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Came here to say this. What fantasy world are these guys living in? Most people I know barely get weekends to themselves, what with work being pushed passive aggressively through W…

What do you mean available here? I can't see a link to the book?

Of all the things that I thought I would never see on HN. However, this is a technical review, and needs an advanced formal economics education to appreciate.

Hey man, I am like 35 and alone all the time.

I actually have a different problem -- not sure it is one that I can legally solve. I have 10 years of lovingly curated YouTube videos playlists, which, now when I look into the ol…

Open roles for Azure & GCP might remain open for longer because of lower supply and poorer matching, not because of higher positions being searched for. The AWS talent market proba…

Not more of this pearl-clutching sensationalist reporting. India has shown no signs (any more than before) of the Hindu nationalism that was supposed to sweep the nation once Modi …

Ba dum tiss

Least squares, gradient descent and linear regression separately? I get that he wants to point out the profundity and universality of the ideas encompassed in those techniques (& m…

This is not as bad as it sounds. You need to consider the absolute numbers than the relative percentages for languages like C++. Programming is more accessible than ever before, mo…

Lol, it's a trap. I get an untrusted certificate.

Netflix is now basically an OTT TV channel. This puts to rest the content aggregation platform model for video which, unlike music, is highly differentiated with higher cost, which…

`C CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA` I laughed way harder at this that it warranted.

Not sure I quite understand your math here. The largest R3 instance is the r3.8xlarge with 244 GB of memory. 4 times of that would only get you to 1 TB. Also, this: "DRAM is valuab…

Ah, Noah "I didn't get kicked out of academia for not producing research and being a low-brow blog hack, I left because SFO" Smith.

Time series econometrics on HN? Wow. I have a PhD in Econometrics too. I have met her at seminars and she is a wonderful lady with some good quality publications. But this is a flu…