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by pmulv 5mo ago
It was mostly things that you would expect, given the job and location. People doing their business where they shouldn’t, mostly, but also sex, drug use, bleeding, shaving, vomit, flushing syringes and condoms down toilets and clogging the
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by pmulv 5mo ago
I used to clean bathrooms in a Manhattan shopping mall. I now have a tiny human. Cleaning the bathrooms was much, much more disgusting. It has been nearly 15 years and I still think about the horrible things I witnessed at that job. Changin
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by pmulv 2y ago
I’ve been a homeowner for a mere two years and I’ve discovered many things wrong with my house. YouTube has a video outlining what I need to fix and how to fix it 90% of the time. Tradespeople get called for the remaining 10%. It’s possible
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by pmulv 4y ago
> no git blame annotations Thanks for mentioning this. I was going to give this a try this weekend but that's a dealbreaker for me.
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by pmulv 5y ago
Me too! It's crazy to me that I've never met you or the parent poster but we were living very similar lives the last week of the year due to the same Java DateTime design decision!
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by pmulv 8y ago
Previous discussions: Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465 Favorite Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746559
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by pmulv 8y ago
These were extremely fascinating for me, and were written for a layman which I appreciated [0][1]. They're about the singularity. [0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... [1] https
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by pmulv 8y ago
I took a class on computer vision and we used the OpenCV library extensively [0]. I remember that we had a project relating to detecting certain traffic signs, and obtaining the dominant color of images was a big part of my solution. Also,
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by pmulv 8y ago
People have been interested in this in the past so I'll post it again: Peter Norvig's satisfying Jupyter notebook solutions from AoC 2016[0]. [0] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Adv
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by pmulv 8y ago
I have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. Hope that helps!
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by pmulv 8y ago
Here are some others that are also commonly recommended on HN: Andrew Ng's Machine Learning MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Courses: https://www.deep
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A 21 Year Old Software Engineers 260K Salary and How She Spends It(businessinsider.com)
2 points by pmulv 8y ago|1 comments
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by pmulv 8y ago
> It is free Just as a warning for anyone price-sensitive interested in taking this course, its cost is non-zero due to cloud costs. It is free to audit though! I'm not trying to dissuade anyone; it is just good to know going into i
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by pmulv 8y ago
There is a Computational Linear Algebra class taught by one of the founders of fast.ai, but I don't think it's a prerequisite necessarily [0]. I've been meaning to take it - I can't comment on its quality. [0] https:&#x
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by pmulv 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but David Silver did work on this project and discusses it briefly in his really great reinforcement learning course [0]. It's worth checking out if anyone is looking for a well-paced, well-explained introduction to
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by pmulv 8y ago
As some anecdata, my mid-twenties group of friends and I use snapchat frequently. My brother is a freshman in college and he uses it with his friends as well. For whatever reason, starting "streaks" has become popular with my frie
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by pmulv 8y ago
75k-100k in cash, or in RSU's at the FAANG's? That seems so high to me for a new grad - congratulations on the offers!
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by pmulv 8y ago
Taken from an email I got last semester: Working as a TA pays $15 per hour, distributed twice monthly based on submitted timesheets (alumni are salaried, however).
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by pmulv 8y ago
Wouldn't it just be a product of the model not finding that finger useful in the simulations?
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by pmulv 8y ago
Just as some anecdata, I know of a single developer who works with Haskell; they do fluid dynamics programming for ExxonMobil in Houston.
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by pmulv 8y ago
Illegal ones
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by pmulv 8y ago
I'm reading "Deep Work" currently, and I agree with your sentiment. I find myself ironically losing focus and thinking about how I can get the meat of this book from a blog post a tenth of the size. The case-studies he presen
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by pmulv 8y ago
I think it's pretty safe to say finance will be a big one. Finance has a large amount of individuals and firms researching the applications of ML methodologies to financial indicators. With the semi-recent rise of quant firms, I think
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by pmulv 8y ago
>Shopping journeys concluding in online purchases have baskets that are 25% larger, on average. When someone first visits a physical store and then purchases online, the effect is even more pronounced: Baskets are 64% larger. Something t
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by pmulv 8y ago
I'm currently in the process of reading "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,"[0] and I highly recommend it. I've always viewed Xerox as primarily an office printer company, and the fact tha
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by pmulv 8y ago
The referral code is in the HN title: IFREAD
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by pmulv 8y ago
> Well, to start, the rest of the world outside the Silicon Valley bubble (including other "startup" hubs) call new companies "small businesses". I haven't found that to be true in NYC, Boston, Atlanta or Kansas
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by pmulv 8y ago
In fact, down 3-1 with under 2 minutes left, it's very common to have an empty net in order to have an extra forward out to enable potentially scoring last-ditch effort goals! The only reason I could see for them playing Alves at all i
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by pmulv 8y ago
A buddy of mine did a 3 month training program at BBG after undergrad, so I can confirm that they have a program of some sort, complete with an independent project. He also said that his class wasn't all on the same level when it came
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by pmulv 8y ago
I didn't know what Mozilla Lockbox was, but I found this[0] which might help others. [0] - https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/lockbox-extension/

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