SamPutnam

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by SamPutnam 8y ago
If you do get one at some time, and find you enjoy Wordpress, I warmly recommend WP Engine.
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
In a 2008 speech, Mr. Miller summed up with uncharacteristic seriousness what had led him - as well as ski bums and heads of state and corporations - to head for the mountains. "It's our search for freedom," he said. "I
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
lg Exalt
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
I stopped using a smartphone 2 months ago, switching to a flipphone with wi-fi calling. When I made the switch, the employees in the mobile store acted as if they had lost one of their own and outwardly displayed the 7 stages of grief for
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
Government statistics show avocado exports now bring more money into the country than petroleum. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/06/mexico-...
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
Emphasis mine- Excerpt: "Some might say that ag and ripgrep and any of the other tools I list on beyondgrep.com are competing projects, but I think that way of thinking is wrong. It’s only a competition if you see it as a competitio
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
I've experienced something like this programming in a room in the basement of a hospital at a medical imaging device for 8 hours, where notable project progress came in the course of days, not hours. With the absence of light, external
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
Where are the L1 caches?
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
For those wondering why do they have to go to Chile? , I presume it's for the same reason as given here for the ELT (extremely large telescope, to be completed in 2024): The location was chosen because of its high percentage of cloudl
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
I would think this is Jana's move and CalSTRS is just a pawn. Rosenstein is scrappy and happy to stir the pot to invoke a stock price spike (see PetSmart sale and Whole Foods).
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
Instead of indexing the geofences using R-tree or the complicated S2, we chose a simpler route based on the observation that Uber’s business model is city-centric; the business rules and the geofences used to define them are typically asso
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
A couple of things to watch out for when you are using these three steps: "I want to get the work done, I don't have time to look through the documentation to find some new command". If you think like this, you will get stuc
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
For example: "2 or 3 years ago links was 80-90% of what it took to get something ranked, Panda has changed that in an insane way. Here's the test example. Go to Google and search for 'best time to visit Tahiti'. You&#x27
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
42% Growth CAGR in Retail Gaming NB Sales over the last 3 years What are NB sales?
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
To clarify, I don't think this is improper use of the upvote mechanism, I was just hoping for more engagement with the comment feature of Hacker News, given the 7k click thrus.
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SamDeepLearning/The-Terrib...
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
7k views, 155 upvotes, 1 comment...
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Big Tech to Join Legal Fight Against Net Neutrality Repeal(nytimes.com)
1 points by SamPutnam 9y ago|0 comments
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
Max, while I appreciate your comment, I think you are the only one who saw it, because it is a showdead post. Do you have any tips to make this more gratifying to one's intellectual curiosity, so that it becomes unflagged?
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
250 views and no comments? I am happy to answer any questions you may have. -SP
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by SamPutnam 9y ago
52 weeks/year, 40 hours/week = 2080 hours. You can turn those knobs up/down based on vacation, non-billable time, etc, but just to pick a number, let's say you have 1,500 billed hours per year. $250,000 / 1,500 hou
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Show HN: How I Made $1000 in One Day Consulting Without Writing a Proposal(deeplearning.clickfunnels.com)
4 points by SamPutnam 9y ago|0 comments
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by SamPutnam 10y ago
Erik, http://bethemindset.com/app.html looks good.
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The 20's at home in Vermont (2015)(medium.com)
1 points by SamPutnam 10y ago|0 comments
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by SamPutnam 10y ago
I found the lecture useful. I haven't made it to the end, but there is a good visualization on solving the XOR problem without the Kernel Trick, starting at 26:57. She shows a multi-layer perceptron and uses two hyperplanes (hidden la
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Randomized Scheduler for Discrete Tasks on Large Hadoop Clusters (2014)(research.vahula.com)
1 points by SamPutnam 10y ago|0 comments
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by SamPutnam 10y ago
The donated GPUs used are listed at $3100 and $1500, respectively, on Amazon.
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Review comments from a declined iOS NSF SBIR Phase I proposal(medium.com)
1 points by SamPutnam 10y ago|0 comments
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It looks like you majored in EE. Why not CS?(medium.com)
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by SamPutnam 10y ago
Anecdotally, this does sound about right, and it can be frustrating for the academics too. Still, the title is brash, and ten readers completely (and I don't know how that was determined) reading a 25-page journal publication is not in

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