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conorliv1

112 karma · joined July 13, 2016

Software Engineer in SF Bay Area

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conorliv1··on Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
I wonder if this is partially a function of decreased attention spans. It takes more discipline than ever to turn off distractions and focus on innovative solutions to hard problems.

EDIT: This quote seems relevant[1]:

> It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems.

[1] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-most-important-scient...

conorliv1··on Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
The typing update speed blows Overleaf out of the water. I've used Overleaf for the past 3 years. It's a great product, but one of my biggest complaints is slow LaTeX rendering. If this product were a bit more polished I would use it instead of Overleaf.
conorliv1··on The Rubik's Contraption
This MIT open courseware lecture explains more about the optimum move sequence to solve a Rubik's cube. Some people call this perfect sequence of moves the "God path." https://youtu.be/s-CYnVz-uh4?t=25s
conorliv1··on Docker for Data Science
Have you considered using HDFS?

There is a fairly informative post here: https://www.quora.com/How-are-most-data-sets-for-large-scale...

conorliv1··on Why do so few people major in computer science?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170529183402/http://danwang.co...