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by cdavid 15y ago
About 1: exponentiating numbers follows a very simple formula, with well defined inputs and outputs (and we knew how to do it centuries before the first computer ever came to light). Nobody knows the formula to drive a car (if such a thing
452.
by cdavid 15y ago
One reason may be that for big conferences, the audience is international, and may no know what is considered ok, inappropriate, and plainly illegal. It also sends a signal: several female open source contributors have written about the fac
453.
by cdavid 15y ago
Note that Tim most likely refered to actual physical aggression, something which is arguably worse than making "edgy" presentations (the article there mentioned OSCON: http://lwn.net/Articles/417952/ ).
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by cdavid 15y ago
While the exercice is interesting in that it is humbling for non-native speakers, it does seem dubious. I repeated the test 3 times, and got widely different results (10400, then 16700, then 18300). Since they are all quite outside the repo
455.
by cdavid 15y ago
Identical twins studies are often flawed, because the environment difference between twins is far from random for obvious reasons. For example, in one of the (often used) minesota studies about IQ and twins, the average IQ of the father was
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by cdavid 15y ago
It may not be obvious to every reader, but Berkelee school would actually be classes prepa here, as it is one of the most prestigious music school in the world. What Sivers talks about here is to go much beyond that. I would not put "classe
457.
by cdavid 15y ago
Half of your examples are, in the grand scheme of things, trivial applications of decades-old techniques. Recommendation, for example, is based on techniques which are almost 100 years old (SVD). Winning chess has been rendered possible thr
458.
by cdavid 15y ago
I am not convinced it is that useful to have explicitly targeted audiences for advertisement. It may be better to understand and interpret an ad campaign, but generally, what works best when doing statistical prediction is not what is the m
459.
by cdavid 15y ago
By which measure is Germany doing well ? Its gdp increase has been anemic for years, and is for example not significantly different from France, which is rarely given as an example of growth rate those days: http://www.google.com/publicdat
460.
by cdavid 15y ago
Greece, for all its issues, is a much richer country than China w.r.t its population, you cannot compare those countries. For greece, devaluation would mean that imports would become much more expensive, a state almost unable to borrow any
461.
by cdavid 15y ago
This is all the more puzzling because their work contributed to significant and practical solutions against poverty ( http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_... ). There is nothing condescendant in their approach (rando
462.
by cdavid 15y ago
Thompson's work is peer-reviewed. Of course, that does not mean it does not fall into some of the experimental issues pointed out by Norvig. His works certainly has no link with poverty.
463.
by cdavid 15y ago
5 seconds for a 1.7 GB working set sounds really low: it would mean you could write > 200 Mb / sec assuming you could get data from mongodb infinitely fast. Also, what happens to your mongo database while you export data (can you still
464.
by cdavid 15y ago
I am aware of that code: it is undocumented, and does not have support for things as fundamental as keep alive. The underscoring does not inspire confidence either.
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by cdavid 15y ago
I can see a lot of reasons to use tornado instead of twisted, but speed is not really one of them. I have not seen a non-trivial benchmark showing one faster than the other (and tornado devs recognize themselves that speed was not that diff
466.
by cdavid 15y ago
I don't know if that many people inside the python community care either. Twisted is very big, documentation seriously lacking, and a lot of stuff in twisted not that useful if you only care about http. If you care about http, twisted is no
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by cdavid 15y ago
Not having much experience with node.js, what makes it more natural than twisted ? I agree on twisted being unpythonic, but most of what I don't like in twisted seems rather fundamental to (explicit) async programming (callbacks everywhere,
468.
by cdavid 15y ago
I can at least find about 5 event-based frameworks focused on network in python alone without thinking much: medusa is ~ 15 years old, Twisted is > 10 years old, there is tornado (~ 2 years old), event/gevent (not sure about the history
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by cdavid 15y ago
This is a straw man - nobody would argue that for numerical code, efficiency is not important. Somehow, I expect that you did no code the diagonalization code by yourself. Numerical code is actually one of the worst example you can find, be
470.
by cdavid 15y ago
Most of the interesting stuff did not use the amen break, or used it originally. It is true that a lot of DnB and Jungle was awful and repetitive, but that's the case in most electronic genres. OTOH, timeless (Goldie), Modus Operandi (Phote
471.
by cdavid 15y ago
They disagree about what ? What does happen ? As far as unpopular idea go, I think "immigration is good for the economy" is pretty unpopular nowadays in France (and most European countries).
472.
by cdavid 15y ago
Few serious people claim that European countries have been ruined by immigration. The reason for the political backlash has more to do with political motives, and economical changes which have nothing to do with immigration (sharp decrease
473.
by cdavid 15y ago
Every old nation has territories which would be hard to claim if not for historical reasons. To take my own country as an example, the justification for France to own Guyane, Guadeloupe, reunion island, etc... is slim at best (France just h
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by cdavid 15y ago
Indeed, reduce is the difficult part. OTOH, I think this limitation is seen in many algorithms at a fairly fundamental level, and not just an artefact of MR. The only alternative framework I can think of for dealing with really large datase
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by cdavid 15y ago
That's a limitation of hadoop, though, not the MR idea by itself.
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by cdavid 15y ago
I don't understand the claim that adding new data force you to recompute everything. What requires re-computation will depend on the algorithm, but for most simples cases I can think of, at least the map part will not require computation if
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by cdavid 15y ago
You need both (jacob Kaplan-Moss explained this pretty well: http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/what-to-writ... ) I find this kind of features is quite interesting, because API-doc is useful when you need a precise information
478.
by cdavid 15y ago
I don't know how big lala was, but Apple has maybe the biggest collection of correctly tagged collection of audio, along with user's listening habits through buys, and other stuff (soon playlists, etc...). This can certainly help mitigating
479.
by cdavid 15y ago
As mentioned by others, this list is old. The cited algorithms are certainly still good to know, but the meaning of massive is different now. Today, massive means: - too large to fit even in big iron (few people can afford them anyway)
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by cdavid 15y ago
As long as N is not too big, remote syslog works well for this case.

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