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Thank you for sharing your experience.

There is adverse selection at play. The top/world-class programmers are too busy to write blogs.

What annoys me about using Apple products recently is the glitches. When I scroll up to find very old messages on my iPhone, it randomly snaps back to the most recent message. Tryi…

Yes it could be that they got a bad review from someone else and retaliated on the wrong person. Where is the fun in not getting peeved by these things though? ;)

This is an excellent point! I suppose I could normalize by the number of total reviews. It hasn’t been an issue so far as I am only filtering out cases when there are multiple repo…

This is why there is such “grade inflation” in reviews. The way I read reviews is now: - look at the reviews with lowest ratings. They have the most signal (the walls were paper th…

I had a non-masked Uber driver report me for not wearing a mask (I was wearing one). It was very strange, my guess is they didn’t like me for some reason and used the feature in a …

Any time I’ve looked into passive income, I’ve come to the same conclusion: the simplest and most effective way to increase my income is to focus my energy on improving my main car…

If you can't find someone to review your stuff, is there someone you can raise this with who might be able to help? It sounds like a management/communication issue.

Moka pots make great coffee but I found it really hard to get the brewing right - the most important factor was the grind size. If I change it even slightly, I get much worse resul…

"Directness" is an excuse that I sometimes hear to justify aggressive or rude behaviour, but it's possible to be direct in a polite manner. "This new plan is stupid" is rude, where…

I have started unsubscribing to any subreddit the moment I notice a post is generating a negative emotion. Nowadays my feed is mostly woodworking, cooking and photography.

I would encourage everyone who struggles with procrastination to try CBT techniques as described in "Feeling Good" by Dr. Burns. These address the psychological reasons for procras…

CMU stats courses are stellar - especially this one, which was written by Cosma Shalizi, I believe

I agree - and what about all the high end bars/cafes/shops full in the same areas? Working at startups has become a relatively comfortable lifestyle for twenty-somethings who don't…

From a pedagogical point of view, I think it's a very strange choice to go with gradient descent in this case. It makes linear regression look like something much more complicated …

This is a great article. One thing I can particularly relate to is when working on a 'blue sky' project, how easy it is to rationalise away the obvious red flags and keep going unt…

I spent a lot of time messing with PDEs as a student but sadly that knowledge hasn't been very useful - I've only seen them come up in quite specialised areas like optical flow...

This is a great list of the main concepts to know.

These are all brilliant books, but I feel like anyone who is ready for them wouldn't need to be asking this question.

Not knowing anything about you, I'll assume that - you are starting with the equivalent of a high school level of maths - you want to take a ML course or read an ML book without fe…

This is something I want to believe, but history shows us that scientific progress often comes with the loss of traditional, magical views of the Self and of the universe which are…

I agree that it's a shame our society doesn't place more importance on these 'grand visions'. That being said, I think the reason so many people are learning programming and studyi…

I think we are going to see a lot of interesting artistic applications of AR. There is a lot about FB that I don't like but this here is a good thing.

This is just entertainment - hardly anything to get depressed about. What's so terrible about giving people a bit of joy and fun?