AlexCoventry

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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   Yes, you're misusing the concept, and pyunum makes it hard to use in this situation (probably because the author had a different purpose in mind.) Try re-running (in a fresh python invocation if you're in a shell) with this at th
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   So where is the database? If there's any legal or ethical problem with doing this using the Ohio Voter Registration files, I would like to know. I recently made an interface to it[1] to use when gathering ballot access petition signat
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   How does this compare to native client?
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   > About what issues are we making the same mistake right now? Military and Intelligence affairs.
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   That was a great article, if a bit of a nonsequitur here.
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   The FEC has explicitly said it's irrelevant to donations of volunteer time.
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   The amount of creativity which is going into Coders for Sanders is a pretty remarkable development.
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   > The union members are usually either paid or pressured into "volunteering" for candidates You can probably find some stories like this, but they will be a tiny minority. There's no way a reasonable and informed
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   by AlexCoventry 11y ago

   The FEC rules on this are very simple: Volunteers can donate as much of their time as they wish, and it is not factored into the FEC reporting requirements.
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    by AlexCoventry 11y ago

    Something I made for Sanders recently[0] which has gotten a little traction on r/SandersForPresident[1], a simple website backed by the NYS electoral rolls. It generates self-mailing fliers to voters who are not registered Democrat in
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    Direct action web app: Self-mailable fliers to NYS voters on Oct 9 rego deadline(nysmailing.xyz)

    2 points by AlexCoventry 11y ago|0 comments
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    by AlexCoventry 12y ago

    It makes it cheaper to experiment with different models.
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    by AlexCoventry 13y ago

    I don't know how to do that, but I did think about a cryptocurrency in which people got paid for optimizing objective functions. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3qaT-ZL6aeKOHNEQWdpZEtRYWc/...
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    by AlexCoventry 13y ago

    I put some thought into how to do this. I think it would be hard to get right. One way, which is total vaporware and probably riddled with security flaws: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3qaT-ZL6aeKOHNEQWdpZEtRY
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    by AlexCoventry 13y ago

    If you could on expand why you would have expected that, that would be interesting to hear.
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    Show HN: Troncle, a prototype clojure debugging tool for emacs(groups.google.com)

    3 points by AlexCoventry 13y ago|0 comments
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    by AlexCoventry 15y ago

    I'm still trying to figure out the answers to these questions. I get ideas about anything I pay enough attention to. Mostly this has happened in an academic context, so far. I had an idea that I intend to pursue in a startup-ish way, bas
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    by AlexCoventry 15y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion.
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    Ask HN: Is there a market for batched distributed Monte Carlo computation?

    7 points by AlexCoventry 15y ago|2 comments
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    by AlexCoventry 15y ago

    Abstract: I describe the design of NooShare, a decentralised ledger similar to Bitcoin with the novel feature that its proofs of work are iterations of essentially arbitrary Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) chains, the scheduling o
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    ShowHN:BTC-like cryptocash with arbitrary tradeable computation in proof of work(docs.google.com)

    1 points by AlexCoventry 15y ago|1 comments