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by chmullig 11y ago
I love the concept of this. Essentially it's just letting you enter the ad auction for yourself, with a monthly spending cap (I imagine it's a little trickier under the hood, but maybe not that much trickier). I signed up yester
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by chmullig 11y ago
oh neat!
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by chmullig 11y ago
In my experience, Stan performance is decent with many models, particularly if all relevant operations are vectorized and the data sets are "reasonable." However it's easy to accidentally walk off a cliff, and write a model t
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by chmullig 11y ago
Yay Stan! So what's the deal with BBVI? I heard it's integrated in the newest Stan, but can I use it? What for?
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by chmullig 11y ago
In my mind, there's two points to Stan. The first is the actual math -- it can fit lots of models, much faster and more flexibly than other alternatives. The second is to go out and meet the practitioners where they are. That means mak
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by chmullig 11y ago
Stan is very much a successor to BUGS, although I'm not sure BUGS is better known outside certain social science research communities these days.
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by chmullig 11y ago
Stan is a fantastic language/library/tool. (Disclosure, I've taken 2 classes with Andrew Gelman[1]. For those who haven't used it, the typical usage is to use Stan in combination with other languages (most commonly R). I
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by chmullig 11y ago
Seems like their poor server is struggling with load.
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by chmullig 11y ago
I think it's been on that trajectory for longer than 2 years. They lost anything that made them unique or interesting years ago. It just became Dr Who/Star Trek/Star Wars/LOTR/whatever franchise of the moment shit.
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by chmullig 11y ago
One note of likely relevance to the HN crowd, if the Kickstarter[1] is successful, we're definitely planning to release an API + the raw data. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fred/the-emoji-translat..
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Meet the guy trying to turn emoji into a legitimate, usable language(washingtonpost.com)
24 points by chmullig 11y ago|9 comments
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by chmullig 11y ago
They're incredible, absolutely incredible. As an Ars forum member from back as early as 2001, I appreciate everything you did, John. Thanks!
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by chmullig 12y ago
Facebook has Wayfinders that provide an interactive touch screen map all over campus. Type in a name and it shows you where they are, relative to where you are. Super handy.
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by chmullig 12y ago
FWIW normally Facebookers aren't permitted to take/post photos of work areas. You're generally encouraged to keep visitors away from them as well.
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by chmullig 12y ago
Everyone at FB is already in open offices. It's just on the scale of a floor of a normal building, instead of a gigantic building.
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by chmullig 12y ago
Have you considered that maybe actually selling them to end users is > double the cost? Massive amounts of risk, supply chain, logistics, all eliminated when selling to the UN like this.
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by chmullig 12y ago
The flat screens are airline dependent. They were fantastic on Norwegian. Overall I'm a fan of the Dreamliner (only 2 flights, a roundtrip on Norwegian). Seats were reasonably comfortable, even for economy on a budget airline. The big
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Ken Thompson on why he choose and and * for pointers(programmers.stackexchange.com)
9 points by chmullig 12y ago|0 comments
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by chmullig 12y ago
First read that was "The people who ruin wikipedia." Then realized the real headline. Then realized they're kinda the same people...
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by chmullig 12y ago
++ These are really cheap compared to alternatives on the market.
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by chmullig 12y ago
God damn it, eastern district of Texas. Please stop ruining America.
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Facebook Turned Off Entire Data Center to Test Resiliency(datacenterknowledge.com)
1 points by chmullig 12y ago|0 comments
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by chmullig 12y ago
It's really tragic, as a politically interested Columbia student I hadn't realized who he was, or that he was running, until this afternoon. :(
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by chmullig 12y ago
They've done lots of launches of the Grasshopper and F9R landing tests there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwS4YOTbbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY https://www.youtube.com&
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by chmullig 12y ago
But if there's a single shipping container at Amundsen-Scott...
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by chmullig 12y ago
Guess which language overuses __init__! https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=__init__&type=Cod...
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by chmullig 12y ago
This is actually a great overview/review of some of the things that I've encounter regularly at work, but never seen discussed seriously in a book or class.
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by chmullig 12y ago
Similar story for my uncle, who's 4 weeks post treatment and is showing as cured so far. He's on disability though, so Medicaid (or Medicare? not sure) is paying most of it. The pharmacist got him in a program to cover the copay,
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by chmullig 12y ago
Read the yelp reviews, at least once mentions it.
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by chmullig 12y ago
No, the original was correct. That's 1.07B distinct people. Crazier, IMO, is the DAU. 829 million log in EVERY DAY.

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