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tworats

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About tworats

Startup guy.

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    Two had small youtube channels delving into details of ML papers, one had a blog with a good explanation of a specific detail on a paper I was interested, one was a recommendation …

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    I've had great luck with graduate students (and sometimes even ungrads): I'll find a grad student who knows the topic, often by searching for lesser known content creators on youtu…

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    The Illustrated Transfomer ( https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ ) and Visualizing attention ( https://towardsdatascience.com/deconstructing-bert-part-2-vi... ), ar…

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    Coupa | San Diego / San Mateo / Bay area / Remote | Software Engineer, Data Platform Team | On-site with WFH days | Full Time Join us in Coupa's (NASDAQ:COUP) data platform team to…

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    Comment #27064984

    > The rewards for working on new ideas are weighted by the value of the outcome. So it's worth working on something that only has a 10% chance of succeeding if it would make things…

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    Coupa | San Diego or San Mateo / Bay area | Software Engineer, Data Platform Team | On-site with WFH days | Full Time Join us in Coupa's (NASDAQ:COUP) data platform team to build a…

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    Coupa | San Diego, CA | Software Engineer, Data Platform Team | On-site with WFH days | Full Time Join us in Coupa's (NASDAQ:COUP) data platform team to build and extend the core t…

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    Do these come with stock android, and are they updatable? Or, can you install some other distro on it (eg. cyanogenmod)?

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    Great stuff. I know very little about music, but found it very helpful to visually decipher and decompose the sounds. Would it be possible to isolate each instrument? Turn each one…

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    On the Python side there's Lamson and Google App Engine also has nice email handling capabilities allowing you to parse and access from your own code / app. http://lamsonproject.or…

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    I had the exact opposite reaction - allowing me to play songs for free let me experience the service, so by the time they asked me to sign up I was happy to.

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    Comment #5240161

    Great to see real world use cases, and very encouraging to see PyPy performing so well. I'll definitely be trying it on my future compute-intensive projects.

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    For what it's worth I'm a brown man with the occasional beard and I've never felt singled out or degraded when flying. I've been selected for pat downs and further screening surpri…

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    Unfortunately getting a "job" will be difficult with a prison record, but consulting could be a good path. If you can find someone to sub-contract jobs to him he can get started (h…

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    Same: producing when standing, consuming when sitting. I'm actually more productive, and if feels great. I'm also much more mobile when standing - I'll walk around if I'm thinking.…

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    Let me add to his anecdotal evidence - of the angels I personally know (~15), the vast majority are price sensitive. If I expand that to angels I know slightly, the percentage of p…

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    Opened a few tabs with HN items in it. Booked my trip to SF, then started browsing the tabs. Hit this tab, tried it, found a flight for about $80 less than I just booked. Lesson le…

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    I'm looking for a middle ground - SQL/structured data extensible with non-structured data. The ability to extend sql tables with unspecified json-like data. The love child of mysql…

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    A few months ago I was about to get rid of my quite old Galaxy Vibrant, so with nothing to lose I installed CyanogenMod on it. It's worked so well I'm keeping it as my main phone f…