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by usgroup 7y ago
I think paradigmatically nothing has changed about the craft of software development since the 80s IMO; we’ve just changed about where efforts are weighted. Business models, consumers and hardware have undergone the most change.
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by usgroup 7y ago
I agree in the main . Specially about breaking up hard problems often being a retrospective advantage. I think simplifying a problem by removing details, solving that and then wondering about the differences is pretty effective. Helps you u
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by usgroup 7y ago
I’ll be he counterbalance and say quit ... if it’s been 10 years since you’ve started trying I’d imagine it’s not practicalities getting in your way ... whatever way you chose to learn should have gotten you to level 1 by now and if it hasn
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by usgroup 7y ago
You’re doing SVD by lecture 3 (typically the last thing you do on a LA II course), so brace yourself. If you’re not already VERY good at LA I’d wait until you are before attempting this.
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by usgroup 7y ago
I’ve been reading about “expert systems” of late for a particular gig I’m pitching for ... most the literature is 1980-1985 and what I realised was is that expert systems were all the rage back then. The IBMs of this world sold them and you
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by usgroup 7y ago
I ashamedly had never heard of this before. Could anyone add any colour RE: 1. Parsimony. 2. Performance vs awk and friends. 3. Multi threading. 4. Ideal use cases.
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by usgroup 7y ago
University of London does post grad maths diplomas . They are solid and somewhat structured for self study. They are also cheap . Aside from that find yourself a tutor over Skype and crack on. Just be sure you know what you’re getting yours
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by usgroup 7y ago
I’d contend this. Just spoke to a mate last week turning £250k at a 50% margin doing nothing but websites and SEO for B2B clients. Websites need design, visual assets, integrations, customised features, etc. It’s definitely a volume trade:
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by usgroup 7y ago
There are no Kalman filters for beginners because no one is out there trying to make maths more complicated than it needs to be. To understand what’s happening you need work linear algebra l, probability theory and distribution theory. Ther
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by usgroup 7y ago
You need representative data; the sort you’ll be working with. There’s plenty of it for free on AWS. E.g. GDELT. You then need use cases: things to do to the data. From this you learn how to process it using whatever tools you like. How to
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by usgroup 7y ago
I used to do this in a spreadsheet for an old client. The spreadsheet combined two sources into a single flat table: 1. AWS resource list, tags and spend. 2. Datadog utilisation. From this sheet a derivative sheet was created that had funct
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by usgroup 7y ago
thanks for this.
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by usgroup 7y ago
It'd be more believable if he did it in 3 years :)
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by usgroup 7y ago
I agree with this comment and would supplement as follows: whatever you intend to learn, consider how you're going to retain it. I'm quite sure that I've forgotten a lot more maths than I know. I'm not sure about the uti
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by usgroup 7y ago
Good luck man. I did a similar kind of thing at one point. A lot of the material is extremely boring and it’s really easy to skim it and pretend you know it in principle. You’ll see... it’s one of those things. The unbridled enthusiasm won’
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Ask HN: Overview of Climate Change Science?
1 points by usgroup 7y ago|3 comments
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by usgroup 7y ago
Aliens brought us Lisp years ago; and they are pissed that we still don’t use it :)
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by usgroup 7y ago
Real alien here; AMA.
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by usgroup 7y ago
Yeah but I’d rather it was aliens :)
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by usgroup 7y ago
Muhahaha... Thanks JavaScript, you ruined extraterrestrial encounter.
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by usgroup 7y ago
131 points and only 2 comments at the time of writing. I imagine most are thinking, “cool, now let me see how I can use this”, but few are actually doing anything comparable at the moment. If you were in any doubt that FB might know somethi
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by usgroup 7y ago
Lol, this is getting a bit hypothetical... but running a "gifted" programme for a selection of kids that score 0% in the test sounds like a waste of time. I think you'd reasonably be better off just not doing it.
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by usgroup 7y ago
Anyone with the same percentage score will obviously be in the same percentile ... so if you have a limited number of places and everyone scores the same mark, then the fact that you’re filtering by a percentile doesn’t help you in the slig
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by usgroup 7y ago
At a contrast: I think lots of people have he problem that regardless of how interesting they are in the grand scheme, they are more interesting then they seem. So a blog becomes a good way to expose that. If you think yourself less interes
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by usgroup 7y ago
If the optimisation problem is “pick a set of kids that can finish the curriculum quicker as measured by standardised tests” then any effective screening test is likely to select for “test taking prodigies” since that is the leading measure
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by usgroup 7y ago
Is this a curve fitting exercise? Ie does the paper argue that a polygenic score can be created using population IQ and gnome data that then correlates very well with population IQ? Would anyone in the field care to comment on the fidelity
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by usgroup 7y ago
Couldn’t agree more ... row level security is brilliantly simple too. Access defined by query.
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by usgroup 8y ago
OP a better question might be: “how would I work out whether the current market applicable to me would be willing to hire based on a nano degree?” It’ll invoke fewer platitudes and generalisations from HN.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Funnier still is that I suspect that “bullshitters” are probably well represented in this thread; pitchforks in hand, and bashing “bullshitters” like everyone else.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Nah, it’s very easy to know what’s going on as a result. The endpoint is only ever a single binary that uses environment variables. Nothing mutates the environment. And the environment is only ever a place with an interface to hardware and

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