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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
Not a 'good idea', but it's partly because the same password is used for telephone banking. And people seem to have trouble with typing long passwords on numerical keypads.
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
They didn't say rude, they mentioned empathy. Julia Enthoven shared her experience as a Woman in tech, and this thread is filled with nitpicking, asking for sources, disagreement, alternate theories, debates, etc. There is no empathy h
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
Better weather, definitely. But is anyone claiming San Franciso or Seattle are more 'world city' than Toronto or Montreal? By almost any definition of world city, they would be very wrong.
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
Not all entrepreneurship is tech based. Canada has lots of entrepreneurs: 15% of the general population, 20% of immigrants. That's higher than almost anywhere else in the world. http://canadianentrepreneurtraining.com/s
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
Me and most of my engineering friends faced this decision 5 years ago. We all had to decide between offers from one of the big 5, or remaining in the Toronto-Waterloo region. I'm the only one who stayed. And that's only because I
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
How many non-upvoted life-changing posts have you come across? I've been visiting hn and reddit almost every day for maybe 8 years now, and the answer for me is zero. I find the time and effort needed (as well as the mental stress) to
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
Malaria nets have been shown by many organizations as being one of the most effective use of funds possible. There are very few ways to more easily and effectively reduce pain and suffering in this world. Your comparison is ridiculous. htt
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
I love it, and I think most people here will as well. And it highlights how important it is to not force one method of learning on children. So even if one thinks that we shouldn't teach multiple learning styles, it's important to
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by turingcompeteme 8y ago
My SO teaches elementary math, and we've had a few discussions about this. When teaching a new concept, say the area of a parallelogram, she will present the concept in multiple different ways: - Give printouts of parallelograms on gra
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
I think you and me treat email differently than the average person. I saw my friend's email the other day: 26 thousand unopened emails. And he doesn't mind at all. Sometimes he searches through a few days worth to see if there is
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
It depends, but I don't think general statements like that are necessarily true. Most methods allow trade-offs between converging quickly on local optima vs finding global optima. The mutation aspect of genetic algorithms is just one w
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
Predicting for only the last year is good, but there are two even better ways: - An expanding window where you train on the first year of data and predict the second. Then train on the first two years and predict the third, etc. - A rolling
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
Scott Aaronson has an interesting take on the Chinese room theorem that tackles it from a computational complexity point of view: Let's say this Chinese rule book does exist, and that it can provide an answer to every single possible q
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
The rest of the world is quickly catching up though, and Canadian coaches are moving abroad to coach these teams. South Korea, China, Japan, Switzerland, and Great Britain are all now competitive teams that are coached by Canadians.
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
Wow, that video was much better than the book in my opinion. The book spends chapters and chapters repeating the exact same thing over and over. And then the last third of the book is about divine inspiration and other things I just couldn&
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
If the end goal is remote work, I think front-end is the way to go. Like you said, there are the most freelance jobs associated with it. I've been thinking about this a bit so I thought I'd share: Two successful, but fairly tech i
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
It's also about half the length that it usually is. Part of that is there not being as many tables, but it also feels like there was a lot less "Buffet commentary" as well. Most years it is a really fun and entertaining read
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
> but I could write for pages why I would be a terrible friend to someone who needed time And in the time it took you to write those pages you could have instead started the basis of a friendship with someone. Yes, you are terribly busy,
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
How about this: oil was being given to kids to play with when Rockefeller was getting started. Yes the economics were excellent. But very few actually wanted it for years. Oil was fun to set on fire, but hadn't found mainstream use yet
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
Standard Oil actually did start out as a toy. They provided oil to burn in lamps. At the time most people thought that was a somewhat silly gimmick and a fad that would quickly pass. Oil in general was seen as something neat but not essenti
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
This advice can work out really well, or really poorly. I live in one of the largest cities in North America, and despite nearly three decades of house prices rising every year, a quarter of the houses in the city are still worth less than
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
This is true for, as you said, large hft shops. But there are thousands of quant trading firms that are not on this scale and will not be an exchange member. You can see all the NYSE exhchange members here [0], and it's a very small po
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by turingcompeteme 9y ago
It's nice that "Autistic Prodigies" are gaining more attention, and that some of that attention is starting to focus more on the problems these kids face instead of just their abilities. My significant other works in a classr