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dr-neptune

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    Some things that have helped me: - grammarly (mostly excellent, I ignore some suggestions) - reading books more with stylistic elements that push the boundaries of what you're used…

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    At the moment I'm really passionate about 2 things: Quantitative Finance. I have a math background and relish the chance to explore some applications of probability theory. Most of…

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    Very cool. It's amazing how cutting edge rackets plotting facilities are The rest of the blog has a bunch of inspiring content for the aspiring Racketeer that isn't catering to stu…

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    One way could be to time cap something and put it out there. Many may fail, but perhaps one will take off. Here is a blog where a dev makes many small startups and sees how they do…

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    Another useful idea in this same quest is to keep an ideas file that is easy to update. Then hold yourself accountable to add at least 1 idea a day, no matter how silly. Over time …

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    Fire can basically do the first step (object -> CLI): https://github.com/google/python-fire Gooey can do (CLI -> GUI): https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

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    A book I always recommend to folks looking to learn mathematics with lots of beauty and from first principles is Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics. The book starts from axiomatic arit…

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    Not sure what the parent uses, but emacs has calc, which is a RPN calculator with lots of features (including history and intermediate results) and can be used in the terminal

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    Comment #32729965

    Is it because you are used to vim bindings? Emacs offers an "evil mode" that implements modal bindings

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    > By getting into machine or deep learning I mean building upto a stage to do ML/DL research. > The target ability: > 1. To understand the theory behind the algorithms > 2. To impl…

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    duckduckgo also has "bang operators" that allow you to specify site. An example is !r for reddit or !w for wikipedia It's even nicer for some sites like Wikipedia because it goes d…

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    > They determined peak creativity by the point at which the subjects’ scientific papers had the most citations and were thus most influential Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume th…

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    Pretty excellent considering how many plots there are!

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    These days I hear a lot of "AIML" It doesn't make much sense to me as I've never seen anyone use anything you'd find in an AI book that you wouldn't also find in a Machine learning…

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    In the book Hamming tasks the reader with creating in some detail a vision of your future. I did do this, but lacked the foresight to effectively find a way that I could shape my w…