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by zhdc1 4y ago
There’s a better way: 1. If there is a subject you’re passionate about, go for it 2. Cost matters. If you select a degree that doesn’t earn a lot and you live in a country where higher education can be expensive, unless if you have the oppo
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> I have never quantified this. So this is pure anecdotal evidence. But I am pretty sure, that more heat correlates with less overall performance and thus leads to a reduction of the GDP. Lee Kuan Yew considered air conditioning to be on
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Bourdieu has a unique take. He doesn’t explicitly say it, but a large part of his analysis assumes that artists are social (and economic) entrepreneurs. It’s an interesting take. Combined with his take on the idea of social capital, it beco
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Anything from nothing to a small correction. Mortgage payments set a ceiling on how high property prices can rise. However, people seem to be willing to spend more on mortgage payments than they probably should, so it’s likely that this cei
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> Do you think this is mediated by your mental state, instead of directly causal? It’s causal. I’ve found that my productivity level is relatively constant when I maintain a routine. The quality of my work may change depending on other f
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by zhdc1 4y ago
For those of you complaining about SnowHill9902 recommending religion, please check out Optimize.me (free) for something secular. It's still, IMO, the best collection of practical self-help knowledge and insight available on the intern
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> Yet ... I find myself back there. Agreed. There have been entire days where I've found myself distracted from completing otherwise pressing deadlines. What I've found is that the activity I do first when I start my 'work
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Not the same use case, but we regularly saturate 48 cores doing simple - and heavily parallelized - text analysis and language processing work. So much so that I’m now trying to figure out whether we can somehow cheaply move to a dual Epyc
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Gretl was released back in 2000, well before R gained enough traction be become one of the main programming languages for statistical computing.
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Research is starting to suggest that productivity gains are linear instead of exponential. So, whenever there is a shift, such as industrialization, that facilitates productivity growth, the bulk of the gains compared against economic growt
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> Loneliness I had to read through your comment a couple of times. From the sound of it, you’re likely in a better position than many other people here, and what worries you isn’t the lack of social contact but the depth and quality of i
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I have to ask, how are you getting 11+ hours with an x220? Aside from the screen, battery life and difficulties finding quality battery replacements are among the main reasons why switched to an M1 from an x220.
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Look at any FAANG/MAANA and ask the same question. If I had to guess, most of them have so much cashflow that mid and senior level managers are able to do engage in organizational silo-ing by hiring a large amount of expensive engineer
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> Who would want to be on the cleanup team when the glory goes to the path breakers? This and the second system syndrome are both organizational issues. Why couldn't an organizational simply freeze the customer facing portion of the
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This is a naive question from someone who hasn't been involved in project management in almost a decade, but why can't feature development and refactoring be split across two different ownership groups? The first group writes the
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Go with surplus commercial hardware and be judicious about when you turn your equipment on.
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SAR and multispectral imagery. It’s not difficult to work with when you’re only dealing a small and well defined regions, but the bandwidth and storage requirement definitely increase once you start doing daily global composites. We’ve actu
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> Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work? We work with gis/satellite data. Nothing groundbreaking technically, but we aggregate it into products that are useful for social science researchers who aren’t comfortable with
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I had 10gb internet on what was essentially a shared connection when I lived in Zürich. That, along with a surplus server I literally housed in my shoe closet, gave me the firepower I needed to prototype out something that led to two resear
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> However, there appears to be no one particular dominant one-stop type of portal offering comparisons across all kinds of product and service categories like Comparis or Idealo. The US market is too large. Comparis works because there a
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Put 350USD aside and pickup the best Lenovo T series laptop you can find on Ebay.
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> I recently picked up an old 2005-ish x220 for a few hundred quid off ebay which seems to be running nicely. The x220 launched in 2011. It's an old machine, but not that old. That said, I ran one myself for years and highly recomme
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Similar article from 2019 (published with peer review): Antretter, T., Blohm, I., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2019). Predicting new venture survival: A Twitter-based machine learning approach to measuring online legitimacy. Journal of
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Well if you thought there was an intrinsic value in the object you wouldn’t be too sad to keep it in your “collection”. I agree with you. There’s also a very legitimate argument for buying NFTs to support digital content creators. Howe
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When you’re paying 1m+ for digital „property“ that doesn’t produce income or can’t be leased or otherwise converted into income without selling it to the next sucker, is there any difference?
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> Imagine how many people fell into this craze and went ahead to "invest" money that they couldn't afford to lose. Maybe 1k, 5k, 10k - for some this is enormous amount of money. That’s an accurate description for almost t
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by zhdc1 5y ago
Optimize.me (free) is a life changer. I’ve also started using their new paid coaching/scheduling app, Heroic.
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> 2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them. The messaging IIRC was a little more nu
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Library compatibility issues, in particular with Julia and R. It's gotten much better over the last year, but I still run into enough problems that I try to keep all of my actual development work on a remote machine.
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> Interesting. What is that you dev? I'll chime in here. I have the same experience (Julia, R, JS, and a little bit of C/Python). I have an M1 laptop that I use constantly, but I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to r

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