Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
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| default = current | |
| [user] | |
| name = Cristina Munoz | |
| email = [email protected] | |
| [core] | |
| editor = /usr/local/bin/vim | |
| pager = less |
| """ Trains an agent with (stochastic) Policy Gradients on Pong. Uses OpenAI Gym. """ | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import cPickle as pickle | |
| import gym | |
| # hyperparameters | |
| H = 200 # number of hidden layer neurons | |
| batch_size = 10 # every how many episodes to do a param update? | |
| learning_rate = 1e-4 | |
| gamma = 0.99 # discount factor for reward |
git archive --format=tar.gz -o /tmp/my-repo.tar.gz --prefix=my-repo/ master
More detailed version: https://til.simonwillison.net/git/git-archive
When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.
If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.
I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc
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| # Copyright (c) 2013 - Damián Avila | |
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| # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License. | |
| # | |
| # A little snippet to fix @media print issue printing slides from IPython | |
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| .reveal { | |
| overflow: visible; | |
| } |