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by aldanor 8y ago
Ditto, droplets are great and stable (and, somewhat surprisingly, CPU-optimized ones seems to perform better on average than the equivalent from AWS). I've tried to make it work with Spaces for the last 6 months (NYC3), but it's j
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by aldanor 9y ago
He might have meant, e.g., that iPhone X has a wildly different set of gestures and shortcuts. Like, guided mode being triple-power instead of triple home, battery/volume/etc menu swiping from upper left corner instead of from bel
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by aldanor 9y ago
Just rename it to Magic the Gambling for clarity
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by aldanor 9y ago
Re: serialization, worth mentioning cattrs project (work with attrs classes, but would work the same way with stdlib dataclass): https://github.com/Tinche/cattrs
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by aldanor 9y ago
I used to play Solace (a Dragonlance-based MUD) a lot from when I was 13 and for many years after. Looking back now, it helped me immensely with learning English as a foreign language and taught me to type very fast, so it was quite useful
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by aldanor 9y ago
Ditto, just wanted to say the same thing. On RH / CentOS, devtoolset exists exactly for the reason OP is worried about.
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by aldanor 9y ago
Sometimes, choosing to use a library in the first place may also implicitly increase technical debt (in having to maintain this dependency, and even more so if this library shares dependencies with other dependencies that you have).
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by aldanor 9y ago
And then the most common minimum-wage job would be spinning the wheels on a bitcoin-mining bicycle, kind of like in one of those Black Mirror episodes.
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by aldanor 9y ago
Which will also consume one gigawatt of energy in the process.
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by aldanor 9y ago
And, later, Borland C++. I still have fond memories of that blue-green screen.
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by aldanor 9y ago
There’s also import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() which drops you into ipython debugger shell which is largely superior to the default pdb, e.g. due to code completion (I’m not sure that’s what you meant). There’s also a %pdb magic which
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by aldanor 9y ago
+1 to not logging on to the company’s IM. Emailing somehow feels more ‘persistent’ so it’s unlikely that conversation like the one above would have happened in an email thread. Or, people have to come and talk to you in person; in which cas
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by aldanor 9y ago
When taking notes in a class (español), always an iPad + Apple Pencil + GoodNotes. Proven to be super handy during few years of use. On a Mac, there’s a brilliant Quiver app for note taking, with syntax highlighting, diagram support and oth
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by aldanor 9y ago
To each his own. Not having to carry a phone when running is the best thing digital watches did to me.
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by aldanor 9y ago
... or how expensive the ‘real’ boards are, e.g. $7K for a Xilinx US+.
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by aldanor 9y ago
- It's Python2-only - The CSV parser is slow and not RFC-compliant (e.g. quotes) - The parser is 10x slower than pandas - Iteration over rows is same speed as pandas Proof: https://gist.github.com/aldanor/ecae5caca
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by aldanor 9y ago
Too bad there isn’t one in C++ — everyone rolls their own. Would really make sense to have it as part of STL.
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by aldanor 9y ago
I guess that is the whole point? I.e., you stop needing to be frugal and/or don’t have to count € when spending money on basic things like food or transportation. Also, more things become ‘basic’. Another point that makes a difference
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by aldanor 9y ago
Quite a few times I’ve googled something only to hit SO answer as the first match where the accepted answer is my own... Oh, right...
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by aldanor 9y ago
Just got myself (an expensive Nobo) glass whiteboard for brainstorming my side projects and, with all the technology, laptops, tablets and gadgets I'm constantly surrounded by, it turned out to be a very fun and useful thing to have. T
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by aldanor 9y ago
Very cool! I'd like to share another global optimization algorithm 'worth using' that I've recently discovered for myself: Hyperband [0]. It's extremely simple to implement (i.e. a dozen lines of code), is based on
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by aldanor 9y ago
The proper way to handle this is fixed-point representation (whether the DB natively supports this or not). E.g., you won't find floating point fields in binary protocols for any of the major stock exchanges. A typical scaling factor i
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by aldanor 9y ago
You build this shared library as a relocatable conda package and add an explicit dependency in your Python (conda) package / problem solved.
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by aldanor 9y ago
Most definitely not. You can write C++ extensions inside Jupyter notebook these days ([1]) -- thanks to libraries like pybind11 [2]. [1] https://github.com/aldanor/ipybind [2] https://github.com/pybind&
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by aldanor 9y ago
Could you give a hint of how the data ("sample1", "sample2") looks like, or how to randomly generate it in order to benchmark it sensibly? I guess these are similarly-indexed float64 series where the index may contain du
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by aldanor 9y ago
@ the OP - not to sound hostile, but you write code (like in the example here [1]) that is bound to be slow, just from a glance at it. vstacking, munging with pandas indices (and pandas in general), etc; in order for it to be fast, you wan
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by aldanor 9y ago
There’s also a recent Prodigy by the same folks who make SpaCy - https://prodi.gy (disclaimer: I’m not affiliated, but participated in their beta).
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by aldanor 9y ago
I guess you're supposed to render it as LaTeX in your head.
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by aldanor 9y ago
> There wouldn't be quant trading firms without leverage, extended by a prime broker. Please allow me to disagree :) Most larger pure-algo HFT prop shops are self-clearing, they are exchange members (possibly with more favorable fee
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by aldanor 9y ago
One of the main reasons here is minimizing the number of (FPGA) cycles it takes you from reading the first byte of the incoming UDP packet to writing the first (or last; depending on exchange gateways configuration) byte of the order that c

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