utopkara

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by utopkara 5y ago
Late to the party, but here's an eclectic mix: - Logbook of your work, plans, thoughts; use whatever tool that you know will be around the longest. Be it git, apple notes, or any other. Make sure it has a search, and keeps track of dat
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by utopkara 5y ago
The author has one opinion, here's mine: The OLPC designers, developers, engineers, educators (and whoever contributed to the project) have done a fantastic job. I got an OLPC for my kids through their Give 1 Get 1 program. The beautif
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by utopkara 6y ago
Depends on the people involved. Some are likely to be sharing screen in a presentation at any given time, then it is the expected way of starting a chat. Others would be unlikely to be in meetings often, then it is plain unnecessary (and
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by utopkara 6y ago
Logged in to say kudos. This is a fantastic idea. Driving around in Antalya now, and I am transported mentally.
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by utopkara 6y ago
A lot of the children's stories I heard growing up included violence of sorts. Not saying it was necessarily good, but it is very common, hence perhaps is either harmless or maybe beneficial in a convoluted way. fwiw, the stories kept
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by utopkara 7y ago
It is hard for one to appreciate the value of a process that helps teams operate well in the long run, in the face of disruptions, pivots, failures, growth, etc. If you can do without standups, good for you.
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by utopkara 8y ago
You usually do not even want a global optimum with a high capacity model such as a DNN anyway (SVMs memorize only a small number of data points), because that possibly means that you are overfitting to your training dataset.
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by utopkara 8y ago
Meeting room switch does take time, and it is a cost, cannot argue with facts. However, real estate cost is not high only if the company is located in the woods. If one is looking to grow workforce in a central location, the real estate cos
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by utopkara 8y ago
Given your requirements, I would suggest a consultant/contract developer position for large/established companies building enterprise solutions. Large, because they will have challenging business problems that they cannot deliver
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by utopkara 8y ago
I had an office (in the company which pioneered individual offices for their dedicated building for creatives many decades ago), and I have worked in open office settings. There are times when you want to think on your own, but I don&#x27
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by utopkara 8y ago
Fantastic story! Looking forward to following the new breed of aviation pioneers and adventures in space!
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Foundations of Machine Learning from Bloomberg(bloomberg.github.io)
4 points by utopkara 8y ago|0 comments
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Brexit Polls Used by Hedge Funds Leave Lawmaker ‘Uncomfortable’(bloomberg.com)
2 points by utopkara 8y ago|0 comments
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The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by utopkara 8y ago|0 comments
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by utopkara 8y ago
US cities are amazing for libraries as well. I don't know much about the history of libraries, but it feels as if having a nice library was a prerequisite to being called a town. I'd say even now, having a nice library is a source
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by utopkara 8y ago
The problem is symmetric, and observations will match expectations if you can treat it as such. Put yourself in the place of the interviewer, who needs to decide on the person they will work with for the next two years. Software Engineering
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by utopkara 8y ago
Many will only read the image captions and will miss this buried "info" bit: "Conduent, in another twist, has begun competing with the start-up. The business services outsourcer, which has $6 billion in yearly revenue, introd
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by utopkara 9y ago
He could have gone up to the top of Burj Khalifa instead. But, that wouldn't have placed him on the headlines. Also, he is running for governor. As far as I can tell from recent experience, he will win.
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Flat-Earther's rocket lofts him 1,875 feet up(latimes.com)
38 points by utopkara 9y ago|40 comments
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by utopkara 9y ago
Thank you for this table. Yet, the footprint size you measure will depend on what you are counting. We eat meat mostly for protein; and for that beef is about 10x more efficient than wheat, and 3x more efficient than lentils by weight. Also
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by utopkara 9y ago
OK sure, do we also put carbon tax on wheat, and other vegetables? ~750 million tons of wheat is produced yearly, vs ~260 million tons of beef. Excepting the case of perennial plants, unused parts of vegetables (e.g. wheat straw) have a hef
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by utopkara 9y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I heard about this series but never watched it, and didn't know the plot. Amazing how the scifi writers leapfrog their times in understanding of science and its implications.
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by utopkara 9y ago
Fantastic thought experiment. Not sure if it was already covered in a scifi story before, my scifi literature is pretty weak. If not, somebody should turn this into one.
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by utopkara 9y ago
This points to a fundamental problem in the understanding of planetary systems. Planets do not come to being out of nothing; enourmous amounts of matter have to come together to make up a planet. Great example of experts ignoring "deta
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by utopkara 9y ago
If Steve Jobs hasn't done it, then who am I to waste money on this.
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by utopkara 9y ago
Reading a random person rant about scientifying stuff, should perhaps be evenly distributed across siblings; until you realize that writing style does give away a lot about the person writing it. You can write a decently performing classifi
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by utopkara 9y ago
Somebody has taken the snob of a barista really seriously. Really nice article, regardless of the motivation :-) Anybody who is working with a production NLP system would confirm that language is very much alive and changes over time, makin
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by utopkara 9y ago
Why does he have to be in the rocket? He doesn’t believe in cameras either?
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Researchers Devise 2FA System That Relies on Taking Photos of Ordinary Objects(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by utopkara 9y ago|0 comments
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Authentication by physical objects(theverge.com)
2 points by utopkara 9y ago|0 comments

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