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by watwatinthewat 5y ago
For sure this bill exists because Google and Apple are in the position rather than Samsung and LG. Regardless, good if it makes meaningful change.
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by watwatinthewat 5y ago
Coming from a bit different of a situation, I am at a government systems center that runs off customer funding rather than tax money, so we take clients. My group is being run short of people just as you describe. Almost every project I hav
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by watwatinthewat 5y ago
She was in the Air Force a full term before she was a contractor, and the UCMJ is beat into you in the military. Also, being in an intelligence squadron stationed at Ft Meade no less, she would have had tons of annual training on security r
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by watwatinthewat 5y ago
That's a good point, though I think the time/generational factor may cause it to trend downward. My parents unhappily paid cable prices their whole life. I've never once paid for cable TV and never will be willing to pay that
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I'd say there's two types of "variation" here that should be discussed separately. One is not working an average of 40 hours a week, and the other is being able to vary the times one works while still working full-time.
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Your phone still stays connected to a tower when it can unless you turn that off explicitly, else how would a call be able to come in?
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I'm not sure the package problem is really a problem for beginners. Just within the last year firsthand I've seen people in undergraduate classes, in graduate classes, and at work try Python the first time, and the default install
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I work at a government r&d/systems engineering center, and it's the same case here. The engineers who went through college with Matlab use that as their default (i.e., when the project doesn't call for something else from
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I appreciate you laying this out because it's something I have struggled with and thought I just didn't know the right way to handle it. For writing tests in a deep learning code base, rather than simply including a native data fi
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
You're right, reproducibility is a problem in science, all science and not just ML (again, as you say), so I don't think that proves anything wrong with Python.
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
The US military way from the Vietnam War on is two metal IDs (dog tags) tied through shoelaces and around the neck. Tattoo is probably more of a surety for positive identification except certain in cases like fire where the metal tag is mor
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Where I work there is a bit of overlap because some projects want the dev environment to match the final environment, and Red Hat is basically the only player in the game for prod in government. I can see this pushing some projects to pay f
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
It depends what you mean by "easy" here, but if you define that as "throw a big enough network at it, and it'll figure it out on its own in training", the research cited shows that is the case. The power you descr
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I honestly can't say I know if moving to opt-in would change police forces. I'd guess that military provisions of the GI Bill and training towards some tradecraft also help make the decision to leave easier. I wonder if there is s
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
I was only in five years but saw lots of reports and made maybe half a dozen job-related (DOD order/Constitutional related offenses) and one EO-related. I'd say in general the likelihood of something illegal on the job being repor
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Former Marine here, and that's definitely true in this branch. I'll say though, those who think it will be better out almost always get out when they can. The limitation of those so disenchanted with the Corps they think using the
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
My background is pure math; sorry if that wasn't clear. Even in that environment I have not seen someone use Sage over Matlab.
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Graduate educational background in math here and working in software engineering and machine learning. Like your coworker said, I do my work in Python and libraries like Sympy/pandas/numpy, not Sage. Sage never made more sense tha
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Given this, would you say your goal with Dexplot is to be a better Seaborn (and replace it given its dev state), basically the same usage cases but with improvements as you describe? Thanks for the effort. Looks like a great project.
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
Thanks for this! I dropped plotly due to having projects on machines wtihout an internet connection. Have to try it again.
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by watwatinthewat 6y ago
The argument seems to mostly boil down to this one part: "Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master the syntax, they’ll be able to make things quickly and e
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
In my opinion, the issue here is notation and a bit more. I did about eight years of college in math, changed paths, changed careers, changed careers again to ML/DL research, and now will finish a CS undergrad degree this month. I put
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
Why does this prevent that experience from happening? That's a genuine question, as I perhaps/probably don't know enough about the law to get it.
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
It would have been met with less scepticism and maybe some genuine concern if one of those "many" had written the article instead.
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
But this person is losing her "passion project", so it must not be worth the intended consequences. (/s)
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
Everyone I know with it does the $20/mo + $10/gb plan. If you don't use more than a gig or two a month, that's close to one of the cheapest plans around. There are some cheaper prepaid plans, though.
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
I work at a Navy research center. We don't try to be profitable but take DoD clients to cover costs, trying to break even yearly. The point there is we are mission or tax funded but work for customers. The projects in my department tak
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
I don't disagree and didn't mean to imply that.
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
I don't think I agree with Facebook getting a bigger fine than Equifax. I put my own information on FB. Equifax compiled information on me without my explicit consent. Both sets of data got into hands they shouldn't. I realize tha
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by watwatinthewat 7y ago
I don't see what part of that means the network operator shouldn't do their best to try to keep it safe.

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