cjauvin

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by cjauvin 9y ago
It's actually quite easy, as it comes pretty much out of the box with recent versions of Emacs (24+) and python.el (not to be confused with the older python-mode.el). I could not find a nice web source for python.el's documentatio
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by cjauvin 9y ago
I have had a similar path, except for VS. I have been happy (and still am) with Emacs for a very long time (in particular, I really like how easy it is to have some code in the left window, which I can easily send to an IPython REPL in the
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by cjauvin 9y ago
The analogy with fractals is beautiful, and quite illuminating IMO.
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I have "scratched a childhood itch" in a very satisfying way, by writing a super minimal C=64 Tetris clone, using the Kickass assembler: https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-464
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by cjauvin 10y ago
Is this intended to reference Half Life's City 17? I never thought of it as "cyberpunk" in genre or ambiance though..
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Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) Will Direct New Dune(boingboing.net)
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Deep Learning might not be a silver bullet(lemire.me)
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by cjauvin 10y ago
Having this smartness disparity between devs is really bad for team dynamics, and complexity leads invariably to this. More and more I believe this to be a profound truth.
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by cjauvin 10y ago
> You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. Done, thanks!
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by cjauvin 10y ago
I really found that read interesting and also quite moving. Elephants are mysterious and noble animals, and it's very philosophically fulfilling to ponder about their mind and the deep chasm that separates it from ours. I sometimes hav
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by cjauvin 10y ago
This might be the closest thing there is to it: https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730
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Advent of Code(adventofcode.com)
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Element AI startup factory launched in Montreal(finance.yahoo.com)
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by cjauvin 10y ago
A couple of years ago, I explored the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem with a set of interactive processing.js applets.. it might be of interest to some here to feel the impossibility of the task, before understanding it with the classic
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The problems with the French engineering culture(salon.thefamily.co)
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by cjauvin 10y ago
It's actually the first time I'm seeing the `group by 1, 2` syntax.. is that Postgres-specific?
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by cjauvin 11y ago
Have you looked at the simhashing/minhashing techniques for that?
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by cjauvin 11y ago
word2vec is an algorithm to produce meaningful "word embeddings", which is a vector representation in a usually high-dimensional space. t-SNE is a dimensionality-reduction algorithm. Both can be used together, as they serve differ
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by cjauvin 11y ago
While browsing his other repos, I found this tool by the same author, which is also really great: https://github.com/timothycrosley/isort (Emacs integration works very well!)
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by cjauvin 11y ago
I had planned to "show it to HN" soon, but the occasion is too good now: I have also created a thin "psycopg2 wrapper", pretty much in the same spirit as Records (but different in purpose), which allows you to perform SQ
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by cjauvin 11y ago
The markdown-to-pdf resume toolchain I'm currently using is: (1) Render with https://github.com/joeyespo/grip (with a few minor CSS tweaks) (2) "Print" to PDF with Chrome The documents it produces are qu
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by cjauvin 11y ago
I wonder how much time it will take to appear in the Ubuntu apt repo? Should it be already there (I don't see it yet)? Edit: I meant apt.postgresql.org of course, not the official Ubuntu repo..
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by cjauvin 11y ago
Am I the only one not finding the connection between the Anthropic Principle and the Sleeping Beauty problem completely obvious?
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by cjauvin 11y ago
I'm curious about that book ( The Master Algorithm ): I began reading it, but stopped early because I got the impression it would be too "entry-level" for me, thus a waste of my time. Should I consider keeping on with it, and
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by cjauvin 11y ago
I know it's a deeply subjective and personal thing unlikely to help anyone other than me, but I've always successfully relied on the following mnemonic for this particular problem: * unicode -> encode, u -> e (vowels) * str
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by cjauvin 11y ago
Discrete Optimization https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization -- I really enjoyed this challenging class with a very dynamic teacher, and organized around a set of tough problems that you can tackle using a choice
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by cjauvin 11y ago
I'm curious to know what you mean by bAIb?
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by cjauvin 11y ago
Probably this: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-ma... http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549
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by cjauvin 11y ago
It's not 100% related but I had great fun building a very minimal Tetris clone in 6502 assembly, for the C=64, a couple of years ago (the code is "kinda" commented): https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-464
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The DBSCAN clustering algorithm(cjauvin.blogspot.com)
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