whitenoice

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by whitenoice 6y ago
To be a doctor is as hands-on as you can be unless you speak of radiology, but that too is fascinating. You spend four years of your life doing hands-on work during the residency (rote learning?). There is an infinite amount of learning in
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by whitenoice 6y ago
Please. Being a doctor is boring? It is challenging to be a doctor, and it is almost impossible to cheat through the USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam) process. It is a 3 step process, which includes four tough exams taken at registered cent
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by whitenoice 6y ago
Most codebases use lombok, you can use @SneakyThrows or @SneakyThrows(SpecificException.class) - https://projectlombok.org/features/SneakyThrows
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by whitenoice 6y ago
You could also use Optional, like Optional.ofNullable(s).map(i -> {switch (i) {...}}).orElse()
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by whitenoice 6y ago
That will not help, as the imposter could post a sane tweet impersonating the VIP. The person checking would not be able to identify if it's the VIP or the imposter.
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by whitenoice 7y ago
For people interested in the topic of Himalayan big wall climbing, do checkout the movie Meru - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/ it's excellent!
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by whitenoice 9y ago
What do you mean by pushed by their families? You don't seem to have a good understanding of educational institutions in India. IIT entrance exams are one of the toughest exams out there. Please read this page - https://en.w
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by whitenoice 9y ago
One solution would be to email your draft to all authors whose content you used in your article and see if they require any amendments. Thanks for writing the article!
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The Surprising Science Behind the World's Most Popular Fruit(nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by whitenoice 9y ago|0 comments
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by whitenoice 9y ago
You might want to look into Project Lombok. It does exactly that, and it works well.
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by whitenoice 9y ago
Curious, can you not ask them to produce the other letter then? As they signed the green card.
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by whitenoice 9y ago
Well MIT CSAIL is an acronym for AI Lab :) and it was founded in 1959. Here is an old link which lists schools particularly strong in different domains of AI - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/a
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by whitenoice 9y ago
When it comes to the admission process aren't all IMG's considered the same irrespective of citizenship. So 5069 (citizens) + (x non-citizens) compete for the remaining seats (6951). Isn't that correct?
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by whitenoice 9y ago
I initially agreed to your post, but as I reminisced the interviews I took I disagree and I think its the same everywhere. Second tier schools in US are equally bad and students lack practical knowledge. If I were to take an interview witho
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by whitenoice 9y ago
Probably cause the admission committee thought all those students are equally talented as you are. India has a huge population with 50% of its population below the age of 25. India and China together are close to 1/3rd of the worlds po
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by whitenoice 9y ago
More than students it would suck for universities, less funding, less infrastructure growth, it would cause a domino effect. If not US then somewhere else, students will figure it out, they are young but it will have a long lasting effect o
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by whitenoice 9y ago
Do you have any source on India not having top research talent? From my understanding India has good amount of research and tech talent but it suffers a lot from brain drain to US universities. Especially students graduating from Indian ins
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by whitenoice 10y ago
You could use akka[1] library to build a state machine, actor model is great for building state machines [2]. I have built one in the past using akka. Library is pretty robust and well maintained. [1] http://akka.io [2] http:&#
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How we program multicores – Joe Armstrong(youtube.com)
5 points by whitenoice 10y ago|0 comments
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by whitenoice 10y ago
OCW Video lectures for the course - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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by whitenoice 10y ago
Interested to know what other licenses Berkeley lost, can you state few notable ones?
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by whitenoice 10y ago
Its in progress: Swachh Bharat (Clean India) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swachh_Bharat_Abhiyan
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Double life as a KGB agent(theguardian.com)
286 points by whitenoice 10y ago|75 comments
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by whitenoice 10y ago
You are doing great! Don't let institution name bother you, it does not matter much, it helps in getting interviews etc, but if you work smartly you will get that anyway. Few things I would focus on: 1. Build a strong CS and Math backg
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Ask HN: What language/tools do you use for machine learning?
2 points by whitenoice 10y ago|0 comments
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by whitenoice 10y ago
Could you provide source to how you came about with that estimate?
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by whitenoice 10y ago
You can easily control logging level with slf4j etc, you can run maven in quiet mode if you want to see only errors. I don't think these are java lang issues, its more of a people problem that they don't quite understand the langu
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Tesla – Exchange your current vehicle for one week(tesla.com)
1 points by whitenoice 10y ago|0 comments
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by whitenoice 10y ago
Just saw the prescreening of snowden movie with online live event with movie cast and snowden post movie, and this was exactly what was depicted in the movie and in the event talk.
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by whitenoice 10y ago
Nice post, this reminded me of an article/video I had seen recently - Srikanth Bolla - http://spectrum.mit.edu/spring-2011/living-his-dream - http://www.dogonews.com/2016/6/9/visual

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