HuwFulcher

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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
They didn’t explicitly state it but it’s heavily implied based on the context. No, I wouldn’t take an adult believing in Santa Claus seriously. They’re entitled to their beliefs and if they do their job well then I have no reason to have an
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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
But wasn’t allowed to call it heresy until 1615, a while after Copernicus died. This isn’t an apologetic that the Catholic Church did the right thing, I’m not even Catholic. I’m trying to highlight that historically Christianity hasn’t been
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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
Some Catholic theologians criticised but the church did not denounce the theory for some time
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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
That’s a valid point, I think what should be considered though is the interest that the Catholic Church had in encouraging scientific study
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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
Copernicus’ theory of heliocentricity was taught in several Catholic universities until growing Protestant opposition made them stop. The worst the Catholic Church could be accused of is submitting to popular opinion, not being anti-intelle
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by HuwFulcher 4y ago
Your equation of Santa Claus with God reveals your prejudice and stereotyping of religious people. As another commenter has said, many great scientific discoveries over history have been made by Christians. It would be wrong of me to deny t
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by HuwFulcher 5y ago
Why is it hard to believe that some consume information more effectively through video than text? I find it particularly useful to be able to watch/listen to a video on a topic when I have chores to do around the house that prevent me
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by HuwFulcher 5y ago
Nice one! No worries
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by HuwFulcher 5y ago
Cool, you should have a cookie banner for users to consent to being tracked by Google Analytics though.
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by HuwFulcher 5y ago
What is the edge of this over competitors like Plausible or Fathom? They look the same and seem to offer exactly the same features
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by HuwFulcher 6y ago
Considering the makers of Databricks are also the maintainers of Spark it makes you wonder whether this is deliberate
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by HuwFulcher 6y ago
In my experience the use of notebooks (exclusively) goes hand in hand with not knowing things such as version control, tests, deployment process or dependency management exist. I don't mean to sound harsh about other Data Scientists fr
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by HuwFulcher 6y ago
The backbone of many statistical institutions such as the Office for National Statistics is Excel. I worked on porting a lot of complex Excel systems to Python that had been around for 5+ years. There were teams of people whose job it was t
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Show HN: Everything as a Service, a tongue in cheek SaaS idea generator(asaservice.site)
3 points by HuwFulcher 6y ago|1 comments
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by HuwFulcher 6y ago
This is a toy project I spent an evening putting together just for fun. Hopefully it provides some amusement for you as well.