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by textminer 12y ago
Tens of thousands?
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by textminer 12y ago
For those interested in his work, I really recommend viewing the recent documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, a failed film project Giger and several other proto-luminaries worked on (inspiring much of the iconic imagery in Alien, Star Wars,
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by textminer 12y ago
Had a set theory professor who taught us that for the non-negative integers, m^n was just the number of unique mappings from a set of cardinality n to one of cardinality m. Ergo, for all sets A such that |A| = k, k^0 is just all mappings fr
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by textminer 13y ago
Fascinating story, but I don't see how the town's larger economic forces drove the actions of either Rosa or Cantrelli. Mind elaborating?
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by textminer 13y ago
https://github.com/facebook/folly
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by textminer 13y ago
Is this a disco-pants selling company? That's pretty sexy.
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by textminer 13y ago
Why sell the data when you can sell targeted ads to the desired demographic? Why give away the cash cow of actual people-to-properties key-value maps?
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by textminer 13y ago
Me too. Forty minute drive from Oakland to Menlo Park.
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by textminer 13y ago
I've adopted a similar attitude as you here when it comes to past machine learning jobs, and discussion of detail. What ends up being your bright shiny line that you don't cross? I tend to just not talk about the specific feature
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by textminer 13y ago
Is "unlimited PTO" ever not window dressing for a more predatory policy? Anywhere I've worked with this policy had implemented it so that ever taking vacation was a negotiation with your boss (not something you could just com
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by textminer 13y ago
I bounced from one to a liberal arts college to Columbia. Also an anomaly, but it was a fantastic learning experience (and quite the redemption from terrible high school performance).
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by textminer 13y ago
The four-weeks-vacation-but-feel-bad-about-that-and-occasionally-working-from-home thing does seem archaic and counterproductive for knowledge workers who are best when they're creative. I can understand how putting a fire out or havin
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by textminer 13y ago
If Facebook/Google were in SF, I reckon many of its workers would still live in San Jose, Fremont and Oakland, due to affordability concerns and a lack of density in the city proper.
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by textminer 13y ago
Pragmatic question: I'm a mathematician by training, and currently a machine learning engineer at a large Silicon Valley company. How does one in their late twenties jump into really working robotics? Machine learning was something I c
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by textminer 13y ago
Touché. :)
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by textminer 13y ago
There's a functional and chemical different between the amphetamine salts in popular ADD drugs and methamphetamine (namely, a methyl group.)
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by textminer 13y ago
Not Nebraska.
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by textminer 13y ago
Employ rolling averages above historical inflation?
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by textminer 13y ago
Posted details to another respondent.
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by textminer 13y ago
A friend was let go, as was an acquaintance who was hired in senior management of the group (Todd Beaupré). Investigating his LinkedIn page, he had circular recommendations with five others on his team, all who had finished working there at
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by textminer 13y ago
Surprised I've heard nothing about the bloodbath at Dr. Dre's Beats Music/MOG online service. They hired up a huge data scientist contingent, then fired them all. Strange considering how aggressive their recruiting was. Also
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by textminer 13y ago
That's sort of the basis of Plato's Republic, no?
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by textminer 13y ago
How much has Facebook's open-source contributions to PHP (say, the HHVM) helped the development and adoption of the language?
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by textminer 13y ago
Yeah. It's long seemed to me that the empirical argument against socialism/communism was the flawed implementation of central planning for price-setting in the last century. This seems like a strange rhetorical bent to hear from p
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by textminer 13y ago
My goto recommendation for a fresh installation: http://fonnesbeck.github.io/ScipySuperpack/
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by textminer 13y ago
It was personally strange to start programming in earnest with Python, and think namedtuples (or classes with __slots__) were so cool and efficient, and then learn C and just think "oh yeah. Structs."
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by textminer 13y ago
Ah, ain't that the truth. I loved my HP Pavillion, until its motherboard glue melted and internal parts detached. Twice. Shame for them, too-- circa 2007, you saw as many of those on college campuses as you did MacBooks or netbooks. No
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by textminer 13y ago
I've basically freshly come to C++ in a work environment, and C++11 is all I've learned so far. Range-for loops and smart pointers and move semantics are wonderful. I still haven't adopted to a perfect idiom for calling funct
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by textminer 13y ago
What's the best way for an average person to invest? Can and should ones buy index fund, or just lower-risk hedge funds?
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by textminer 13y ago
I've actually seen "data scientist" used to indicate "probably not that proficient as an actual engineer, but knows what he or she is talking about in terms of theory and can usually get a working model done in R, Matlab

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