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prodtorok··on How bad is your Spotify?
"You listen to a lot of Drake. Like, A LOT. You okay?"

... LMAO. love it.

prodtorok··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
I think its fine at enterprise scale... has anyone experienced AWS console at enterprise scale? in 2015-17 it was awful.
prodtorok··on Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
Completely agree. I'd say, historically speaking, that Facebook became a constrained negative environment while twitter was more of an open, entertaining, and free environment (and less tied to actual life/society). This isn't the case any longer.

Facebook is now far less egregious & more of a soft environment to socialize with people you personally know. Bubbles/pockets of societal function and some large-influence which is lesser enabled than the prior.

Twitter is a platform that justifies large societal movement through "influential information".

(I don't have the best english to articulate here)

prodtorok··on Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
I don't think it's as innocent as "loves the fame" ... there is a greater theme in our society regarding the influence of public opinion; and how influencers are abusing that in politics/positions of power.

The media of course enables it, which I think is a sign of a growing, large scale, rational fragility across society (demand controls their publication, there is a large demand for this type of information)

prodtorok··on South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading
"In an official announcement, South Korean government reaffirms there will be NO TRADING BAN"

https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/951428854085689344

prodtorok··on Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player
I'm sorry but as someone in the U.S. who played competitive rugby for 7 years I have to completely disagree.

In rugby I myself had experienced concussions from collisions at least once a season. Anyone I know who has played have experienced similar.

Less protection to the head means lower g-force hits sure, but still I've seen players knocked unconscious by pure body collision hits or an accidental knee to the head (this happens a lot more than you think) ... in fact in my 4 years of high school football I rarely, if ever, saw anyone knocked unconscious... where in rugby I can recall a handful of incidents.

Rugby has no room to outshine football in this manner. Such a foolish arguement.

prodtorok··on Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
sounds like a dystopia.
prodtorok··on My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
what is a Maker?
prodtorok··on Developer preview of TensorFlow Lite
Native support for tensorflow? I don’t think so...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml/converting_...

prodtorok··on An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests
What if they are hypochondriacs filled with anxiety and stress? -- feel like these people would definitely take an asprin a day out of fear.
prodtorok··on iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
Could easily see this working on the mobile web as well
prodtorok··on Get to Know the Actor Model with JavaScript
For those who like to learn from videos, here is an interview/lesson from Carl Hewitt (he introduced the model):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo

prodtorok··on Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning
How far out are we from Object Detection that can identify at different scales? - i.e. angled, facing towards, rotated, skewed, etc...

We seem to have good OD that can create horizontal bounding boxes, but these bounding boxes seem to be generic estimates.

Even rectangle detection with these models can't identify the angle or skew of a rectangle in a frame (we get the same generic bounding box)

OpenCV seemed to have models awhile ago that could do this just fine.

prodtorok··on China forbids anonymous online posts
Black Mirror, season 3, episode 1... anyone? -- Everyone can rank each other, which yields to a publicly visible score. Interactions then become about creating "meaningful" and kind experiences. Counter-opinion, argumentative/confrontation, and (sometimes) truthiness are mostly shunned.

"exaggerated morality play about the dangers of conformity and the small pleasures of individuality". - The Verge

prodtorok··on A note on programmer salaries
Where is a good site to calculate worth? I've been using Glassdoor, but this article and thread make me feel skeptical.

I thought I've done well in my negotiating (in D.C.): 80k -> 90k (9m) -> 95k (12m) -> 105k base (1y7m, new job) -> present 2y2m later.

I now feel as if Ive shorted myself. I guess I shouldn't compare to Glassdoor? My salary is above the median listed at Glassdoor. The article makes me feel under-valued. The numbers I see just seem crazy. At the same time, I know my talent is greater than that of most "seniors" I work with, have led teams, and my product engineering has been fast and "impressive".

My boss assured me that Im on the fast track to promotion, but now I feel as if after 1y at my new company, I must request a significant raise, like 20%, or move on again.

prodtorok··on The best defense against malicious AI is AI
The Oracle.

She possesses the power of foresight, which she uses to advise and guide the humans attempting to fight the Matrix

prodtorok··on Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are
I live in a transplant city dominated by young professionals. Multiple roommates (paying for utilities, grocery shopping together, house-shopping), many nights out a week with friends, etc. all yield to a multitude of spotting cash/credit for everyone.

The only assholes are the ones who freeload often. venmo keeps everyone in check.

What is your neck of the woods, partner?

prodtorok··on Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are
"can we split for this case of beer?"

"can we split for this pizza delivery?"

"can we do an iou for my friend who forgot their card?"

"can we split this utility bill?"

prodtorok··on Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are
Ever been a college student?
prodtorok··on Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are
Right, and this is more of an evolution of generation. This is a social norm amongst millennials.
prodtorok··on ClojureScript Is Not An Island: Integrating Node Modules
Amazing you consider an unstable, undecided, and hectic JavaScript world (language, 3rd party libraries, many competing tools, etc.) against the sanity of a singular language that has been stable and ahead of game since it's creation.
prodtorok··on The Re-Frame Guide: Front-End Architecture in Clojure
How much Clojure was the team exposed to before the switch?
prodtorok··on What Is Ethereum?
How important is the adoption of Solidity for Ethereum's success?
prodtorok··on Going Mobile With React Native
As a professional JS and iOS developer, I have to say that React Native is not the way to ever go unless you need to quickly prototype proof-of-concepts. I'm in love with React, but not RN.

Apps just don't feel right (like something is off but you can't tell what), annoying bugs, hacky open source modules, and the fear that it will never live up to it's hype or be able to keep up with native apis.

If you need a quick poc, then use what you're most comfortable with. If your app is simple enough to make in RN, then do it in native. If your app is complicated then you won't be able to do it (successfully) in RN anyway.

prodtorok··on A ReasonReact Tutorial
Comparison with Clojurescript?
prodtorok··on How to Make a Simple Twitter Clone with React Native
How would the RN app (not the backend) do in production? (i.e. vs native twitter app)
prodtorok··on JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns
awesome, thanks
prodtorok··on JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns
Any advice on how to compare this with RxJS?
prodtorok··on “They Basically Reset My Brain”
I played 6 years of rugby. I also played high school football. My position, lineman, in football was a pretty non-collision position and I never experienced any concussions.

In rugby, every position involves collision. As a backline player most of my job was to run, but there was no way of ever avoiding multiple collisions in a game. Less impactful then football for the reasons you mention, but more frequent. I know for certain that I've had (at-least) a few concussions in rugby. For instance, getting up from a hit and having no idea where you're at for a second, and then feeling the world morph back into you as if it were knocked right out.

prodtorok··on Experimental: Syntax AI with React.js
The ML bit seems to be very interesting, the more impressive part out of this.

Voice to code generation not so much these days. Esp with code such as React (easy boilerplate, standard component structure, uniflow of data from parents to children)

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