jcagalawan

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by jcagalawan 2y ago
Still true. From her Mastodon today: > i quit my job just over 5 years ago to explain computer things ( https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/13/a-year-explaining-computer-t... ). I had no idea if I would like b
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by jcagalawan 3y ago
> Every single cafe, restaurant, supermarket, and mall has free wifi. I live in a major city in the Philippines, and free WiFi is becoming more of a rarity nowadays. Not even Starbucks and other big chain restaurants, malls, and cafes of
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by jcagalawan 3y ago
Theory of Computation, Number Theory, and Probability are good starts.
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by jcagalawan 4y ago
> Son Masayoshi is of Korean ancestry for instance. Korea is East Asian. Southeast Asia consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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by jcagalawan 5y ago
https://executeprogram.com has a SQL course. I’ve tried other resources but this one made it click for me after years if relying on SQLAlchemy.
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by jcagalawan 5y ago
The toolkit in the packages by default is old though. I was setting up JAX on a Ubuntu 20.04 WSL 2 install and it was complaining about ptxas being old and giving bad results.
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by jcagalawan 6y ago
Different Ben-David. You're talking about Shalev's dad Shai.
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by jcagalawan 6y ago
They are still publishing in other venues, like this pretty recent CVPR repo and paper. https://github.com/apple/ml-quant
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by jcagalawan 6y ago
I've received a lot of value from doing practice interviews on interviewing.io to improve how I perform. I also got two referrals out of the five mock interviews I did.
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
I’ve been using Magit inside a VSCode terminal for a couple weeks, this is a great alternative!
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
I’m just a Cebuano finding excuses to visit home bai :). How’s the tech scene over there?
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
Have contact info? Exploring opportunities in Cebu.
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
I wanna shout out David Garcia[1] for doing great stuff with Blender in the GIS space. This seems like a really cool project and I hope it makes that sort of work easier. [1] https://mapmakerdavid.com
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
It’s like having a “What is sorting?” article with bubblesort as the algorithm of focus. It’s easy to explain and answers the question. Yes, time complexity is fundamental to designing algorithms but it’s not something necessary for an intr
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
Interesting to me is that a lot of native apps have similar functionality with the Alt key to navigate menus. Certain menu options would have an underlined character and you'd hit that character to select it like in Spacemacs. I never
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
Is there a setup that lets multiple people edit at the same time?
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
DFO is derivative free optimization. With multiple objectives you try to find different solutions given different weightings to the objectives for the Pareto front and pick one depending on the domain.
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by jcagalawan 7y ago
What's with the apostrophe in that New York Times headline: "When Doctor's Slam The Door"?
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
I think Synergy does what you needed with Teleport. I used it at work a while back when I had Apple devices and it worked great as long as I had the MacBook set up as the host.
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
It's not even just scrolling, a lot of my relatives who are still in the Philippines tend to comment on or interact with just about everything that pops up on their feed. I think it's mostly because of the widespread diaspora and
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
As a speaker of both Bahasa Indonesia and Mandarin, I'd say Mandarin is faster.
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
While I can't find any specific sources in the field of education, I was taught in engineering school that engineers reviewing the work of another engineer, unless their job specifically required them to review work, was against the co
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
It's the same one as implemented in MS Word (and PowerPoint, OneNote), this standard was written by an engineer who is on the Math in Office team and maintains a blog [1]. It's the best WYSIWYG equation editor I've used so fa
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UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (2016) [pdf](unicode.org)
101 points by jcagalawan 8y ago|56 comments
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
Isn’t the inversion a trivial transpose for rotations since they’re orthogonal?
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
I've found the best way to read those sorts of books is to treat the proofs as the exercises, i.e. doing the proof blind and using the proof inside as a check.
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
Even with Hadoop, there's still algorithmic decisions that you have to make like whether to choose a stripes or pairs strategy when synchronization is needed[1], or choosing appropriate data structures for real time queries [2]. Sure s
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by jcagalawan 8y ago
Sounds like the talk "The Thirty Million Line Problem" by Handmade Hero creator Casey Muratori: https://guide.handmadehero.org/misc/30mlocp/
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by jcagalawan 10y ago
RTags works pretty well and always jump to the right definition for me. You pass it to a compilation database json file that you can make using CMake. It runs in the background as a daemon and provides robust go-to-definition as well as aut
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by jcagalawan 11y ago
If you have the cash, we use Turtlebots in our labs. They use ROS which can be programmed in C++, Python or LISP. There's a cheaper similar version that also uses ROS called DeepBot, but I haven't had any experience with it. It lo

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