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by yankoff 11y ago
People make mistakes all the time. Even VCs (sic!) Argument in the form of "it must be true because they are very smart and have access to experts" is not a good one. The real facts and evidence should be evaluated.
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by yankoff 11y ago
But is there anything wrong with his arguments? I don't understand why people get upset at this kind of thing. Why is it bad to try to critically analyze someone's idea especially when it comes to an area of your expertise?
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by yankoff 11y ago
Try diving deeper into real CS, there is the entire world of things that can revive your passion. If you mainly were focused on building CRUD apps and websites it's not surprising to get bored and burned out. Get out of your typical ro
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by yankoff 11y ago
The "best" feature they have is automatically sending notifications to all your peers (and through email) when you change one little thing in your profile. And they show specifically what you edited. You can disable it of course i
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by yankoff 11y ago
That would mean you went deeper in this chapter than in the previous one. The first fast iteration is really to get familiar with the main ideas and terminology. For example if it's a book on algorithms, you skim through it and underst
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by yankoff 11y ago
The trick that helps me is to do a iterative deepening learning. For example when you are reading a long book on a complicated topic, don't try to study every chapter perfectly before you move on to the next chapter. Things will fall o
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by yankoff 11y ago
In addition to doing free work you also get "shared responsibilities at the community house". These guys weren't joking when they said "non-standard offer" hahaha.
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by yankoff 11y ago
> If there are indeed exceptional jobs that can’t be filled by ANY domestic applicant, there’s still the EB-2 visa program, which somehow doesn’t max-out every year like H-1B I'm not sure this guy knows what he is talking about. EB-
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by yankoff 11y ago
a good thing is that now probably everybody knows how to solve it ;)
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Ask HN: What are your favorite code problems to give while interviewing?
10 points by yankoff 11y ago|11 comments
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by yankoff 11y ago
Interesting. I wonder if they will make you go over the interviews again if they find a position ;)
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by yankoff 11y ago
> I suspect there's a tendency to push new hires towards less glamorous positions That was also my impression after talking to several people from there. No much flexibility and very hard to get into a team you want. And lol at your
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by yankoff 11y ago
How the team placement looked like? You weren't actually assigned to a team and were given a choice?
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by yankoff 11y ago
How do they know they passed? They solved everything, but got no offer? I haven't heard of such stories. Share if you know any.
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by yankoff 11y ago
Thank you for such a detailed answer!
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Ask HN: People who made it to Google. What was your experience like?
30 points by yankoff 11y ago|18 comments
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by yankoff 11y ago
I think prioritizing and focusing on the right thing is one of the skills senior developers have. You don't normally have one isolated problem to solve. You have a problem and it branches out into multiple other problems. Over time you
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by yankoff 11y ago
hey, you'll be surprised, but LiveJournal is still popular and widely used in Russia and other ex. soviet countries ;)
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by yankoff 11y ago
Judging from his previous rants, Zed tends to overreact to things and blow out of proportion. Idiot commentors are everywhere, you don't just shutdown the community because of that. Other than that seems like a great guy.
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by yankoff 11y ago
Of course I was exaggerating a little bit, don't take everything so literally :) Sometimes people use word "genius" just to emphasize how much they are impressed.
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by yankoff 11y ago
This movie is amazing. Every scene is just genius :)
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Deep Learning 101(markus.com)
2 points by yankoff 11y ago|0 comments
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by yankoff 11y ago
May get confused with the python machine learning library that has the same name.
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by yankoff 11y ago
That was a part of your stoicism training.
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by yankoff 11y ago
Saw that on a Kaggle forum and been wanting to play with it for a while. Code looks amazingly clean and simple. Keep up a good work! Just curious if you compared Keras with caffe or torch in terms of performance?
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by yankoff 11y ago
It will be very interesting to see their findings. As far as I know Numenta's software (or HTMs in general) haven't been tested yet against known benchmarks like LSVRC, CIFAR, etc. Or results haven't been published.
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Andrew Ng's Talk on GPU Technology Conference(ustream.tv)
2 points by yankoff 11y ago|0 comments
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by yankoff 12y ago
I just hope it's not an April's fool joke
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Robot jazz band freestyles with a human(youtube.com)
1 points by yankoff 12y ago|0 comments
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by yankoff 12y ago
Awesome job, guys. I was just wondering recently if there's something like matplotlib but for Scala and there you go. By the way, have you ever came across something similar to python's pandas but in Scala? Specifically I'

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