johnamata

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by johnamata 4y ago
Various books on military science/history/geopolitics like Understanding Modern Warfare and Strategy (Lawrence Freedman), and books on Philosophy such as recently I'm reading books by Alvin Plantinga. I find that reading book
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by johnamata 4y ago
In most CS master's you'll get to take a course called information retrieval, and typically the main project for such a course is building a search engine.
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by johnamata 4y ago
Course? Like with lectures and work? The only one I know that does it is the premium course at https://watchandcode.com/ where the premium's focus is teaching students how to read (javascript) codebases. They start you
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by johnamata 4y ago
see the author's take on both: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478125799660261376.html
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by johnamata 4y ago
I also had that problem, I grinded through 200+ problems but I felt like I was just memorising leetcode solutions. I dont wanna be a shill but if you can pay, then check out a site called structy.net, it's a hidden gem. Nevertheless yo
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by johnamata 4y ago
But that's how you be an internet celebrity these days. I see it all the time all over social media, I see fellow zoomers my age making generic dance video content, but then they get affiliated with a famous group, and now they gained
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by johnamata 4y ago
I used a combination of books, and all of them were mentioned in this thread. But the best resource that i've used as a self-learner werent books but udemy courses from a math professor Hania Uscka-Wehlou: https://www.udemy.
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by johnamata 4y ago
Learning to do pull-ups was for me. I bought a pull up bar around late February and I just did dead hangs randomly throughout the day, attempting to do chinups every time. I started with chinups as I found it easier than pullups. I did easi
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by johnamata 4y ago
It used to be social media apps for me like facebook and twitter, but now I find others like YouTube and Reddit as equally or even more toxic. Especially reddit, their discussion sections get toxic quick after a few seconds of scrolling. Yo
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by johnamata 4y ago
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework... - any courses and other resources that preps you for AWS Solutions Architect - https://www.cloudcomputingpatterns.org/ - the first
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by johnamata 4y ago
Most companies in my country, including big tech, are in hybrid remote setup now. A year ago it was 1 day/week that must be spent at the office. Now it's 2 days while for some companies it's 3 days/week. There's sti
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by johnamata 4y ago
https://mlpro.io/problems/
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by johnamata 4y ago
Agreed. Also in other countries like mine where EV cars and the climate change issue and environmentalism movement that's being pedalled by the western media arent a thing, mostly Asian countries, Tesla here is more synonymous to batte
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by johnamata 4y ago
Are there other examples of famous projects that do that, limiting themselves to an X-amount of LOC? Last one I remember was TempleOS, although Terry went a bit over his limit (100k LOC).
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by johnamata 4y ago
True except for Snapchat, it was never popular here in Asia. Instead of snapchat, zoomers here use FB Messenger, often under a throwaway FB account. It is the same for their tiktoks, also using a throwaway account/anonymous. A stark co
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by johnamata 5y ago
get woke go broke