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Re:Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023? on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:11PM (#34054576)
Already know this.
Apple is making better hardware than ever. Like your iPad, devices get at least 5 years of updates and will generally run faster every year. Like you said the biggest noticeable difference is in the battery, but this is obviously a much harder problem to solve.
Re:Norway to track all supermarket purchases? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:05PM (#31623992)
Governments can only be trusted when any given individual can be trusted. I understand that Norway’s current government is one of the most accountable and transparent in the world so the damage a given individual can do is limited, but that entails trusting all future governments.
Nah I believe it. I’m thinking of the people who switched their entire identity from Social Justice to Ukraine for about 5 minutes.
I think you overestimate the amount that the average person cares about their privacy.
Khan Academy is great, but I mean for all resources on a subject. In other words, a place where people can post curations of resources, not actual content. So say I wanted to learn linear algebra it would point to Khan Academy for the basics part and then other places as well.
Is there a website that anyone knows of for these types of open-source curriculums? Feel like it would be nice to have a place where people could post these and you could reference them when you wanted to learn something in the correct order and with the best resources.
Re:Ask HN: What are other career options as a CS major? on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:19PM (#24804642)
For the trading jobs, would I need experience in trading particularly. Also, for these jobs in general do side projects and the like matter a lot (like they do for SWE)? Thanks sm btw!

Ask HN: What are other career options as a CS major?

I go to a top ten school where I am studying computer science and at the moment a second major in math. I can pretty much see my future right now, and I don't really like it. Like everyone else around me I'll probably go into SWE or (more likely with a math background) finance, as is extremely popular at my college. While these jobs do interest me, I don't really want to be a SWE day-to-day. I...

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Ask HN: What Should I Work On?

I'm a self-taught programmer, currently in college and I'd really like to have a side-project to devote some of my free time towards but I seem to be going through a long period where none of my ideas interest me. Any recommendations for a problem that you think might be worth tackling?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn C or C++? on Monday January 28, 2019 @09:16AM (#19017534)
Fair, which one would you recommend picking up first?

Ask HN: Should I learn C or C++?

I am going to college in the US in September as an international student but my school year finished in January. I have about 8 more months of doing nothing on my hands and had thought about learning C or C++ just because I have always heard that they give you a good base knowledge of how other languages work under the hood. I would say I'm fluent in Java, Swift and Python.Do you have any...

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels? on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:28AM (#17749516)
I just assumed that a lot of them would be novels. If you have any recommendations for real-life stuff I’d love that too.
Where would a person even begin to learn how to do something like this? I’m a programmer but wouldn’t even know where to start on a project like this.
They have over 200 million users in the US.. https://www.statista.com/statistics/398136/us-facebook-user-...
I you're looking to learn about the maths behind neural nets and really understand how they work I'd recommend Andrew Ng's deeplearning.ai course. Starts from scratch and will give you a deep understanding when you're done.
I’ve always looked at prison as more of a deterrent for committing crimes. If he wasn’t criminally charged maybe others would think committing similar actions would be worth just paying fines. You might say that people in the auto industry wouldn’t copy his actions but I’d say prison works this way on a societal level.
Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:15PM (#15742333)
Same here I can’t find the counter in my app although everyone else seems to have it.
Re:A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic on Sunday November 12, 2017 @01:24PM (#15681878)
I just wanted to say that it’s actually nice not to be the only one who is harassed by forex trading ads around the web. Them and Mobile Strike are pretty much all of the ads I see. (I do have Adblock but can’t block for YouTube mobile etc.)
Re:MessageBird raises $60M Series A on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:51PM (#15394433)
Isn't this kind of something that might be phased out in the next few years. I'd imagine there would be some kind of web tool doing authentication like this at some point just because of how obsolete sms seems these days. Correct me if I am wrong though.

Show HN: Draw AI, an app that guesses what you draw with a neural netwok

I made this app for the iPhone and iOS 11. It uses a deep learning model to guess what a user is drawing onscreen. I thought it was a cool idea because it showcases the huge strides deep learning has made in the past few years. Go and check it out if you have an iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-ai/id1272256639?ls=1&mt...

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Thanks just what I was looking for.

Ask HN: Where can I find prebuilt, trainable machine learning models?

I am very interested in ML and am looking into tutorials etc. In the meantime, however, I have an idea for an application that would analyse and detect basic images (don't want to give it away of course ;)). So I was wondering if there are any untrained models that I could train with my own dataset (I have an absolutely massive training dataset available so that isn't an issue) or some kind of...

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