agandy's comments

agandy | 4 years ago | on: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Are there any recent examples of web development things that haven't worked right on the M1? I'm looking to upgrade but am worried about this.

agandy | 5 years ago | on: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

According to him it's only ever biased if it's critical of his actions or policies. That injects more noise into claims of bias and can lead people to take them less seriously than they realistically should. Bit of a boy who cried wolf situation.

agandy | 6 years ago | on: Tech salaries are risk premiums

I think of this statement as less of one that the author considers likely or not and more a way to illustrate the dependencies present in tech salaries.

For what it's worth, I agree with you as well.

agandy | 6 years ago | on: Products I Wish Existed

Here's is a great long-form article on some of the societal implications of living in the age of Ring and NextDoor. It touches on this point throughout the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...

agandy | 6 years ago | on: Cloudflare S-1

I would contend that Zoom is also a good example of this.

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Why Theoretical Mathematics Is Important

I don't believe so. Just the phrase I use to make a distinction between that and applied math. I guess "pure math" would be another way of saying the same thing.

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Where’s the Next Silicon Valley? VC Is Betting on the Midwest

How do you explain NYC if rich people don't like crappy weather?

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Uber's New CEO

Is that the case of any board then?

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Uber's New CEO

Of course some of them are VCs. Investors generally get board seats.

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Uber's New CEO

I don't think the author makes any claims that this is anything other than a positive feedback loop. He's mainly saying that it makes sense for Uber to prioritize the user experience over anything else in order to further accelerate growth.

agandy | 8 years ago | on: Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

The book based on this paper is one of the best text books I've read. I highly recommend reading it if you're looking for a solid understanding of linear algebra.

agandy | 9 years ago | on: Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

Agreed on bitcoin not being the perfect solution for crypto. I think Ethereum has a ton of potential in this regard. Smart contracts have many applications and provided the developer community around Ethereum continues growing, I see no reason why it won't overtake Bitcoin within the next 10 years.

agandy | 9 years ago | on: Unlearning descriptive statistics

I'd love to read your post on SVDs once it's written

agandy | 9 years ago | on: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

I'm glad to see the shout out to http://colah.github.io/ (even if the linked post is described as "monster stories")

agandy | 10 years ago | on: Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It’s Really Worth Billions

It seems that if Pinterest really wants to appeal to international markets in the way that Facebook and Twitter do, they should be testing on even less performant hardware than an iPhone 4 and iPad 3.