brookhaven_dude

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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
You may have confused cause and effect here.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
So much misinformation in this thread. H1B's don't get paid lower. Law requires that they be paid market wage and no native workers are being undercut. If you see this happening, then you can actually report it to DoL (I have had
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Are there any quantum simulating frameworks that I can download on my high performance gaming PC and start playing with simple quantum programs?
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Any pointers on how to go about looking for a remote job?
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
"Placenta encapsulation" is still very much a thing among hippie moms.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Good combinations - CS + Finance, CS + Operations Research, CS + Economics, CS + Physics
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Come to Atlanta. Highest tree density among any major metropolis. Nicknamed "City in a Forest". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_tree_canopy PS - Spring season is hell.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
It's not "stealing"
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
You are wrong on that. A company I worked for was investigated after a complain about H1B process. I actually had an investigator call me asking all kinds of questions. They do take complaints about H1B abuse seriously.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
It is illegal to hire an H1B if a qualified American is available. You should file a complaint with DoL.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
What do you say about neural networks with thousands of parameters?
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
No John Wick reference? So disappointed...
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Panini's Ashtadhyayi.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Lack of evidence is not evidence of falsehood. Strong magnetic fields can make you forget things. No one know what sort of effect wrought by weak EM radiation exposure over decades. Some of us would like to err on the side of caution, if fe
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
What's a good replacement for icloud keychain? Something that will fill passwords on my iPhone?
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
> live life in such a way, that at the end, you could say once more This is in stark contrast with Hinduism and Yoga - there the goal is to never come back!
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Are deep neural networks really that widely applicable that it's profitable to design custom chips for them? What about other models of AI that involve, say, discrete math or graph search?
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
And most of these urban dwellers did not vote for Trump or this vindictive Governor.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Because most of the benefits of the former are getting concentrated into the hands of educated and urban dwellers. So people want change, but end up stupidly sabotaging. Disclaimer: I am not a Trump supporter.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Not really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHHPCAao4k
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Many airlines could very well be tech companies at this point. Same for some other "old school" stalwarts like UPS and Fedex.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Reader view in safari and firefox
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Somehow this is not a problem in Indian rice.
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Hinduism
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by brookhaven_dude 7y ago
Not terribly relevant for those of us who use safari only for everything, because content blockers.
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by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
> _Apple is still a for-profit corporation._ Whose profit model is aligned with promoting user privacy, rather than against it.
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by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
Use Apple devices and software as much as possible?
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by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
He mentioned that he applied knn to handwritten digit recognition. A likely approach would be as follows. Given a new vector that needs to be classified (say, x), it is compared with its nearest neighbors in the data set (let's call th
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by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
What about using Python (with system calls) to build the project? Much more understandable than Makefiles.
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by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
They lost an opportunity to really overhaul the system that would have drawn support from liberal groups. Like turning H1B allocation process into an auction - let the company that offers highest compensation win the visa. And associating t

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