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by achompas 13y ago
From the Berkeley paper on Facebook: Nonetheless, large jobs are important too. Over 80% of the IO and over 90% of cluster cycles are consumed by less than 10% of the largest jobs (7% of the largest jobs in the Facebook cluster). These lar
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by achompas 13y ago
I would recommend familiarity with linear algebra before cracking EoSL open.
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by achompas 13y ago
What are you worried about? Both Loren and Marco are independent developers who need to put food on the table. At some point you need to make sustainable decisions; sometimes that means leaving VC-funded companies, and sometimes that means
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by achompas 13y ago
No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands [sic] Really? This is an interesting post on what is ostensibly a website about entrepreneurship, especially one that constantly discusses customer acqu
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by achompas 14y ago
As an alternative currency, Bitcoin is very, very illegal in various countries. For example, I believe the Federal Reserve Act in the US outlaws all non-Reserve currency.
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by achompas 14y ago
The article is sorely mistaken: a job posting that says "Kaggle participation will give you an advantage" does not mean Kaggle provides "essential metric[s]." That's just one example of the article overstating Kaggle's case. Also love the i
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed. In conversations with data scientists looking to hire, we've never discussed Kaggle aside from "wow they reeeeeally focus on that evaluation metric." In fact, our conversations quickly turn to the Netflix Prize, where first place wo
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by achompas 14y ago
Congrats, Adam! Do we have performance information yet, even on some basic, common use cases? Also, the docs mention EJML as the backend for Saddle's data structures--do you have any thoughts on using EJML?
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by achompas 14y ago
This is a disappointing criticism of someone who presents some very interesting ideas. Morozov is definitely guilty of tearing down some absurd strawmen, but that doesn't invalidate his criticisms of, say, SV's "solutionist" culture.
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by achompas 14y ago
Many of the comments in here are of the form "hey well of COURSE you love startups you work at one of the most successful startups in existence." I think that's a poor representation of the talk's main points. He actually provides a level c
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by achompas 14y ago
He actually devotes a few slides to picking the right company (the part about the company being a burning money pit or whatever). I think you're reading a whole lot of optimism that isn't there.
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by achompas 14y ago
To be fair to parent, they may not know about the terrible experience of a local business who works with Groupon, LS, or another daily deals site.
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by achompas 14y ago
There is a huge gap between my disagreeing with clearly sexist based policies and saying that sexism, even so called benevolent sexism is a bad thing, and your claiming I am misogynistic or that my point of view is insane, or even idiotic.
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by achompas 14y ago
There's an embarrassing amount of circumstantial evidence.
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by achompas 14y ago
I am flagging this precisely because I believe the Hacker School experience is valuable and yet you offer a sexist and discriminatory grant to women. I'll outline this for you as clearly as possible. Fact: a small, but significant, group
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by achompas 14y ago
I had this experience at my first and only internship in NYC. Now I work there as a full-time engineer. It's really the only way to go.
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed. Any suggestions for those applied books? I haven't found any yet.
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by achompas 14y ago
Thanks! Haven't taken a formal information theory class yet, but I'd like to soon.
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by achompas 14y ago
It's easy to game your answer as an interviewee though. HN actually had a post a while back about someone who "interviewed" for a living while on unemployment; by the time he was done, he had mastered pretending to think deeply about the an
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by achompas 14y ago
Anyone who's studied information theory would destroy that puzzle though. I understand this comment in a general sense--the scale's behavior represents two possible states, so you can use it to filter the answer space in O(log_2 N) ala bi
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by achompas 14y ago
Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us? Because the odds of getting Famous Joe Blow X to run a HN AMA are much,
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by achompas 14y ago
Quora is most definitely not for this, although it's a potential side effect. I'd argue it's actually the opposite: by design, Quora focuses on a single question open to answers by any number of users that do not have to be the question's
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by achompas 14y ago
I think you're overestimating. virtualenv works "fine" for some but it has warts when interacting with the scientific toolkit. IPython gets annoying, for example.
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by achompas 14y ago
Can't find the link, but Kottke (of kottke.org) posted about this a while back. Russians apparently use dash cams to deter police corruption. Edit: Sorry, it's not police--they're used to aid in car insurance claims. See below. http://kott
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by achompas 14y ago
What mistakes? I work with data for a living, and I agreed with The Atlantic's points (having reached the same conclusions last night when the story broke). The particular mistake you cite results from a lack of domain knowledge, not analys
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by achompas 14y ago
So there's one damning thing in Broder's review: the confirmation of his range anxiety as the Model S sits on a flatbed. Tesla explicitly refutes that point by saying Broder ignored warnings against leaving Norwich. Also, I mean, come on: r
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by achompas 14y ago
That was before he released an expanded version of Portal 2 on PS3. He's moved from MS to Sony over the years.
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Federal Reserve Admits To Getting Hacked; Anonymous Claims Responsibility(mashable.com)
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed--I'm in for f.lux
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by achompas 14y ago
Is there any way to subscribe to these Nanex posts? Couldn't find an RSS read but I'd like to slowly dip into HFT, and they like a good source of trading news.

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