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swengw

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About swengw

https://github.com/shengwu

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    Comment #37638751

    $23 a night, basically a discounted hostel bed

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    Comment #30753207

    MIT - you'll meet way more people that will challenge/inspire you.

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    Comment #25830347

    does it still look bad if you use a log scale?

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    Comment #20707653

    Scalyr is great, but I'm not sure if it's any cheaper. https://www.scalyr.com/

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    Comment #16718009

    If you assume a driver’s wage is at least the Seattle minimum wage of $15 per hour, add nominal fulfillment and delivery costs of $5 per order (the contractor’s fuel, car etc.) and…

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    Comment #16495218

    Opendoor | Software engineers, data scientists | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional proc…

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    Comment #16288621

    Opendoor | Software engineers, data scientists | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional proc…

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    Comment #15463216

    Tim Cook says he's never read a bill of materials that was anywhere close to accurate. I believe it- the last time I got an iPhone replaced, I asked what they were doing with the o…

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    Comment #13785240

    If you want to try generating music yourself using machine learning, check out Magenta: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/welcome-to-magenta

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    Comment #13241026

    Most recommended: - Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others. - Lawrence Weschler - Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. A quality biography of Robert Irwin bas…

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    Comment #13044227

    Seems similar, since the average startup temporarily employs people and results in nothing (although over a longer period of time).

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    Comment #8992063

    It's interesting how a bunch of subtle tweaks to a restaurant's menu can increase spending: http://www.menucoverdepot.com/resource-center/articles/resta...

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    Comment #8846707

    This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on…

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    Comment #8846702

    This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on…

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    Comment #8846701

    This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on…

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    Comment #8846697

    This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on…

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    Comment #8817609

    There are rough corners, but there's also room for improvement: "Now Herman Miller, the firm that, however unintentionally, started the shift to cubicles, is trying to reshape the …

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    Comment #6180003

    If you're interested in doing this yourself, the book associated with Python's Natural Language Toolkit has a pretty good introduction to identifying gender in the chapter on text …

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    Comment #6034540

    It doesn't address the real gender discrimination issues, but having gender-balanced HR departments could have helped Kim O'Grady. Currently, if you include your photo in your resu…