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by vaidhy 6y ago
There are a lot of reasons for having a stationary lab under sea - I have seen a lot of experiments for acceleration of coral growth, bringing corals back to life etc that need long term study and sustained help. However, I am a bit confuse
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Apple cuts off Wordpress app to get a cut of domain sales(reviewgeek.com)
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Thanks for the post. I really enjoyed reading it.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
One of the key problems is in verifying citizenship. None of the existing identities work well for this. I remember when India introduced Aadhar card, it was explicitly mentioned that it is not a proof of citizenship and there was a &quot
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Both my Subaru and Honda have this along with a setting to choose comfortable following distance. I have set it to not follow too closely (and yes, I do get annoyed at people who use that gap to squeeze in my lane). OTOH, I get scared when
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I am upvoting this because it shows how much we rely on good intentions. We expect the submitter to have verified the source, the upvoters to read and critically analyze the content and everyone else to have long attention spans to read the
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by vaidhy 6y ago
when I was building this in circa 2006, I used porter stemmer. I do not know if that is still state of the art, but it worked really well for my purpose.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I was originally fascinated by this book and others like it. During the course of my reading, I stumbled upon Gerd Gigerenzer and I learnt a different interpretation. In short, most of these experiments assume full information is available
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Yes, but the vast majority of musicians do have formal coaching and training. A net worth is not an indication of musical talent and should not be used as one.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
An era of relative peace, prosperity, and cultural production which will define an entire society is often called a golden age. It is rare enough that it needs a mention in history. Here are a few examples: https://sites.google.c
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I think you are confusing social democracy and communism[1]. I agree with you that people should be free to own property and become wealthy. However, I do not think it should come at the cost of removing social net for the less lucky. [1]
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I do not believe in this over-simplification. However, the point about going to debt for those degrees is a question specific to US at this point in time. We should talk about free college education or heavily subsidized one, but this same
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I have been reading through the comments and I am very curious about a few things - 1. What "bullshit" degrees people are talking about? Are they the liberal arts studies? If so, as a society do we not see value in the fine arts?
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Destin, the person behind Smarter Every Day was ex-military and he interviewed his old commanding officer. It was clearly mentioned that the military is doing this to reach out to potential recruits while sharing interesting knowledge. I be
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by vaidhy 6y ago
You are confusing the ability to sustain the g-force by the brain with the force experienced. A padding on the helmet helps in event of collision, not the g-force which is due to the acceleration
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Are you perhaps confusing impact with g-force? A good analogy would be a fighter pilot or an astronaut. The g-force is felt all over the body irrespective of whether you are wearing a suit or not.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I think there is a huge underlying assumption that given some data, building a model for it is trivial and can be done on the fly. I have seen the same kind of approach from people who have built toy models in 10 lines using pytorch and see
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I do not believe this to be a zero sum game. You can argue for the merits of each one independently. Along with infinite wants, we also have infinite problems.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
The double negative in the title of the original article is bad editing - it either wrecks the chromosomes or creates a mayhem. If it wrecks the mayhem, it is a good thing(TM).
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by vaidhy 6y ago
I do not understand why it is a “either or” problem. We could fund CERN and climate research and other things. It just comes down to political will. Trying to phrase them as one for other is disingenuous and wrong. There is also a hidden as
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by vaidhy 6y ago
If all devs are remote, then it makes sense for the manager to be remote too. There is no reason to go to an empty office (unless your manager wants face time and cannot deal with remote reportees).
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by vaidhy 6y ago
You are right.. I missed the diversity quota completely. It is not available for some and open for others. I had friends from West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago) come with green card.
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by vaidhy 6y ago
You are mistaken. Only thing suspended for new green card applications. You apply for green card after you are in the country on one of these visas. A lot of immigration happens after people are in the US under H1B or L1 visa, not at the co
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by vaidhy 6y ago
EB1 is not a visa, but a category to get green card. It stands for employment based, priority 1. Irrespective of how your green card application will be prioritized, you still need a visa. Typically, people under L1A (intra company managers
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Child marriages were very common in India till about 50 years ago. My grandma was married when she was 15, my wife’s grandma when she was 13. My parent’s generation pushed back the age of marriage to 16 - 22. My generation moved it to 21 -
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by vaidhy 6y ago
My biggest concern for not trying it out right now is that the insider preview for windows is asking for all kinds of data permissions :(
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by vaidhy 6y ago
If you are born careless and not easily offended, why would the downvotes affect you? There seems to be some inherent conflict in your statements. If you have no opinions, then you take no stand. Why should people take you seriously? I bel
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by vaidhy 6y ago
Reading though the comments, it strikes me as we are all talking about things at many levels of abstraction. Forecasting should work fine for tasks defined at a fine granularity - we mostly take 5 days when we estimate 3 days. However, they
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by vaidhy 6y ago
As an engineer who has been in senior management positions, I can sympathize with your position. This is a good time for introspection. Almost all companies go through growth pains from a very small, close team to larger teams. The politics
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by vaidhy 6y ago
They do not. They have high availability systems and error correction/ledger balancing mechanisms. For e.g., a system partitioned by account numbers, generally works very well since the number of updates to an individual account is low

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