chewxy

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150 y.o images show what Japanese artists used to think about American visitors(qz.com)
21 points by chewxy 11y ago|1 comments
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Online Dating Analytics(4quant.com)
4 points by chewxy 11y ago|0 comments
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The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb(inexactchange.org)
51 points by chewxy 11y ago|35 comments
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What Happens When You Talk About Salaries at Google(wired.com)
22 points by chewxy 11y ago|1 comments
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Why do we pay pure mathematicians?(mathwithbaddrawings.com)
3 points by chewxy 11y ago|0 comments
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A ridiculously deep, 2740-word teardown of Slack’s new homepage(threadling.com)
4 points by chewxy 11y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 11y ago
well, the advice there could be generalized into a concept of "good form"... I tried an approach mining the data from those two subreddits. That was a waste of time.
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I comercialized a personalized app I wrote for myself. Here's the writeup(medium.com)
5 points by chewxy 11y ago|2 comments
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Humans are doing democracy wrong. Bees are doing it right(spectator.co.uk)
3 points by chewxy 11y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 11y ago
I wrote a UX tracking tool for tablets[0]. It ended up not going to market simply because you're right: processing power is not cheap enough. I started with on-board processing, but that led to substandard result. We then moved on to c
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by chewxy 11y ago
Vagrant is your friend. I switched from a linux env to my current job which has a MS stack. Took a few months before I fully got my windows env up and running, and in the meantime Vagrant tided me over
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Understanding Image Virality [pdf](cv-foundation.org)
2 points by chewxy 11y ago|0 comments
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Sorting Benchmark in Various JS Engines. Chrome appears to be slower(medium.com)
3 points by chewxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 12y ago
Fair enough. Those features do indeed warrant the use JavaScript. Not quite convinced that it needs to be super bloated JS, but since I've somehow managed to miss all those features, I must be missing something. Thanks for educating :)
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by chewxy 12y ago
I have complained about similar things way too much on twitter as well. A VAST majority of websites on the web serve CONTENT. Why is JavaScript needed to serve content is really beyond me. You don't need to make your blog look and feel
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by chewxy 12y ago
There is a fantastic book - Hacker's Delight. Read it. Love it.
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Creating Color Scales for Data Visualization(datavisualization.ch)
4 points by chewxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 12y ago
I don't understand why there are so many spamlike comments, both in Chinese and English (好！支持！有希望了！ translates to Good! Support! There is hope!) And there are so many "Follow this post" comments. What is the context?
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Overweight video game avatars 'play' worse than thin ones(medicalxpress.com)
1 points by chewxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 12y ago
Call me obtuse and change my view please: I'm actually quite interested in this spatial learning thing. I had an aboriginal acquaintance who explained to me how his culture would attach meaning to places and even physical orientation (
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by chewxy 12y ago
I was just complaining the other day that I have to pay $59 to get my data out of fitbit. Jawbone claims that you can download your data for free though
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by chewxy 12y ago
After you launched a few products, you will realise something: people don't really care. It took a healthy amount of money, time and effort to promote my products (all of which have failed), before realizing that there is no valuable&#
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by chewxy 12y ago
It's harder to get a crispy skin with blowtorch. I pan sear my salmon skin post sous vide anyway - get the pan up to 220C - 250 and 30s skin down. Bam. Crispy skin.
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by chewxy 12y ago
yup
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by chewxy 12y ago
I use a cast iron skillet + handheld IR thermometer for surface temp. Very cheap solution.
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by chewxy 12y ago
This is a cool idea. I personally use a IR temperature gauge for the surface my pan (I thought of wiring it up once, but it was too fiddly for me), and a wired therm for internal meat temp. I'm currently in two minds about backing this
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Cuckoo Filters, Practically Better Than Bloom [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
100 points by chewxy 12y ago|9 comments
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by chewxy 12y ago
And your weissman score is? (yes I know that's a fictional thing.. I'm just surprised nobody's brought up Pied Piper yet)
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Type Safety in Five Easy Lemmas(siek.blogspot.com)
2 points by chewxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 12y ago
You might want to check out Fork the Cookbook: http://forkthecookbook.com It does just that :D

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