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by merolish 9mo ago
I'm in an online degree program in mathematics in my forties and this temptation is very real. The LLMs have memorized every textbook and every exercise so it's easy to have the kinds of conversations that before I could only have
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by merolish 9mo ago
We called them "bibles" in undergrad and they were collections of homework and tests from previous terms.
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by merolish 1y ago
Yes, the newsroom is linked to at the bottom of paypal.com.
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by merolish 1y ago
I remember SML fondly, best of luck.
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by merolish 2y ago
ratatui in particular seems like a fine piece of work (I'm currently at a Rust shop and expect to use it a bit going forward).
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by merolish 3y ago
> Pipelining, cache misses, branch prediction, multiple cores, even virtual memory are all completely invisible to C programs. Are there languages where these are visible? Any time I've seen them discussed it's been in terms of
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by merolish 3y ago
Live trading systems are in C++ or Java, but like others have said Python is used for day-to-day research, sometimes R if the particular quant likes it. I never saw any Fortran in my time at Bloomberg in the 2010s but allegedly there was st
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by merolish 3y ago
Thanks for your insights! Haven't had to think about these issues as an individual dev.
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by merolish 3y ago
Are there other popular tools you'd recommend/not recommend given cost/compliance concerns?
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by merolish 4y ago
It looks better in desktop mode. There's a slideshow showing the lenses and the patient wearing them.
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by merolish 4y ago
This list was posted a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32305997
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by merolish 4y ago
Senior House was an undergrad dorm that the admins put on probation and then shut down and converted to grad housing. https://thetech.com/tags/senior-house
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by merolish 4y ago
As an alum who lives in Kendall, I think I'm most annoyed that I can no longer walk the basement level from 77 Mass Ave to the med center.
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by merolish 4y ago
Huh, I grew up in Cherry Hill and graduated HS in 2000, guess we missed it because I didn't learn about the term until years later.
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by merolish 4y ago
On top of the support staff, they stressed the importance of customer service for all employees. I remember being told that even as a random engineer, if terminal users were to ask me for help I should at least point them in the right direc
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by merolish 4y ago
I was a SWE at Bloomberg for a few years. I don't think people appreciate the breadth of the platform; they employ something like six thousand engineers.
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by merolish 5y ago
I do applicant interviews for my alma mater (MIT). The number of students applying has skyrocketed, and it sounds like it's the same for peer schools. https://thetech.com/2021/03/18/regular-admissions-202
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by merolish 6y ago
It looks like it's the major bebop scale, yes.
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by merolish 6y ago
Jazz guitarist here, and yes. One of the nice things about the instrument is that a relatively small number of forms for chords and scales are transposable up and down the fretboard, so once you burn the usual patterns into your head (iim7-
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by merolish 7y ago
Beat me to it. If this gets bad there's going to be a global recession and associated political unrest on top of the actual toll of the pandemic.
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by merolish 7y ago
It's a factor in the insane cost of real estate in tech hub cities where many of us are attempting to live and work.
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by merolish 7y ago
Seconded, a minimal full-stack system like a messaging service could go in many directions depending on your interests.
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by merolish 7y ago
I've come to avoid having dates or catching up with friends at certain coffee shop-style places after a couple experiences where we were literally surrounded by people silently on their laptops. I prefer to have conversations without a
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by merolish 7y ago
Back in the 90s I learned a lot from the Prodigy QBasic community. There were some really cool games that people contributed, they have to be out there on the web somewhere.
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by merolish 8y ago
I was there in May 2016 (and looking forward to heading down again later this year).
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by merolish 8y ago
NYC area traffic is bad but you have walkability, the subway, commuter rail systems, express bus lanes, etc. In my one visit to Austin it seemed like rush hour consisted of everyone cramming on to a couple highways and sitting. Are there go
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by merolish 8y ago
Was going to say GS (RIP my G 650 GS) but you beat me to it. If I get another bike it'll be a bigger GS, V-Strom, etc. They're fantastic machines.
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by merolish 8y ago
Newark would be a painful commute for anyone wanting to live in the boroughs, LI, or Westchester/CT, i.e. a ton of people. I do hope NYC deals with its growing pains -- I finally left last year, in part because of rising costs and aggr
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by merolish 8y ago
I moved back to Cambridge this spring after over a decade mostly in NYC. It was surprising to see that while cheaper it wasn't too much cheaper. On the other hand, the job market here seems robust and I hear fewer tales of appalling
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by merolish 8y ago
Even at MIT a lot of people struggled with it because they threw so much at you so quickly, and it's since been replaced with a Python-based intro course.

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