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It was mostly things that you would expect, given the job and location. People doing their business where they shouldn’t, mostly, but also sex, drug use, bleeding, shaving, vomit, flushing syringes and condoms down toilets and clogging them, etc. The most disgusting one I personally had to deal with involved finger painting with feces and menstrual blood. This isn’t really gross but my supervisor discovered an OD death in one of the bathrooms one morning and I’m grateful I never had to see that because I’d probably be afraid to discover another each morning if I had. That job offered me a lot of perspective and I’m happy I worked it but it was also frequently disgusting!

I used to clean bathrooms in a Manhattan shopping mall. I now have a tiny human. Cleaning the bathrooms was much, much more disgusting. It has been nearly 15 years and I still think about the horrible things I witnessed at that job. Changing my daughter’s diaper doesn’t even register to me as a gross thing to deal with.

I’ve been a homeowner for a mere two years and I’ve discovered many things wrong with my house. YouTube has a video outlining what I need to fix and how to fix it 90% of the time. Tradespeople get called for the remaining 10%. It’s possible a class with a curriculum and structure would help but YouTube has what you need for ad hoc homeowner issues.

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Thanks for mentioning this. I was going to give this a try this weekend but that's a dealbreaker for me.

Me too! It's crazy to me that I've never met you or the parent poster but we were living very similar lives the last week of the year due to the same Java DateTime design decision!

Previous discussions:

Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465

Favorite Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746559

These were extremely fascinating for me, and were written for a layman which I appreciated [0][1]. They're about the singularity.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

I took a class on computer vision and we used the OpenCV library extensively [0]. I remember that we had a project relating to detecting certain traffic signs, and obtaining the dominant color of images was a big part of my solution. Also, this tutorial seems like it would be helpful [1].

[0] https://opencv.org/ [1] https://code.likeagirl.io/finding-dominant-colour-on-an-imag...

People have been interested in this in the past so I'll post it again: Peter Norvig's satisfying Jupyter notebook solutions from AoC 2016[0].

[0]http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20...

I have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. Hope that helps!

Here are some others that are also commonly recommended on HN:

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Courses: https://www.deeplearning.ai/

David Silver's Reinforcement Learning Youtube Series: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

Fast.ai Courses on ML and Deep Learning: https://www.fast.ai/

It is free

Just as a warning for anyone price-sensitive interested in taking this course, its cost is non-zero due to cloud costs. It is free to audit though! I'm not trying to dissuade anyone; it is just good to know going into it.

There is a Computational Linear Algebra class taught by one of the founders of fast.ai, but I don't think it's a prerequisite necessarily [0]. I've been meaning to take it - I can't comment on its quality.

[0] https://github.com/fastai/numerical-linear-algebra/blob/mast...

Slightly off-topic, but David Silver did work on this project and discusses it briefly in his really great reinforcement learning course [0]. It's worth checking out if anyone is looking for a well-paced, well-explained introduction to some of the basic reinforcement learning algorithms and theory.

[0] http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

Edit: The slides are fine but the gem is the YouTube lectures playlist!

As some anecdata, my mid-twenties group of friends and I use snapchat frequently. My brother is a freshman in college and he uses it with his friends as well.

For whatever reason, starting "streaks" has become popular with my friends, where the same friends will snap me everyday and expect a snap in reply so that our counter of consecutive days increases over time. I hate to admit it, but I enjoy this gamification of the service, and it has resulted in me checking snapchat everyday for more than 650 consecutive days. I know it's been that long because that is my longest snap streak, but the truth is that I am rarely the one that breaks the streak so it has probably been much longer than that. There is also definitely a feeling of disappointment and relief when a large streak is broken.

75k-100k in cash, or in RSU's at the FAANG's? That seems so high to me for a new grad - congratulations on the offers!

Taken from an email I got last semester:

Working as a TA pays $15 per hour, distributed twice monthly based on submitted timesheets (alumni are salaried, however).

Wouldn't it just be a product of the model not finding that finger useful in the simulations?

Just as some anecdata, I know of a single developer who works with Haskell; they do fluid dynamics programming for ExxonMobil in Houston.

Illegal ones

I'm reading "Deep Work" currently, and I agree with your sentiment. I find myself ironically losing focus and thinking about how I can get the meat of this book from a blog post a tenth of the size. The case-studies he presents are interesting though, so I keep reading.

I think it's pretty safe to say finance will be a big one. Finance has a large amount of individuals and firms researching the applications of ML methodologies to financial indicators. With the semi-recent rise of quant firms, I think this research is only going to get more aggressive, and HFT will become more lucrative and more automated as long as regulation does not get in the way.

Shopping journeys concluding in online purchases have baskets that are 25% larger, on average. When someone first visits a physical store and then purchases online, the effect is even more pronounced: Baskets are 64% larger.

Something that's not addressed in the article, but I have noticed about myself is that I am more likely to order multiple sizes of a piece of clothing online, and return all but the piece that fits the best. That might contribute to larger purchase sizes. Sites like amazon make this particularly easy.

I'm currently in the process of reading "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,"[0] and I highly recommend it. I've always viewed Xerox as primarily an office printer company, and the fact that they innovated/invented many of the systems that we still use today (ethernet, layered windows on an operating system, the mouse, bitmap displays) and then failed to market these technologies, makes for a really interesting read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...

The referral code is in the HN title: IFREAD

Well, to start, the rest of the world outside the Silicon Valley bubble (including other "startup" hubs) call new companies "small businesses".

I haven't found that to be true in NYC, Boston, Atlanta or Kansas City, where startups are called startups. That being said, with the exception of maybe Kansas City, I consider all of these places east coast tech centers heavily influenced by the largest American tech center, Silicon Valley.

In fact, down 3-1 with under 2 minutes left, it's very common to have an empty net in order to have an extra forward out to enable potentially scoring last-ditch effort goals! The only reason I could see for them playing Alves at all in this situation was if the faceoff with 8 seconds left was in the defensive zone for the Hurricanes.

A buddy of mine did a 3 month training program at BBG after undergrad, so I can confirm that they have a program of some sort, complete with an independent project. He also said that his class wasn't all on the same level when it came to experience, so the collaboration with others learning new technologies with x years in the industry was invaluable.

I didn't know what Mozilla Lockbox was, but I found this[0] which might help others.

[0] https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/lockbox-extension/

I've found that this trick works really well for reading in general, as well. If I tell myself to just read a short chapter, I often end up reading 3.