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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
I read at some point that LVB was a deist and a copy of the Enneads of Plotinus was found in his library after he died. Just listened to some of this Reicha dude's stuff on Spotify and it is so similar to Beethoven thematically. I wond
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Love LTREE! Used it for domain label hierarchies (multiple roots - an "ontology") for a data science team to be able to train many different models with shared/overlapping label sets (an ensemble of models for various domains
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
It's really nice! However, I can't stop thinking "tuberculosis".
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Is that why smoking weed makes things seem profound, from instantly forgetting the less salient stuff?
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
While I agree with the fact that the Enlightenment helped to get rid of some harmful superstitions, I think it also contributed to the mechanistic industrial mindset that ended up causing a lot of harm e.g. colonialism and eugenics. Great l
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Awesome! Memories of "hacking" that gorillas-throwing-bananas game to mess with the physics, probably around 1995.
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Not just you. It's a thing. Even more extreme, consider that companies that do charge money drop the ball constantly on security/privacy, and basic quality. And yet they continue growing, maybe having a bit of churn. I think there
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Ever notice how bullies will always memorize these small personal details about a target and then when manipulating or gaslighting make sure to mention those facts? E.g. Oh a new crisis "just came up". I need you to complete this
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
Stored procedures! Sounds fun but does anyone know a practical use that can't be achieved with normal PL/pgSQL or other embedded scripting languages, plus regular functions?
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
This should include compensation ranges.
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by chrstphrhrt 8y ago
I really enjoyed this writeup. Having just finished a year in the field on the engineering side, and reading many papers without an academic background, it’s funny to recognize who are the “math” types and who are the “biology” types at wor
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
In my experience the innovators must toil in obscurity because they see a vision that others cannot yet see, until the thing is realized. Then the prototypes get handed off to the main engineers to run with, and support is provided. By the
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Sorry, it’s called “The Ritman Library - Amsterdam”
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
There’s a pretty long documentary/interview with the owner on prime video: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0ND6NJX19GO8N1C0MPEE1D7UA8...
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Yes! https://status.github.com/messages
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
This is the best method.
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Yeah definitely. I think the scope of desktop apps is often wider though. With web apps any telemetry data is pretty much limited to things on that domain. Browsers have access to more in principle. I guess if the data transmitted is not pe
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Anyone have thoughts on the opt-out telemetry default? I had to read the privacy notice they open on start to find out that telemetry was enabled by default.
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Finn.ai | Senior Engineer | salary $90k-$140k | Vancouver BC, Toronto ON, Montréal PQ | FULL TIME | VISA | ONSITE Hey folks, I'm one of the engineers at Finn. The product is a personal banking NLP + ML system with chat frontends. Our c
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by chrstphrhrt 9y ago
Building on this stuff is Scott Aaronson's "Eigenmorality": https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Looks very interesting, but too long for giving it sufficient attention in the morning before/during work. By the evening when I check HN again it will probably have been buried by more fleeting news-like stories. Sometimes I wish ther
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
I've worked with a number of folks from France in Montreal and they all say the same kinds of things. I had chalked it up to some kind of national self-deprecation that is the pride and birthright of true French people :)
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
ditto
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Except for the awesomely peaceful looking old lady!
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Seems to me that cabals can always form and skew the implementation away from the ideal balance that makes the concept of democracy seem so fair in the first place. I'll recite a personal narrative as my main observation of this potent
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
"Some products are inherently unsafe, and that is precisely what the costumers want." Radioactive material in tobacco might be mutually exclusive from nicotine and MAOI content. My layperson guess is getting rid of the rad
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Ask HN: How do you measure confidence for similarity metrics?
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Walmart Labs believe it or not: hapijs.com
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Living in Montreal, I'd like to know what the company's response will be. I'll be sad if the service is discontinued, and am still rooting for Uber Eats to come to town.
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by chrstphrhrt 10y ago
Love the "pools of thought" phrase. Is that in common use?

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