Samuel Rivas

Is software real or is it just a computer thought?

[Dan Luu @danluu]

"actually the seed is also a hyper-parameter"

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

@tele2sweden Okej, tack för svaret

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

@tele2sweden Hej! Jag har ingen täckning utomlands (Spanien) och https://t.co/VLPXkweATS verkar inte fungera heller. Är det något pågående fel i deras sida, eller måste jag ändra något själv?

[wendykan @wendykan]

MAP vs NDCG very well explained. How precision favors lower ranks compared to DCG https://t.co/PnwqrjDcDo #metrics #datascience

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

"Do you want this random *content* page to show notifications?" Seriously, why would I?

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

HTTP on "safe": relatively harmless effects such as logging, caching, *the serving of banner advertisements* or incrementing a web counter.

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

I guess it is easy to assert: "A good abstraction is far cheaper than sloppy duplication" https://t.co/O5XThh2J69

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction https://t.co/AommSObc8L

[Dan Luu @danluu]

Ken Thompson on languages and safety

(from @peterseibel 's book, Coders at Work)

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

There's a new version of Smart Reply for Gmail, which is more algorithmically efficient with more usable suggestions https://t.co/paUKfo6s2z

[Oliver Emberton @oliveremberton]

April Fools is a special day where - for a laugh - people try critically evaluating news articles before accepting them as true

[Dan Luu @danluu]

How I sped up my blog by 25x-50x in four hours, including the time it took to learn basic website optimization

https://t.co/KiLjsff9Uo

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

@LindahlTobias @massemanet logical fallacy

[Dan Luu @danluu]

Why does everyone believe that major social networks will end up being controlled by a few large companies?

https://t.co/9E5whIZXRg

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The current system of ad-supported news leads to clickbait and sensationalism. We need to pay for good journalism. #payfornews

[Django Wexler @DjangoWexler]

Auto-generating complete fantasy maps. This is *amazing*. @unchartedatlas so cool.

https://t.co/NYV2yshGeZ

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

@danluu I think the claim is that a résumé of a brilliant person doesn't really shine as brilliant and you only see that in interviews?

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

Queries and distributed systems. I'd like to see more of this in the future of distributed systems https://t.co/aKctg473bi

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

@Azlayn Write lots of code. Clone existing things as exercises. Learn deeply. Alternate trying yourself and reading literature. Be obsessive

[Samuel Rivas @samuel_rivas]

I kind of ranted myself too, nice that someone skillfully wrote it down https://t.co/9fm3LdouE0

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Would be interesting to have a tool that rewrote C functions into a pure function and a wrapper that gathered/scattered the global state.