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people want to go back to monoliths, but don't want to lose the upsides of microservices. once you get a taste of serverless, it's really hard to go back to overprovisioning. at th…

I bounced a bunch of times too for similar reasons. Is it worth checking out? emphatic yes Summarize? I will try, and probably not do a great job; I'm still digesting it. The world…

The Fed's policies (at least since 2008) could be described as "socialism for the management upper class" - they got free money that they gave to themselves as bonuses. Their compa…

There was a great article on the front page yesterday, When to Assume Neural Networks Can Solve a Problem, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22717367 . Case 2 is very relevant h…

Given this perspective, I would postpone investment as long as possible then.

I think you will also like this quote/thought then: > The theory is this: Infinite Jest is Wallace's attempt to both manifest and dramatize a revolutionary fiction style that he ca…

I assume you have never explored your own literal blind spot [0] and how the brain just plasters over it with some hacky texture filling... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_…

Google's AutoML produces black box models that are only available over a network call. This services seems to produces downloadable models, and a notebook with Python code that cre…

This is called regulatory capture. Once you know the term, you can find some good content on it, like this https://www.thisamericanlife.org/536/the-secret-recordings-o...

They give examples of problems their model could solve that Mathematica couldn't (within a 30 second timeout) - and that's awesome. Destroy Mathematica. But, I did anyone notice if…

I was hoping that this would be related to Colah's "Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming" https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/ (but it is not). In it, h…

I think the reason the parent mentions GraalVM instead of Jython is that Jython can't use C libs like numpy. But GraalVM lets you compile JVM to a native binary, so maybe there is …

* Search "Who's Hiring?" for remote - https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/#%22remote%22 https://weworkremotely.com https://remoteok.io/ and of course, word-of-mouth / loose social connect…

Leo Breiman [0] (inventor of bagging and random forests) wrote a paper called "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures" [1], and since I read it, I see it everywhere. The basic idea…

This is a good first-order approximation, but there are other cannabinoids which influence the effects: CBN, THCV, and others [0]. Additionally, based on first-hand anecdata, I thi…

Stamets' book, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World [0] is very good, and his enthusiasm is definitely contagious. I will check out the podcast, thought tbh Joe …

Named parameters _might_ be my favorite part of Python. I don't understand why every language doesn't have them.

This is the funniest satire that has ever made it to the fp of this site. I was literally LOLing at the videos.

I have been looking for exactly this content for years! Thank you!

> What if future humans check all the planets in the universe Nope! Imagine a shell around us, defined as "how far we could go, if we left right now, traveling at near the speed of…

I don't know why it isn't as popular, but CatBoost should be on the list too https://catboost.ai/

The article recommends RF for tabular data because it is easier. In general I agree, but newer tools are making NN for tabular data as easy as can be... see, for example, fastai ht…

Surprisingly, there are a lot of good tips in the US Gov's Plain Language Guidelines https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/

This is not a bad pitch

Regardless of similarity to Wolfram products, this looks cool. I feel like I could be in the target audience, but the documentation is quite sparse. I feel like > Your data ends up…