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by ishansharma 3y ago
https://ishan.co I rarely blog about interesting problems that I think could help others and sometimes gaming.
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Amazon will shut down Amazon Care on December 31st(theverge.com)
8 points by ishansharma 4y ago|2 comments
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by ishansharma 4y ago
The article has a refers to a few sources towards the end including: One such study found that children who grew up in homes with between 80 and 350 books showed improved literacy, numeracy, and information communication technology skil
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Uber admits covering up 2016 data breach in settlement with US prosecutors(theverge.com)
4 points by ishansharma 4y ago|0 comments
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by ishansharma 5y ago
May I ask the $2000 desktop configuration with 2x the speed? Of course Apple chips won’t work well for gaming, but what other benchmarks will this $2000 desktop win?
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by ishansharma 5y ago
Re: India. It’s very common. Large IT firms like Tech Mahindra, Cognizant etc do it. I had offers from a company where they wanted around 1 year salary of signed check. If I leave before 2 years, they use the check. Some companies go a step
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by ishansharma 6y ago
I agree with most of your comment and it's making me rethink some of my opinions. But is this accurate: > Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're
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by ishansharma 6y ago
I admit that politics is mixed into my opinions here. It's just that based on current political climate, I think it's hard to keep politics aside. My thoughts about pg have essentially gone through this flow: - Start reading some
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by ishansharma 6y ago
It’s my opinion but that was a very one sided view. And I need to read more on this but I don’t think the way he pointed it out is how anyone is proposing wealth tax.
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by ishansharma 6y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I read all his essays in my early 20s and became a huge fan. Not just startup advice wise, but general big picture stuff wise too. Then I saw his recent tweets and especially the essay about wealth tax, I was a bit disa
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by ishansharma 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this? I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure? I've seen several people blaming Mic
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by ishansharma 7y ago
Can you explain further? I’m curious how Bitcoin benefits from it?
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Apple Suspends Program in Which Contractors Listened to Recorded Siri Snippets(macstories.net)
2 points by ishansharma 7y ago|0 comments
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by ishansharma 7y ago
Ah, the planned obsolescence argument. It used to be invoked all the time with software (updates are making it slower) but Apple just released software updates to fix GPS on several older iPads. Maybe, they are focusing on other things like
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by ishansharma 7y ago
I use default Mail.app for macOS. I tried the fancy clients like Spark etc but settled on Mail finally. I prefer desktop clients because I have 6 email accounts and managing all of them in tabs is just a headache.
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Mojave’s Sandbox is leaky(objective-see.com)
1 points by ishansharma 8y ago|0 comments
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by ishansharma 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the ads are not put up by the author by WordPress.com. According to their pricing page[1], they "sometimes" display ads on blogs to cover costs. https://wordpress.com/pricing/
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Or apps for that matter. Having used the app for 6 months, I just keep a browser tab open these days, no use of feeding all the RAM to Slack.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
This is a huge clickbait. Does not mention that fine is in Australia and fine is just $7 mil.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
I am not aware of Readdle doing anything bad or having a bad reputation. How is it bad for privacy, just asking because I’m a regular user and would switch if it’s not good for privacy.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Spark for macOS and iOS can do something similar for any mail accessible via IMAP/POP/Exchange.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
I guess the point of the article is exhorbitant fees. An ice pack and a bandage in ER don’t have to cost $5k plus.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Thank you. I will consider doing that. I will have to create or find a relevant dataset that's small enough for those concepts but I guess that'll help rather than jumping straight to random forest or gradient boosting.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Thanks for sharing. I will take a look at Cython implementation, that should help me learn a few things.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Since we are looking at entropy with respect to class (whether we want to eat or not eat), entropy for blue & kit kats is 0 as we don't want to eat them at all. So there's no randomness. They are included in the IG formula but
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by ishansharma 8y ago
I am considering doing a more programming focused part, where I take a big dataset and implement a decision tree using Scikit Learn. After that, I will look into ensembles. If you have any specific questions about ensembles, feel free reply
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Ah, I guess I could have used a Gist for that. Thanks for the suggestion, let me see if I can update the article.
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Thank you for the kind words. My goal was to make the explanations as simple as possible. Using them to get a feel about dataset is an interesting use case and I haven't tried that. It does sound interesting though. Something to do wit
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Hi, Author here. Thanks for the links. I originally planned to try a bigger dataset but didn't want to make the article too long, so left out the optimizations. I had to do the same exercise for my ML class and had similar results. Ran
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by ishansharma 8y ago
Duckduckgo. It's good enough now, I am slowly moving away from Google products (only Gmail left). Rarely, I will use !g to go to Google but it has gotten lesser and lesser recently.

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