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by tomcat27 5y ago
Literally every scientific paper has sections and subsections. Aka Lists.
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Ask HN: How to think machine learning like a scientist?
1 points by tomcat27 5y ago|1 comments
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by tomcat27 5y ago
> The course is only there to test your knowledge and give you a grade, NO > everything else.. I kind of agree what you are saying actually!
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by tomcat27 5y ago
ummm, a lot of it depends on scheduling conflicts. not that simple.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
> There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. I had this problem while taking grad courses. I needed time to produce follow up questions and
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by tomcat27 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I am facing EXACTLY the same battery drain issue n macOS since last three years and found no solution or support from Apple who pretend the issue doesn’t exist in the first place despite forums shouting loud
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by tomcat27 5y ago
Million dollah 50 lines
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by tomcat27 5y ago
I see your point and I get you, but power structure in orgs where the more process is at discretion, the org is systemically skewed against the weaker person. Ex: Professor-PhD student dynamics at Universities. 50% of university students ar
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by tomcat27 5y ago
then you are not meeting the company's baseline number of thoughtful conversations.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
There are some conversations I think are better exchanged more thoughtfully and that takes time. Schedule of people with many direct reports is just overwhelming and it's too easy to naturally avoid certain discussions unless they are
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by tomcat27 5y ago
On closing a contract a new one is needed, unlike boycott.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
AFAIK boycott is temporary but de-platforming is permanent. -- closing a contract.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
I do not know the nuances of free speech doctrines. I'll take your word. Assume all tech companies de-platform Joe Rogan fearing retribution from other customers He buys a Ubuntu box to host the videos. And now he needs a static IP and
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by tomcat27 5y ago
Joe Rogan is a very good listener and his show is popular for a good reason and that's not political. Silencing this way is just cancel culture.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
> Claiming that Stripe is a monopoly is pure fiction. I didn’t say they are.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
> Pretty sure this is how business is done. FYI - It's illegal to do what Bolt founder tweeted. Companies are allowed to create and be at a monopoly but not kick others trying to break it. Not sure how this ever gets proven..
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by tomcat27 5y ago
if addiction is generally behavioral and losing addiction is harder than changing, I want to control x in "addicted to x" because social welfare of some is greater than others.
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Ask HN: How to Get Addicted to Studying?
21 points by tomcat27 5y ago|17 comments
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by tomcat27 5y ago
> What were they doing before this? "Unempirical" economics? Building tractable mathematical models. Explain phenomenons. Empirical results are used to validate these days. A classic model is supply & demand curves -- as pr
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by tomcat27 5y ago
I studied MIT's development policy course. I was surprised how many times I guessed something and the results were different. A qualitative interpretation of RCT results is the end game. It was hard to do it right, and easy to do it wr
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by tomcat27 5y ago
whatever! but that's not the point. What's the right benchmark?
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by tomcat27 5y ago
"most successful firms" have to mean only FAANG?
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by tomcat27 5y ago
Reading on paper does work for me! Although a challenge is its harder to look up citations, google something I don’t understand.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
I was thinking to install Ubuntu, to get rid of addictive stuff, make it harder to go beyond bare bones writing, coding and reading.
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Ask HN: How to make my macOS less distracting?
48 points by tomcat27 5y ago|61 comments
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by tomcat27 5y ago
so coooool :)
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by tomcat27 5y ago
I used whatsapp exclusively for years before moving to iMessage. This post misses the point just how much Apple users like iMessage. The reason iMessage is not popular in other countries is: Ubiquity trumps everything. iPhone is a unafforda
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by tomcat27 5y ago
Anyone can summarize for layman?
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by tomcat27 5y ago
very little in resumes format changed in the last 50 years.
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by tomcat27 5y ago
Complexity theory is traditionally into this approach. Prove a problem is NP hard by proving its an instance of another problem known to be NP hard.

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