MaxScheiber

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by MaxScheiber 9y ago
I second this. Wilma's eye passed over us, which was my first time ever experiencing the eye wall of a hurricane. I vividly remember watching our house's patio enclosure get destroyed from my parents' bedroom. I wouldn't
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by MaxScheiber 10y ago
I haven't actually found LLRBs to be simpler to implement, and a couple other sources agree with me. They're pedagogically simpler than standard RB trees, but if your goal is to introduce students to a balanced binary tree, I&#x27
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by MaxScheiber 10y ago
Laser Quest closed about a month ago (as did everything else in that plaza). If I remember correctly. LinkedIn purchased the real estate.
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
You know, I've had people assume I was an inferior software developer solely because I was in a social fraternity and therefore must not have spent any time studying for my exams or working on my problem sets. That's not really a
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Not the original comment author, but I thoroughly enjoyed taking Penn's undergraduate compilers course, which used OCaml to compile a basic OO language with single inheritance and dynamic dispatch. http://www.seas.upenn.edu&
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
In my experience, #4 has held up extremely well over time and is the most compelling reason for choosing an ML over another language. Algebraic data types are an absolute joy to work with when dealing with abstract syntax trees. The other p
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
To be clear, they raised $129M in this exact round of funding, which complements $550M previously raised in 2015.
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Does anyone else have the following issue with the footnote hotlinking on this blog post? When I click the "return" icon on a footnote to jump to the point in the text where the footnote is, I end up several lines below where I sh
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
I recently graduated from the Wharton / SEAS undergraduate dual-degree program. I can't currently think of any PMs that didn't have a technical background. I completely agree that being able to grok technical concepts is nece
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
I've never heard of a guessing reward before. I've heard of guessing penalties, though. Back when I took the AP exams, there was a penalty (negative points awarded) for guessing, whereas leaving a multiple-choice question blank wa
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Very off-topic, but Leveraged Sellout---a satirical blog about the financial industry---did a parody piece on YC called "The Book of Graham." http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2014/02/the-book-of-graham&#x2
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
First, sorry to hear about your experience. I wonder if you would have any luck escalating this to Chesky, Gebbia, et al. The Airbnb founding team really seems to take pg's advice on start-ups seriously. I'm sure that they're
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Palantir's philanthropy engineering team works with an organization called Community Solutions to help shelter the homeless.[0][1] (Full disclosure, I interned on this team last year.) [0] http://www.economist.com/blogs
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
The Michael Larson story is absolutely fascinating. The Game Show Network produced a made-for-TV documentary about this called Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal that I highly recommend watching. If I remember correctly, they brought
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Off-topic nitpick: I wouldn't quite go that far with regards to your characterization of Hill. Hill entered the Witness Protection Program because he was convinced that Jimmy the Gent was going to kill him, and if I remember correctly,
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
I don't necessarily have a problem with professional athletes doping in a black box, i.e. free of influencing others. Professionals should be fully aware of the health effects of "riding the bicycle," and it's hard for m
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
The point the poster you responded to was making the point that Zuckerberg may be satisfied with just Facebook, whereas Larry and Sergey choose to pursue other ventures in addition to Google. The poster wasn't making a point about tale
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
I agree, which is why it's especially necessary advice. Your gut instinct upon seeing that blindingly bright flash should be to duck and cover, whether you're outdoors or indoors. I wish this didn't have to be so important, s
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Watching the videos on the CCTV America link reminded me of some basic (but apparently necessary) safety advice. If you're ever in a situation like this, don't stand by a window filming it! You only have seconds until the blast br
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Thanks! I'll be more careful in the future.
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
> Amex does allow you to carry a balance but their ratio is opposite of others 30/70%. Ah yes, you're correct; thanks for reminding me. Their (arguably) more well-known cards (Green, Gold, Platinum, and Black) are actually char
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Credit and debit cards are the easiest way to pay in America, since bank transfers are not really an option for merchants. It's really uncommon to pay by check at the point of sale (to the extent where people might respond negatively),
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Plenty of CIA analysts are non-technical, for starters, and I would imagine the same holds for the other agencies you mentioned. One does not need to be a programmer or especially well-versed in technology to hold those jobs. I think we&#x2
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
They make software for non-technical users to explore relationships in unstructured data, and they do a lot of in-house consulting with their clients in terms of migrating data and building custom software add-ons. It's really not anyw
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
> For example, there is no cost to the advertising firm for promoting blatantly incorrect or dangerous statements that must latter be corrected through costly education. I disagree somewhat, as there is certainly a regulatory cost. Now w
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
This article has quite a cynical tone that I can't say I agree with. The argument that advertising is the business of harvesting customers' attention, while not necessarily incorrect, is disingenuous. The ad industry is not some d
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Steven Benner is an expert in the field. Dunning-Kruger does not apply at all. It looks more like he's trying (EDIT: or his funding foundation is trying) to talk up his research, which is understandable.
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
I'm not convinced that this is necessarily a good idea biologically, especially after talking to a couple of my friends that are researchers in this space. However, this seems quite interesting for non-biological applications. Take col
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
> I guess that's what the whole "invest more conservatively as you get older" thing is supposed to help with? The big index and mutual fund companies offer different allocations between stocks and bonds. You might start ou

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