andreasvc

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by andreasvc 10y ago
> I don't mind the shutdown when I go to bed (eco friendly even ;)) What exactly is eco friendly about shutdown versus suspend where it uses < 1W? Besides, the wear and tear of repeated shutdown/powerup cycles might mean it
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by andreasvc 10y ago
I don't think it's possible to form non-trivial sentences without function words. But leaving out common content words could be interesting.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Text simplification and summarization are active fields of research. Machine translation is indeed more active, but this is understandable given its commercial applications.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Not necessary. Python allows any open bracket to signal that the line is not terminated yet.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Isn't it a crucial feature of a precedent that it actually precedes the question to be resolved?
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by andreasvc 10y ago
The GIL is an issue when you want parallelism. It is not relevant when talking about single thread performance.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
PyPy also has higher memory usage.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
But most HTTP servers do use OpenSSL, so the tirade is not wrong.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
That is false. Free software includes BSD licenses. You are thinking of copyleft licenses.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> isn't attained through extreme heroic efforts "heroic" is ill-defined, so don't know about that, but the effort was arguably extreme , in the sense that Linux and git are among the best at what they do. Lots of oth
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by andreasvc 11y ago
That's the one. Don't recall the specifics, but combinations of MultiIndex as index and columns and the other features were not supported with HDF5.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
I found it quite frustrating to use HDF5. It does not handle variable-length strings well (very common). In Pandas, categoricals and MultiIndex are not supported. I found that settling for CSV and pickle is more reliable & robust. Also,
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by andreasvc 11y ago
The term nested list comprehension is used differently here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#neste... Don't know what a better term might be, but it's good to be aware of the disti
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Look at the second example in https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-... Once you know how it translates to regular for loops, this syntax is pretty natural. I always put each for loop on its
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Not necessarily true. Depending on the field, publications in arxiv can be important and cited.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
I am afraid that what you describe is a pretty fundamental limitation of peer review. Currently it is not expected of reviewers to try to replicate experiments, but only to check if the methodology of the paper seems sound and the relevant
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by andreasvc 11y ago
I know and the post did mention such a firm rejection. I'm just stating that the problem is rather that there are people who don't take no for an answer.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
You're blaming the victim. Do you really believe she didn't tell him no clearly? > Women need to learn to reject people in whom they're not interested No, that's not the problem, women get plenty of experience with th
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Those might be threads. It's best to disable showing threads (F2 - Display options - Hide kernel/userland threads) because they give little information over just the process.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
By asking for books that affected science itself you set the bar pretty high. Here are some of my favorite popular science books that I think are all noteworthy enough to have been discussed by scientists. - Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> High-tech state-of-the-art tracking technology from Google and Apple indicates that these people are somehow involved in the disappearance of a missing person. It is rather odd that you insist on this when you know it to be false. The
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> Just looking at the scatter plot by itself doesn't tell you anything about the underlying data. Well if that were the case it would be perfectly pointless to make such a visualization... The goal of dimensionality reduction is to
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by andreasvc 11y ago
That is naive short term thinking. If children are not doing child labor, they have the opportunity to get education which in turn can improve the economic conditions of their country so that child labor won't be the only option anymor
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by andreasvc 11y ago
It is a well known design feature (I would call it a flaw) of Unix/Linux which makes forking processes with copy-on-write memory possible. You can run out of both physical memory and swap space. Or your system is swapping is so heavily
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Well I think they're annoying, but there's not much point in complaining because it's not going to change overnight. Either way syntax is a very superficial aspect about programming languages, more interesting to consider sem
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by andreasvc 11y ago
That's not an argument, you could say the exact same thing about braces in other languages. Truth is, it's something that works that really doesn't need to be debated to death like it is.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Nice flame bait. Don't see how it matters whether it is decided at runtime or compile-time. Incompatible versions are a fact of life, and nothing particular of Python.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
As far as I understand the p-value of a Pearson correlation is exactly the same as the p-value of a simple linear regression.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Commercial success and quality ("good movie") are obviously very different things. Critics care about the latter. Quality is hard to quantify, but that's no excuse to take such a poor proxy as sales. If you want to test wheth
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Could you please state the problem instead of making ad hominems? I'm genuinely curious.

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