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by asplake 6y ago
When I read that, I wondered what clowns built it. Now to hear that it was done in Excel I am shocked. I mean, Excel has its place, but in an operational system in which lives may depend?
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by asplake 6y ago
Interesting read around that question: Stuart Kauffman’s At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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by asplake 6y ago
Exactly this. Thank you.
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by asplake 6y ago
Tweeted on a closely related subject earlier today. Where is the BBC’s coverage of the Assange hearings? I wouldn’t describe myself as a supporter but still the seeming lack of news seems very odd. Unless it’s just me missing it somehow...
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by asplake 6y ago
More from the same source: FinCEN Files: Sanctioned Putin associate ‘laundered millions’ through Barclays https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225577
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HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning(bbc.co.uk)
132 points by asplake 6y ago|15 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
There’s a bit more detail in the accompanying press release: https://usa.oceana.org/press-releases/new-oceana-analysis-fi...
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by asplake 6y ago
> ...with which I very much disagree with Say some more about that?
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by asplake 6y ago
So this isn’t in fact instances of databases inside databases? Disappointed! Surely possible with SQLite, right? Has it been done?
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by asplake 6y ago
Gall’s law though. For that complex system to work, it would have to be based on something simpler that worked. Yes you might well come up with something radically different, but still you’d have gone through some of the same evolutionary p
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by asplake 6y ago
Interesting as much for what it says about Forbes as it does about Medium. I hesitate to click Medium links because of the signup wall. I hesitate to click a Forbes link because I expect a low-quality article that contradicts the last one
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by asplake 6y ago
Also (since Python 2.2): >>> 2//1 2
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by asplake 6y ago
Distilled: Meaning before metric, measure before method (2MBM) https://www.agendashift.com/2mbm
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by asplake 6y ago
The Marcus Miller cover is cool, especially live https://youtu.be/-Ab4IQwLMTQ
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by asplake 6y ago
There’s a massive difference between not getting your preferred place and being denied the opportunity even to apply
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by asplake 6y ago
There’s a fundamental asymmetry here. Fail a student unfairly, and the harm to them is potentially irreparable. Pass more than usual, and you increase competition for places and while there’s certainly some unfairness there, the system will
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by asplake 6y ago
Who would you have do Excession (my favourite)?
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by asplake 6y ago
Ofqual Chairman Says It Was A "Fundamental Mistake" To Believe Algorithm Grades "Would Ever Be Acceptable" https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/ofqual-algorithm-m...
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by asplake 6y ago
However, the unfairnesses of the two options are very different. On the one hand, you leave it to educators and employers to select candidates based on unreliable grades, versus excluding swathes of the population from opportunity. Leave it
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by asplake 6y ago
Personally I think [] is genius. I don’t use typing in Python, but when I saw it done there I was delighted. If my_array[idx], why not list[int]? Not to mention the ease with which it can be implemented, overridden, etc
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A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
Another use: character names for books, where some ambiguity of gender &/or background can be useful. Could have done with it a couple of years ago. For games too I guess
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by asplake 6y ago
An approach copied by Skype. Or was it the other way round?
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by asplake 6y ago
Ugh. Enough with the “vs.” already - it’s 2020, not 2012. Try “and”: https://blog.agendashift.com/2017/08/29/scrum-and-kanban-rev...
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by asplake 6y ago
But this is what I don't get. Why is OCaml (or some other language of ML lineage) not a more accessible platform for web development? Or perhaps it is, and I'm not seeing it? Prove me wrong here – I'd be delighted! I'm n
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by asplake 6y ago
Is there an OCaml-based stack that a Python/Flask/Postgres guy might enjoy trying out? If not OCaml, what other ML-derived language and what stack?
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by asplake 6y ago
Close! And if it had impacted?
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by asplake 6y ago
The only surprise here is that the education secretary Gavin Williamson is still in post. Months to get it right, then flailing around before and after results were announced. Inexcusable. Edit: also a very good example of plausible-soundin
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by asplake 6y ago
Never use a dependency if you could write something of equivalent quality in afternoon. Seems reasonable enough.
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Missing Cryptoqueen: Why did the FCA drop its warning about the OneCoin scam?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments

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