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abhink

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    Comment #44657341

    > But even so, I don't think I would have been able to learn much on my own with video lectures, at least not at the start. This was exactly my situation. Videos can give you a lot…

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    Comment #43546404

    I spent a good minute looking at the exponential in graph, ignoring all the actual data points, thinking to myself that the experiment does show an exponential relation. Where's th…

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    Comment #43281825

    I'll tell you my experience as someone who's been using Math Academy for past 6 months. Math Academy does what every good application or service does. Make things convenient. That'…

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    Comment #36274110

    > the fact is that less people take the IIT-JEET (a couple of hundred thousand), than some of our exams here - like for law school and medical school Do you have some source backin…

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    Comment #30535568

    Right, it is. Like I said, the figures I've pulled are from what I remember from 15 years back. Unfortunately I'm not able to find any sources with light searhcing. I'd like to poi…

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    Comment #30534884

    You and I are referring to completely different scores. It is true that a candidate needs to have scored a minimum percentage of around 50-60% in their high-school/intermediate boa…

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    Comment #30529665

    I mean the data is one google search away (granted, if you know some of the official caste related terms) https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/educa... Also, the …

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    Comment #30527117

    This is correct to some extant, and not just for getting education. As an example, in many competitive exams conducted by universities etc. to select students, the selection cutoff…

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    Comment #27698173

    I'm a bit late, but I'll ask my question anyway. Data science requires a very strong mathematical background. Thee are libraries and software that do take care of some of the most …

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    Comment #24118806

    > I forgot that you don't have to download desktop apps, they just appear! This seems disingenuous, given how clear the difference of bandwidth utilization between a web app and a …

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    Comment #23211721

    What would you suggest as a starting point for a regular software engineer who'd like to look into this? See how everything comes together at a high level I mean? Because to someon…

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    Comment #21871120

    You normally get a blue card with a period of validity, which is normally 4 years. While the blue card is valid you can freely switch between organisations within EU. The only rest…

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    Comment #21599720

    After playing it for about 5-8 hours in the last 2 days, I'd say for a casual gamer like me, there is no perceptible latency. Even in an FPS like Destiny. But again, yesterday was …

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    Comment #20457639

    It's interesting that as a full time Go developer myself, my experience has been very different about the points you have mentioned. I personally think verbosity is good. For one, …

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    Comment #20419198

    In a situation where bystander intervention might happen, I think people, especially those who are willing to intervene, may not be very conscious about cameras around them. Even m…

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    Comment #20403862

    From ISPA's website, one of the reasons to oppose DoH: > User choice: An application switching to DoH should ensure that this switch does not undermine choices that have been previ…

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    Comment #19917807

    But every event, creative or otherwise, is made up of hundreds of smaller events. That complicated wall jump - 360 kill you just did used several input signals. Even if the server …