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pkoird
1,831karma·349submissions·May 16, 2016
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Don't overthink it. Just write what you want to write. So what if someone has already written on the same prior to you? It'd just be an evidence of the merits of your thoughts.
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JustRust, anyone?
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It's not just VCs. Everyone loves giving advice. Why, I'd hand out advices all day if anyone would listen!
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Amazon's incentives lie in their buyers buying a product, and not in their buyers buying "good" products. That's why they are not motivated to guide the consumers towards better pr…
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I wonder if there's a .do TLD. If so, they could've done khoj.do
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Didn't look too deep into the paper but can I just say that I LOVE this style of academic writing? Accessible, full of examples, and in a conversing tone. Most of the math papers I come across ju…
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Maybe stop paying the bloated management so much and put money where mouth is.
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Plenty of new technologies like version control, containerization, CI/CD, coupled with some robust modern languages with an arsenal of libraries come as close to the silver bullet as one can in m…
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> I think my default is to assume everything must be optimized, and not that everything could just ‘be done’. This is a number 3 problem.
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To mimic a famous stoic quote: God, grant me the insight to discover the optimal, diligence to work on the feasible, and wisdom to know the difference. You clearly have the first. What do you think yo…
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Ahh, the infamous Dihydrogen Monoxide
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Clever! I'm kinda being pedantic but I guess using \1 makes it a non-regular expression? I'm not even sure if it's CFG anymore.
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That is true and well-spotted. Id be grateful for your thoughts about the entire material as well.
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Or digestive disorders like IBD
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It is remarkable how I keep on stumbling upon connections between Scizophrenia and Gut Bacterias and it is equally remarkable, the connection now being discovered between Gut Bacterias and Auto Immune…
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How wonderful itd be if we could subscribe to the network of our friends / colleagues as well?
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I believe the market is now open for truly smart assistants. And much needed are players who can provide a guarantee of privacy. Considering that these devices will be listening in on everything I s…
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Would love to talk to you some!
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You ask a really deep question of whether an object is limited in its definition by what can be observed about it. You see to believe the contrary i.e. object is more than what it appears. But then, h…
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This essay is an epistemological endeavor towards logical paradoxes, and is not meant to be an advocacy on religion or atheism.
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And anyone with a more modest understanding of Mathematics knows that it is incomplete, inconsistent, and undecidable and thus is not the end-all. The example serves to show that a 3D object is simult…
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Any good Textbooks for this topic?
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I simply cannot recommend Sapolsky enough! The man is wonderful. And not just his course, his books are deliciously insightful as well. My only gripe with him is that he speaks continuously without en…