apathy

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by apathy 18y ago
A thread is an algorithm, i.e., a one-dimensional sequence of operations to be executed one at a time. Well, it's too bad that none of these pesky algorithms can be logically decomposed into independent processes and run all at once. Lik
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by apathy 18y ago
Your web framework - what you use to fill up your memcache. This is too classic not to be quoted for tl;dr visitors.
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by apathy 18y ago
And how do you feel about they service? Do you think it can be improved? Maybe. I think that they do an extremely good job of the one thing they set out to do, and it would be very hard to challenge them right now, given the strong relat
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by apathy 18y ago
You should join the discussion on reddit: 1) Spez actually weighs in on such matters 2) the suitability of supervised/unsupervised algorithms for recommending links is discussed (note that Amazon and other highly successful recommendation e
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by apathy 18y ago
the human brain may just use Bayesian statistics The art in using Bayesian statistics is properly choosing and weighting priors, which might explain (assuming your theory is correct) why some people consistently make better decisions than
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by apathy 18y ago
Let's see how they fare in the coming cool-down eh? I have an OpenTable account and they are nice even if you don't regularly reserve tables through the service -- you can get a very good idea of how ridiculously inaccessible a 'hot' restau
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by apathy 18y ago
Ah. I got the impression that people were complaining that the rest of us can't leverage existing tools. Git's simplicity and pile-of-tools approach, along with daily use of the tool and prodigious debug output, strike me as exactly the so
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by apathy 18y ago
Even pg will agree that a lot of the things that make a startup so productive and exciting fundamentally break when you have 15,000+ people. Well then, let's hear it from pg.
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by apathy 18y ago
False. Trac has a git plugin. Ergo, Git has an excellent bug tracker available for anyone who wants to use it. Or there's Lighthouse.
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by apathy 18y ago
This is a nice, succinct condemnation of the same idiocy that motivates people to pick up a book on "agent-driven swarm learning systems" instead of understanding how to maximize a posteriori the probability of an observed data set and appl
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by apathy 18y ago
Yes. See my explanation in the reddit thread. Basically, after orthogonalizing a set of feature vectors for dimensionality reduction, the resulting landscape of posts is clustered (k-NN as far as I can tell) and the 'closest' set of 'hot'
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by apathy 18y ago
cool, I can't believe I haven't had occasion to use them yet. thank you
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by apathy 18y ago
wait a minute, you can't just expect python primitives to vectorize? And people live without any(), all(), etc? Its been a long time since I primarily wrote python, and I guess R has made me lazy, but seriously: WTF? Maybe hold off on Py3K
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by apathy 18y ago
the point at which there is nothing left to take away is the point at which there is nothing left, period. I stopped reading after this punishingly fatuous little gem. At that moment, I realized that the author did not want to understand
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by apathy 18y ago
Tamara Munzner was doing this with hyperbolic trees back in the mid-90s at Stanford. I remember this because I always thought it was the most sensible interface for big graphs.
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by apathy 18y ago
The profit model for the aggregate data is marginal (above that for an individual consumer), it's just a means of squeezing extra revenue out of the equation. Sort of like Consumer Reports or JD Power -- they're mostly there to sell a serv
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by apathy 18y ago
Better idea: ContestIt file complaints with any number of credit card companies and collect statistics on the number of complaints vs. number of successful chargebacks by business, by CC company, and by industry. Sell the statistics. Use
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by apathy 18y ago
have fun styling those tables for your clients without images
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by apathy 18y ago
That's still a lot of operating capital for whatever other ventures you wish to pursue. Figure $300K for the year... not bad, not bad at all.
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by apathy 18y ago
Realtime and near-realtime is hard in practical terms, not mathematical terms. I work on the latter, and some days I miss working on the former. If it were easy to get it right, and profitable to execute correctly, I have to imagine that a
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by apathy 18y ago
funny, I was just thinking that. I'd love to work on twitter, not so much because I care about the service, but because it's fundamentally hard, and that's cool. Personally I wonder why someone hasn't already transitioned Twitter to a pub
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by apathy 18y ago
A predictor in a poorly specified model can perform just fine until you look a bit closer and identify stronger predictors, or address confounding factors explicitly. eg. IFF women are more risk-averse THEN less women entrepreneurs IFF tim
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by apathy 18y ago
good content, horrible presentation. (a fellow academic!) Simply numbering the list (or bulleting it) would have been an enormous step forward, regardless of whether you use w3m or IE8. Even by conference-poster standards, this is pretty
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by apathy 18y ago
Motive, not method.
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by apathy 18y ago
this will crush the iPhone the same way that opensource music players crushed the iPod. Oh, wait, no it won't.
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by apathy 18y ago
Don't you think Arrington could give you an op-ed opinion without misrepresenting the subject? Judging by recent events, I'm going to have to say "No".
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by apathy 18y ago
But you get what you pay for. I'm not even sure TechCrunch deserves that generous evaluation. Typically I feel dumber after reading a TC link.
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by apathy 18y ago
psql's EXPLAIN basically shows you the execution plan, IIRC. MySQL's EXPLAIN provides the information about what keys will be hit for which joins in a more compact fashion.
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by apathy 18y ago
> the ability to make 'hot backups' to SQL text files. pg_dump will produce consistent backup from working db server, mysqldump requires you to stop the server or to lock its tables etc. 'Hot backup' of mysql databases can be achieved t
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by apathy 18y ago
Did not know this -- very cool. One of the only reasons I still use MySQL is that PostgreSQL would break some Drupal sites I deployed. I miss the ease of obtaining relational integrity under Postgres (although pgsql's EXPLAIN can be horrif

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