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by ashika 7y ago
seems useful for the types of support we recently provided the saudis in yemen. this tech would lower the marginal cost of providing that type of support significantly. doubt taxpayers will claw any of that back, though :|
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by ashika 7y ago
I feel you've said more or less the same thing the article is saying, just in more casually dismissive and incendiary terms. TFA refers to many of these factors as being driven by the second demographic transformation. Yes, feminism is
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by ashika 7y ago
i am surprised that the physical aspect of digesting the processed vs unprocessed food doesn't seem to really matter for that study. i'd have naively thought that chewing and swallowing a chick pea would result in lower nutrient u
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by ashika 7y ago
>There are all sorts of other cool stats that we could mine out of the data: greatest frags/minute, longest uninterrupted quake game, cruelest to newbies, etc, etc. I agree with his use of a double etc there.
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by ashika 8y ago
>By introducing a second layer of scheduling, the M-to-N model makes performance tuning to the model exceedingly difficult. Reminds me of Simon Marlow's work[1] on tuning the Haskell runtime for a specific use at fb. [1] https:&#x2
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by ashika 8y ago
As other posters mention, no path in life is guaranteed to be fulfilling for all individuals. Given that, you shouldn't feel sorry for anyone who has had the opportunity to lead their life according to their own principles. And that is
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by ashika 13y ago
A little experience. Enough to say at this point it's probably overkill, but if you start writing more geo-aware features (e.g. search nearby, overlapping course search, etc) it may save you some time vs implementing in application co
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by ashika 13y ago
Are you storing the race paths using the PostGIS extension for postgres or something else?
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by ashika 13y ago
Knoll's ReGeneration is the yin to the Mirra 2's yang.
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by ashika 13y ago
The author is a very funny/insane guy. Exhibit A is his twitter account ( https://twitter.com/bonus500 ). I wouldn't call it an inside joke, but rather a general feature of good comedy where it feels familiar yet distant.
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by ashika 14y ago
This can't be serious. Quincy, Illinois?
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by ashika 14y ago
This article is ... problematic; The author apparently made no attempt to do an apples to apples comparison and drew a hasty conclusion. After realizing the error the only change to the article is a small update at the end saying everything
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by ashika 14y ago
dict(foo='bar') becomes {'foo': 'bar'}, removing the need for quotes around the key.
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by ashika 14y ago
agreed. i sympathise with mongohq's position as a proprietary SAAS provider, but if they can find a way to push any of this back, they should. tools matter.
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by ashika 14y ago
the fact you can download this gnu cheatsheet as xlsx is some delicious irony
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by ashika 14y ago
i'd wager they thought they were operating in simulation
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by ashika 15y ago
Seconded. I'd suggest just browsing around http://www.khanacademy.org/#finance and click on any links that seem interesting. Each video is quite accessible on its own. If, however, OP's interest in learning about the market goes further t
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by ashika 16y ago
I think you're conflating computational finance with geographical arbitrage, and its pursuit by some traders. Computational finance is a general discipline that's more concerned with modeling and prediction of future asset prices, whereas t
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by ashika 16y ago
I guess the article is optimistic in that sense. If you can engineer fiber that's 74% of c, or better yet, bore one of your mirror holes directly through the center of the earth, between nyc and shanghai, or something even crazier, you can
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by ashika 16y ago
The market participant who's able to collect, process and act on related sercurities' price discrepancies the fastest will always make money this way. Your example would simply raise the stakes- instead of continually slicing time into ever
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by ashika 16y ago
Amazon EMR is an amazing value proposition for virtually any research need, and it's very cool to see wrapper frameworks targeting it directly. Still, for anyone managing their own compute clusters and wanting to do MR in python, I'd sugges
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by ashika 16y ago
was the performance gain worth it in the end? In my experience numpy is pretty tight on its own, but I've seen some excellent speed gains from using cython + numpy.
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by ashika 16y ago
No additional complexity was introduced into those two modules, aside from being a different language that's easily grasped by anyone who knows Python and C. LOC-wise, the modules were about the same as the Python versions. I've done some i
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by ashika 16y ago
I recently refactored some underperforming production code using Cython. After spending ~6 hours rewriting 2 modules in Cython's "python superset" syntax, I'm left with a 33% performance boost, and virtually no additional project complexity
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by ashika 16y ago
Seconding interactive brokers for this type of experiment. For a reasonably accessible, yet complete introduction to basic trade design, 'Pairs Trading' by Vidyamurthy is quite solid. The strategy may well be picked clean, but the book does
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by ashika 16y ago
pretty close. They're talking about designated "market makers" (of which specialists are a subset) who get into a contractual obligation with an exchange to be in certain markets for specified percentages of the trading day. They've been p
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by ashika 18y ago
the recumbent bike thing seems a little douchey. doubly so given the guy's gut. Medical imaging workstations seem much more humane- put everyting on a hydraulic table so you can work comfortably sitting, standing or in a low crouch waitin