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by bernardv 5y ago
By what measure are US universities evaluated to be “best” at research? It’s a bold claim to make.
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IBM using a random name generator?(cnn.com)
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by bernardv 6y ago
Well said.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Oh please. Just admire something for what it is.
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by bernardv 6y ago
It’s a fascinating article and a beautiful piece of art.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Agree with the state of UX and UI’s these days. Younger developers are missing out on the UI design standards which worked very well and were introduced back in the late 90’s with Win95 as well as Windows Forms (in Visual Studio). There use
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by bernardv 6y ago
I don’t think there is such a thing as an ‘Arabian’ coin. Arabic script was widespread over a vast geographical expanse. ‘Islamic’ coin might have been a better term. I’m thinking some modern-day collector is having a blast seeding some fie
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by bernardv 6y ago
I very much doubt the pay scale is based on risk. Something not quite right about this... something in the water maybe.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Wow - this is a blast back to the early 1990’s, with a bit more computing power though. Nice.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Exactly. Users have unfortunately learned to fear the worst. And judging by many reactions here, presumable some from developers, a good number of developers don’t understand their users expectations of privacy and transparency.
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by bernardv 6y ago
This is great. Does it rely on web sockets?
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by bernardv 6y ago
Very true. The earliest hedge funds did not rely on option pricing, or options for that matter.
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by bernardv 6y ago
That very first sentence is very misleading. Malthus was not wrong - he was right given the set of assumptions made at the time. There is a difference.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Wish I had met Hinton while at U. Of Toronto. I was slated to do a PhD with a guy from the Medical and Zoology schools studying human vision and who was applying NN’s with Hinton’s help. Early ‘90’s when ‘soft computing’ was all the rage.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Phycological? Not sure what you mean - I don’t think you mean Fungi do you ;-)
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by bernardv 6y ago
The whole industry is overhyped. But until investors keep throwing money at it, it will continue. Until it investors turn-off the tap.
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by bernardv 6y ago
The ZX81 was an amazing machine. Long live the ZX81.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Why was my comment voted down? Are the admins of this site so sensitive? Did I hurt anyone‘s feelings or use foul language?
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by bernardv 6y ago
Rakes are so much more efficient, I find. And an opportunity to just chill. I don’t understand the leaf-blowers. In the US, I’ve seen so many so many lawn service guys just blowing leaves around in the wind - just because they’re paid to do
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by bernardv 6y ago
Great move. The mostly North American leaf-blower addiction is so annoying. A good old rake will do the trick. Never understood the need to blow leaves around in a windstorm, as I’ve seen it practiced in the northeastern US.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Totally bogus nonsense
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by bernardv 6y ago
That last one is when reality hits :-)
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by bernardv 6y ago
Loved my BBC Micro model B. 32Kb RAM was a luxury back then. It was attached to a huge black and white 1970’s TV as real computer monitors were very expensive back then. Planetoid was my go-to game. Got me into BASIC programming and 6502 as
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by bernardv 6y ago
It’s a lot of fun to play with and test your intuition
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by bernardv 6y ago
I like it. Simple and effective.
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by bernardv 6y ago
I second that. While it has plenty of flaws and is getting very dated, Excel has been a phenomenal tool in the land of the analysts and others who actually need to get work done and move on.
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by bernardv 6y ago
It’s all relative though. Back in the early/mid ‘80s, the ability to produce a single computer-generated chart out of a table of numbers was mind-blowing! Being able to print it on your new sleek dot-matrix printer was the icing on the
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by bernardv 6y ago
Quattro really was a great spreadsheet product at the time. As a student, it was the only affordable one as far as I can remember. On the PC, this was still a time (mid ‘80s) when most folks were using DOS and Windows 3.x wasn’t yet a commo
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by bernardv 6y ago
Best post I’ve read today and nice to see so many positive comments here. Nothing like building something useful to learn a new tool or technology.
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by bernardv 6y ago
I would not have included Jupyter Notebooks in this list. However, I would not hesitate to include the Pandas library in such a list as it has propelled the democratization of data analysis forward a great deal. I recall the days of having

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