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How Machine Learning perpetuates bias(chaordic.io)
1 points by wfaler 10y ago|0 comments
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How your business can do better than Google and Facebook(devoted.io)
3 points by wfaler 10y ago|0 comments
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by wfaler 11y ago
Nope, nope, nope. If it was just about registering a company somewhere else and your home tax authorities had no jurisdiction, every company in the world, small or big would be incorporated in tax havens like the British Virgin Islands only
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Tech recruitment is broken(codequalified.com)
1 points by wfaler 11y ago|0 comments
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Technical debt as “venture investment” – software should be disposable(recursivity.com)
2 points by wfaler 12y ago|0 comments
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by wfaler 12y ago
Case of "I'm going to pick the sentence I like the least out of its context and argue against that"?
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by wfaler 12y ago
It's pretty easy to be "10x" (or infinity) someone who clearly doesn't know what they are doing. However, assuming some minimum baseline of having a clue, the multiplier is more likely to be due to environment. Banks hir
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The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CV(codequalified.com)
74 points by wfaler 12y ago|56 comments
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We need functional programming because a large subset of us are average or below(recursivity.com)
14 points by wfaler 12y ago|3 comments
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How Ansible and Docker Fit: Using Ansible to Bootstrap and Coordinate Docker(recursivity.com)
2 points by wfaler 12y ago|0 comments
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Programmer auditions – Actors do it, so why shouldn't developers?(codequalified.com)
6 points by wfaler 12y ago|5 comments
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by wfaler 14y ago
The rule generally applied, which I think is a sensible one, is that you pay tax in a country on profits derived from it IF you have a permanent place of establishment there (branch office, sales office, retail outlets etc). This means a co
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by wfaler 15y ago
True, but problems are there to be solved. :) We've done a lot of work around data normalization/scrubbing from a multitude of sources as part of a sister project, so I'm fairly confident about this aspect. Curation and classification is an
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by wfaler 15y ago
Appreciate your comment. And you're right about decision trees, though they can be useful for simpler problems, such as classifying documents into categories, whereby you have "sub categories" and the parent categories are mutually exclusiv
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by wfaler 15y ago
That's a very good list. I think we're just starting to scratch at the surface of what is possible, which is why I've devoted myself to working in this field!
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by wfaler 15y ago
I'm not familiar with 80legs, but the main idea is to "democratise" access to this technology and make it easily accessible to anyone who wants to build something on it. The initial few beta releases will probably be aimed at people aiming
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Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert(blog.recursivity.com)
80 points by wfaler 15y ago|31 comments
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by wfaler 16y ago
I find the thread starter and the highest ranking comments to be seriously deluded, and here's why: I find that TDD almost 99% of the time speeds me up, lets me iterate and test my thesis much faster than without, and for this very reason,
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by wfaler 16y ago
I'm betting someone in the Vatican is taking note of this..
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by wfaler 16y ago
This is likely due to you being an American citizen or green card holder: American authorities have lately completely disregarded that some people may expatriate for completely legitimate reasons, and American crackdowns and IRS rules makes