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pkoird
1,830karma·349submissions·May 16, 2016
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Or as I like to say, our Software might be up to date but our OS and BIOS are still legacy.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't tenure something that's given to a professor , who, essentially, is a person that teaches? I should think that loving one's profession can only go…
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Try me.
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For one, like you said, there are so many spam websites out there that it's extremely difficult for Google (or any search engine for that matter) to gather genuine results. I also think that it…
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Anecdote but I always noticed change in sleep patterns after starting antidepressants. Actually, terminal insomnia (you wake up and then are unable to fall asleep) are characteristic of chronic depres…
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Same thing my doctor said. But getting appointments is really difficult around where I live so I'm just waiting for now.
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VB6 was a gem. To a young me who was starting out programming, there was nothing more empowering than dragging a bunch of different buttons, resizing them with mouse, fiddling with their labels and cr…
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Doesn't have to be this verbose even. Just a "I've been using Notepad++ for years now, thank you so much for it!" and a bit of "I understand that there are many issues that re…
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Last paragraph unneeded.
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Even Rust?
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True, but notice how I said personal computing and not computing in general. There's no denying that much of the scientific advances today would be impossible without computers in research facili…
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People decry the energy wastage brought about by the Crypto Mining, rampant invasion of privacy & trust by mega corporations, ubiquitous presence of misinformation and vitriol in social media, mis…
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Well it's hosted on GitHub pages. So I'd wager yes.
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Same here. The more I've progressed in CS, the more dissatisfied I am. Outside of creating algorithms that vie for constant user attention (the basic business model of FAANG), I don't see an…
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How difficult is it to transition from Computer Science to Biomedics? Particularly towards the field of Genomics (where CRISPR is).
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What in the world is bake-it-in-the-oven?
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Imagine a crowd sourced metadataset of which model output is "good". What happens when we try to incorporate that knowledge into the pre-existing model? Will it learn to generate more "…
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+1
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I'm not sure if this has come before but for me it'd be ffmpeg. The things it can do!
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The hardest part seems to be sitting down to create those flashcards.
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Does it remind anyone of Po and the Dragon scroll from Kung Fu Panda?
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For the longest time now, I have been thinking about this fact: Mine, and the entire Humanity's survival depends upon a mere handful of men. I sometimes think about how a madman could launch a nu…
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That making friends bit is proving to be a bit difficult for me at the moment.
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There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another me…
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Bugs are a part of life and I think it's safe to say that we don't intentionally put Bugs on our code. Therefore, while your guilt is justified, I don't think you should let yourself be…
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Really? I've always pronounced it car ( kar ) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.
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Can you even get that without a prescription?