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by Tarq0n 9y ago
The difference is the move from specialized to interchangeable, commodity hardware. This allows cloud providers establish an abstraction layer over servers, because it doesn't matter which machine serves your demand at any given moment
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Is there progress being made on letting cars self-drive on unmarked and dirt roads? I imagine that would be important for users in less developed areas.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
That's not what Monte Carlo Tree search is. The new version is still one neural network + MCTS. There's no way to store enough information to judge the efficiency of every possible move in a neural network, therefore a second algo
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
This seems like a major development anti-pattern, especially considering their nightly builds are good enough to use. They need to get over their perfectionism and start putting out releases again.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Carmack is more of a game engine engineer than a game designer, as evidenced by the lacklustre design of id games after Romero left.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Workflowy is the only list maker that I've ever stuck with. Most of them are so over-designed. I don't need videos and voice reminders and all kinds of nonsense; just compact, structurable lists.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
I don't think HTC gets enough credit for their part in the smartphone revolution. Even when they were making windows CE devices they were pushing the UX and phone build quality forward, including making launchers that resemble what And
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Hadley Wickham suggests using "then" for pipes. SO we take object x, then perform f(y) with it.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Probably editing the pdf in photoshop or illustrator, but not flattening the layers back down before exporting the document, causing the underlying information to be retained. The PDF format doesn't just function as a container for an
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
For most everyday plotting tasks freedom is overrated. What ggplot gives you is unparalleled productivity, combined with a 'grammar of graphics' API that makes it very pleasant to specify and experiment with visualizations. It&#x2
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Amazon has been experimenting with ads for their own products integrated into twitch streams lately. I'm not sure if ad blockers have caught up yet, or if they will at all.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
The growth rates of these are fascinating. I'm amazed Google still has that much of an exponential curve.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
This sounds like a giant strawman to me. Where do programmers get the idea that a mode called 'shuffle' would call for sampling with replacement? The obvious software analogy to shuffling would be re-ordering a list randomly, not
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
The author tried a laptop monitor, that's much less ideal than a second monitor bordering perfectly of the first. Either way it will definitely challenge your multitasking though.
555.
by Tarq0n 9y ago
You can either use hotkeys for scene switching, or use screen capture instead of window capture. If you regularly forget to switch scenes screen capture is probably the way to go, just keep in mind that viewers will be able to see anything
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Is there any reason why medical equipment couldn't at least be airgapped or on a network without an outside connection at least? Still seems irresponsible.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
That's an interesting point actually. Maybe there should be multiple stages to copyright expiry, where the opportunities to create derivative works open up over time, without the work itself entering the public domain just yet. Derivat
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Code has the advantage that functions and operators are googleable, while mathematical notation is not. I think the search problem is a fairly serious issue for maths actually.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Credit card use is highly uncommon in large parts of Europe.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Buffet's tactic of having the original owner keep 20% equity is very smart in this regard I think. Not only do you share risk, you're also keeping them nearby in case the need for litigation ever arises.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
The R version of plotly has been fully offline ever since they open sourced it. Alternatively you could also try ggvis, but it's not as polished as ggplot yet.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Why sell your soul to Tableau when you can leverage your large pool of engineering talent to create something that only requires investing once, rather than large recurring license fees forever? In my opinion Superset actually fills a niche
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Isn't this a faulty premise in the first place? To overthrow a tyrannical government without (large part of) the army on your side seems infeasible in the age of cluster bombs and armored vehicles. So before armed civil war it seems lo
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
If your audience like/expect/demand pie charts I find donut charts to be a nice alternative. They do essentially the same thing but prevent people from trying to interpret the area of wedges. http://www.datavizcatalogue
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
If you only need basic filtering and brushing for interactivity there's a new library called crosstalk that can do that. Some htmlwidgets like Plotly also support some interactivity without the need for a server. http://rstu
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
I feel like at a certain point this crosses the line from unintended use of a private API to unethical hacking. If the data owner went through the trouble of encrypting the traffic between it and it's app they have a certain expectatio
567.
by Tarq0n 10y ago
Are there standards of strength that pilots have to meet for situations like these? What about female pilots?
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
Can you supply a realistic alternative to affirmative action that would make it unnecessary?
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
One of the primary functions of unions in the Netherlands is collective bargaining. Every sector has sort of a "base contract", and the union negotiates basic raises and job perks for everyone employed in that sector.
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by Tarq0n 10y ago
That seems ignorant of the cumulative advantage that Europe enjoys to this day. If anything it illustrates how technological development is shared on a global scale, allowing anyone to catch up to the latest standard of industrialization if

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