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caio1982··on Show HN: Stackdraft – create and present 3D cloud architecture diagrams
Nice graphics, I really liked it is "multi-provider" :-)
caio1982··on [dead]
This seems to be the outcome of the whole thing in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709068
caio1982··on Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology
Congrats for such nice non-English project! It is always lovely to see computer linguistics hitting the front page :-)
caio1982··on Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology
From my experience any rules based approach in linguistics may solve the problem at first but it won't scale for too long (it has been tried before, most of old NLP was very rules based I would say) due to many intricacies of languages, corner cases and non-obvious exceptions. It could work — and it fact it does — for simple scenarios, but these are not very real world ones IMHO. I believe a neural model of such cases, over time, will yield better results. I am very skeptical these days about doing computer linguistics without considering some level of AI (so to speak).
caio1982··on The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun
Your logic seems okay-ish... but do you have all these numbers/stats?
caio1982··on A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
To me color knowledge is akin to other cultural backgrounds one (who works in any slightly artistic environment such as UI/UX) must have a priori, not a posteriori of the work. It doesn't add up to your TODO list, that's what I am saying.

PS: image optimization should be done automatically IMHO

caio1982··on NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition
AI. SpaceFactory's Marsha seems simple yet elegant, not too much of an exotic architectural design but also (IMHO) based on possible 3D printing engineering. I like the idea of having the printing machinery separate from the building and the logic behind going with that shape. Loved it.
caio1982··on Welcome to the New Space Age
It's hard to assess the quality of all these articles listed in this special page but — oh my — the topics are very well choosen and quite interesting. I easily calculated I will spend the next few days to read them all, not just skim them. Great job, Bloombergians!
caio1982··on The Biomass Distribution on Earth
Equally interesting take on this subject, from this very last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L9V6FJJlEA (Which Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?)
caio1982··on Is killing the boom the key to supersonic air travel?
There is also another Wendover one explaining the economics or airlines classes and it talks about specifically why supersonic flights went into oblivion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
caio1982··on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations
Sometimes I think these gene editing techniques are more like having a fantastic hex editor... but with a 5GB binary.
caio1982··on Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time
NOFX's El Hefe and Bad Religion's Greg Graffin come to mind, respectively in your sentence.
caio1982··on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
I think the price difference between 200k and 5k might be the very difference of a quick suborbital trip and the vomit comet. I will wait for better economics :-)
caio1982··on Keeping a plaintext “did” file
I sort of had a did.txt for 3 years, updated quite often during my working hours (at least once a day, if I were super busy, to dump all my daily activities and notes). It was quite useful for standup meetings and such. It is a pretty gigantic did.txt now, and in 3 years can you guess how many times I needed the info sitting there? Zero... go figure :-(
caio1982··on IPAjs
Thank you!

— A happier linguist

caio1982··on One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
We are a disease...
caio1982··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2018)
Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes (almost 5 years of experience)

Willing to relocate: not at this time, but we can talk

Technologies: Kubernetes, OpenStack, Python, Linux, NLP, Asterisk

Resume/CV: https://caio.ueberalles.net/cv.pdf

Email: caio1982@gmail.com

caio1982··on Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers Over Three Startups
> What next, psychometric screening?

I did one about 10 years ago, and let me share a funny story. The head of HR was sitting next to me and right after the psychometric test she gave me a blank sheet of paper and told me to draw a human being. I promptly asked (without even considering my question, I was ready to ask the person's gender right next, looking for requirements): with clothes on or naked? She laughed so hard that I thought I had failed and laughed at it too. I got the job, though.

caio1982··on Ask HN: What do you do when you suddenly feel like not working anymore?
If you feel like that constantly and it doesn't matter which side-project it is, you should consider that you may be going through a burnout. Only a long time away from the offending activities might restore your energy to do them again.
caio1982··on GlobaLeaks: Open-Source Whistleblowing Software
I suppose you were too cynical to actually deliver your [fair] points, which rarely is an effective or respectful way to convey ideas.
caio1982··on Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service
That's something I will definitely use soon! Great simple idea indeed. Just one question regarding the criteria to come up with the current pricing tiers: isn't it a bit too expensive for an one-off scheduling? I mean, over time I could totally see this as a commodity service going by the same price of popular VPS offerings (in tandem: they increase it, you increase it too, prices go down yours goes too).
caio1982··on Codemasters History: The NES’ Best Unlicensed Developer
"The original A/B testing" picture was definitely worth it already, I just had to stop reading it to share this treasure!
caio1982··on Prediction of the FIFA World Cup 2018 – A random forest approach
I always wonder if those people have tried to fit their approach to past results. Could they simulate past World Cup results to be sure their method is sane by using player/team's archived statistics?
caio1982··on Aerospike Engines: Why aren't we using them now? [video]
Because two stage rockets are now cheaper and easier to develop given track records of bazillions of launches until today. Reusable rockets have substantially reduced interest in aerospike design because it simply does not solve an actual problem anymore.
caio1982··on Getting Started in Natural Language Processing
Dunno why you were downvoted, I heard this one multiple times during my classes and always had a good laugh :-)
caio1982··on What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed
"Remember, people do recover from depression"

That IMHO seems to be as much of a taboo as having depression itself for a lot of people... it's hard to convince someone that depression is seriously real, and equally hard to convince people [affected by their loving one's] depression is not like terminal cancer.

caio1982··on Why You Shouldn’t Use Bright, Saturated Colors for Backgrounds
Same goes for black and white: never use either #FFFFFF or #000000 in large visual areas.
caio1982··on Show HN: Kubernetes operator to automatically deploy and run Tor hidden services
Good stuff! I wish there was some good in-depth and well explained article on how to write or hook up your own controller. I mean, there is the official doc for this but it's not really a hands-on IMHO.
caio1982··on Ask HN: Best practices for onboarding new employees?
Don't forget to treat them all as human beings and not assets (and follow @picardtips on Twitter for other good management/random insights, it's totally been worth my time).
caio1982··on Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned
This analogy with your bulldog and the world's hats, it was the very first time in 20 years that made Linus' [negative] swearing problem click in my mind.
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