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rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Embracing Swift for Deep Learning

But you loose so much flexibility. When you start working on a problem, you want your language should give you as little headache as it can with minimum rules and constraints. Then on iteration you can improve like having type annotation, unit tests etc.

You can write perfectly fine production level code in Python. It like lego block. Start with simple and then add on.

Adding compile type checks comes with its own demerits. I guess here Swift is trying to offer more tool chain on compiler level for model building rather than just being type safe.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Embracing Swift for Deep Learning

Swift large projects takes huge time to compile whether as interpreter wins here. Though there are model building layer on compiler level which Swift offers in Tensorflow which is unique but apart from that I don’t think it is going to hit nail on Python community.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016)

But he gave a thought to leave chocolate and take Salad. How do you think this got triggered in his brain. Discipline comes after you have formed rules by seeing it's effect either by you or learning from others.

Second-order thinking is too abstract: some time thing which is obvious for you might not be for other e.g. binary search is not always a good option, it can be obvious to you (here you are an intelligent person with acquired knowledge) and for novice to this concept; their second order thinking would be to find out what Binary Search is and then why not it is always good to use it.

I think second order is trying to convey to look beyond what you have good in your first glimpse and try to connect dots. I haven't done much study on it but that what I get from it.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?

I second it. I also switched from LastPass to Bitwarden. The main reason was now my data which are online is more valuable than it used to be a few years ago and I don't want to be the scapegoat of their failure in case if it happens.

Another reason, It has a polished app and works flawlessly on all the platforms and I can host it myself.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money

This is true for newbie investor after reading a book and investing in Wall-Street. They almost always lose the money and again Wall Street releases a new easy book on investing.

I find a huge co-relation between how poker and wall street is aligned.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Screen time: how much is too much?

For me, screentime has worked really well. I don't have social media apps and notifications are on for critical apps i.e. Calendar, Slack, Journal entry (I achieved it with discipline).

Now the sad part is you can still access them on your browser and because of gamification, it is so easy to lose the track of time on those sites. I used to keep reading articles for hours even though I haven't finished a single task for the day.

What screentime offers me is a check which actually what I needed. It is like a teacher/friend who reminds me you are spending more time than supposed to in categories which is not important for you. At the moment, social media seems waste of time for me and so I set it up for a 5-minute limit. If I am reading important stuff on social media and it binges me the limit time. I think that check helps in reminding what is urgent and what is important and don't mind it as a problem as other people commented.

rahulrrixe | 7 years ago | on: Apple is a traditional business

I think Apple is a true tech company. How can you define a tech company? it has got holds on both hardware and software for its ecosystem. Doesn't that make it a tech company?

At this stage, if any company which can create an OS like iOS would be considered tech company leaving aside the hardware part.

rahulrrixe | 10 years ago | on: Computer Museum bids farewell to Babbage engine

I have been at computer history museum recently and got a chance to see the Babbage machine. It is marvellous and within seconds, you will relish its beauty. It lets you realise how the computers has changed over the years.
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