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felix_thursday··on Ask HN: Strategy for changing your primary email?
if i were moving my primary to a gmail account, i'd setup the "send mail as" thing to receive all the email in your new account, set-up a filter to automatically label it as such, and then set a super strong password w/ 2FA on your previous acct.
felix_thursday··on Ask HN: How Can I Get into NLP (Natural Language Processing)?
here's a pretty comprehensive overview of NLP videos, tutorials, courses, books, etc. http://blog.algorithmia.com/introduction-natural-language-pr...
felix_thursday··on DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
OpenAI vs DeepMind?
felix_thursday··on Defeating Image Obfuscation with Deep Learning
sounds like it. though, i think for aesthetic purposes, i'd prefer a random or "stock" obfuscated faces rather than a colored box.
felix_thursday··on Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
Isn't there a cruise ship trying to make the northwest passage next year?
felix_thursday··on An API for hosted deep learning models
Thanks for pointing out that share button issue. Should be fixed now!
felix_thursday··on This.cm is shutting down
Such a bummer. I always liked the daily email. Niche media biz is hard
felix_thursday··on Show HN: Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design
I dig this a lot. Good stuff.
felix_thursday··on Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1
Wow, this is incredible. Nice, succinct post, too.
felix_thursday··on Bootcamps vs. College
There's something to be said about a person doing a bootcamp. Not only is it a drastic career pivot, but choosing to invest in yourself like that is a huge sign of maturity, growth mindset, and awareness. It's no surprise that a bootcamp grad can quickly get up to speed in their first professional dev environment.

I did the WDI bootcamp through GA, and loved the experience. My motivations weren't to become a full-time web dev, but to become a much better, more well-rounded product manager. It's paid off 5x over so far.

There's a ton of garbage bootcamps out there, and it's unfair to lump them all together -- it's unfair that these exist. period. While, you can't replace the deep technical and theoretical understanding you get with a classic CS degree, if your goal is to build web apps, do you really need the formal experience, or can you learn that on the job?

felix_thursday··on Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
So, does this mean people are more okay with giving Google all that NHS data now?
felix_thursday··on Artificial intelligence in the cloud promises to be the next great disrupter
I thought this was really, really good, and thankfully it's not behind their whole paywall thing
felix_thursday··on Uncanny Valley
Are there any other articles in this same vein that people would recommend?
felix_thursday··on The Relationship Between High-Quality Startups and Geography
Insightful article, but the tl;dr is:

"The highest quality entrepreneurship is heavily concentrated in a select few metros on the East and West Coasts."

felix_thursday··on NES classic ‘Punch-Out’ has an Easter egg that went undiscovered for 29 years
Ha! Strange that this is a new find. I got more than one "easter egg" like this simply by writing a letter to Nintendo America back in the day, and asking for help. They'd usually write you back with suggestions like this.
felix_thursday··on What is BuzzFeed, really?
^ Agree. Not so into the meme factory, but I think their actual news is solid, and built for the under 40 crowd. I subscribe to their daily newsletter of actual news, and it is by far and away the best explainer on what's happening in the world.
felix_thursday··on Show HN: A Visual Intro to Algorithms (forked from Cormen's/KhanAcademy Course)
Oh, wow. Pretty cool primer on algorithms
felix_thursday··on Killing Pandora: The Genius of iTunes Genius & iTunes Match
Would love to hear what people think about Genius+Match vs Pandora or any of the other streaming services.