urthor

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811.
by urthor 5y ago
Absolutely not. Programming is like, using mathematical structure to instruct a computer. But many domains don't need you to use mathematics to instruct the computer. Natural language processing, like a search bar, GUI, . Medicine,
812.
by urthor 5y ago
I think this goes to the core of how do you teach programming. Can you teach "programming" without conveying a fundamental model of how the machine operates. Should you? Because how the machine operates is very simple. Fundamental
813.
by urthor 5y ago
tl;dr -Measure success against "never done it before with average mathematics." -End goal is able to make cool things with a mental model of fundamental logical state that helps at creating things in higher abstractions. -No dis
814.
by urthor 5y ago
Going to take a stab at defining measuring sticks for the problem: Here's some metrics we should measure a "system for programming education," of whatever form, against. --Success is measured against new students with zero p
815.
by urthor 5y ago
I feel like if you are up to these antics, really bad shit is happening to keep economic growth up in the face of very bad underlying productivity growth
816.
by urthor 5y ago
Test driven development? Variable names that aren't two digits probably gets a shout.
817.
by urthor 5y ago
No... Google actually has started hiring AWS style support engineers for GCP. Google has realized that building up business to business support networks is a profitable approach. Customers get nothing, because customers don't pay mon
818.
by urthor 5y ago
Knowing location data is not incremental, it's a crucial addition in order to cross sell other services. The future of Google maps is actually as a recommendation engine. They are adding icons now that are suggested by Google, and adv
819.
by urthor 5y ago
The users are the employees using Google ad sense. The customers are the corporation's selling junk. The rest of it is a marketing expense.
820.
by urthor 6y ago
Developing the schema is a not a science. Implementating BCNF is a science. Choosing whether to use a normalised relational database, a star schema, or a non relational eventually consistent database, that's design.
821.
by urthor 6y ago
To be fair, the profile of a data scientist at a F500 non tech company and at a company like FB is slightly different. Facebook's data science crew is known for being heavier on the stats lighter on the software (relatively speaking)
822.
by urthor 6y ago
The milking stage can go on for a very, very long time. Never underestimate it.
823.
by urthor 6y ago
Office buildings use them because the heating/cooling part is secondary. They need it for ventilation because 6th floor office windows don't open for obvious reasons.
824.
by urthor 6y ago
To be fair, people were doing a LOT with model airplanes ~60 years ago with kerosene engines.
825.
by urthor 6y ago
The D-Tale library does this exquisitely with Pandas.
826.
by urthor 6y ago
Does it matter when they're keylogging my Android phone anyway?
827.
by urthor 6y ago
On Firefox Android the same button for install this site as an app is right there? It's called Add to Home Screen
828.
by urthor 6y ago
Did they bother to Google "Streisand effect" before making this unfortunate mistake I wonder.
829.
by urthor 6y ago
I'm the opposite, I've come me to rely on auto completion so much I cannot spell English. I've had to toggle it off.
830.
by urthor 6y ago
Excel users yes.
831.
by urthor 6y ago
Even though Android is 80% of the market, the numbers are still shockingly tilted. People who choose the cheap option really don't do much discretionary spending, people with iPhones actually make up the majority of revenue for many ap
832.
by urthor 6y ago
You can make good cheese in the United States, cheese is really about the recipe (and how much cream was left in the milk). There just is nothing like the culture of cheese production, US foodstuffs are awful quality because the general pub
833.
by urthor 6y ago
Because beef uses feedlots with grain as well, and have the same manure lakes. The beef industry has figured out that cattle fatten up far faster on grain, so they leave the cattle out for I think it's 12 months to basically grow to
834.
by urthor 6y ago
On one point the article has made. Canadians are really really unhappy with their milk system, they have some of the highest priced milk in the entire world and they despise it. "probably through a supply management program similar to
835.
by urthor 6y ago
You're misunderstanding a significant part of the equation. Also, companies measure their advertising success in their conversion rate and A/B test vs broad based ads that target more widely. They have the opportunity to advertis
836.
by urthor 6y ago
You suffered because of idiot co-workers. Let me tell you, your idiot co-workers can also do some evil things in Mongo pipelines. Very, very evil things.
837.
by urthor 6y ago
Not really. You just get seen as the product owner/project manager.
838.
by urthor 6y ago
The flipside is that there are 4x the job posts for data engineering as there are for "that guy". Companies understand that you can't hire five of that guy and get things done. If you have 5-8 years of experience as a techni
839.
by urthor 6y ago
It was still an extremely scattergun approach. I'm moderately familiar with NLP but nothing in that paper really had traction overall, it was more of a list of mildly bad things than anything huge.
840.
by urthor 6y ago
It's not uncommon for different components to scale differently. They're often literally made out of different metals that have different resistance characteristics at different wire gauges, for example. Interconnects was a very f

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