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by alec 17y ago
> Brag that you called Perl from Python because it was "quicker" to experienced Python programmers. A coworker found that calling out to grep can be faster than using Python's regular expressions for large amounts of text processing. M
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by alec 17y ago
http://incanter.org/ Incanter is a "Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM". Ready to replace R? I don't know, R has a lot of libraries. Worth a look? Definitely.
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by alec 18y ago
It seems that if you want to get covered by TechCrunch, you have to give them an exclusive?
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by alec 19y ago
The nice thing about Appel's book is that you put together a compiler as you go along - it's easier to self-study. The Dragon Book's compiler project is an appendix.
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by alec 19y ago
No, it couldn't - your rewording loses the critical "reportedly" that lets the reader know that this is a rumor, not fact. I am not a reporter, and don't know the threshold for libel, but for a rumor you definitely want to write that, just
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Common Lisp at ITA(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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by alec 19y ago
Sutton and Barto's book on reinforcement learning is available online at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html , and is probably the definitive work on the subject.
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by alec 19y ago
Take-home message: "Amazon is so fast and cheap that I can run computations over 4TB data sets, notice that I screwed it all up, and run it again."
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by alec 19y ago
I really like DejaVu Sans Mono. I've found it's most readable for me on an AntiqueWhite background (sort of off-white). From my .Xdefaults: Emacs.font: DejaVu Sans Mono-12 Emacs.background: AntiqueWhite You'll need emacs from CVS, but it
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by alec 19y ago
It's a huge development aid - if you're running emacs and slime, you can reload individual functions or files with a quick key combo, and if you want code reload over multiple files, a reload function is easy to write - check times and you'
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by alec 19y ago
Maybe it's by design - if something is consistent across all pages, you're less likely to notice it, and less likely to click on it. Error boxes have consistent interfaces - "OK" and "Cancel" - and even when they're important, most of us j
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by alec 19y ago
rss2email - get RSS articles by email. Put it in your crontab and let it get messages for you. Avoid annoying ads and stupid layouts by reading it in a text mail client. It's great.
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by alec 19y ago
No, it's not easy, but neither is garbage collection, good optimizations, a clean interface, helpful documentation, or anything that makes a language really great. If I'm going to keep using Python in the future, I'm going to want threadin
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by alec 19y ago
I should add that I don't work for them (if that's not already clear) and that you can read more on their website if you ask them nicely through some form.
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by alec 19y ago
I interviewed at Vertica. They have some really cool stuff going. You can get a lot of it in C-Store, a BSD-licensed academic project. The main C-Store paper is very informative if academic papers are your thing. The big advantage of cha
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by alec 19y ago
Feature request: if the URL ends in .nyud.net, assume that it's a Coral cache version and strip the postfix from the domain name in order to display the actual source.
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by alec 19y ago
I'm interested and should be able to make it.