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New comment by Sjenk in "String Lengths in Unicode"

Sjenk — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:46:01 +0000

If iam correct it is in this on wwdc[0] that one of the Swift engineers talks about how they implemented the Strings API for Swift and how it works under the hood. It is fun and interesting to watch. It starts around the 28 minute mark.

[0]https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/402/

Activision pays employees to share data about their pregnancy

Sjenk — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/10/tracking-your-pregnancy-an-app-may-be-more-public-than-you-think/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19633170

Points: 5

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New comment by Sjenk in "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics"

Sjenk — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:51:00 +0000

I read programming books just like normal books, and take time to examine the example code. I am currently reading a book about Swift design patterns. I dont try to learn how to implement it but instead on how to use a certain design pattern what it does etc. By the time I need it I look it up and implement it for my problem.

New comment by Sjenk in "Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?"

Sjenk — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 11:25:13 +0000

Maybe this helps you giving you some insight: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/looking-back-to-what-started...

also fun to listen. This is his screenreader: https://soundcloud.com/freecodecamp/zersiaxs-screen-reader

Fighting fires with goats

Sjenk — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:43:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-45737799/fighting-fires-with-goats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Sjenk in "Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3"

Sjenk — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:40:45 +0000

Awesome, thanks for the reply!

New comment by Sjenk in "Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3"

Sjenk — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:03:34 +0000

Is it possible to combine this with snips.ai? So you have voice control on the device it self or run snips on another device and let it send commands to the home assistant device?

LazyTown's 'Robbie Rotten' Actor Stefan Karl Stefansson Dies

Sjenk — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45264994

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817523

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Sjenk in "How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database"

Sjenk — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:07:09 +0000

Dont mean to troll. But how choosing for the easiest way to achieve your goal not a choice?

New comment by Sjenk in "How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database"

Sjenk — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:14:02 +0000

Not only easy in Javascript, it is easy in any language that has easy serliazation to JSON. I always use it for my own hobby projects because I dont have that much SQL knowledge. Which makes Nosql easy choice for me, just serialize your object into json and push it to your DB.

New comment by Sjenk in "Bitcoin Drops Back Below $6,000 as 2018 Loss Approaches 60%"

Sjenk — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:50:32 +0000

I guess since you posted a comment twice. Not that familiair with HN unspoken rules. But I guess HN just like other forums don't appreciate double posts

New comment by Sjenk in "Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia"

Sjenk — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:12:17 +0000

At least hopefully nobody will somehow look at this as an excuse for their own racist agenda (i.e. look, such a greatly respected person has also been so racist, why can't I?)

Lets hope it, although I am afraid, there will be persons who use it as an excuse or even some sort of scientific evidence or proof. I.e: "See even one of the smartest person walked on this earth finds Chinese gross this must proof something about the Chinese right?!"

New comment by Sjenk in "Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia"

Sjenk — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:58:14 +0000

Why is it so "shocking"? Discussing racial differences was more common in his time...

Thats why they put it between quotes I guess, and I guess for the extra clicks.

I hope this story will help people realize that we should not ban the work of people who have said problematic things.

Also this. That is the reason I shared this article.

Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia

Sjenk — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302440

Points: 37

# Comments: 58

New comment by Sjenk in "Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo"

Sjenk — Wed, 23 May 2018 09:27:41 +0000

Take a look at the youtube channel 2minutepapers [0], it covers various ML/DL papers and their results. The person creating the videos has a background in writing rendering software. He has various videos covering papers that use ML to improve rendering and graphics. Not long ago he created a own paper about teaching an AI the concept of metallic, translucent materials and more [1].

I really recommend checking his channel, videos are short and fun and easy to understand even without ML background. You can really sense his passion and excitement for this topic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzVhIV_t3s

New comment by Sjenk in "TDM: From Model-Free to Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning"

Sjenk — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:51:57 +0000

You are not alone, but I personally think (and I think many others) that AI will come to the point that you dont really need to understand how the math behind it works but only how it works. So for example you only need to know how back propagation works and what it does, but not the exact math formula for it. I think you can see it already happening with Keras. You would need to know the math and the nitty gritty if you want to build or research state of the art ML/DL

New comment by Sjenk in "Object Oriented Programming in Python: Encapsulation and Inheritance"

Sjenk — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:21:57 +0000

Well it is not intergrated in the language like i.e Java or C#. But Python does have the naming convention to mark vars that should not be touched with __ [0]

[0] https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html#private-vari...

New comment by Sjenk in "Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages"

Sjenk — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:11:23 +0000

Thanks for all the explanations. Now I understand why u guys get excited from it. Almost sounds to good to be true.

New comment by Sjenk in "Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages"

Sjenk — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:59:28 +0000

I am curious why is hackernews always so happy and obsessed with lisp, there is almost daily a lisp post on the frontpage. I dont really care/mind but I am just curious as why people love lisp so much. The only thing that I notice about Lisp are the bracket jokes and memes.

New comment by Sjenk in "New deep learning course by Andrew Ng"

Sjenk — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:31:30 +0000

It says it is free to audit the videos, but I can only find a button that lets me enroll for free for 7 days before paying $49 a month. Am I missing something?

EDIT: nevermind when you click enroll then there is a small text in the left bottom of the pop up thats says audit the course.