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by sgdread 2y ago
YouTube is pretty good at both theory part: there's MIT physics class, but also on intuitive parts (i.e. visualizing how phase arrays work). ChatGPT is also seems to be very good at TA/Professor job when grinding through math-heav
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by sgdread 3y ago
#1 Can you fix the 2h commute? (edit) Would companies consider paying for commute time as work time?
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by sgdread 3y ago
Man with ego invents, creates new jobs both at his company and outside, boosts the industry productivity. It's spark that matters; no matter how much wood you bring upfront, it won't burn until the first spark is created.
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by sgdread 5y ago
The system Ahrens describes is more: it has indexing system and an approach to generate new ideas. github + markdown + cross-page linking works really great with his system.
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by sgdread 7y ago
DeOldify [1] by Jason Antic got really good results with old photos and movies colorization. [1] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
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by sgdread 7y ago
That's what Spark is for. You can do petabyte-scale jobs... with DataFrames.
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by sgdread 7y ago
oura ring fills this use case.
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by sgdread 8y ago
Problem statement first.
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by sgdread 8y ago
There is another great book written by Cal: Deep Work [1]. Don't follow your passion. Instead, become really good at something. Apply methodical approach to improve your craft skills. Once you got mastery, you might actually like it.
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by sgdread 8y ago
You can put a credit freeze on you file in major credit bureaus - this way their website would not be able to verify answers on security questions and deny login. Brian Krebs did a good article on the process placing a freeze on your file [
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by sgdread 8y ago
Here's what you do to significantly reduce telemarketers calls: 1) Go to https://www.donotcall.gov/ and register in the National Do Not Call Registry 2) Wait 31 day (it takes some time to propagate this information to
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by sgdread 8y ago
I really like the idea. However, let's think about abuse patterns: what prevents CEO agency from creating 1k t2.micro instances and clicking upvote for a link of interest and downvote all the competitors?
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by sgdread 8y ago
You don't have to kiss ass. Instead, you can deflect and let interviewer answer the question. Something like this "I saw that X corp has an open position. This is an opportunity for me because ... , so I reached you. I assume, yo
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by sgdread 9y ago
You have to start somewhere. Once idea is visualized and internalized on lower dimensions, you move to the next level, where images not needed; however to get to that step 0, where you understand why complex numbers used in AC: lots of folk
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by sgdread 9y ago
> They did aggregate up until this point Still an issue if most people support 1-2 creators with $1-2 pledges.
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by sgdread 9y ago
You can go creative (though, I'm not lawyer, nor accountant): have a minimum payment limit: 5$, for instance; if pledge is $1, then ask to pre-pay 5 units in advance (and be transparent why this has to be this way).
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by sgdread 9y ago
I understand why they do it: they trying to bring down transaction costs with payment processors. These fees on small amounts is death by thousand cuts. But, I believe, there is a way: they can introduce wallets for $1-2 patrons: put $10 in
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by sgdread 9y ago
FTC complaints works great too.
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by sgdread 9y ago
Is public transportation more efficient per mile/person? Yes. Does it solves all the transportation problems? No: it's not covering even half of our needs. Just for reference: only 30% of NY population is using mass transit for co
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by sgdread 9y ago
Well, car owners can use the same argument: public transportation benefits only people without cars, why car owners should pay maintenance of train stations, buses, trolleys, repair shops for those etc?
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by sgdread 9y ago
Nobody is subsidizing your car: as a car owner, you already paid 1) sales tax; 2) yearly registration; 3) yearly property tax; 4) taxes included in gas. Why car owners should be double-triple taxed?
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by sgdread 9y ago
We used it a lot when they just started. For a while the quality was very good: chefs did a good job providing variety of choices, packaging was good. But after a year or so they started to cut the cost and shifted to low-quality selection
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by sgdread 9y ago
5c from me: 1) why CTR mode was chosen? I would probably go with something like GCM: privacy + integrity check. 2) IV ideally should be re-generated on every re-encryption. It doesn't have to be secret, but has to be random (securely r
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by sgdread 9y ago
Client-side encryption and zero-knowledge storage design might give some peace of mind to some users.
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by sgdread 10y ago
First of all it's not like cable bundle - you pay flat fee to access EVERYTHING like utility (probably % of your ISP bill). Call it content tax, if you will (BBC in UK is funded this way). Internet is NOT free anyway. Then whatever you
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by sgdread 10y ago
Just because it's done this way at the time, it doesn't mean it's right. To be fair, the monetization of "free" content should be done different way: utility payment model is the way to go. YouTube Red got it right,
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by sgdread 10y ago
Context is the king. Ads acceptable only when their subject matches context of browsing and the user intent. And works only when done in non-interruptible manner. If you break context and/or flow, people get uncomfortable, frustrated,
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by sgdread 10y ago
I've got pretty complicated exercises in whiteboarding sessions: some problems with graphs or dynamic programming. The way how I solve those in my daily work is totally different to the way I go in 45 min whiteboard interviews: in 45 m
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by sgdread 10y ago
Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina - 1800sqft, 2-car garage ~ $1410/mo. Salaries $100-140k
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by sgdread 10y ago
Thanks!

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