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by protomok 5y ago
SaaS could be a good transition, there are quite a few SaaS shops using C++ for example. Or possibly backend if you're willing to do some cloud based side projects. Embedded is a lot of fun but IMHO there is more opportunity and compen
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by protomok 5y ago
So true. I recall early in my career an older engineer telling me the closer you are to the money the more money you make. > I realised that the HR head, who has few relevant skills and can viably be replaced by a mollusc, makes more th
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by protomok 6y ago
"One benefit of working together in person, many executives said, is the potential for spontaneous interactions. ... She noticed that she was soon having conversations with peers that wouldn’t have happened in a remot
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by protomok 7y ago
On a related note there's a pretty entertaining NPR video breaking down whether or not you can power your house with a bike - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbUxt2x4InE (spoiler alert - you can't :)) I worked it
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by protomok 7y ago
That’s incredible! I have a hard cut off around 6.5-7 hours of sleep, anything less and I have noticeable performance decrease - inability to concentrate , needing to re read lines of code multiple times, etc. You should reach out to the sl
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by protomok 8y ago
Has anyone tried the Tresanti standing desk which is sold at Costco? It seemed pretty sturdy and reasonably priced at $400 CAD ($300 USD) EDIT: link - https://www.costco.ca/Tresanti-Adjustable-Desk.product.10042...
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by protomok 8y ago
My two cents - keep the books/papers/resources on the shelf and go out and build an embedded project. Sure, you could read about interrupts, registers maps, chip datasheets, etc. but the rate of learning will be much greater if yo
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by protomok 8y ago
My favorite for 2018 - "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder" by Nassim Taleb. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of asymmetry and the implications for investing but also for systems in general.
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by protomok 8y ago
Another +1 from Deep Work. The main takeaway for me was the following quote: "We spend much of our day on autopilot, not giving much thought to what we are doing with our time. This, is a problem. It's difficult to prevent the tri
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by protomok 8y ago
I'm curious what the impact will be for GM tech workers. IIRC they hired a bunch of software devs in Markham and Oshawa over the last few years
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by protomok 8y ago
Same problem here - deviated septum is such an annoyance. I find I often have to breathe out of my mouth as breathing out of my nose is sometimes not possible as one or both nostrils are frequently unusable. Curious how others work around t
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by protomok 8y ago
I frequently hear teenagers and young adults say things like 'Cannabis is harmless', 'not as bad as alcohol', etc. The issue here is the initial research consistently shows us the opposite - frequent cannabis use appears
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Marvell to Demo SSD Controller Using Nvidia’s Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA)(marvell.com)
2 points by protomok 8y ago|0 comments
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by protomok 8y ago
Just a quick warning for those considering Melatonin before a flight or for adjusting to jet lag: About a week before a long flight I decided to test Melatonin and took a single 3mg tablet (smallest dosage I could find at my local pharmacy)
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Airbus Renames CSeries Canadian Jet as the A220(reuters.com)
1 points by protomok 8y ago|0 comments
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by protomok 8y ago
I have a build using a Ryzen5 1600X + MSI X370 Gaming Plus + Nvidia 1070 GPU with Ubuntu 16.04 installed. I get lockups once every 2-3 days. I was convinced the lockups were caused by a Logitech wireless keyboard, but the lockups persisted
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by protomok 8y ago
I can definitely resonate with this line: "Once people start coupling up, the challenges only increase. Making friends with other couples “is like matchmaking for two,” said Kara Baskin, a journalist who works in Boston." From exp
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by protomok 8y ago
~ Books => I have most in digital and physical copies ~ - The C Programming Language (2nd edition) - Brian Kerningham / Denis Ritchie - The C++ Programming Language (4th edition which discuss C++11) - Stroustrup - Design Patterns El
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DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs(dlvm.org)
75 points by protomok 9y ago|17 comments
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by protomok 9y ago
Thank you for the detailed reply!
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by protomok 9y ago
Thanks, great links! I bought the 'Fixing My Gaze' audiobook and I am researching vision therapy as a potential surgery alternative.
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by protomok 9y ago
You mention you had amblyopia, I'm curious how you got rid of it? I've had strabismus (i.e. diplopia / double vision) for as long as I can remember. It's pretty minor and I didn't even wear glasses until my 20s but
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by protomok 9y ago
I would argue mining is much lower risk but has much lower potential for reward. After paying off the card (<=4 months of mining) all earnings from mining can be converted to USD for example on a monthly basis. The odds of even 1/10
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by protomok 9y ago
I’ve also been learning about crypto currencies lately. One thing I found helpful was implementing the popular proof of work algorithms. I did a sha256 python implementation , it was quite fun.
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by protomok 9y ago
I’m hoping to keep learning more about parallel computing and Deep Learning both from day job and some side projects. Planning to take a stab at a crypto currency algo implementation like Equihash as a fun side project.
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by protomok 9y ago
Very cool! Ahhh this could have been a nice Christmas break side project but it seems it's not available until Dec.31st :(
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by protomok 9y ago
Great summary of recent Computer Vision. Over 203 references! One exciting topic I did not see mentioned (maybe I missed it) is image denoising. Excellent paper here - https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03981 . The CNN proposed
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by protomok 9y ago
Bill Gates has also given a lot to charity, from the article - 'Gates, 62, who has a net worth of $86.8 billion according to the Bloomberg index, would be worth more than $150 billion if he hadn’t given away almost 700 million Microsof
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by protomok 9y ago
Yes it's nice to see this is now fixed. In my case I need to support Python 2.7 though, and for Python 2.7 the only workaround I know of is shipping two binaries (2 byte and 4 byte encoding) then loading the correct module at runtime.
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by protomok 9y ago
I've been evaluating Cython for both code obfuscation and for using C based extensions to improve performance. Cython is pretty nice, but shipping binary only Python extensions can be such a pain, especially dealing with 2-byte vs 4-by

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