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Re: index.md

macournoyer — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 09:54:46 -0000

Not an expert either, but my understanding is that autoencoders need to have a narrow passage to force the network to "pick" interesting features and discard everything else.

If you'd use a broad layer, it would never detect & learn any feature because it never has to "pick" anything, it would simply passthrough the input and each layer would end up being vectors of all ones.

Re: How Your Code Is Executed - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:00:27 -0000

PUSH_STRING will be implemented in the VM like this: stack.push(literals[operand])

PUSH_STRING is just a constant name for a number. The number varies depending on the VM. The compiler will generate those numbers.

Hope this clears things up a bit! If you want to know more check out my code club: http://www.greatcodeclub.com/. There's a project to work w/ VMs.

Re: RefactorMyCode.com - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:34:33 -0000

It's not mine anymore. I sold it a few days after that post. I guess it's not maintained anymore... eh.

Re: Dynamic Method Definitions | Tenderlovemaking

macournoyer — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:39:50 -0000

Defining is slower but done once. Calling is slightly faster but done multiple times. Why optimize for the case that happens less often?

Also if I read that right, in your CALL benchmark by doing some work in the method you lessen the impact of the actual method call in the mesure so of course the difference is going to be less important.

It's like timing an olympic sprinter w/ a programmer on the 100m but telling them they have to wait 1h when they're about to reach the finish line. Aha! See now I'm as fast as an olympic sprinter, I did 1h 15sec he did 1h 9sec.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:37:31 -0000

What do you mean? For tracking affiliate referral?

Re: Three ways to stimulate your creativity - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:58:29 -0000

Well said Darius :)

Re: Three ways to stimulate your creativity - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:50:06 -0000

Hey good one Alex. I like thinking about the needs in Maslow's Pyramid too, helps you focus on big real urgent desires.

Re: Three ways to stimulate your creativity - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:08 -0000

Hey Xu,

Sure you should talk to people to know about their problem. But I think you should be alone when coming up with idea to solve them.

I don't think you can come up w/ creative solution on the spot when talking w/ people, do you?

Re: Free Time - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:01:59 -0000

Hey Balint,

Thanks for the nice words :)

I do agree not sleeping a full 8h is not sustainable. But from my experience, when I'm very passionate about something, I can go on for a week or so on 6h of sleep.

I think some stuff in 4HWW is misleading. You do need to do a huge amount of work to prepare for success. I think what he advocates in the 4HWW is really to stop doing stuff that is not helping you achieving your goal. Which really is in line w/ the video I posted.

Also, I'm planning on experimenting with polyphasic sleep in September and will probably blog about it :)

Re: Free Time - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:42:53 -0000

Sure it is not sustainable. I'm not suggesting anyone do this over a long period of time.

Like I said in the post: "I don’t always spent all this time on my projects, but when I have an idea, I can make things happen in a week or so."

Re: Free Time - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:50:32 -0000

Hey Jonathan,

Not sure I get your point here...
2h is what worked for me. I was able to cut 2h per night for a week or so w/o noticeable changes in my productivity when I was working on a project. That number is surely different for everyone.

Re: Faster A/B Testing - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:30:30 -0000

Thanks Daniel!

Interesting, could be applied to many things for sure.

I forgot to add: I think it worked in my particular case because I'm using the long sales page format. The more you scroll & read, the more convinced your are (in theory at least...)

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:55:48 -0000

What do you mean? I am starting a company, and it's already profitable :) How about most startups in Montreal?

Why do you see talented freelancers doing what I'm doing a bad thing? I see working for someone else as a bad thing, unless you are doing it to learn.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:45:06 -0000

Voici le "Hacker News" des affiliate marketers http://affbuzz.com/

J'ai aussi parcouru les produits les plus populaire sur ClickBank avec http://www.cbengine.com/ pour voir comment ils font avec leur affiliates.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:22:47 -0000

Thx Phil :)

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:22:30 -0000

Salut Dan,

Comme j'ai recommandé à Julien, How to Get Rich (http://www.amazon.com/How-G... est l'un des meilleurs livre de motivation que j'ai lu. Aussi 50th Law (http://www.amazon.ca/50th-L... est incroyable, oui oui 50 cent est co-auteur :p, le livre couvre comment éliminer la peur de son processus de décision et 50 cent à beaucoup d'expérience sur ce sujet, il en parle ouvertement.

48 Laws of Power (http://www.amazon.ca/48-Law... du meme auteur, est un classique et une lecture obligatoire!

Mais le livre que tu dois lire!! (selon moi ;P) c'est Influence (http://www.amazon.ca/Influe... les principes dans ce livre guide maintenant tout le marketing que je fais.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:53:03 -0000

Hey Denis!

Yep, I found it extremely hard to find people interested in affiliate marketing in Montreal. I think there's a huge opportunity there for young startups who don't know how to promote themselves but have a great product.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:51:28 -0000

T'as tout à fait raison! Je crois que c'était encore plus difficile vu le fait que je refuse de faire des contrats ou de travailler pour qqun d'autre de toute manière que ce soit. Tout les revenues doivent venir de mes produits, alors la peur que ça ne fonctionne pas était bien là :)

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:48:07 -0000

That's probably the book that got me started on this. I got the idea to write my ebook after reading the 4HWW. I've re-read a few chapters quite a few times already :)

What are you up to these days P-O? What does you Life after work look like? :) I'm planning a 1month home exchange in France this July, should be awesome.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:41:54 -0000

Thanks Julien :)

Instant Millionnaire is on my to-read list. Did you get the Audio book?
I love those kinds of book to. Another good one for me was How to Get Rich by Felix Denis: http://www.amazon.com/How-G... it's this book that got me onto the idea to stop working for someone else and he knows what he's talking about, he's one of the richest man in the UK.

Re: Dresssed Survey Results - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:31:07 -0000

It sure takes more time, I'm expecting way less replies.

I'll do a blog post soon on the structure of a theme and what it includes.

Thanks a lot for the feedback Heri, it's always appreciated!

Re: Dresssed Survey Results - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:48:56 -0000

Yesterday, I replaced the survey w/ a new one similar to what you suggest http://macournoyer.wufoo.co.... I found that I get more value at this point w/ open questions. Let me know what you think.

Re: Dresssed Survey Results - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:24:21 -0000

Yes I mean the new .scss Sass :) 100% agree w/ you, I think that's the best choice of them all.

Re: Dresssed Survey Results - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:10:17 -0000

That was badly worded, sorry. 'None' was not an option since plain CSS has 0 flexibility. But themes will use SASS CSS extension syntax (http://sass-lang.com/docs/y... very similar to CSS w/o the bad parts :)

Re: Dresssed Survey Results - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

macournoyer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:06:52 -0000

Oh, thx Steven, I'll keep that in mind for next time :/