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nagVenkat··on Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
Look at spectacle for snapping windows to left half right half etc.
nagVenkat··on The Milkman Model Returns, This Time for Shampoo and Haagen-Dazs
There are some Whole Foods in New Jersey where you can buy milk and chocolate milk in glass containers. They cost a dollar or two more but get the difference back when you return the glass bottle. The actual price of the contents is pretty close to the milk available in plastic containers. Pretty close to what loop is doing
nagVenkat··on Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
It’s a good book and actually serves as a good intro to this book. For Starngs learning from data book, you also need to know some convex optimization (not the difficult). Good luck!
nagVenkat··on Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
I have the book and I wish I didn’t buy (it’s an expensive book). You need to be already pretty good with Linear algebra and most of the material looked like cliff notes of various linear algebra and continuous optimization topics. I still plan to go through it but mildly disappointed.
nagVenkat··on Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
Could you please let me know which laws they have broken?
nagVenkat··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Top 207 reasons why US chills its eggs?
nagVenkat··on How to Invest in Tesla While Avoiding the Elon Musk Drama
Don’t invest? Tesla seems like an extreme dangerous investment after all the big name companies are fleeing it and Goldman gave a scathing report
nagVenkat··on Tim Cook: Apple doesn't donate to political candidates and PACs shouldn’t exist
People really don’t know how to read opensecrets info, do they?
nagVenkat··on Julian Assange arrested in London
Looks like I lost. He is being charged for the dissemination of classified material.
nagVenkat··on Julian Assange arrested in London
I also read in the DOJ report that they dismiss not so significant number of cases for the lack of overwhelming evidence or for the lack of criminal intent.
nagVenkat··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
I can not believe you have written the last sentence without any sense of irony. We are just discussing about how stupid the LOC metric is and how most of the LOC Andrew write were machine generated. People were also saying that her commits were more math heavy. Anyway if you actually believe that there is a secret feminist agenda, I don’t think I can say anything that will change your mind.
nagVenkat··on Julian Assange arrested in London
I just went thought the DOJ website. It included both trial and plea deals. So maybe not that impressive.
nagVenkat··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
Nobody is saying that only some societies have both genders doing hard sciences. It’s the matter of opportunity.
nagVenkat··on Julian Assange arrested in London
If I were a betting man, I would probably say this is not true. He most certainly got indicted for interfering in 2016 election and hacking Clinton/DNC emails.

I don’t have a horse in this race. Just follow this as I think it is very entertaining.

Edit: It could be both!

nagVenkat··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
We don’t exist in a purely meritocratic and egalitarian society. Maybe you have never been told that you are not good enough for some work but growing up in deeply paternalistic society, I constantly heard “women are too stupid for hard sciences and they should just stick to kitchens”. If celebrating her achievements in this way changes minds of a few people and inspires a few girls to believe in themselves, I think it is worth the “biased” coverage that she is getting for her work.
nagVenkat··on Julian Assange arrested in London
There is a sealed indictment against him in EDVA which was accidentally released. He has been most certainly accused of breaking United States laws.

Edit: To indict someone, the government has to show the grand jury that there is sufficient evidence. It is very easy to indict someone (hence the phrase “A ham sandwich can be indicted by the grand jury”) but one has to acknowledge the fact that the federal government has very high win rate for the cases that do go to trial (93% in 2012)

Edit2: The above statistic is for the cases that go to trial and plea deals. Only 3% of the cases go to trial.

nagVenkat··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
To add some more context... of the 850k lines, 500k lines are mostly models and machine generated code. Andrew is definitely smart (smarter than an average HN user) and his code is very important but I have never seen so much display of misogyny and sexism against a woman scientist. She never took any credit and clearly said that this was a team effort. Some of the top posts on reddit are trying to mischaracterize the work that Dr.Katie has done and the comments are so vile.
nagVenkat··on Why Drug Prices Keep Rising Despite Congress's Efforts
Lot of incumbent democrats lost their seats in 2010 after voting for Obamacare.
nagVenkat··on Where Warren’s Wrong
It has a long history about how corporations will use employees to pay for candidates.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/8383/u-s-presid...

nagVenkat··on Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook
Are there any books like this for probability?
nagVenkat··on Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
I complained a few months ago that Siri had a tough time recognizing my accent heavy speech but these days it is better.
nagVenkat··on Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
I was about to write the same thing. I code in XCode and I love SF Mono. I was pretty invested in source code pro but SF mono is so good.
nagVenkat··on How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square
The articles says that the confetti is biodegradable
nagVenkat··on Optimization in the context of machine learning
By Newton’s method, do you mean simple gradient descent?
nagVenkat··on Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
I felt gross reading those few lines. People should ask her how she felt when George Soros was mailed pipe bombs and ask her if her rhetoric contributed to growing hate crimes in USA
nagVenkat··on Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
Any topic/subreddit not dealing with politics can be a decent subreddit. The best example is /r/Linux. When the code of conduct change came, it was unusable for 2 weeks. Now it is mostly back to normal.
nagVenkat··on Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder
Could someone confirm if dav1d uses hardware acceleration to decode?
nagVenkat··on A $100B Train: The Future of California or a Boondoggle?
Isn’t the prop to have this train passed by people? Why are you bringing politicians into it?
nagVenkat··on Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
I feel like I am an official promoter for this book on HN but I most certainly am not. The book, Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is one of the most interesting books I had read. I read many books after that but nothing left me with same sense of joy and knowledge and hope. Please consider taking a look at the book. It is amazing.
nagVenkat··on Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?
Please support GNU Octave if you can.
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