tw1010

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by tw1010 8y ago
Yeah, if you still call yourself bad at something you've practiced daily for thirty years, most likely what needs to be corrected is not your skill set but your definition of competence.
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by tw1010 8y ago
If anyone can find a good book about this (heavy on detail, not just a single anecdotal heist story), I'd love to hear about it. In fact, I'd love even more something super academical and theoretical. Sounds like an interesting ch
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by tw1010 8y ago
So dealing with paperwork is a pain both for the employer as well as the contractor. Rather than paperwork shifting away from the hands of the company, which you seem to be in favour of, wouldn't a more likely future scenario be that s
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by tw1010 8y ago
Cool! But I'm not sure I can buy into it will all my heart unless I know filters against "hate speech, harassment and other attacks on social networks" won't have a high false-positive rate motivated by idea that it&#x27
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by tw1010 8y ago
Like I mentioned, I have high hopes modelling vaguer aspects of customer preference can be incorporated by training a model on rendered generative design (e.g. with data from amazon turk), which can then be used as maybe some kind of penali
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by tw1010 8y ago
Sure, it looks cool. But there are so many other properties of a home that aren't accounted for in this model (mostly aesthetic ones, like cozyness, feelings of safety/comfort, how the plan interacts with light, etc). One day we&#
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by tw1010 8y ago
I mostly just wish more people would read so that it'd be more likely that the 5 people I hang out the most were avid readers, so I could get some spillover wisdom.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Most likely this was posted because it was mentioned on one of the latest A16Z podcast episodes, if anyone is curious. Edit: I believe this is the episode: https://a16z.com/2018/07/06/ben-marc-stevenjohnson-su
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by tw1010 8y ago
If that was always an option, salaries would be infinite ;)
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by tw1010 8y ago
I tend to become much better at things a lot quicker if I just ingest a lot of the stuff (books, code, etc) and then spit out a mountain of it, instead of obsessing over making each and every thing I produce perfect. Perfect isn't even
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by tw1010 8y ago
I don't get it. (And I don't think it's because I'm a "true mathematician".)
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by tw1010 8y ago
Follow your bliss.
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by tw1010 8y ago
While I agree with you, a lack of knowledge about this stuff will unfortunately not help you pass any interviews.
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TLDR?
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by tw1010 8y ago
There are so many things that so many people say should be "required learning in school". I sympathise the sentiment, but maybe it'd be better to habituate ourselves to somehow thinking about how each of us could solve the pr
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by tw1010 8y ago
Is talking like Trump starting to become a thing now?
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The negation of the former is true but the latter is also true.
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by tw1010 8y ago
It's obviously an exaggerated statement that "all" financial predictions don't actually work, dude.
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I don't see why you'd need to minimize communication overhead when maximizing collaborative output is already stated as an explicit goal. I'd think the only reason to minimize the former is to make it easier to maximize the l
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by tw1010 8y ago
This is only going to get worse. I see literally no counter force putting any kind of barrier against the incentive to e.g. overfit in order to get exaggerated results. The lucrative reward is too large not to fall for the use of shady tact
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by tw1010 8y ago
This is only going to get worse. I see literally no counter force putting any kind of barrier against the incentive to e.g. overfit in order to get exaggerated results. The lucrative reward is too large not to fall for the use of shady tact
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by tw1010 8y ago
Wouldn't "well-tuned" in this case mean "an emotional system which improves reasoning where logical thinking fails". And in that case isn't the title of the article a tautology? I think most would agree that a
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by tw1010 8y ago
I mean, it has potential. But lot's of things have potential. I think I'll be more interested in a few years, but right now it mostly just looks too weird (not even uncanny valley) to feel like it could be used for anything.
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by tw1010 8y ago
If your openness threshold is as high as RMS's, the fact that there's no alternative is an ok tradeoff.
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by tw1010 8y ago
This is great. Anki looks amazing. The reason I don't use Anki, though, is that I feel like the things I wish I could remember are rarely things I would have had enough foresight to make a flashcard for. In other words, I rarely feel l
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by tw1010 8y ago
Crazy shit happens when you expose the rules of the social game we're all playing.
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by tw1010 8y ago
You're probably a wonderful person and I mean absolutely no mean spiritedness whatsoever. But why do we actually need new lectures anymore? Nowadays any time limited and only locally accessible lecture will have to compete with the g
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I have very very little doubt that the sum of the total revenue of all companies started by middle-aged entrepreneurs divided by the number of them (the average) is greater than the average revenue from companies started by young people. Wh
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From one perspective, coding is just dry formal automata theory. But that's not how most coders think about it. We've developed more playful ways to think and learn about it. And the more experience one has with coding, the more o
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Engineering is clearly reaching a point where it is and will be much more integrated and coupled with pure and applied mathematics. I think it's more than time to start taking this implicit project seriously by making it explicit. We a

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