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by Thrymr 14y ago
Or Apple has set unrealistic expectations for their product.
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Microsoft Has Failed(semiaccurate.com)
10 points by Thrymr 14y ago|8 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Good for you. But 99.9% of people are not as careful, and will never be. You can't change them. They will continue to use the same password of minimum allowed length for multiple sites, and store it in plain text on their desktop. The desig
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Ian Ozsvald has a nice tutorial on high performance python, from profiling through cython and some multiprocessing and parallel techniques. You can find video and other materials here: http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/18/high-performance-pyth
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An Empirical Study of Social Media Fan Counts and Stock Prices(ssc.sagepub.com)
1 points by Thrymr 14y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I actually agree with you that programming may be on its way out for the majority of people. I can't agree with sweeping away all of mathematics, including arithmetic and algebra, as "under the hood stuff" for K-12 students.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
That might be true for some very general (or common) problems (though I have doubts about that as well), but it can't possibly be true for a specialized problem such as the one described. How do you train a model if you don't understand the
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by Thrymr 14y ago
How do you choose the black box if you don't understand the problem? It's not as if there exists a single black box for all possible problems.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I find the idea of replacing "mathematics" in the curriculum with "computer programming" rather baffling. As important as programming is in our world, only a small fraction of high school graduates are going to need to do what we currently
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Mathgen: Randomly generated mathematics research papers(thatsmathematics.com)
8 points by Thrymr 14y ago|1 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The fact that this story went straight to the top suggests that a meta-post about HN is the way to go.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
And it depends on what you mean by "library". For statistics packages, yes, python is behind. But for general purpose computing, connecting to databases, and sheer number of packages available, python is way ahead (currently 4097 in CRAN vs
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by Thrymr 14y ago
This mostly seems to indicate that the Stored Communications Act is out of date. Unfortunately it is not likely to improve if the current Congress goes mucking around with it.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I like that your site shows the 2008 history right below the 2012 (although it is distracting that the scale in time is different between them). I couldn't even find that comparison when I looked for it on Nate Silver's site. I'm curious ab
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by Thrymr 14y ago
That's fine, but I don't recall seeing any of the recent Jobs anniversary posts worded in the present tense. The title is just confusing. I was well aware of it at the time, but I had to think for a second because something in my brain was
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by Thrymr 14y ago
In 2011.
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Explore New York City's 311 data(blog.enthought.com)
17 points by Thrymr 14y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
That sounds like FUD. If you don't want it to break, use stable, which is currently at python 2.6.6: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon... If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3: http://pa
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The other irritating thing about the ban is that no distinction is made between devices that transmit RF and those that do not. Granted, there are fewer and fewer devices that one is likely to carry and use on a plane that are not capable o
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by Thrymr 14y ago
People in the scientific community often "get miffed at people." They rarely sue anyone for it, however.
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The WELL, Birthplace Of Online Movement, Is Up For Sale(npr.org)
27 points by Thrymr 14y ago|13 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Sure. It's at least as stable as Montenegro, a country that has only been independent for 6 years, in the least stable corner of Europe.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I agree, the quote is more applicable to conceptually very different languages (e.g. Lisp, Forth, and Smalltalk) than to clever features of particular languages.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
sum([x for x in xrange(1, 101) if x % 3 == 0 and x % 5 == 0]) edit: actually sum the list. Of course, it's even shorter if you realize you can write it as: sum([x for x in xrange(1, 101) if x % 15 == 0])
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NYC bike share program delayed because "the software doesn’t work"(nytimes.com)
6 points by Thrymr 14y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
As others have said, the resolution on the B&D is not that great. But if you are really up for some tinkering, you could build something reasonably cheaply with better resolution with A/C current sensors and an Arduino, like this guy:
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Consumers will.
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The Innumeracy of Intellectuals (2008)(scienceblogs.com)
101 points by Thrymr 14y ago|98 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Jefferson was quite well educated in science and mathematics for the day: http://www.math.virginia.edu/Jefferson/jefferson.htm Geometry was prominent in those days, but as a student he also learned physics with Newton's Principia and O
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by Thrymr 14y ago
As a followup, a nice blog essay on the theme of intellectual contempt for math and science: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/07/26/the-innumeracy... I often wanted to call bullshit on those people too, and reply with something lik

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