mzanchi

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Translate English to Gremlin(github.com)
1 points by mzanchi 6y ago|0 comments
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by mzanchi 6y ago
It's sad that people in the USA have to think about how to live on 1.50 USD per meal. You guys should vote for a more socialist government next elections.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
Keep a document of your design decisions. It's very tempting to hack away to get things done, but human memory is short and feeble: you will forget why stuff was coded the way it was faster then you think. I usually keep a Google Docs
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by mzanchi 7y ago
From Brazil, Beholder: https://beholder.tech/en/ Although not yet doing automatic checkout, but most of the technology needed for it is there.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
For me particularly the greatest difficulty was in understanding what was going on, and how people's effort was contributing to the company's goals. There always seems to be a lot of activity on individual tasks, and project manag
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Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots(theguardian.com)
3 points by mzanchi 7y ago|0 comments
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by mzanchi 7y ago
My dad had a vynil LP with BBC sound effects, which I remember listening to when I was a kid. I particularly liked to listen to the disaster sounds, like cars skidding and crashing and, shockingly, a crowd of people being shot at.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
:) I wrote a couple of tables on Excel v1 that was running on the original Mackintosh we had at home to play around with the same equations.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
Yeah, I started doing 1-on-1 with all of them when the team was about half size. The reason I got one of the guys "promoted" as dev lead is so he can take most of the mentoring and feedback gathering. He is not their boss though,
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by mzanchi 7y ago
This has been in my mind recently. I am head of development at a startup and have something like 30 direct reports. I don't want to be doing this job for a long time, and am maneuvering the team structure to make myself redundant with
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by mzanchi 7y ago
Calling it an alternative to SageMaker might be a bit misleading, as SageMaker is also a platform for training the models in automatically allocated EC2 resources, even on spot instances.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
I never give any information to anyone who calls me, apart from people I already know like friends and family. If they say they are from the bank I apologize and say that I will contact them independently via the number that is on my card.
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by mzanchi 7y ago
It makes perfect sense when you think about it.
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Brazil crime dataset – 10 years(kaggle.com)
2 points by mzanchi 8y ago|0 comments
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by mzanchi 8y ago
You can also read the book "Thinking, fast and slow"
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by mzanchi 8y ago
It's interesting the author mentioned estimating but said they are not very good at it yet. I have read somewhere else that what distinguishes a senior engineer from a junior engineer is exactly the skill in estimating work.
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by mzanchi 8y ago
I'm a maths graduate who became a programmer too. In my experience there's very little direct application of the knowledge acquired during the degree, but the thinking process gained is totally relevant. Doing a maths degree is on
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by mzanchi 8y ago
One comment regarding the "embedding". This is similar to the Toyota concept of the gemba , or being where the value is produced. For automobiles, that's the factory floor. For software shops, that's with the developers
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Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code(theguardian.com)
3 points by mzanchi 8y ago|0 comments
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by mzanchi 8y ago
I have the good fortune of living in Vietnam, so all this happened while I was sound asleep, and when I woke up I read the rejection email first, as it arrived later and was higher up my inbox. Time for coffee and back to coding.
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Bullet Journal – extended(medium.com)
1 points by mzanchi 8y ago|0 comments