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Can the blockchain kill fake news?(andolfatto.blogspot.com)
4 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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Making Python run faster: a case study(faingezicht.com)
2 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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A Computer Can’t Do the Fed’s Job(wsj.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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Functional versus Unit Organizations(medium.learningbyshipping.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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The Function Colour Myth(lukasa.co.uk)
2 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
This one is also available online for free: http://www.nltk.org/book/
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by avyfain 10y ago
According to the author, it isn't a textbook: "Am I writing a textbook? No. All textbooks suck."
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Diversity Ranks Low Among VC Priorities(wsj.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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Inside Intel’s race to build a new reality(techcrunch.com)
3 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
I got my current role at Apple via "Who wants to be hired," which, although not the same, shows the value of these threads.
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Prestigious University: Your Multi Factor Authentication Is Cancer(medium.com)
4 points by avyfain 10y ago|2 comments
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Resisting Asymmetric Bayesianism(stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
This project looks super interesting. Thanks for sharing it! Now I want to come up with a use case to test it out over the next few days, maybe something for the Echo? I joined your Slack, we'll see where this takes us :)
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What Do We Know About Angel Investors?(conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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Freedom of speech in the digital age(noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
According to Wikipedia[0], a third (~32%) of the people in the US are over 50, so without reading the article this is roughly what you should expect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
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How Slack and Facebook Are Making Access to Information Less Democratic(breakingvc.com)
3 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
> Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago Interestingly, Django also started in the midwest. Starting in Kansas[0] and then growing up in Chicago. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130301193540/http:&#
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Deep Exploration into Python: Let’s Review the Dict Module(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
Here's a cached version (thanks, Google!) since the site seems to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3GQ0z6z...
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by avyfain 10y ago
This is probably the best version of this that I know of: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe A few months/years ago there was a Github repo that tried to crowdsource this in excrucia
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Learning and Mastering isn't the same(m.signalvnoise.com)
2 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
Yup, but the right way to do it would be a defaultdict, or a Counter anyway. from collections import defaultdict def count_names(): names = defaultdict(int) for name in sys.stdin.readlines(): name = na
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by avyfain 10y ago
Thanks for this. I have been playing with CAs recently[1], and doing a lot of GIF rendering based on the Game of Life rules. This water rendering algorithm seems like a great next step for me to experiment with. [1] https://twitt
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Apple and the Gun Emoji(blog.emojipedia.org)
8 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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It’s M&A Time (IPOs Return in 2018)(blog.eladgil.com)
2 points by avyfain 10y ago|0 comments
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Central bank digital currency: the end of monetary policy as we know it?(bankunderground.co.uk)
88 points by avyfain 10y ago|66 comments
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A new ggplot is here(blog.yhat.com)
31 points by avyfain 10y ago|16 comments
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by avyfain 10y ago
Also, instantiating the dict on each call to the `parse` staticmethod is not very efficient. Why not create the dict as a static/class variable and place the method in a classmethod instead?
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The whole city of Florence can fit in one Atlanta cloverleaf(treehugger.com)
10 points by avyfain 10y ago|2 comments

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