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s1t5 commented on Ask HN: How to find high quality workplaces for developers? · Posted by u/turboat

O_H_E · 5 years ago

Yesterday I found this list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Although not exactly what you are asking, this interview behavior could be a reflection of internal values.

s1t5 · 5 years ago

Interview behavior is certainly a reflection; presence of a whiteboard, on the other hand, tells you absolutely nothing about the quality of the workplace.

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: Is yahoo still generating revenue? · Posted by u/Godwill

s1t5 · 5 years ago

> Is yahoo still generating revenue?

> Is yahoo still profitable?

Revenue is different from profit. It seems like last year their revenue was about 2.5 billion and their profit was around 23 million - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/annual-report-2019-outlook-20...

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: Moving into ML as a DevOps/Security Guy · Posted by u/_alxk

Jugurtha · 5 years ago

Hi. Hit me up and I'll set you up so you could have an environment that already has pretty much all the libraries installed, where you can track experiments, deploy and invoke models, schedule long running notebooks, collaborate in near real-time on notebooks, have multiple check-points, and automatically parametrize notebooks so you run experiments filling up a form.

It's a play version of our internal tool to which we invited around thirty students of one of our colleagues for their ML projects.

This way you can concentrate on the actual courses instead of the nightmare of setting things up and the usual ML specific problems. This should speed up your progress, because people lose an ungodly amount of time on these issues. Well, maybe not on course projects, but in real projects they do. I'll also add you to the Slack workspace in case you encounter issues.

s1t5 · 5 years ago

Are you really offering an easy setup to the senior devops person? I'm sure they can figure things out.

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: Moving into ML as a DevOps/Security Guy · Posted by u/_alxk

s1t5 · 5 years ago

Something to keep in mind - experienced devops and security experts are extremely valuable, at the same time ML beginners are in oversupply. Do you really want to put yourself at a massive disadvantage in the near to medium term, especially if the future of ML is kind of uncertain while with your other skillset you can have a pretty stable career?

As someone working in ML (a couple of years of experience), I'd much rather be in your position than mine.

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app? · Posted by u/blickentwapft

whywhywhywhy · 5 years ago

That and the layout of their "new" redesign where you go to a post and it'll show the post, 2 comments (out of 500), not even the full threads of those comments either and then just some unrelated posts and you have to click on more links just to read the actual comments and you can feel your browser choke under the weight of whatever framework they use trying to render a few bits of text.

Noticed Twitter switching to the same pattern too, show 1-4 replies then just some random unrelated algorithm posts from elsewhere.

s1t5 · 5 years ago

Old design + Reddit Enhancement Suite is the only decent way to use reddit right now.

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: What Are the Big Problems? · Posted by u/dredmorbius

s1t5 · 5 years ago

Managing the resources on the planet in a way that every human being has good quality of life and doing this in a way that's sustainable in the long term and without resorting to oppression, dictatorships or active population reduction.

s1t5 commented on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home? · Posted by u/OnWriting

abdussamit · 5 years ago

Can you please expand on how you learnt that from NLP? Did you do a degree? If yes, then in what and where from?

Also, would be great and I'd highly appreciate if you could share some resources to them, I'll also Google meanwhile. That stuff has also excited me!

s1t5 · 5 years ago

It's pseudoscience and there are no degrees in it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

s1t5 commented on NumPy another Iverson Ghost (2018) analyzethedatanotthedrive... · Posted by u/tosh

s1t5 · 5 years ago

I read the post and still have no idea what point it's trying to convey apart from a general sense of smugness.

> At the end of my programming day, I want to look on something that is beautiful. I don’t particularly care about how useful a chunk of code is or how much money it might make, or what silly little business problem it solves. If the damn code is ugly I don’t want to see it.

I can't relate to this at all.

s1t5 commented on Graphical Linear Algebra graphicallinearalgebra.ne... · Posted by u/guerrilla

CharlesMerriam2 · 5 years ago

Meh. Sorry.

Start with [Essence of Linear Algebra](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...) by [3 Blue 1 Brown](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw) for an intuitive overview of all the major concepts.

While working through a full Linear Algebra course, it is important to develop your own software to do things. That is, some sort of command tool to enter matrices and run operations on them. As you go through a course, you will keep adding operations.

You should work on some of the most common tricks, like using 4 by 4 matrices for computer graphics and understanding what a PCA does.

s1t5 · 5 years ago

As much as I like 3blue1brown, watching those videos is not a good way to learn. It's maybe a good way to get some intuition about a topic and much closer to the "infotainment" category. A good textbook + solving problems + maybe writing code works much better for actual learning.