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by chewxy 13y ago
I've not tried running anything graphically. My previous machines for the past 7 or so years have been linux. I have my own bootstrap scripts for Python and R and some of the libs require RGtk2 and stuff, which couldn't really wor
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by chewxy 13y ago
https://github.com/AnthonyNystrom/python-dev-bootstrap ; Also check out Rove.io (formerly called Hospice.io) Basically, I code in OS X (sublime text), but the environment the code is run in is essentially Ubuntu (or wh
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by chewxy 13y ago
I recently acquired a Macbook as my laptop. Vagrant had been a ridiculous blessing. Instead of fiddling around with Macports and Brew and all that nonsense[0], I just Vagrant Up a Ubuntu instance and tadah! [0] Seriously, developing in R an
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by chewxy 13y ago
So you want a optimizer for hyperparameter optimizers? This is getting quite meta.
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by chewxy 13y ago
An introduction is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1xnPfE4PY
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Hyperopt: Optimize your machine learning parameters automagically(github.com)
30 points by chewxy 13y ago|15 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
Write a thousand words before 8 am everyday. Or code a bunch of useful, productive stuff that is concrete (i.e. you can see results immediately after compile - output logs is a very good way to do this). Before going to bed, leave yourself
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by chewxy 13y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines says NO. Katy Jordan did a study of MOOCs recently [0], and it was found that the completion rates are in fact quite abysmal. I suspect that the reason for this is because there isn't much incentive t
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by chewxy 13y ago
ack! I seem to have yet again made a fool of myself.
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by chewxy 13y ago
Ugh, Hacker News you are better than this. THIS was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792225 . It links to the original source. Why are we not giving the original author credit, instead of linking to blo
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by chewxy 13y ago
It is a lift though. Sure, they are standing on top of giants such as the HITS algorithm or even Vasilly Leontif's algorithm, but it is applied in a very novel way - fundamentally shifting the view of the web as more than just a collec
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by chewxy 13y ago
I bought it. I couldn't get it to run on Linux so I spent a couple of hours on Valgrind figuring out what went wrong where. I finally gave up and figured out that all copies on Steam's servers were bad (they had some AU/NZ se
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by chewxy 13y ago
Hi. Not OP, but I who wrote the initial content of The Slow Web here. The Slow Web and traction are not opposed, in my opinion. You CAN have traction without choosing to annoy the crap outta your users. It comes from understanding what your
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by chewxy 13y ago
Sydneysider (who happens to love Melbourne damn a lot) here. I think Sydney has a fantastic startup ecosystem, even though they may be a bit out-of-the-norm compared to SV or SF. The really high tech guys are clustered around NICTA, and the
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by chewxy 13y ago
In my case it's the rolling chair which causes the cord to eventually break. Doesn't matter if it's 100 dollar headphones or 12 dollar ones. What I've since done is use an extension and reroute my audio cables behind my
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by chewxy 13y ago
You can even use gofmt to export variables that you want exported throughout the project. I wrote about it on this coderwall: https://coderwall.com/p/ds3iuw edit: aha, the article did mention "gofmt -r"
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by chewxy 13y ago
Is this the one that was inspired by web.py? When I started playing with Go, I played with one called Web.Go, which was inspired by web.py.
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by chewxy 13y ago
The OAuth flow is poorly done. It's supposed to be in an iframe/popup. Instead the OAuth window is full frame and I couldn't find the OK button on first look Also, why does it need posting rights? EDIT: Got the list of friend
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UX and the Civilizing Process(ribbonfarm.com)
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by chewxy 13y ago
entah :P
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by chewxy 13y ago
Wow, this is actually good use of visualization. I clicked through expecting a one pager. Instead, I got an interactive cheatsheet showing how the commands interact across different repos, indices, and workspaces.
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by chewxy 13y ago
Fun fact: Encik Farhan literally translates to Mr. Farhan. It's a pseudonym.
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by chewxy 13y ago
The HN audience values hack values[0]. Often things are done for the sake of novelty. Show HNs that reach the front page often demonstrate hack values or novelty or utility to the audience. You know, the "it's cool!" or &quot
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by chewxy 13y ago
A hard scifi about ghosts/poltegeists. The idea is based on a few premises: 1) An invisible person has to be blind 2) Every single human cell has DNA that contain endogenous retroviruses 3) Viruses can crystalize - an ability that even
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by chewxy 13y ago
When buying something illegal, like LSD, clearly. Tumble the coins for a bit and use it. Bitcoin is metal, not currency.
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by chewxy 13y ago
No, but there are languages that make it hard to write bad code. Go, Erlang, heck, even Python comes to mind.
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gstreamer too can be used. I prefer gstreamer as it really does embody the unix philosophy (in its own weird way though)
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This is what I call a great hack.
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Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs(rarlindseysmash.com)
311 points by chewxy 13y ago|45 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
Someone must be practicing enterprise coding. See also: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

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