physicslover

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by physicslover 13y ago
I would like to see an interactive loop to fsi. Seems like you could use websockets for this.
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by physicslover 13y ago
I read chapters of it a few years back, too, but forgotten the details. All in all, I was pretty convinced of the soundness of the approach at the time. My recollection is that this framework of causal inference allows one to ask questions
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by physicslover 13y ago
I think the original idea of elimination of the collection of all private or personal information by all companies is a bit extreme. From what we have learned, these programs are quite broad involving everyone from banking institutions to I
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by physicslover 13y ago
Lanier sounds like the anti-Kurzweil. Like others, I find his vision of the future too pessimistic and his proposed solution not workable. He rightly raises concerns about how our roles/jobs/lives will change in the future. But, I am much m
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by physicslover 13y ago
Have to agree with the above. The problem with relational databases isn't the relational model, per se, but the complexity and cost of maintaining a relational database. Typically, they require specialized database administrators whose prim
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by physicslover 14y ago
Interesting take that gets to the heart of the matter but my interpretation is different. Like you say, the genius of Apple and Jobs is an incredible focus on the simplicity and intuitiveness of their products. I have seen two year old kids
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by physicslover 14y ago
The part that hit home for me was his description of the Prof's frustration with the speed at which he was implementing the enhancement to Klee and the fact that most grad students are not as smart as their advisors. Most grad students are
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by physicslover 14y ago
Spencer's comments are generally accurate. I might quibble with some of them or say that they vary from team to team. For instance, I have used R, Python, Java, and Sawzall in my work at Google and have had freedom to choose technologies on
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by physicslover 14y ago
As someone else mentioned, I find the signal to noise ratio to be much higher on G+ than facebook or twitter. I mainly use these tools for two purposes, keeping in touch with friends and following interesting people and topics. Facebook win
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by physicslover 14y ago
At my last company I had 20 days vacation and about to transition to 25 days. However, work was so busy that I had to plan and request my vacations 3-6 mos in advance. I now have less vacation but more freedom to take it when i want. If one
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by physicslover 14y ago
I used the .net stack for 8 years. But, I wouldn't use the platform for a startup or my own projects. I don't want to be locked into the Windows platform. Mainly, because of licensing fees and just a general preference for the Linux shell a
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by physicslover 15y ago
I don't believe this is true for doctors, although, I could be wrong but I think HMO's get around the restriction. The bottom line is that lawyers are a protected guild with rules like the one mentioned above that artificially inflate the v
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by physicslover 15y ago
My naive understanding is that only lawyers can own and operate a law firm. In other words one can't form the equivalent of an HMO and hire a bunch of lawyers and pay them a salary and offer legal counsel to individuals. I believe this is m
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by physicslover 15y ago
I agree, Diego. I now find a few articles a day on the front page interesting, whereas before this seemed much higher. It seems that hacker news may be getting too popular for it's own good. At which point, you start getting submissions fro
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by physicslover 15y ago
From my point of view there are three basic mathematical skills, logical reasoning, spatial reasoning and visualization, and calculation ability which is related to memory. I agree that to excel in sciences you will need more than spatial r