joconde

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by joconde 5y ago
> You'll probably leave your home at dark in the morning and will return again at dark. That's what happened in my high school years in France, which still changes clocks twice a year. Wake up in complete night, take the bus an
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by joconde 5y ago
Note that this won't work with reasonably performant CNNs. Passing an image batch through a large-ish ResNet takes half a second on our GPUs, several minutes at full load on CPU. This makes training infeasible, and most models small en
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by joconde 5y ago
It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub repo.
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by joconde 5y ago
How do we know that shorter sleep causes lower mortality, instead of, say, that better health or some genes cause both? Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t seen much of that evidence.
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by joconde 5y ago
That site is half hypotheses made up by the author, and half irrelevant things like "this study proves that you won't die sooner if you cut 2 hours of sleep". Nothing in there indicates that sleeping less won't lead to l
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by joconde 5y ago
> Porn is almost as unavoidable as ads Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing. > The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4). That doesn't prove anything about harmfulness. I think
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by joconde 5y ago
> Kids are generally stupider than adults. Nope, by any measure, smart kids are way smarter than most adults I encounter. People who throw basic logic out the window because they want to believe that something is a certain way for emotio
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by joconde 5y ago
I think we should shut HN down now before someone actually gives ad companies new ideas.
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by joconde 5y ago
I’m skeptical about that 5 degree bet. What’s your source?
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by joconde 5y ago
One side clearly wanted WWII. Not sure about the first one.
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by joconde 5y ago
Might be. Depends on your personality.
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by joconde 5y ago
If I were behind schedule I would try to scrape StackOverflow so I don't get cut off from it. Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.
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by joconde 5y ago
On the other hand, if pre-iPhone Apple could invest into inventing the iPhone, I don't see why today's Apple could balk at a new effort of this kind, since today's Apple is vastly richer. How much did the original iPhone and
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by joconde 5y ago
They claim that "You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because [...]", so their definition implies that people's ability to switch from one to the other is limited. I don't think that's a reason
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by joconde 5y ago
> You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because you have a time in your life where you prefer to be alone. Extroverts don't become introverts while grieving the death of a loved one. These are hypotheses that I
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by joconde 5y ago
> My daily exercise routine is - 2 hour cardio Do you have a full-time job? That would take most of my evenings if I decided to do it.
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by joconde 5y ago
Very informative, thank you.
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by joconde 5y ago
It's been decreasing so far, with financial safety, a saner schedule (no more absurd school deadlines for subjects I don't even care about), and more freedom of movement (one gets pretty isolated with no car in my area). I expect
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by joconde 5y ago
> You don't need a absurdly high salary to raise a comfortable family or live a comfortable life. I could do with absurdly high savings though. For everything from future projects to safe vacations and financial emergencies. The lif
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by joconde 5y ago
> I should also point out that high salaries will be eaten up completely by the sky high costs of everything in the Bay Area. Interesting. Can you define "eaten up"? With my west-European salary, I can save around 1k/month
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by joconde 5y ago
Nothing I found is as simple and pleasant to use as Google Reader. Feedly comes close, but its default is an ML-curated "magazine" view, and the last thing I want to see is more infinite engagement-optimized streams of titles.
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by joconde 5y ago
During his studies and very early career? That's completely normal and I don't understand why more people don't do it. Studies don't give you any idea of what a job is actually like. They also don't give you a relia
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by joconde 5y ago
> If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different. Is that really so impressive? Bio people do a lot of coding, and good dev practices can be learned on the job. ML
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by joconde 5y ago
> Be prepared to be very lonely if you do not have a friends' circle already established here. That's an absolutely prohibitive cost, and not how I want to spend my 20s and 30s. Thank you for mentioning it. I'm not sure th
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by joconde 5y ago
> Why not try applying for some full remote positions at FAANGs or whatever big tech employers you have in your area? Machine learning-focused jobs at FAANG seem harder to get than regular "software engineer" ones, especially i
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by joconde 5y ago
I agree, but I also expect money to matter to these goals in the long run. For example, if I have kids someday, I'd be much happier if I have financial resources to live in a nice place, take more time off, and pay for travel. Money fo
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by joconde 5y ago
> I didn't mean to come across confrontational Me neither :) > Job searching doesn't work that way - if it goes well you'll end up with a bunch of offers that you'll need to accept or reject them within some time f
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by joconde 5y ago
Wouldn't brain drain strengthen engineers' position by causing even more labor shortage?
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by joconde 5y ago
I like the spirit and want to :), but my life has been stressful in the last few years, so I'd like to delay the jump. I value stability and staying close to my current friends in the short-term. Unless there are significant opportunit
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by joconde 5y ago
If salaries are likely to go down significantly and for a long time soon, I'd double my job-searching efforts, to have to option of leaving within a year or two. If the current situation seems stable, I'd take it easy and enjoy th

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