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by tw1010 9y ago
I agree with you. I suppose what I should have said is that software engineering is becoming much more lateral than ever before. Though it seems like the verticalness is decreasing. Hmm, I wonder if the total "area" of "v
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by tw1010 9y ago
Man, software engineering at the cutting edge is getting harder and harder by the day. Not only are you expected to master coding but also math heavy ML and economics. I guess a consequence of software eating the world is that more and more
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by tw1010 9y ago
Oh cool, this is something I've been thinking about too. Please, if you feel you have the time, do email me (see my bio) with some lessons if you manage to build something.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Or it means that supply is starting to meet demand. People interested in tech hear that an intellectually stimulating field like machine learning is highly lucrative and short in supply, what happends? People start entering PhD programs and
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by tw1010 9y ago
One of my favourite ways to understand the SVD is like this. Think about the x-y plane, and imagine that we've drawn out the unit circle centered at the origin. Now imagine we have some matrix A that we apply to each point in the plane
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think the customization aspect is overrated. In a blind taste test I bet prepackaged salads and hand made ones would fare about as well. Just like how cheap and expensive wine are indistinguishable under a blindfold. And that's what&
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by tw1010 9y ago
Totally off topic, but just a word of advice. The recommendations below each article on your main page are really visually distracting (especially since they "fade in" only after you've scrolled down to them). And a lot of th
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by tw1010 9y ago
Is it really that strange that random matrix theory models so many things though? Matrices without stochasticity can already model so many things in nature. And the reason for that is much more because they are a really well studied area
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by tw1010 9y ago
In this context it's probably wise to use "proof" carefully, otherwise it's easy to confuse with its mathematical usage. Maybe "Homotopy type theory is also a sign of the relationship between computation, logic and
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by tw1010 9y ago
Compared to Zuckerberg, sure. But 29 is hardly that young to be this articulate and wise. I feel like sentiments like this is much more about hero worship than a statement about how unusually well spoken he his compared to most people his a
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by tw1010 9y ago
I absolutely love the "prove me wrong" game. It reminds me of Nomic for some reason. Perhaps because both games are very language-based and have almost no rules (it's easy to "think outside the box" in both games).
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by tw1010 9y ago
He seems to have a better grasp of probability than most people (me included). Perhaps he's not the greatest at digesting his ideas into an easy-to-grok form, but he seems to be trying his best. You don't have to listen to everyth
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by tw1010 9y ago
I love YC, obviously. But does anyone with more literary prowess than me have any insight into why they chose to formulate their sentences so weirdly in this post?
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Just curious, was this based on Gwerns tweet?
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by tw1010 9y ago
Unasked for advice, but maybe use fewer commas in your future writing.
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Because they can
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by tw1010 9y ago
It usually takes a while for the search to update after an app has been published.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Devs need some time to create the stuff. Might take a month or so to really start getting the feeling that AR has finally arrived.
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The floodgates of AR are about to open in the next few months. This is an interesting time.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I absolutely loved this blog post. This, incidentally, is the perfect thing to blog about if you're looking for ideas. Just read books and things outside what is normally part of the engineering culture, in the meanwhile keeping all th
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think the project is cool, but with Google recently putting real work into this effort[1] I don't see how this project is going to succeed over the competition in the long-run. This is hard stuff. Marker-based AR is not enough. And a
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by tw1010 9y ago
I agree that the project is cool. But I just want to give the answer that always aught to be given whenever someone on HN says "I wish we had X when I was learning this stuff", where X usually is some visual way of illustrating a
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by tw1010 9y ago
C++ has John Carmack, PHP has Zuckerberg, Lisp has Paul Graham. Does anyone know of any good role models to look up to in the ASP.NET world? As childish as it might sound, that has honestly been a sticking point preventing me to be able to
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We're at the peak of the Gartner's Hype Cycle for comparisons between tulip mania and bitcoin.
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is awesome. I can't wait until the future when we'll get more informal blog posts from programmers about even more abstract subjects which thus far are dominated in exposition by academics (who very rarely innovate in how the
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by tw1010 9y ago
"This bit of silicon mimics learning and forgetting" The philosophical implications of this research is not what's interesting. Computers are not brains but they mimic a lot of its behaviour. The title is mostly clickbait.
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Philosophy is not like software engineering. There's a lot more reading that needs to be done before you can make a contribution. A lot of it progresses by just reading the works of the established masters, getting ideas, and publishin
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Grothendieck worked twelve hours per day every day of the week for a decade. Source: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/874290/161054
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I don't know how you're doing the palette extraction right now, but if want something to experiment with I'd suggest you take a look at using k-means clustering. In other words see the set of pixels as points in a 3D space (w
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by tw1010 9y ago
Not the parent. But I've done a bunch of both hardware and software and frankly I would go for software any day of the week. It's a lot harder to get into a flow with hardware. And it just feels a whole lot less free than software

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