen
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by tom_b 11y ago
Some information is hidden away in supplemental table 6, which points out candidate drugs to affect different biological pathways for different mutations. You could also skim http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4
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by tom_b 11y ago
Hmmm? Genomic breast cancer subtypes that each respond to different chemotherapies? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7418/full/nature1...
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by tom_b 11y ago
Infant mortality rates are lower for Hispanic babies born in the US to non-US born parents. This is a pretty well known fact in the public health research. See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6026a
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by tom_b 11y ago
Hey, are you guys sending emails or a reading list out yet? I'm also in the list of eagerly-waiting test subjects . . .
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by tom_b 12y ago
Am I wrong to be completely stunned at this statement? Did experienced candidates just not participate in the Crypto Challenges and Microcorruption? I would have expected at least some experienced candidates to drop into that "top t
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by tom_b 12y ago
Keep up the practice. I'm working with similar puzzles and have found that the simpler ones are becoming easier over time. The next level up seems to be problems that require composing algorithms. This type of problem takes creativit
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by tom_b 12y ago
I gave up on new Thinkpads and went to a 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I had a hard requirement to go with something with a smallish form factor and 16GB of memory. I almost decided to go with a Thinkpad X230 - I have used a X200 running
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by tom_b 12y ago
I think if you are willing to trade the flexibility of normal relational back-end DBs for a storage of your own making, you can certainly optimize for a specific workload. But is that your case? Joe Celko made a comment in one of his SQL
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by tom_b 12y ago
tl;dr: Not that I've dug into. I've found a number of people who point at the Github api as a good example of a RESTful api that includes hypermedia links for clients to follow rather than constructing URI requests manually. It
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by tom_b 12y ago
I'm actually older than most HN'ers. But a bit of a "late-bloomer" to being paid as a hacker. Just didn't ever know that entrepreneurship was an actual option for people. Coming from a risk-averse and somewhat fat
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by tom_b 12y ago
Yes. As a hacker who leans on books, blogs, and well-defined principles, RESTful api design resources have often been much more http RPC oriented. Hackers should pay attention to: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008&#x2
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by tom_b 12y ago
It boggles my mind that you say the average HNer could do this in 6 weeks. Not in a "I don't believe you sense" but rather in a "that's so outside of my mindset that it doesn't compute." And this is comin
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by tom_b 12y ago
All I have is anecdotes, but I'll hazard some guesses. The talent shortage has a strong geographic component. In SV or NYC, job search sites (a poor way to gauge actual demand, but whatever) seem to list 1,000s of available Java/
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by tom_b 12y ago
A more recent article addressing this essay from the same author: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/08/22/hacking-academia/ The tl;dr summary from this second article referencing the first: a
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by tom_b 12y ago
Deceptive Practice is cool and recommended. The eye-opening and amazing part is the unrelenting practice, preparation, and study time Ricky Jay (and others in the documentary) have committed to the art. Beautiful and inspiring to see that e
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by tom_b 12y ago
I enjoy Hackerrank very much. Although I've been away for awhile from their site. The coding platform was language-choice-flexible and I did a number of challenges in Clojure as a learning experience - very similar to the challenges
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by tom_b 12y ago
Very neat. After a brief foray into reading about HFT, I've started reading more about algorithmic (non-HFT) trading. I'd love to hear if other HN readers are playing with algorithmic trading. I occasionally think quantitative t
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by tom_b 12y ago
Interesting - I mentally parsed that as "easy to try in my environment" and skipped right by the implication of "on the JVM it's very easy" as a Clojure/Scala degree-of-difficulty qualifier. I actually found th
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by tom_b 12y ago
Since I noticed previously you were also reading Dark Pools (commented in another thread), I found that book to pile up evidence for (b) as well. Do you have similar takeaway from Dark Pools? In particular, in the early days of electronic
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by tom_b 13y ago
When I was a student, I met a guy who would go to school one semester, then work the next+summer in construction. Then back to school. He seemed perfectly happy to pay the school bills this way. Some years later when I returned to undergr
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by tom_b 13y ago
Ck out Arthur Whitney's abridged manual for fun: http://kx.com/q/d/kdb+.htm For using the 32-bit version (from Limits): 22 Limits Each database runs in memory and/or disk map-on-demand -- possibly partit
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by tom_b 13y ago
Interesting - where do you see these recruiter emails coming from, geography-wise? I watch, say indeed.com, and see Clojure mentioned mostly as "nice to have" mainly for what, on the surface, appear to be standard, enterprise Jav

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