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by bantic 16y ago
is anybody planning on doing this? I'd sure like to.
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by bantic 16y ago
nice fermat reference
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by bantic 17y ago
I gave a talk at Scotland on Rails last year about image processing in ruby, including using OpenCV. Getting it working well with Ruby is a bit of a pain, but it can be done. My fork of the ruby-opencv gem is at http://github.com/bantic/r
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by bantic 17y ago
This is great. The link to tickets for Fantastic Mr. Fox is broken right now: http://www.fandango.com/fantasticmr$002Efox_109297nu/movieov... Looks like it's a Freebase bug escaping the title properly, though, not on your end. (edit: It's
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by bantic 17y ago
Wow, that book is really old (2003). I had no idea R had been around that long. Is the stuff in it still relevant? I have no idea how quickly R has evolved.
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by bantic 17y ago
Josh Waitzkin (the kid from Searching for Bobby Fischer) wrote a book called the Art of Learning and he talks a lot about the difference between these two modes of learning. He calls it Entity versus Incremental intelligence. (Really good c
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by bantic 17y ago
I wonder about the merits of this sort of thing as an interview screen, though. There's not necessarily a strong correlation between knowledge of language esoterica and other more important qualities like perseverance and raw intelligence.
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by bantic 17y ago
I've always wondered what I might be revealing (demographics-wise) through my cookies while browsing, but I never though I might be getting shafted by them! Wonder if Bing is revenue-sharing w/ their vendors this way somehow.
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by bantic 17y ago
Still, $5M to local charities is all for the good, right? Is your argument that they're too stingy or that trying to buy goodwill by making donations is wrong?
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by bantic 17y ago
I always thought this sort of systematic obfuscation ( /@/at/s, /\./dot/s, etc) was as machine-readable as an actual email address. I've just gone on the assumption that there are spam harvesters out there using regexes that catch "bob at
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by bantic 17y ago
Richard Feynman. I majored in physics because I was inspired by his intellectual curiosity. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" is a great collection of his memoirs: http://tenniselbow.org/scott/feyn_surely.pdf
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by bantic 17y ago
the title should be != More Capacity
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by bantic 17y ago
Yeah I agree. I was expecting a bunch of utf8 ligatures (or maybe emoji!) used to condense the text.
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by bantic 17y ago
erlang. because somehow my install of ejabberd failed and I don't know the first thing about how to troubleshoot it. plus I want to learn more about languages that are good with parallelization.
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by bantic 18y ago
Yes, that's true. In my experience doing batch sms-emailing (with relatively small batches -- several hundred at a time only), we would take use two strategies: 1 -- queue the messages and send them slowly, maybe between 5-25 every minute.
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by bantic 18y ago
There's a new peepcode pdf about this that looks interesting. https://peepcode.com/products/mms2r-pdf I'm sure the carrier negotiations in order to use shortcodes are different in countries outside the US. I have heard that docomo in Jap