Fede_V

40 ms·

1. 361.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   Interestingly, why didn't she do some kind of text mining/classification to try to show what features gave the highest discrimination between the two classes?
2. 362.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   Those are pretty terrible (and I've heard that at least MS finally got rid of stack ranking) but compared to the kind of shit that an employee at a fast food chain has to go through, it's a blissful paradise. Until they were shame
3. 363.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   I think the free market does an absolutely wonderful job of creating amazing conditions for workers that are in high demand. For top tier programmers (which are highly over-represented in this forum) working in tech hubs, you can look forw
4. 364.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   I understand why the company does it, but that's horrific. There was a sandwhich chain (mostly based in the UK) that even had a collective punishment thing - if someone at a shop was found to be insufficiently cheerful, everyone lost
5. 365.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   I don't follow any brands or business on Facebook - it seems incredibly counter productive, but I can understand that people have different opinions/need from me. How about letting people see the ads from corporations/busines
6. 366.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   Pandas is amazing and I use it all the time, but the API for things like hierarchical multi level indexing is very complex (it has to be - it's a very difficult thing).
7. 367.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   In this case, no. They merely obtained massive tax breaks and lots of free land/roads. However, even if you completely support local governance in the abstract, is there a limit past which you feel uncomfortable in terms of concession
8. 368.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   Although in theory I'm a huge support of greater local governance, things like these are why I'm a bit skeptical in practice. When companies can force states to bid in exchange for jobs, or to lower labour regulation/environm
9. 369.▲
   by Fede_V 12y ago

   I actually both in terms of speed, and in terms of writing code they are remarkably similar approaches. numba forces you into certain ways of writing code to achieve significant speed ups, but usually that's not too restrictive. If you
10. 370.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    I really like Python - I think forcing people into using a certain directory structure is nice, and it makes browsing code easy. I think it's largely a matter of taste though! I just think that having a directory layout that reflects
11. 371.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    I agree with this. I think in large part this is because the developers decided to try as much as possible to 'decouple' the concept of module from the filesystem. I think this is clever in the abstract, but in practice, it'
12. 372.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Nicely done. I find that the most useful pedagogic tool for learning are extensively annotated non-trivial examples (with emphasis on extensively annotated).
13. 373.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Like apples compare to oranges :) Cheeky comment aside, PyPy is an alternative interpreter for Python and, more broadly, a meta-frame work to make writing tracing JIT for the language of your choice easy. It's much faster than regular
14. 374.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    You are right, that was unwarranted. I just have an instant knee-jerk reaction when I see people with multiple lawsuits.
15. 375.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    I know this won't convince many hardcore Unix people who are used to the command line, but Visual Studio is still an absolutely incredible piece of software, and I really, really wish I could run it under Linux. Even if you are a comma
16. 376.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    This was really helpful - it's nice to see that he takes the same steps that I do when learning a new language. Interestingly, this highlights just how incredibly important up-to-date and authoritative tutorials/docs just are. Ju
17. 377.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    I'd love to support you in some way if you decide to open source this. I'm otherwise a bit paranoid to let all the text of every homepage I visit be captured by a closed source plug in. Still - amazing job, and technically very,
18. 378.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Anyone who will unironically define themselves as a genius has issues with ego. Genius is something only history can bestow on people.
19. 379.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    There is an excellent blog by the creator of Sage: http://sagemath.blogspot.it/2014/08/you-dont-really-think-th... Sage is absolutely amazing, but it is very far behind the cutting edge CAS systems (MAGMA/Mat
20. 380.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    It depends what you mean by 'use cython properly'. To speed up some numerical routines, you don't need to know almost anything about pointers/malloc, etc, you just move your Python function into its own separate file, r
21. 381.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    In the specific case you pasted, the [] are just syntactic sugar to specify information about the arrays that you are passing in to Cython. I find that far more legible than complicated template expressions - but that's likely a matter
22. 382.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.
23. 383.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    The system of incentives is all screwed up. The glut of postdocs is a boon for everyone involved, except the postdocs themselves. Postdocs are very highly qualified and underpaid scientists, who can on a project without almost any supervis
24. 384.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    I found this lecture much more helpful than the first one - the first one had some good content, but seemed very generic without specific advice. Here there was some incredibly useful, detailed advice, for example: - Even for really complex
25. 385.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Gibiansky's blog is chuck full of incredibly good stuff. He updates sporadically but it's totally worth a read.
26. 386.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Yeah, exactly. I haven't always gotten excellent service, but I usually get at least very good service because I try to be polite to the retail staff/waiters. The idea that you are entitled to people being completely servile towa
27. 387.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Simulated annealing is not required for non-linear optimization. It's useful for non-convex optimization. Non-linear but convex problems are trivial to solve with Newton's method - a simple example is finding the weights of an S
28. 388.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Yeah, exactly. Dealing with social media as a divisive personality is exhaustive - either you completely shut it off and let some underpaid underdealing deal with it, or you will get horrendously burnt out by all the negativity. I hope he
29. 389.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    This is sort of the crux of the problem though. Top ten kitten lists of the kind Buzzfeed specializes in, are a much better deal in terms of eyeballs/dollar although they have a much lower social utility than say, a well reported piec
30. 390.▲
    by Fede_V 12y ago

    Leo Strauss was an influential neoconservative philosopher who thought that a lot of key classical texts had an 'obvious' reading which was propaganda for the masses, and a 'secret' reading which only the adepts could de