When weight is a concern, try not using the carry on bags with wheels. Those bags themselves weigh about 6-7 lbs and the telescopic handle takes up space inside the bag.
I use the Amazon basics carryon or the more expensive Patagonia MLC 45L both of which which weigh less than 2.2 lbs and are a breeze to carry on. It's amazing how much space and time (it's much faster to walk with these carry on's) you save when you use these.
Oh and these provide O(1) access as they fold like a suitcase and not like a hiking bag which in my view has a best case o(n) access and worst case o(n^n) access.
that the interviewer asked me to provide an alternate imperative implementation of the LINQ statement, just so he could see that I actually knew how to implement something like that rather than just use it
I wonder why interviewers look for these traits when it is very clear that you'll almost never implement a low level data structure.
I am no expert, but extracting data related to the word influence from IMDB for Tarantino (or any actor/director) is quite doable. Even by employing rudimentary NLP techniques using NLTK and Freebase/wordnet APIs I can gather all Tarantino related documents in which the word influence(or its many synonyms) have appeared. Then I can look for proper nouns in the vicinity of the word 'influence' which will give me a list of all people who have influenced Tarantino.
Doing the next level analysis is hard, finding the degree of influence, building a timeline graph of how Tarantino was influenced over a period of time etc.
I find the topic of extracting such graphs quite fascinating. I was thinking of doing the something similar for Prof.Snape in the Harry Potter series.
It's a very comfortable position, but not for the cervical spine. I just had an injury that according to the doc was because of this posture. I don't believe it though. Anyways, try not to sit in this position for long durations. The injury isn't fatal but will leave you with shooting pain in your arms and shoulders for weeks.
In cities like Bangalore, getting self-leased office space for an early stage startup is a nightmare. Either you have to take up individual houses converted as offices (borderline illegal) or you have to settle for crappy office spaces in god forsaken locations.
Even for established companies, managing office real estate is a nightmare. For instance, Microsoft had leased some office space in the heart of the city and even they had difficulty expanding and finding appropriate offices in the vicinity. (They have now taken up space at WeWork as a makeshift arrangement).
So yeah, while WeWork seems like an expensive real estate play, they do fill a market need.
True, but I don't think social media addiction is as bad as addiction to tobacco, heroin etc.I will look into specific data points about the points that you have raised.
If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.
I'd modify this statement as the program can potentially be an instrument of unjust power.
I like to believe that the opposite of this will most likely occur. What if such a program manipulates people's minds towards the good, what if it can turn terrorists against terrorism.
Whenever we think of something outside our brain taking control of our lives, we only think of negative outcomes. Why not positive ones ? Sure distraction is bad, but how bad ?
I don't buy the argument that the short doses of of social media engagement is equivalent to consuming heroin or smoking. It is an addiction for sure, but why is addiction bad ? All through history, we have always looked for means of getting high - from alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and what not. Ever since we discovered that we can get high, we have embarked on finding new means that can give us that high. Why do people want to be rich ? So that they can show off. Showing off is an addiction. Social media is just making that addiction available to every one. To use some silicon valley terminology, social media is democratizing showing off and we are just getting started :).
I say this because, Whenever we friends got together for a beer or a social hangout, most of the conversation, at least 50% drift around to showing off. So I've realized that social media has just become an extension of our behavior. It has become just a tool to express our collective narcissism. The root cause of the addiction is not social media, it's our own self.
I am generalizing, and there are many many exceptions to the above stated collective behavior.
Adam, sorry guess I was not clear. What I said was that the MS Sql server + R strategy of baking in ML in PLSQL is appalling and doing something like what you are doing with DL4J is perhaps the right approach.
The multi GPU support rant was for SQL Server + R, not DL4J.
"You've also for some reason decided to attach an open ended coding library where you can do whatever you want to a database?"
I didn't catch this part.
But what if your training logic needs a change in ETL - You have to iterate on ETL too. So doing it inline makes a lot of sense.
