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It was mostly things that you would expect, given the job and location. People doing their business where they shouldn’t, mostly, but also sex, drug use, bleeding, shaving, vomit, …

I used to clean bathrooms in a Manhattan shopping mall. I now have a tiny human. Cleaning the bathrooms was much, much more disgusting. It has been nearly 15 years and I still thin…

I’ve been a homeowner for a mere two years and I’ve discovered many things wrong with my house. YouTube has a video outlining what I need to fix and how to fix it 90% of the time. …

> no git blame annotations Thanks for mentioning this. I was going to give this a try this weekend but that's a dealbreaker for me.

Me too! It's crazy to me that I've never met you or the parent poster but we were living very similar lives the last week of the year due to the same Java DateTime design decision!…

Previous discussions: Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465 Favorite Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746…

These were extremely fascinating for me, and were written for a layman which I appreciated [0][1]. They're about the singularity. [0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-inte…

I took a class on computer vision and we used the OpenCV library extensively [0]. I remember that we had a project relating to detecting certain traffic signs, and obtaining the do…

People have been interested in this in the past so I'll post it again: Peter Norvig's satisfying Jupyter notebook solutions from AoC 2016[0]. [0] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/no…

I have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. H…

Here are some others that are also commonly recommended on HN: Andrew Ng's Machine Learning MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Courses:…

> It is free Just as a warning for anyone price-sensitive interested in taking this course, its cost is non-zero due to cloud costs. It is free to audit though! I'm not trying to d…

There is a Computational Linear Algebra class taught by one of the founders of fast.ai, but I don't think it's a prerequisite necessarily [0]. I've been meaning to take it - I can'…

Slightly off-topic, but David Silver did work on this project and discusses it briefly in his really great reinforcement learning course [0]. It's worth checking out if anyone is l…

As some anecdata, my mid-twenties group of friends and I use snapchat frequently. My brother is a freshman in college and he uses it with his friends as well. For whatever reason, …

75k-100k in cash, or in RSU's at the FAANG's? That seems so high to me for a new grad - congratulations on the offers!

Taken from an email I got last semester: Working as a TA pays $15 per hour, distributed twice monthly based on submitted timesheets (alumni are salaried, however).

Wouldn't it just be a product of the model not finding that finger useful in the simulations?

Just as some anecdata, I know of a single developer who works with Haskell; they do fluid dynamics programming for ExxonMobil in Houston.

Illegal ones

I'm reading "Deep Work" currently, and I agree with your sentiment. I find myself ironically losing focus and thinking about how I can get the meat of this book from a blog post a …

I think it's pretty safe to say finance will be a big one. Finance has a large amount of individuals and firms researching the applications of ML methodologies to financial indicat…

>Shopping journeys concluding in online purchases have baskets that are 25% larger, on average. When someone first visits a physical store and then purchases online, the effect is …

I'm currently in the process of reading "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,"[0] and I highly recommend it. I've always viewed Xerox as primarily an …