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by aportnoy 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLak2IzIv7U
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Slack takes 5-7 seconds to start up and connect on an ultra low latency 300 Mbit connection. I really wish there were a native app on Mac.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
>Late last year I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days, and stumbled into six job offers. Misleading. He applied at 20 companies, interviewed at 6, got 6 offers.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Heh, did you mean gripe?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but I wonder how much net savings (% world GDP?) would we have if there was no need to secure our communications. At least some energy and time would be saved as a result, comms would be faster.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
This only covers one feature of SQLite, but I recommend it nonetheless: https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner.html
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Start small. I would look at Stat 110 from Harvard, Strang's OCW lectures, and the intro calculus MIT course. When you're done with that, it'll be easy to see where you want to go next.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I had a great experience with PySide2 (aka Qt for Python), although the docs still have examples in C++ (that are supposed to be in Python) sprinkled everywhere.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
So the ThinkPad is the NASA laptop of choice?
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Show HN: Evolutionary image generation in C(github.com)
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by aportnoy 8y ago
What's a good uniform alternative to rand() in C?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Would be grateful if people could point me to more resources on procedural image generation, preferably something genetic/evolution based.
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Show HN: Procedural image generator in C(github.com)
8 points by aportnoy 8y ago|3 comments
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by aportnoy 8y ago
All animals create carbon dioxide clouds around them with this technique called breathing.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
How does this compare with xarray?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
OT: you have the same first name as Karl Pearson’s son.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
The singular of maxima is maximum.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Oh no, Kolmogorov is referred to as Komolgoroff in item 105. This problem is in fact due to Kazimierz Kuratowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%27s_closure-complem...
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I decided to try to replicate this on my iPhone and looks like Acrobat Reader and the Readdle PDF viewer both use Facebook SDK and send data automatically.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Upvoted you, I asked myself the same question. Looks like a bot that annoys bloggers by notifying them that their writing is trending on various aggregators.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Tangential, but Tao is such a great teacher of mathematics and person. A rare combination of skill and modesty. Highly recommend his analysis and measure theory textbooks.
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Shelf corporation(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by aportnoy 8y ago|0 comments
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by aportnoy 8y ago
What do you mean? What's the relationship?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Same for "chocolate milk".
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Explain to the folks at home what Bandcamp is
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by aportnoy 8y ago
It's in my dictionary, marked as chiefly British .
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How the United States created Vladimir Putin(reees.macmillan.yale.edu)
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Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?(support.google.com)
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Also check out Michael Betancourt’s (one of the developers of Stan) introduction: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434
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by aportnoy 8y ago
> All it means is that the central bank will probably leave interest rates steady, or even cut a bit, in 2022 or 2023. This event reflects the relative preference of the markets for the 5 yrs compared to 3 yrs, producing lower effective

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