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jtloong
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About jtloong
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Comment #21658754
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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Comment #21617045
True but most of the content of the article is based around Pearl's thoughts on the field.
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Comment #21548238
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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Comment #19554127
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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Comment #19512180
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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Comment #19348182
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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Comment #19139417
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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Comment #19035169
Wow this is the perfect analogy.
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Comment #18777475
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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Comment #18748710
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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Comment #18730830
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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Comment #18157300
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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Comment #17646128
Do you guys have internships on the Goodreads team?