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Any body can share a success story of using category theory gainfully to any CS/SWE problem that couldn't have been solved without? No Monads isn't one, you would invent it natural…

> but as a Brit coming from somewhere with a by then thriving real ale scene, Served at room temperature. Yikes.

Blade Runner is not a Kubrick film.

It's one of his most accessible movie, and usually resonates with tech people for obvious reasons. His best movies imo are Mirror, Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Stalker and then…

how is it related to any of these? do you have links to articles?

Insights from famed algebraic geometer and Fields medalist David Mumford, who has also worked (and co-authored a book) on Pattern Theory (statistical computer vision). https://en.w…

What is NLL for 32x32 Imagenet? Thats a common benchmark and it’s strange that it’s missing from this paper. Also, will you release cifar10 samples? Curious what they look like at …

What’s so hard about putting this at the beginning of the function? import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

But also learn one or two languages that fit your domain of work, really really well. I have seen too many programmers that justify their lack of skills in their main language they…

your statement sounds like this is a point of view taken by the majority of people who live in Europe. Simple facts about the number and density of cities through out the history o…

Thats not particularly a European perspective. Sounds like its just yours.

> I don't know, to me the statement begs the question "So why wasn't it a great fit?" That's not "begging the question" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

I love math but I find this whole article and the associated jokes pretty contentless and somewhat boring.

The article says $1.5 a day IIANM

sure, sanctions may very well be one of the factors causing such high inflation levels (although I am hesitant to say that they completely explain away the massive increase in the …

Even though I am sympathetic to the idea of Universal income, the fact the Iran's economy experienced inflation as high as 45% the rapid rise of which correlates closely with the s…

The account is named ka-engineering, no need to mine posting history. There are some world class engineers working in KA (e.g Craig Silverstein), I would take their blog posts over…

this is almost on the same level of stupidity as "All lives matter".

"Is it really that crazy that you might meet a girl/guy you might want to date at work?" Yeah it's really, really crazy if you are in the position of authority over whomever you ar…

Produce independently reviewed citation that you are state of the art, or even close to it, in any of these functionality.

My favorites are Casella and Berger: https://books.google.com/books/about/Statistical_Inference.h... and Hogg, McKean and Craig: https://www.pearsonhighered.com/program/Hogg-Introd…

Relevant older, harsher piece http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-vertically-integrated-r...