jfaucett

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by jfaucett 8y ago
> From what I gather, aerobic exercise... That was my impression as well after doing some research in this area a while back. Although I looked specifically at longevity and cardiovascular studies there was a peak benefit at about 2hrs p
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by jfaucett 8y ago
Here's what I try to do: 1. Start with the intuition. (The big concepts i.e. for BigO trying to figure out the best, worst and average number of steps it takes to run a function as the input size grows). Make sure everyone gets the big
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> until you need to upgrade, then you have months of no business value delivery and need to bring... This is not the case in my experience. I've upgraded pretty decent sized apps (hundreds of models,lines of routes, etc) and in my e
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> 1. we aren't all rich ... Its hard to discuss any of the things you mention since it all depends on what particular system you are looking at. If we constrain ourselves to the US system we're still going to have massive diffe
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> If everyone is rich, prices just rise to the point where everyone isn't rich anymore. Rich and poor are always tied to purchasing power which itself is tied to productivity, efficiency and innovation within an economy. (as well a
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> We are social animals who evolved in small communities I agree with you. First, historically speaking, large disparities have led to revolutions and countless atrocities. Also our neural cortex isn't so highly evolved that it does
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by jfaucett 8y ago
What I think people like the author who are arguing about inequality are missing is that inequality is not the fundamental issue or put another way I think that tackling it is the wrong goal to have. For instance, if we are all rich, it doe
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> Every time - every single time... Just thought I'd provide some counter data here. I've built small services in Sinatra, which did not warrant the usage of Rails and never had to change anything, having them in fully function
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by jfaucett 8y ago
The primary utility of money is this: it is the good that best lends itself to exchanges for other goods. Its been clear to me for some time now, and I'm not alone in this, that as the properties of Bitcoin have moved further away from
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by jfaucett 8y ago
Yes. For me the greatest remaining mysteries are more in this order. 1. Nature of Life (we are still nowhere near understanding how it arose or how living organisms work in all their intricate detail). 2. Nature of Consciousness - what is c
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> why is it `nobody.wants.to.read` but `no.body.wants.to.write`? Made me think there's also a big difference in what nobody prefers reading vs. what nobody prefers writing.
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by jfaucett 8y ago
No: Body: Wants: To: Write: - YAML vs. <No> <Body> <Wants> <To> <Write> <item>YAML<&#x2F
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> Usually oppressing a major marginalized group with blunt, heavy-handed approaches only serves to intensify local support. I think that is at best fragile as a general statement. I would argue that increases in local support are depende
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by jfaucett 8y ago
I'm amazed at how much this person's philosophy for learning mirrors my own. Even down to the details, building habits, pushing yourself to the edge always, deep focused flow based work. What I would add is you should feel a littl
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> On the other hand, cost will eventually limit the parallelism side of the trend and physics will limit the chip efficiency side. Anyone working on chip architecture care to give their opinion on the next 10-20 years in chip design? It
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by jfaucett 8y ago
Man that video at the bottom is great. I just finished up research on an image classification task in medical imaging and that tool would have helped out a lot in debugging and interpreting results - especially when you're working on i
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by jfaucett 8y ago
no reason to get upset. This wasn't anything against your comment. There's surprisingly a lot of people who don't know there's around 40 million people living in slavery right now. I posted some links so those people can
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> It is amazing to realize that in the grand scheme of things we are not far removed from this. With "we" you mean the "united states"? There are millions of people the world over in slavery right now, so "we&quo
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> as an intentional deficiency is an interesting design decision. well, in semantics/pragmatics these discourse particles are often not deficiencies at all. They are signals with practical semantic purpose. "hmms" and &qu
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> from inside EU we see it as for the people/society No we don't. Some of us do and some of us do not. You are self-admittedly in the former group, I am not. Also, just because something cost big companies money on one front do
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by jfaucett 8y ago
There is big difference in law and regulation between intention and real-world effects. For instance, making marijuana illegal has the intention of decreasing drug addiction and dependence but has the effects of disproportionately encarcera
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> Much more plausible ... I disagree about stratification to a certain extent, that is, I only see 2 groups emerging. Here's my thinking. Highly paid service jobs will remain unscathed only in so far as they have regulatory barriers
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> AI is kind of vague and catch-all these days, Agree. Basically all current progress in "AI" should really just be called statistics and I think there would be much less confusion. If you say statistics meets Big Data and fast
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by jfaucett 8y ago
It depends on the degree of quantification and your precise definition of software engineering, but IMHO almost all of software engineering research is minimally as quantitative as the social sciences i.e. psychological or sociological stud
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by jfaucett 8y ago
I can think of a couple reasons. 1. Github got First Mover momentum 2. Git preference over mercurial back when Bitbucket burst on the scene. 3. Github has many users which means its easier if you want to reach a large audience with your FOS
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> I just wanted to say that GitLab is a great project to contribute to, with a very friendly and professional community! this. I've had a fantastic experience as well. Its one of those communities and projects that has been so good
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by jfaucett 8y ago
Me and my whole family have gone to community college and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to save money and graduate with little or no debt. The first two years at university are basically a rehash of stuff you probably should have a
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> Not kidding. Its this circular 'meritocracy' argument that makes for insular, inbred organizations with few creative ideas. Just thinking out loud here but what's the alternative? Random allocation of goods/power or
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by jfaucett 8y ago
> These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually d
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by jfaucett 8y ago
Is this surprising to anyone? There are numerous documented cases (some mentioned in this article), many anecdotal, of blatant discrimination against Asians at universities. [4] Honestly when you look at the data, its hard to believe there

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