Microsoft has done something like this with SQL server + R offering. Personally I find the MS approach quite appalling. You have to load your model in a PLSQL script, so the ETL + running the model is seamless, but imagine debugging and oh forget about multi GPU support.
Based on my cursory understanding of the topic,
The Merkle tree has been around for a while, but Satoshi figured out how to use that to achieve decentralization, and consensus building. If you ask me, that's quite revolutionary.
Yes, the blockchain is just a gigantic DAG, but adding and deleting nodes on the graph is where the crux of the matter is I guess. I am starting to understand the logic from a currency perspective. Still trying to understand how the same translates to smart contracts.
And half the reason we keep throwing code away is because it was created without consciousness of maintainability.
Well, this has nothing to do with static vs dynamic typing. You can write unmaintainable code in static languages very easily.
In startups, developers often overlook maintainability, I completely agree but that's because everyone knows that the code you are writing today might not be needed 2 years down the line, you are mostly iterating to find PMF.
I have a question. This might turn out to be stupid. What happens if the value of 1 bitcoin falls below the required threshold i.e the cost of energy + hardware to mine. I do understand that the probability of such an eventuality might be close to 0.
That's an assumption. For some companies such as Augur, this is true and they even enforce that the tokens be used for placing predictive bets. You can't just buy the token and keep it in cold storage. I don't see how a crypto token can be associated to something like a browser. Someone is betting that the browser becomes a sellable product. Very unlikely. I am surely missing something, because Brendan Eich is no ordinary person.
This is how I've always felt about presentations, not just by Musk but anyone who presents candidly. Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Bill Gates also present more or less similar characteristics. They don't prepare/rehearse for the talk. They are thinking on the fly, but they are still confident. This natural behavior is what makes listening and watching to these people so gratifying.
My ideal camera is just a simple autofocus camera which has two modes of operation. Standalone and paired with a phone. Standalone mode is built for speed - just manual controls, snap and shoot. No screen, no buttons at the back nothing. Just the PSAM dial, front and back wheels for shutter aperture control.
When paired with a phone - AF and all the gimmicky stuff to be done using the phone's interface which will also act like a viewfinder. Of course you can still use manual controls on the phone app. You can even edit the images on the phone and like the OP says, bloody mount the camera somewhere, sit in your tent and shoot. What all fancy stuff you can do - once you have all the controls on the phone. Automatically fire when a bird takes off and fun things like that.
Thank you for saying this. I just want to add how this becomes super hard in an early stage startup. People underestimate how hard it is to translate company goals to engaging team projects, when a startup is in a lot of flux. The goal post moves so much. It's super super hard to keep an eye on the goal post, translate that goal to the team, and a couple of weeks later tell the team that no the earlier tasks are no longer valid, here's a new set. Rinse repeat until you hit PMF.
If every check out counter had a tap for dispensing water, you could fill up your container while paying the bill. Reduces so much of the friction you speak about.
Can I ask what is considered chronic procrastination. For instance, I am sitting on a tax filing task for almost 2 months now. It's not gonna endanger my life, but it's one of those things I can't get my mind to do.
The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it'll work. Somehow making the map truly dynamic by changing the scale according to the time it takes to reach the destination will be helpful. So the scale of the map changes as per the traffic and other factors that affect the time taken to reach specific destinations.
This should work, yeah.
I'm surprised that they went with AMD and not an ARM vendor. ARM is pushing into the ML space big time with ARM GPU with even a Caffe fork CaffeALC on the ARM GPU. These GPUs are built with mobility and energy conservation, so these processors are somewhat of a natural fit for TSLA.
I have similar affiliations with my car for which I paid far less than 10K. I can feel the horsepower in my car, but I can't feel the horsepower in my phone.
How do you mean. So how can I buy bitcoins that aren't mined in India using INR. I probably will have to convert INR to USD by buying USD in India and then buy BTC using USD. No ? Some Indian BTC exchanges might be wrapping these transactions under the hood. No ?