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by zetazzed 4y ago
I think I'll point to this as one of the examples of how AWS has been scrappy and successful. (Yes, I'll get like 10 flames on this comment.) They made this nice simple API for S3 that has become a de facto standard. They added lo
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by zetazzed 4y ago
I strongly recommend Darrell Owens' substack (and Twitter). He's a young guy who got involved in housing politics in Berkeley back in high school and is studying data analytics. The blog has real data analysis of housing issues, n
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by zetazzed 4y ago
I wonder if they'll just slap their brand name on DuckDuckGo or You.com and try to use their legacy recognizability to a large audience to get traction.
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by zetazzed 4y ago
I loved being a computer science major at a school with a great department. But my only regret is that it felt impossible to do a year abroad. So many prereqs built upon each other that being out of the loop for one year would make it reall
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Ancient Celtic culture was really into the practice of casting valuable objects into bodies of water - apparently this was a central religious practice for them. So what did the Romans do when they conquered Celtic territory?They would auct
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Berkeley Chess School does lots of casual tournaments (and classes): https://www.berkeleychessschool.org/programs/adult-chess-tou... (One of my kids does a lot with BCS and loves them) There's also a small sidewal
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Maybe unpopular advice, but I do find that companies over-index on your current role. (FWIW I have hired lots of new and experienced PhDs in ML but am not hiring now.) So if you take a "placeholder" job, I suggest trying to find o
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by zetazzed 4y ago
There was a very cool exhibit at the Baker Library at Harvard way back from the archives of Dun an Bradstreet that showed their 19th century version of a credit check product. It was basically just freeform notes about businesspeople like,
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Taking a job as CEO of a troubled company… where the owner is famously mercurial and confident… and said owner REPORTS to you… and said owner RUNS ENGINEERING despite not having directly run a software team in, what, 25 years?… That would i
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Post ( https://post.news ) is probably the closest to a well funded Twitter clone that I’ve seen. Very similar UX. Supposed to have more emphasis on publishers but that’s not very apparent yet in my feed there. Right now I use sig
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Just as one datapoint, I had stage 4 cancer in my 40s. They described the chemo as one of the most intense courses they can give. Took seven months or so. It sucked but was very doable - you just get up, show up, feel sick, then do it again
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Hmm... they have 300 mil in cash, 500 mil from Softbank, and another 500 mil from other commitments. So, $1.3 bln of accessible cash in total. I know they burn some money, but this doesn't sound like a tiny pool to me.
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by zetazzed 4y ago
I believe https://post.news/ is the attempt to do this (though mostly not with past Twitter employees). Basically the same as Twitter but with a little more emphasis on publishers. Seems fine, though occasionally it gets a
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Hmmm... in their three theses, they include: "We stay underweight DM equities " in #1 and "We are strategically overweight DM equities." in #3? DM Equities = Developed Market Stocks How do they both underweight and overw
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by zetazzed 4y ago
This attitude makes me so sad. When I started in tech, people were proud that this was one of the few industries that shared equity with a broad base of employees. Seeing a parking lot full of Porsches was celebrated, and people loved stori
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Does anyone have advice on whether the Lego Spike kits are actually good for home use? (In my case, for a 9 year old who is very Lego-proficient and has some basic Scratch skills.) They seem very structured for classroom use, but I keep thi
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Is housing fake? Most people can tell a $100k house from a $700k house, but there are exceptions. For instance, viewers who are not experts in the San Francisco Bay Area region of housing often could not tell whether this house ( https:&#x2
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by zetazzed 4y ago
These are all critiques of reporting on a quirky celebrity CEO. Serious question - was there a lot of coverage that said something like “FTX is safe” or “FTX is a good place to park your money”? I agree that there is a long tradition of un
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by zetazzed 4y ago
I personally enjoyed 1Q84 slightly more than Kafka on the Shore, but if you actively disliked KotS, you probably won't like 1Q84 either. It has a bit more forward motion to the plot, but it is still in my opinion best enjoyed if you em
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Here is the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01909-w#Sec8 (The linked one is a short news summary.) Their code is public: https://github.com/AnuSub/Stata-and-R-codes/
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by zetazzed 4y ago
For combinatorial optimization, there is now NVIDIA cuOpt, which is ridiculously fast: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuopt-logistics-optimization Ceres can use GPUs for some solver bits too, I believe.
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CA lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open(nytimes.com)
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I always think about Agnes Callard's description of the Importance Game: "I’ve noticed that complaining about how busy one is hits a sweet spot of oppression—I cannot manage my life!—and importance—because I am so in demand!&quot
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by zetazzed 4y ago
In Berkeley, the public library will lend you a table saw, circular saw, power drill etc. The inventory is right there in the online catalog: https://catalog.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/?section=home Maker-oriented kids can a
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by zetazzed 4y ago
Crazy to see that Annals of Internal Medicine prominently highlights "metrics" for the article including "Picked up by 215 news outlets." Are academics supposed to be like Buzzfeed writers now, chasing media instead of p
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by zetazzed 5y ago
Consider also GPU accelerating the whole thing if you have a GPU around. cuML matches the sklearn API https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/ . Pays off very quickly if you have large datasets.
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by zetazzed 5y ago
https://www.berkeleyside.org/ live tweets all of our city meetings. Great summaries. Of course you can always just join the Zoom if you're particularly interested and the live tweets draw you in. Local journalism can p
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by zetazzed 5y ago
France will build more nuclear, and in the long run solidify its position as a huge exporter of electricity at high rates when wind is low. Weird arbitrage opportunity for them as the neighbors go all in on wind.
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As U.S. Hunts for Chinese Spies, University Scientists Warn of Backlash(nytimes.com)
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by zetazzed 5y ago
I can't recommend Walter Isaacson's biography of Ben Franklin enough. While some founding fathers turn out to be less interesting than expected (anyone with Adams in their name, e.g.), Franklin's life is legitimately bonkers

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