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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I got a spectre and was extremely disappointed. This is after getting the signature edition Windows so it would be bloatfree. The touchpad is really bad.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Toronto's housing isn't that far behind Vancouver. Locals on local salaries cannot afford it.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I think there is a market in this, and I don't think ad-words is the best sales model here. Maybe investor 1 has a point. Just thoughts of a stranger on the Internet :) Are there other technical debt issues going on (either in your sw
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
May I ask what age you changed your ways? I'm 38 and it feels like constant failure. I also worry the damage is done :(
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Lets turn it around. If I have my kid on the seat behind you (paid full price for kids over 2 .. they can do what they want) and they kick your seat for the entire duration of the flight, you should have bought your seat and the one behind
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
You might be a youngin ... these cramped seats are a modern phenomenon. Did you know air travel was a highly regulated thing? Airlines squeezed every drop of efficiency they could post 9-11 ... they did it and no one complained because peop
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I never recline (unless there is an empty seat behind me) and firmly believe people who do are inconsiderate humans. Airline seats have shrunk to the point that people are wondering about medical issues due to restricted space.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Curious how you decided to trust a particular escrow service. With Coinbase, the leap of faith one could possibly make was that they were associated with YC (gave them credibility in my books at least).
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I am very genuinely curious how people bought bitcoin before coinbase? There was that vending machine. Or you could mine it. But how did regular folks do it?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Agreed. If you look at A11, a huge portion of the chip is cache. 8MB L2 IIRC. The belief is that they (Apple) take a hit on the CPU and make it up in the full device. Can't do that if you don't make the full device. (Just my perso
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Surely you are joking?? Why would you agree to such a thing?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
You are better off unless you bought the large house for cash. Otherwise, you made a big gain in leveraged terms.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
What paper do you mean for Bitcoin? The original white paper from Satoshi? I loved the bit torrent paper. I'd add the paper on HMMs and NFS. My list of favorite papers :) The oldies used to be better. Kinda sad really.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I'm curious about the demography for this event ... do you have sense for the attendees? Would be genuinely interested in what you get out of it. I've never been and am really curious what draws such large crowds.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I do distributed computing and feel as equally dark about my prospects as the OP. You use TensorFlow, Tensor Flow Serving and call it a day? Compared to the advances in ML, systems is pretty well-mined out. The biggest excitements in the la
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I'm a low-level systems person (writes the libraries you speak of). Just complaining that it is a pain to get all the details. This also hinders optimization/scalability analysis.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I've looked at WebRTC as well, and it is a mess. Consider websockets as a protocol. So much cleaner and clearer. With WebRTC, you gotta know/implement SIP, RTP, RTSP, RTCP????
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Haha .. that has a name: MVP - minimal viable publication. I wouldn't feel bad about it. The main suggestion I'd give my younger self is to build expertise on a challenging topic. Hinton is a good example btw. He worked on Neural
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I agree with this comment. If you are near the end, just finish and get done with the PhD. Also .. take it from someone who is more than a decade into their professional career in CS research. Things change. I used to be able to crank out p
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I don't know if this is a Canada thing or not. I too am worried that we (Canada) seem to have declared a war on self-employed people (latest tax plan defn doesn't make it any easier) and at the same time, some big names in retail
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Sciencey people going into AI????? Maybe during the AI winter. Today, we are living in a hype bubble of epic proportions.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Anyone know which division HP Labs falls into?
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Agreed. I'd also like to point out that the review process itself is pretty broken. People sometimes behave like sociopaths (e.g. torpedo a paper that is competing with your work), personal grudges etc.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Sorry. Your info doesn't match the same reality I live in. As the parent said, sales went down (don't know about mix). Prices for detached homes have not. We were seriously putting offers in March and got outbid for INSANE sums. e
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Exactly. In a US 30 year mortgage, it is reasonable to expect a borrower to pay it off. In a 5 year mortgage, you will typically refinance after 5 years (unless you hit the jackpot in the interim).
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Toronto's property market is insane. I am still seeing condos (e.g. Gibson near North York center) being priced at 600K+ for 1+1 and larger units well over 1 million dollars. Not sure who can afford this. Places as far as Vaughan and M
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I want to give a shout out to a charity called "Room to read". There is a book about the founder's story .. he was one of us (a tech leader at Microsoft). His book and story touched me deeply.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Is there an open source NLP engine out there? I've been trying to learn this area and there are so many "pot holes" and wrong paths ... I've looked at OWL/Sparql, Graph DBs, logic programming, rule based systems. I
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I'm intrigued ... can you elaborate on the wow factor beyond REST that you see in GraphQL? When I looked at it in the past, it seems to make sense for things that could be represented by graph (e.g. FB's social graph), and graphql
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Very good points. In complex financial transactions (at least within regulatory domains), my understanding is that rollbacks can and do happen. I initially thought across borders/regulatory domains, blockchain will shine. I haven'

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