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by bwood 14y ago
Is it possible to be more accurate than nailing all fifty states?
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by bwood 14y ago
May I ask why you left Salesforce?
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by bwood 14y ago
I'm not getting a scrollbar on your site...is that deliberate?
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by bwood 14y ago
> Both hacker news submissions have zero comments. Why is it that a month ago no one cared, but now everyone is grabbing his tin-foil hat? A story not becoming popular on its first (or second) submission is not necessarily indicative of
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by bwood 14y ago
I actually have a paper published on this subject [1], except we use models that have a basis in epidemiology. That article is unfortunately behind a paywall, but here's an unbranded copy of an early draft of the paper [2]. We base our wor
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by bwood 14y ago
Not the GP, but I was thrilled with how easy it is to integrate. I have a little site that I'm putting together as a hobby, and it took me about an afternoon. Web development isn't my specialty, so if you know what you're doing you could
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by bwood 14y ago
Thanks for the detail, I really like what I see with Persona so far.
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by bwood 14y ago
I get the impression that verifying your email address only needs to be done once when you first sign up with Persona and create a password. When you use Persona to log in to a site for the first time in that browser, it prompts you for yo
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by bwood 14y ago
> What bad scenarios do you see occurring with anonymous online payments? How about an assassination market[1]? Especially as far as present governments are concerned, this would be an enormous downside to the existence of an anonymous
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by bwood 14y ago
If you consider the universe to be a well-defined volume, then there must be some boundary to it. And if there's a boundary, then you can ask the question "What's on the other side of the boundary?". Thinking of the universe as a 2D surfa
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by bwood 14y ago
Interesting, thanks for the tip! I'll look into it and think about whether it makes sense for my timeseries analysis.
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by bwood 14y ago
The specific project I'm vaguely referring to here is described in a little more detail as 1) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178070 No, I didn't try Jython. The choice of CPython was made before I took over the project, and t
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by bwood 14y ago
Sure thing, here are two examples: 1) My current project at work is a GPU-accelerated keyword-matching engine. The project was started before I joined the company, so I had no say in the choice of Python. Keywords change infrequently, whi
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by bwood 14y ago
I'm not intentionally trying to make you repeat yourself. And I know that removal of the GIL is not pragmatic at the moment (or maybe ever), but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be valuable. The GIL wasn't much of a problem ten years ago bec
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by bwood 14y ago
Not trolling you, just wondering what you thought was more important from a performance perspective. Re-writing working software in another language is not always feasible due to real-world time constraints, and in that context the perform
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by bwood 14y ago
If you’re using python, the performance gap between processes with message passing and threads with locking is the last of your problems, believe me. What would be the first of my problems?
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by bwood 14y ago
In my experience with Python, the issue of the GIL comes up far too frequently. I use Python first as a prototyping environment, and once I have a proof of concept I like to optimize for performance (without re-writing the entire program i
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by bwood 15y ago
Competition is a good thing, and CUDA isn't a direct competitor to OpenCL because it only targets Nvidia's platform. OpenCL is obviously the longterm winner because nobody in their right mind would want to lock themselves into a single ven
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by bwood 15y ago
Thanks for your work on CUDA, it's really a great tool! My one hope is that Nvidia decides to make it a direct competitor to OpenCL by allowing it to target different platforms (though I recognize that it's not completely up to Nvidia and