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by Tarrosion 7y ago
Zoba | backend engineer and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | competitive salary + benefits + equity Zoba provides demand estimation and optimization APIs for mobility. Right now, our customers
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
Most likely cause of a dense crumb is underproofing, though a too-cold oven won't help either. The most likely cause of a tight (but not dense) crumb is knocking too much air out during shaping. You can try varying the ratio of bulk fe
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
What are the demographics of the targeted or expected audience? n=1 this doesn't appeal to me; why would I want to fragment my communications further? But I could believe that teenagers would use this more; I've read that many you
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
We use Julia for data science work and specific computationally intensive parts of our backend at Zoba: https://www.zoba.com/
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
What does this mean about Opera's ad blocker? (I also see a ton of junk up top when Opera's block ads is enabled, but I don't know what to make of this.)
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by Tarrosion 8y ago
Zoba | backend engineer, principal engineer, machine learning, and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | $90-140k + equity Zoba is a platform for analyzing, visualizing, and optimizing spatial data.
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by Tarrosion 8y ago
As far as the language goes, Julia is absolutely awesome for general purpose work, including web development, scripting, glue language, etc. The associated libraries are, unfortunately but understandably, less well developed than counterpar
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by Tarrosion 8y ago
Zoba | backend engineer, dev ops, machine learning, and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | $90-140k + equity Zoba is a platform to make spatial data, visualization, ML, and optimization easier. O
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by Tarrosion 8y ago
Since this is currently on top of HN and not everyone knows of Julia, a few thoughts on Julia from a very-contented-but-hopefully-rational user: - Julia is by far my favorite language. (I've also written significant code in Java, C++,
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by Tarrosion 8y ago
Here's a similar article with lots of sources (which also reports nuclear as extremely safe): https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
Something I rarely hear discussed around the MLB home run boom, maybe because it's just too obvious (?): Warm weather -> less dense air -> balls fly farther. Recent years have been record warm. Does that have any measurable or me
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
By nuclear disaster do you mean weapons use or just a power generation accident? I've never heard of a power plant accident potentially leaving a big portion of the Earth uninhabitable for centuries, but if there is something please en
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
It can, see eg Bill Cook's "in pursuit of the traveling salesman." I've also wondered how this approximation algorithm relates to the standard asymmetric to symmetric transformation. I should read the paper I guess.
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
> Yes, Julia is really fast with some things, but for other things it's much slower No sane person would deny this :) Regarding those benchmarks, however, I would note that: a) They are two major Julia versions old, many of the benc
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
It's worth noting that burning jet fuel at airliner flight altitudes is roughly 2x as bad for the climate as the carbon emissions alone would suggest: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/aviation/index.ph
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
So many signals suggesting this is a wild physics-defying idea that could never work, e.g. how many websites claiming 'this one neat trick solves global warming' really hold the key to solving global warming? I hope that's no
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
I wasn't trying to make any comment about the job-automation situation; for what it's worth, I find arguments both ways to be very persuasive. Rather, I was commenting that the moral system in the grandparent comment of essentiall
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
> In a country with a terrible maternity and paternity leave policy, it's morally right to do whatever possible ... This seems like quite a slippery slope. Who gets to decide what counts as an acceptable maternity/paternity lea
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
I'm always glad to see articles about integer programming as it's an incredibly powerful tool which deserves to be more widely known. However, I'm not sure the example chosen was the right introductory problem. As illustrated
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
I wonder if one of the most important changes is pure nomenclature: the updated type definition keywords. In prior versions the "obvious" way to define a type gets you a mutable type, and going forward the obvious way gets you an
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by Tarrosion 9y ago
I see a lot of recipes recommending autolyse in both bread and pizza. I'm not sure I understand what the benefit is in a recipe which is already high hydration and has a long rest. E.g. my typical sourdough recipe is something like: fe
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
Why business schools rather than institutes as a whole, bureaucratic structure, beliefs of particular powerful people on campus, etc.? I'm not sure what this comparison has to do with Sloan and GSB.
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker. It's a history of macro trends in violence - wars, homicide, rape, etc. The burden of violence in the modern world is much, much lower than it was historically, even fairly recently. Th
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
I found the "flip the time around, 90% on company" part interesting. Is it not possible to do a side project which matures to a small business providing consistent income? I'd be surprised if anyone could create a multi-multi
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
My setup is dead simple. I'm on Windows, so I use Notepad++ with syntax highlighting as my editor and do a lot via the REPL. I just use regular Julia, not JuliaPro. Installing packages hasn't been a problem for me, just Pkg.add(&q
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
Most times a julialang.org blog post is posted to HN, I wonder whether the choice of content is well chosen to spread awareness of and interest in Julia. I write this as a huge Julia fan; I use Julia daily, and it is both my favorite langua
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
Part of the idea is that with a basic income, there's no longer a need for many "social safety net" programs: disability, social security, food stamps, medicaid, etc. The money saved eliminating all these programs (and their
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
Likewise. I had read of ego depletion before and didn't realize it was having a replication crisis. I like that this article has me update my priors.
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
I feel incredibly...relieved. Whatever you may think of Elon Musk personally, SpaceX work environment, SpaceX vs. Blue Origin, Kessler syndrome, etc., etc., it seems pretty clear that SpaceX's work with reusable space vehicles is a hug
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by Tarrosion 10y ago
A lot of people seem to like Plots.jl, a unified frontend for several plotting backends. https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl I still prefer Gadfly, which does everything I need while looking great. (Only nitpick is sl

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