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fantod

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    Comment #48631478

    It's not just the papers. It's also the students and their students, many of whom ended up working in the top labs today.

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    Comment #46638153

    Oh, well that's reassuring

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    Comment #46171456

    Isn't 1-2 year wait time standard for spousal immigration?

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    Comment #46171355

    I'm surprised someone with his reputation would need to do this.

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    Comment #42484204

    I don't know what his reasons are but it makes sense to me. Yes, there are incredible results coming out of the AI world but the methods aren't necessarily that interesting (i.e. i…

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    Comment #42355002

    This is... incredible if true. How can this be? I looked up the old walk-in I used to go to (haven't needed it in a while) and it still shows up on maps but the most recent reviews…

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    Comment #42353516

    Do you really need a family doctor? I've never had one. Whenever I've had a non-emergency issue (in BC), I've just gone to a walk-in clinic where they've either helped me on the sp…

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    Comment #41910976

    This is supported by vimium with `gi`

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    Comment #36493298

    Agreed. Or have a function to report unacceptable behavior, but besides that no feedback is needed. I pretend this is the case. Never leave ratings anymore.

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    Comment #35209557

    > ChatGPT is creating a huge market for creating fake companies to match the fake information it's generating. Does ChatGPT consistently generate the same fake data though?

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    Comment #34481556

    Why has competition fallen? Is it simply due to an increase in supply?

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    Comment #34059666

    Re-quoting the GP's quote, > They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, ba…

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    Comment #33599646

    My approach was to port everything to a different language I was learning.

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    Comment #32854007

    Not to mention visa and health insurance issues.

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    Comment #32450703

    He does discuss VSCode towards the end of that clip.

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    Comment #32097915

    Good for St. Louis, bad for NYC.

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    Comment #30862303

    > if everyone forgot all they knew about math today we would be easily able to get back to where we are in a just by reading If your definition of "easily" is the amount of work re…

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    Comment #30835072

    You don't really need to know calculus (derivatives and such) but it's true that big O notation requires some sort of "asymptotic thinking" which is probably only explicitly taught…

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    Comment #30739815

    I agree and I think a good thing about the type hints is they help uncover these kinds of code smells. But there are definitely cases where it's definitely not worth the effort to …

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    Comment #30723582

    Exactly. When I initially started using typed Python, I would write code as though I were using a statically-typed language. In order to appease mypy, I found myself increasingly n…

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    Comment #30605142

    Personally, I always read it as "advice" rather than as an insult. Unfortunately, can't seem to find much context for that quote so it's hard to determine what was intended.

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    Comment #30605071

    You can get the best of both worlds. Stop worrying too much about what you think and say, like you mentioned; and also stop engaging on Twitter.

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    Comment #30412135

    I think it was a joke about the author's writing style.

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    Comment #30148607

    You can think of each vector space as being embedded in the direct sum of the two.

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    Comment #30041774

    I think SQLModel actually exists precisely so that you don't have to do that. According to [1]: > That class Hero is a SQLModel model... But at the same time, it is a SQLAlchemy mo…