If you can bootstrap yourself into being George Clooney you too can sell water with additives to people for megabux.

Or perhaps there's so much loose capital sitting around with no purpose that it's just driving up valuations of companies to ridiculous levels because then folks would just be dumping fake money into questionably valued ventures.

"But you guys make toast, on-demand, in only one city."

"Exactly, toast on-demand!"

Here is an educational game which describes this in a fun way. http://ncase.me/trust/

I enjoyed going through these scenarios quite a bit. Now with the context of this Uber Dilemma post, it's reinforced further.

The state-of-the-art is the Errol algorithm of Adrysco, Jhala and Lerner (2016), which is proven to be always correct: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lerner/papers/fp-printing-popl16.pd...

This font has been my daily driver for at least a year.

It has some similarities with Pragmata Pro (my previous font), but has evolved to have its own personality now.

I build a custom version of the font with this command-line:

  $ make custom-config design='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low v-at-short v-zero-dotted term' && make custom

This gives me:

- Disabled ligatures (I don't like them for my coding font)

- Underscore below the baseline (it is called underscore, after all)

- Tilde and asterisk centered vertically

- Zero with dots through it

- Fira Sans style @ symbol.

Sample: http://i.imgur.com/Hq4X7oV.png

Rust's had great IDE support for more than a year now.

- There's Atom with Tokamak, which you must also install racer and clippy via cargo to get rapid in-line linting.

- Then there's Visual Studio Code with RustyCode which you can also integrate with racer and clippy, that provides faster code completion and hovering over items will show a tooltip that documents that items.

- Some people like IntelliJ Rust, but I've not tried it myself.

As for installing racer and clippy, it's been made a lot easier recently via rustup:

rustup component add rust-src

rustup component add rust-docs

rustup toolchain install nightly

rustup run nightly cargo install clippy

rustup run nightly cargo install racer

Now you're good to go.

As for NumPy, there's official crates like the `num` family, which provides a plethora of useful numerics capabilities. It's not my forte though so others would know more about the best numerics crates outside of the `num` family. If you know what functionality you are looking for, it may already be created and is searchable at Crates.io.

> Why do we have to write the backward pass when frameworks in the real world, such as TensorFlow, compute them for you automatically?

Why do you have to learn to calculate integrals and derivatives in school, or how compilers work internally? Same answer. But seriously, the CS231 class is excellent, and Andrej is an excellent teacher. You can follow along at home (which is what I am doing.) The syllabus (at http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html) has the course notes and the assignments. The assignments are self grading, you know when you have it programmed correctly. The lectures are here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlJy-eBtNFt6EuMxFYRiN...