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by maxFlow 4y ago
This was one of the worst written, saddest pieces I have ever read. It's full of idiotic commentary, unjustified praise and just plain ignorance. Out of the dozen+ remarkably stupid quotes I found I'll share this excerpt: > Tha
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by maxFlow 4y ago
I'll have my bullshit served only on the highest quality silver platter. Please and thank you.
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by maxFlow 4y ago
It brought a smile to my face seeing a completely unexpected reference to Andy McKee on Hacker News :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Back in early 2021: > As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double its engineering team in 2021 by hi
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Powerful Typhoon Thrashes Japan, with Millions Told to Evacuate(nytimes.com)
2 points by maxFlow 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Fun read, seeing as how this paper is from the late 70's, it would be interesting to know what comments the author got as part of his RFC for Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish.
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> It's similar to data engineers thinking they will do real ML some day and their data job is just temporary... This is unfair to DEs, not to mention inaccurate as of 2022. The statement assumes DEs are yearning to do "real ML&
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by maxFlow 4y ago
I also had it wrong, and thought it came from Lincoln originally. Per Reuters Fact Check team: > Misattributed. There is no evidence Lincoln ever made such a statement about testing a man’s character. The author appears to be Robert G. I
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. (...) -- Ingersoll
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by maxFlow 4y ago
The case of gentle snow-trolls susceptible to tickling existing in Tolkien's universe made me quite curious. The following turned up after a brief research session: > Snow-trolls are mentioned only once in Tolkien's works, in r
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> The moon is a very very very large dead rock. No amount of mining by humans will effect its mass, https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/affect-vs-effe...
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Masayoshi Son ‘ashamed’ of focus on profits – SoftBank logs record $23bn loss(ft.com)
8 points by maxFlow 4y ago|8 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> Huge losses at SoftBank’s flagship Vision Funds will force the company to begin “dramatic” cost-cutting after plunging technology valuations and a weak yen drove Masayoshi Son’s embattled conglomerate into a record ¥3.1tn ($23bn) quart
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Found out about this DS in AoC 2021 Day 20+ problems if I remember correctly. Pretty interesting.
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AstroForge aims to succeed where other asteroid mining companies have failed(arstechnica.com)
1 points by maxFlow 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Agree with this. There is a lot more information to process, and it's being generated at greater and greater rates. Ideas that used to be an entire paper in the 1970s have now become an extra paragraph in an undergrad textbook from the
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> Yeah I don't know most of the TSA was just doing their job the best they could. [...] The basic nature of aviation is it's closely tied to suicide. It's like interwoven with suicide. I would swap "suicide" for
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Should you? Can you? Ah, the sudden school vs the gradual school. The debate lingers (see siblings).
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Nice site. I like the breadth of topics.
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Google/cloud: third place is good enough(ft.com)
2 points by maxFlow 5y ago|2 comments
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Cloud computing services are such an effective money spinner for Amazon they sustain multiple expensive experiments elsewhere in the business. Amazon’s AWS unit contributed more than $18.5bn in operating profit last year. Yet at Google the
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Emperor Wu of Liang asked the great master Bodhidharma “What is the highest meaning of the holy truths?” Bodhidharma said, “Empty, without holiness.”
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Not entirely true, liaisons---and the rules around them---make part of any half-decent French curriculum. But liaisons are only one part of the "dropping/concatenating" in spoken French, the other part being accents. Accents
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by maxFlow 5y ago
I tried Tandem for a couple of months without success. It's basically a dating site. I find it much more efficient to learn by myself. My go-to resources for language learning are: LingQ[0], Youtube, and Wikipedia (in the target langua
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Makes you wonder what's the most impactful thing you could build given the possibility of seven years of isolation and single-minded focus. Would be interesting to know, at which point did Freedman decide to commit full time to his res
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Agree. It's a complex topic, I think we should move away from "nature knows best" type of arguments. I would add, these selective pressures are not just from mankind, but potentialy from any other living thing. The "natu
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7m-Wingspan Flying Pterosaur Discovered in Queensland(news.sky.com)
2 points by maxFlow 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 5y ago
I don't keep a blog to impress you. Nor to "try to teach other people"; if anything I use it to teach myself (ie to organize my own thoughts and to document my learning). Blogs are simple media to share one's thoughts, b
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by maxFlow 5y ago
Thanks for this recommendation. I agree with you about quality over quantity. Working through a ~600-page (sometimes more) technical book is no easy task, and in fact can be pretty demotivating especially if you're learning on your ow
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by maxFlow 5y ago
The key to online learning's sucess is counter to the current system's goals. What these big-name universities could do to make online learning go mainstream is lower the barrier to entry by: i) lowering tuition fees in accordance

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