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Wiring Up Phoenix Channels with React Hooks(medium.com)
5 points by abrenzel 7y ago|0 comments
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Dimensional Analysis in Elixir(medium.com)
3 points by abrenzel 7y ago|0 comments
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by abrenzel 13y ago
This article is sensationalism dressed up as economic reasoning. In the opening paragraph, the author fails to make the distinction between profits trending toward zero versus prices trending toward zero in a free market. This undermi
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by abrenzel 14y ago
Yes, I contradicted your assertions that a) it is MIT and JSTOR that have primary discretion in whether a criminal case moves forward (it is the government's sole discretion) b) MIT and JSTOR are in fact responsible for bringing criminal ch
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by abrenzel 14y ago
Strictly speaking this is not correct. JSTOR and MIT cannot bring criminal charges; only the US government may. They can bring civil charges on their own behalf in addition to the criminal charges, and whether the 2 parties agree to settl
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by abrenzel 15y ago
I just see this as an incremental development, rather than a revolutionary one. As I mentioned above, the server is still very involved with UI events and navigation. If the user causes a UI event that saves data to the server, even if th
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Well yes, now you can perform more manipulation of the page without needing a roundtrip to the server, but saving the state of the application still involves one, unless you are the type of radical early adopter who is going to try to do it
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Some things from this article just don't make sense to me. Like, why is AJAX/client-side MVC pointed out as something that overcomes the HTTP request/response cycle? No, it doesn't. It just means you don't have to refresh the entire scree
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by abrenzel 15y ago
I would be curious to do this and am in Chicago. Hopefully I wouldn't hold back the group!
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Should this article be retitled: Understanding Groupon Means Understanding Accounting Fraud?
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Absolutely. Indeed risk is not even just about the "customer's" (in this case, the nation of Greece) inability to pay, but also counterparty risk. It's not just Deutschebank that's on the hook for defaulted Greek debt, but every counterpa
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by abrenzel 15y ago
From the looks of it, the program merely learned the rules of the game by doing textual analysis of the manual, and maybe got a few strategic hints as well. As for actually learning to play the game _well_, my sense from the article is tha
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by abrenzel 15y ago
One might argue that the algorithms used by Wall Street firms to trade the stock market learned how to play long ago... ;).
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Computer Learns Game by Reading Manual(itproportal.com)
40 points by abrenzel 15y ago|15 comments
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Unlocking Viral Secrets On Facebook: MIT Study(fastcompany.com)
1 points by abrenzel 15y ago|0 comments
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by abrenzel 15y ago
I've been working on a new site in Pyramid (the successor to Pylons), and I have to say so far it's been an impressive experience. They took a bit of a different philosophy than Django and Rails. In those 2, you can customize some things,
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Not just a housing bubble but a bubble in the exact same industry sector as well! Of course, a bubble is fundamentally a gross mismatch between future expectations and actual returns. That's why there's no learning from the past, and why i
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Yeah, scaling past one machine will make your joins slow. But is that really the _only_ thing that makes joins slow? I thought the broader performance problem with joins had more to do with the costs of carrying out the relational algebra
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by abrenzel 15y ago
That was a good point in the presentation I thought, but I objected on the slide that suggested you wouldn't learn anything from it either (slide 28). How could you not learn something from the experience, even if you fail hardcore?
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by abrenzel 15y ago
I think a lot of conventional analysis of investments is looking more foolish than usual because the market isn't keying off what people think it is. Three major things have dominated market movements since the 2008 crisis: 1) Rock-bottom
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Touche
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by abrenzel 15y ago
Am I a loser because I didn't feel like downloading a Scala compiler or translating this to a language I do have an interpreter for, so I just got the table from man ascii, counted the characters in the string, and then did the transformati
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by abrenzel 16y ago
I thought this was going to be another one of those benchmarking articles, but it was really a great exercise in how lateral thinking can produce clean solutions. The more I hear about the Lisp family of languages, the more I want to give t
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Is this a full-on bubble? No, it's probably nothing like the 1990's. But I still think the truth is that today's monetary situation is creating an incentive to chase yields, and it is not out of the question that this is showing up in VC
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by abrenzel 16y ago
But don't you think we're seeing those in commodities and many stocks, including but not limited to tech stocks? You wouldn't see it in real estate, because popped bubbles don't reinflate. Whenever I see a company like Cisco drop huge %'s
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Eventually, that is the beneficial effect of a bubble bursting. On the downside, the short term of a bubble bursting brings risk aversion and particularly aversion to debt. I'm in agreement with the linked article that the "valuations" of
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by abrenzel 16y ago
I am intrigued by Watson. NLP is definitely something that has failed to live up to its billing so far. I will be very interested to see what kinds of questions Watson is good at and which he tends to miss, to see if there are any pattern
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by abrenzel 16y ago
But the interpreting process often is a form of compilation - e.g. many interpreters compile source to bytecode and interpret the bytecode - to say nothing of JIT, which after all stands for just-in-time compilation! Compiler design I think
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by abrenzel 16y ago
I did the AATT/ARIT summer program at Bogazici in Istanbul. I thought it was a very good program, but very intense. I have heard some good things and some bad things about Tomer.
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Loved the comment about it being a "switch." This is exactly what I found when I went to Turkey after 2 years of studying Turkish. I was in a program where we had a 4 hour class in the morning taught about 80% in Turkish. The first week

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