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by bmh100 11y ago
I feel that it's appropriate to draw parallels to Twitch.tv streamers here. Twitch streamers basically follow a patronage model. The main video stream is free, though sometimes higher quality options are not. In exchange for a monthly
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by bmh100 12y ago
1. I certainly did not mean to imply that ATLAS or MKL were the best CPU linear algebra libraries out there. Thanks for pointing out OpenBLAS and offering that comparison. 2. If I were to run a highly iterative algorithm, say with 100,000 o
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by bmh100 12y ago
Fotran can be a pain to write, but it can lead to very efficient programs, especially with the incorporation of advanced math kernels like ATLAS or MKL. Of course, CUDA will lead to 10x-40x boost in GEMM performance in certain algorithms as
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by bmh100 12y ago
In my experience with data quality management, manual translation of these edge cases is not pleasant. Yet it can be very valuable. It's a bit like "online learning" in machine learning - each time an error is found, you prov
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by bmh100 12y ago
I would like to see replication handled with the introduction of a new type of journal: one that only publishes studies that have been previously published but are now backed up by additional, confirming studies. Maybe two replications woul
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by bmh100 12y ago
Do you have any comments on using this technology for (1) health information and (2) financial information?
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by bmh100 12y ago
Have you tried typed Clojure [1]? It seems promising for bringing in types. [1]: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/
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by bmh100 12y ago
What were the main pain points that motivated you to develop Onyx? What capabilities do you want to add or have already added that Storm doesn't provide?
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by bmh100 12y ago
As one who works with analytics databases and ETL (extract-transform-load) processes a great deal, immutability of data stores is an incredibly valuable property. Maybe append-only does not make sense in operational databases all the time,
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by bmh100 12y ago
Could you recommend an introductory resource on that particular process?
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by bmh100 12y ago
The "helicopter" may also be related to the "anchoring effect" [1], where adding such an expensive item with inflate the final cost of the project. That final cost will be the starting point, or "anchor", for c
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by bmh100 12y ago
> The key difference is that the teacher knows theta-star upfront and doesn’t need to explore. Based on this quote from page 1 and Wikipedia for "active learning" [1], I see the distinction in my examples as this: 1. In machi
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by bmh100 12y ago
This is a fascinating concept: choosing the optimum training set for a "learner" when the true model is known. While the paper focuses on using the system to teach humans, I see the value in other cases where the training set woul
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by bmh100 12y ago
> ...the authors used the same algorithm, network architecture, and hyperparameters on each game... This is huge. It shows that the algorithm was able to generalize across multiple problem sets within the same domain of "playing A
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by bmh100 12y ago
BigQuery is interesting. Thank you for the link. I am trying to determine if large quantities of data like this can be analyzed with sub-second aggregation time, targeting a 2-3 second total response time to the user, including network late
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by bmh100 12y ago
I specialize in an in-memory analytics (business intelligence) platform called "QlikView" or "Qlik". It operates on top of RDBMSs/operational databases, so it batch processes data on a daily or hourly basis usually.
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by bmh100 12y ago
For the sake of my curiosity, I am assuming structured data with aggregations like: min, max, average, sorting by another field, count, count unique, etc. I do a lot of work with structured data and predefined aggregation functions, but dyn
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by bmh100 12y ago
Could anyone comment on whether it would be possible to use a system like this for producing on-demand aggregations with filters over 100M rows with sub-second response time?
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by bmh100 12y ago
I had not heard of Fortress before. It seems that Oracle's sponsorship of the project ended in 2012. Guy Steele emphasizes the difficulty of implementing Fortress's type system on virtual machines. [1] [1]: https://blog
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by bmh100 12y ago
Is there a reference somewhere about what functions are no longer used by modern Common Lisp programmers? That would be very valuable for someone wanting to learn more about the state of the language today, instead of accidentally stumbling
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by bmh100 12y ago
> Nothing about programming is intuitive. > The problem here is that you've adopted ideas and notions from another language and are bringing that baggage to Common Lisp. If you learned Common Lisp first you might not have this
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by bmh100 12y ago
> People complain about the lack of run-time support for concurrency and IO in the specification. I don't think they realize, coming from other languages, that Common Lisp doesn't need it. The specification defines the languag
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by bmh100 12y ago
By functional Fortran, do you mean like a "functional programming language" or "more productive Fortran"? As one who has developed in Fortran before, I would also like to see enhanced functional capabilities, as well as
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by bmh100 12y ago
I understand the pain of having changes that should be innocent leading to breaks in production. What is your strategy around testing for upgrades like this? JavaScript is not my area of expertise.
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by bmh100 12y ago
Hm why does adding information to memory sound monadic to you? I am not questioning you, but just curious. My knowledge of monads is limited. I would argue that Searle's Chinese Room is posed in a way that presupposes what forms comput
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by bmh100 12y ago
For me, the key insight came from the following quote regarding Searle’s Chinese Room argument [1]: *> And while it was true, the critics went on, that a giant lookup table wouldn’t “truly understand” its responses, that point is also ir
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by bmh100 12y ago
When you explain the purpose of COST in this way, it is insightful and the value becomes very apparent. Noting that so many systems have not been compared against a single thread is important, since many developers likely would assume that.
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by bmh100 12y ago
Do you know of a great resource for actually doing that self hosted email, based on your experience?
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by bmh100 12y ago
Is this book worth buying?
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by bmh100 12y ago
In operations management, a "learning curve" is an efficiency curve plotted over time. I have most often seen it as a time-per-task-completed curve. The way it works is this: The time it takes to produce widget 2 ^ t is BASE_TIME

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