cstavish

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by cstavish 8y ago
Proscia | Front-end Engineer, Back-end Engineer, DevOps, Research Engineer, Machine Learning Systems Engineer | Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite The data to fight cancer is in images--specifically, gigapixel scans of tissue. Proscia is
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by cstavish 8y ago
Those familiar with the field will recognize an augmented reality microscope as an incomplete alternative to, or stepping-stone towards AI applied to whole-slide images, which are multi-resolution images of more or less identical quality qu
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by cstavish 9y ago
Sapiens?
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by cstavish 9y ago
In a similar spirit, the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine used to have zany cover designs (my favorite featured a sweaty Steve Ballmer in a Clippers jersey dribbling a basketball captioned " BASKET BALLMER ") but they've since
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by cstavish 9y ago
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley.
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by cstavish 9y ago
Accredited investors/VC (disclaimer: I am neither, but co-founded a VC-backed startup) are often wary of crowd funding because of the idea that with more investors, the more headaches that can occur with additional capital raises. Havi
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by cstavish 10y ago
> as I don't know if pulling venture capital is as easy as selling the stock. There's generally minimal liquidity. During a round, an existing investor may have the opportunity to sell some shares to new/other investors, b
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by cstavish 10y ago
Thanks a million, from me and the people who invested in my startup. edit: apparently SNI isn't supported on legacy dynos.
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by cstavish 10y ago
In 2014, while in college, I did a co-op rotation at the Bombardier Transportation facility in Pittsburgh, PA. The rail division may be based in Germany, but there's a sizable rail engineering contingent in Pittsburgh. I worked with a
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by cstavish 10y ago
I use JSONB columns for similar use-cases, but to play devil's advocate, you can accomplish that a fourth way, which is almost certainly better than 1 or 2. A table for fields, one row per field. A table for forms, which has a many-to-
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by cstavish 10y ago
This is great news; I had been waiting.
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by cstavish 10y ago
Apt reference, but to be clear, it is Donny who jumps on the Dude's attempt to quote Lenin, and Walter who scornfully corrects him, "V.I. Lenin-- Vladimir Ilyich ULYANOV!"
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by cstavish 10y ago
While I largely agree with you, not all ads need to be clicked in order to be considered effective by the advertiser. Look at a Coca-Cola billboard, for instance. There's no action item to call this number TODAY, etc. Just brand reinfo
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by cstavish 10y ago
The example of the pizza ordering is technologically impressive, yes... But from an end-user perspective it is at best "as hard" as calling the pizza place and talking to a human taking your order. There are many use cases where i
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by cstavish 10y ago
This is ironic. It used to be the analog medium that had a sort natural copy protection built in.
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by cstavish 11y ago
Lee's mailing a bootable USB with Tails on it to Greenwald seems super risky. I get that Greenwald isn't a tech savant, but instructing him to make his own bootable drive after verifying checksums of the OS image would probably ha
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by cstavish 11y ago
It's a DIY project. They're not for sale.
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by cstavish 11y ago
It's not necessarily about misrepresenting your business to potential acquirers. In many cases, an acquirer may be interesting in a company's IP portfolio or product. Such an acquisition might resemble a liquidation but it's
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by cstavish 11y ago
Back when all iOS apps ran as root, and MobileSafari had a vulnerable libtiff, jailbreakme.com was "easy" by today's standards.
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by cstavish 11y ago
Flowers for Algernon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
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by cstavish 11y ago
This is really good. Turned up some extremely relevant yet non-obvious results.
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by cstavish 11y ago
What if your tormentors in high school had raped you?
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by cstavish 11y ago
To play devil's advocate: hiring a less-experienced freelancer is a riskier investment than hiring an experienced freelancer with a big portfolio and many references. Even if the two candidates are of equal skill, the hiring party can&
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by cstavish 12y ago
I'd like to know your thoughts on today's cheap oil prices-- assuming oil stays around $70-80 a barrel for the next few years, do you see that slowing down solar development/investment? In other words, do people keep their &q
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by cstavish 12y ago
>> Java gave me a choice that I didn't need, and I made the wrong choice What if Java gave an arguably more useful choice--whether to use a signed or unsigned integer?
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by cstavish 12y ago
The ACLU needs a "let me donate but don't send me a pound of mail each year" membership option.
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by cstavish 12y ago
Who would have thought that 21-month-olds are predisposed to Kantian ethics?
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by cstavish 12y ago
It's 1000 times funnier than the Big Bang Theory if only because there's no laugh track.
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by cstavish 13y ago
How can you access the summarize tool in modern OS X? I remember Apple doing away with it or otherwise moving it after ~10.5 or so.
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by cstavish 13y ago
He's not enacting a law to prohibit anyone's speech. He's simply requesting that SXSW use "discretion" in its own speech. Although this isn't the best analogy, it's like a concerned parent writing a letter

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