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by uptownfunk 8y ago
Note: most of this is purely anecdotal / may or may not be backed up by rigorous scientific research, but a lot of it comes down through ancient wisdom teachings / tips from eastern medicine (Indian / Chinese) so please don&#
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
Ashwagandha is great, also known as indian ginseng. Has been very helpful, but would recommend making sure it will help balance your doshas rather than aggravate them.
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
It is nice to see that you are asking what I think are the truly meaningful questions. All too often we get caught up in the rat race we call this material life. My humble suggestion would be to put an intention out into the world that you
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
I think good colleges are worth it, but mediocre/poor colleges aren’t. Good colleges are where you have high caliber instructors, a qualty network, a good reputation, and good counseling/support system.. ie things that will help y
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
Valuation by McKinsey
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
Yep, that’s why I ran away fast and got my mba as soon as possible. As despised as the degree is here on HN, it’s a decent route to getting out of the now commoditized swe role. Working in the role has taught me so much about how shitty it
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
It seems similar to when universities started spinning out stats degrees as separate from math
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by uptownfunk 8y ago
Wish they would add variable inspection to Jupiterlab!
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
He has a point. I learned this the hard way when I looked at the amortization tables when i bought my first house, it still stings when I think about it. That said, mortgage interest is tax deductible, which lead to a decent refund this yea
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Ask HN: What should I look for when recruited to join a startup?
8 points by uptownfunk 9y ago|6 comments
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
What’s the remaining 5%
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Ask HN: Does downvote mean disagree?
5 points by uptownfunk 9y ago|5 comments
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
<edit> fair enough that makes sense. It just felt a little sterile. I get that some people may appreciate these types of posts, and I appreciate the intention of trying to be helpful, but it seems as if the tone were that of a robot.
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving, Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
Awesome, I think the world would be a better place if more people sought enlightenment.
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
I would recommend baby Rudin, but it was only after a course in real analysis, measure theory, and functional analysis that I was able to come back to it, understand it and appreciate it.
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
The internet I would contend didn’t make location completely irrelevant. I think the existing gap lies in access to capital. And while we do not have crypto done anywhere near correctly, the true democratization of capital will do a lot mor
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Ask HN: If you were to relearn programming today how would you do it
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
Looking at lectures, videos, books, biographies etc of people who inspire me. I'm not a professional mathematician but people like Ramanujan, Gauss, Euler, Grothendieck, Langlands, Andre Weil, Terry Tao, Lang, Serre, Harish-Chandra, et
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
This is why I said WTF when they tried to introduce us to lisp in CS61A... I thought why would anyone want to program in this. Years later and I am now thinking how wrong I was!
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Ask HN: How do I improve my handwriting?
7 points by uptownfunk 9y ago|5 comments
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
I’ll be honest, my wife stays at home and is fully content being the best mom she can be. Others likely have it different.. Imagine something like cute little pure innocence machines radiating pure love for you selflessly with little to no
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
the strang lectures on LA, any decent calculus book (khan academy or something maybe too) and then i would jump into ISLR and the karpathy Stanford lectures on DL, the rest you learn as you go adhoc.
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
I think it’s one of those things that’s difficult to understand until you actually have them. I don’t think I could have conceived of the joy and happiness I would experience having a child before actually having them. I’ve got a 9 mo old,
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
My driver has had to catch the wheel on more than one occasion. When we’re in the carpool lane and the lane opens up for others cars to merge in the autopilot doesn’t see the edge of the lane and so starts swerving into the other lane. Also
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I Loved 'Em All. Inside Billy Graham's Powerful Relationship with US Presidents(time.com)
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
I think visualization can be a helpful tool to understand the data. I have seen some DS's get caught up in visualization for visualization's sake which I think can be wasteful. I definitely think a solid mathematical understanding
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
No, R and Python are fundamentally different. I do believe we will see a shift in what they are used for though. Python more for the "deep learning" stuff, and R for more statistical, non-deep-learning work.
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
Ok so what awards ceremony selection process isn’t political? Any guess on who is in consideration of the 2018 prize? I imagine those under consideration are already at top tier institutions. Is no noteworthy mathematics being done at less
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by uptownfunk 9y ago
Vertical ML is so 2017, it’s all about diagonal ML

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