Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, given the cynicism which seems to have developed there, it seems like only a matter of time before some GS employee decides to leak embarrassing information as part of an insider trading scheme.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Exactly what I came over here to say. If there's been a change, it has to be something like the cynicism at GS having grown so overt that they can't pay some of their institutional drones enough to ignore it.
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by Estragon 15y ago
numpy/scipy/matplotlib have been there for about a year, according to http://pythonsprints.com/2011/04/8/matplotlib-python-3-thank... (I am dragging my feet on this, too.)
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by Estragon 15y ago
> I am just applying the same principles to Python what > used to be applied to Perl. No, there are some significant differences between the two which your commentary misses, like the fact that python3 ecosystem and the p
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by Estragon 15y ago
Rabbit-holing and yak shaving happen when you're still committed to working on the problem domain but struggling with some aspect of it. Social media and TV happen when you've explicitly given up for the time being.
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by Estragon 15y ago
They're not talking about the details of the plan, though. They're encouraging you to empirically test your belief that people will behave the way your business plan is expecting them to (paying you for whatever the service is, sticking ar
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks for the info.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Anyone know which of the chrome sandboxes this was? If it was NaCl, I would really like to know.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I attended a talk recently by Justin Yifu Lin, the current chief economist of the World Bank. On the basis of a comparison of China's current Purchasing Power Parity to that of earlier Asian tigers, he argued that China's economy is likely
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by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, I read Bandler and Grinder extensively and experimented with their techniques in the 80s, starting with happening across The Structure of Magic in the local university library, and ending, IIRC, with Using Your Brain For a Change ,
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by Estragon 15y ago
No loss, Neuro Linguistic programming is a fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...
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by Estragon 15y ago
> a certain monoculture I'm curious about the common characteristics you saw in people there.
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by Estragon 15y ago
OK, but that doesn't really answer my question, which is why people aren't more concerned about earlier more surreptitious corruptions of the repositories of github via the same vulnerability. It's got to have been an attractive target for
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by Estragon 15y ago
Since this vulnerability has been known about for years and experienced crackers have presumably checked for it before, is there any reason to be concerned about more malicious corruption of other repositories on github?
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by Estragon 15y ago
It says they've cleared out homakov's modification, but I gather this vulnerability has been around for a long time. Is it paranoid to worry about malicious commits to other github repositories? (By other more surreptitious parties?)
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by Estragon 15y ago
So, the vulnerability was public for at least days in homakov's bug report, and probably for years to anyone who wanted a crack at github badly enough to do a little research. Is it paranoid to worry about malicious commits in other import
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by Estragon 15y ago
The emphasis on peace and on understanding and connecting to problems through experience rather than logic and doubt is what reminded me of him. He hasn't written much about these things, they come up more in his talks for long-time studen
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by Estragon 15y ago
This is very wise advice. Have you ever heard of Ken McLeod, the Buddhist teacher? Your essay reminds me of him.
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by Estragon 15y ago
So, calling or emailing, what do you say? "I'm a smart guy looking for problems to solve in return for money?"
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by Estragon 15y ago
Your comment seems to have nothing to do with the OP. It starts with "In my career as a psychologist ..." so it's not like he's trying to tar all psychological treatment with the one brush. He's specifically talking about a tendency to u
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by Estragon 15y ago
The model you describe in your post seems to be assuming identifiability across customers regardless of when the relationship started. If you are not making inferences about new customers based on similar customers with prior attributes, h
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by Estragon 15y ago
I should have been more specific. I was mostly thinking of sequence analysis like the PhD candidate in the OP wants to do. Bioinformatics in general covers a lot of ground which is directly clinical in nature, like image analysis. Sequenc
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by Estragon 15y ago
True, but the encryption does mitigate some of the problem of the email being stored on and indexed by google servers. I have personal conversations with a number of people who use gmail, and it bothers me that those conversations are inde
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by Estragon 15y ago
I'm on the verge of dropping out of bioinformatics, too, after about a decade of postdoc appointments. The corruption of biomedical research by funding imperatives [1] is heart breaking. That said, cancer genomics could be well the field w
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's getting easier than you might think.[1] I'm looking forward to someone trying to make bitcoin selling packets of fluorescent yoghurt bacteria on the Silk Road. [1] http://www.indiebiotech.com/?p=152
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by Estragon 15y ago
Benny Morris's book Righteous Victims seems to be a reliable source of information about the conflict. He's a an Israeli history professor, not exactly a virulent antisemite. It's worth noting that he describes the trigger for unrest le
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by Estragon 15y ago
It surprises me that people are complaining this is irrelevant to HN. It fits well with the PG/HN narrative of technology decentralizing political power -- Israel is suppressing this technology because it doesn't want to give up its contro
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by Estragon 15y ago
I must admit, I hadn't thought about the changes necessary in the browser. What major rearrangements does it require?
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks. Definitely bears some more research.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The Native Client source code repository is huge, but it is not that hard to find your way around in. I have been studying it because I plan to build something on top of it. I am by no means a stellar programmer, and I have found it reas

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