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by xkgt 5y ago
I actually found the Touch Bar to be useful for IntelliJ shortcuts compared to unwieldy keyboard shortcuts. I liked the volume control as well. But these conveniences were not so important that I missed them when switching to a linux laptop
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by xkgt 6y ago
Sorry, yes you are right.
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by xkgt 6y ago
Given the recent discussions in hn on how Intel's fortunes declined under Bob Swan, it is interesting to note that Andy Jassy is also from a non-technical background. Same can be said about Jeff Bezos. Perhaps tech vs non-tech backgrou
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by xkgt 6y ago
I agree with OP, not all languages are optimized for solving programming challenges (to be specific, recreational programming challenges) as they are optimized around different goals. I tried solving AOC2020 as a means for learning golang.
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by xkgt 6y ago
I bumped into this accidentally having ever heard of it. It is one of those pleasures of browsing through a library. Lovely book, easy to understand with a broad range of topics and insights. Recommended!
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by xkgt 6y ago
For anyone fascinated by this topic, the book I, Mammal[1] by Liam Drew is highly recommended. A whole chapter is dedicated to the importance of placenta in evolution of mammals, along with other chapters on other mammalian features like la
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by xkgt 6y ago
Yannic Kilcher just released a new video[0] on the Performers paper. It will be useful to watch it after going through the above videos on transformers. [0] https://youtu.be/xJrKIPwVwGM
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by xkgt 6y ago
// If you delay the learning, you learn it much more quickly. Is there any source for this?
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by xkgt 6y ago
Most of the anecdotes here are quite illuminating. But I am interested to understand this from parenting perspective. How much of time and effort a homeschooling parent need to dedicate. And I wonder whether there is a selection bias in the
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The virus of myside bias is spreading among cognitive elites(a-g-i-l.de)
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Getting Started with GPU Computing in Anaconda (2017)(anaconda.com)
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by xkgt 6y ago
I am not surprised. I may be speaking from ignorance but this seems to be at the center of a lot of spiritual experience. In south India, during village festivals (which are closer to folk religion rather than mainstream Hinduism) there is
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Clever Hans: A horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic(en.wikipedia.org)
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by xkgt 6y ago
... so says a curve fitting machine operating in a hyperplane in 100 trillion dimensions
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by xkgt 6y ago
I spent 30 minutes today convincing a Data scientist why she shouldn't use excel to store her interim data and that even an untyped data forms such as csv or json would be a better medium compared to an excel document.
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by xkgt 6y ago
Are there really no popular alternatives to Youtube to keep them honest? It is the virtual monopoly that allows them to be complacent enough to enforce such lousy automation. This is not healthy.
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by xkgt 6y ago
So this payment feature that Whatsapp is rolling out works internationally? Even when WeChat launched payment in HK market, they had to go with a separate wallet for HK transactions. My point is that allowing payments within a single market
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by xkgt 6y ago
Wechat has had this for ages.
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by xkgt 6y ago
I just lost my morning skimming through this book. It looks like there are a lot of other good books among this collection. It won't be possible to go through all, but are there are any recommendations from HN? Personally, I have come
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by xkgt 6y ago
Came here to say the same. It seems to be the most intelligent IDE I have used so far in that it can understand what you are trying to achieve (well, most of the times) and help you write better code. I learnt a lot in Python just by follow
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by xkgt 6y ago
IMO, there are two main factors are important for good learning: a) Motivation - This is different from enthusiasm about a given subject. It is about the drive to put in the yards for learning. Enthusiasm doesn't always translate to m
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by xkgt 7y ago
I took this course few years back as well. Quite enjoyed it at that time. Recommended!
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by xkgt 7y ago
MS has more user facing SaaS offerings than Amazon, so both are not impacted the same way due to the lock down. What is the AWS equivalent of Teams & Office 365? Chime and work docs? The comparison is apples to oranges.
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by xkgt 7y ago
+1 It is a short and easy read, but leaves a lot to ponder over.
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by xkgt 7y ago
"A Cultural History of Physics" by Karoli Simonyi is a brilliant book on the history of Science and math from antiquity to recent past. Even though the title reads as history of physics, the book touches upon everything from Math
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Did parasite manipulation influence human neurological evolution?(phys.org)
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by xkgt 7y ago
// The article tries to challenge the 10000 hours rule, but fails to provide details or numbers that suggest what other factors would be more important. As per the article, one of the author Macnamara claims that a complex combina
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by xkgt 7y ago
This is silly and will further harm GCP's viability as alternative to AWS or Azure. Firstly, I can't find any official announcement regarding the rationale and suggested solutions for their customers to reduce their cost. Just add
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by xkgt 7y ago
//Basically what they sad is that western culture in Hong Kong clashes with the Chinese culture. This is exactly a regurgitation of the propaganda by CCP. They blamed western influence, education and cultural whitewashing of HK Ch
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by xkgt 7y ago
Any similar shortcut for feet inches to cm? I find this conversion to be slower to compute than miles to km or lbs to kg.

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