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jtloong

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About jtloong

Site: https://joshualoong.com

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    Thankfully I was able to find an old Kindle DX (a discontinued line) on Ebay that has a 9.5 inch screen which is legitimately the perfect size for PDF books & papers. Super happy t…

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    True but most of the content of the article is based around Pearl's thoughts on the field.

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    Why is this functionally different than setting a public goal for yourself on Goodreads? A site that already has a large extant community?

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    Comment #21548221

    Is it that much different than Redditors rehosting images on Reddit/Imgur? I find the functional design of the site terrible but there's tons of popular sites that are based on hij…

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    Comment #19645623

    There are a decent number of companies that use NLP voice recognition when you call their support lines. So when you call, instead of pressing a number on your key pad to move thro…

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    I mean Facebook buying Instagram isn't really innovation. In terms of business strategy and feature enhancements, for sure its been great. But that's not really what I'd call innov…

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    No. We still have a poor understanding of the exact way neurons code information and store information. This page shows some of the current theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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    Not sure what you're asking, but if you want to run simple Python scripts you could run them through [Termux]( https://termux.com/ ) on your Android phone. You can even write them …

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    I'd definitely recommend checking out Goodreads. There's a lot of great niche groups, as well as following other people with similar interests you can discuss books with them in yo…

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    Wow this is the perfect analogy.

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    I think she followed up a few years later and said that the bad situation she was in was unrelated to her leaving Github. It was mostly the time commitment of maintaining many open…

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    I think it needs to be both. Accessible in it's raw format as well as approachable for non-technical users to interact with public information.

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    This is what the whole digital government movement is trying to change. Public sector organization's in the UK (GDS), Canada (CDS, ODS etc), Singapore (GovTech Singapore), even 18F…

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    Comment #18661093

    They could also download their Twitter archive which is just a csv https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...

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    Comment #18619709

    You could browse through TechCrunch's "cleantech" tag for interesting companies breaking news in the space. https://techcrunch.com/tag/cleantech/

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    I mean with a Python and Jupyter Notebook workflow it is incredibly easy to share the work and understand what's going on if there's base level of knowledge. All the simple formula…

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    Do you guys have internships on the Goodreads team?