cjauvin

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   The Chevalier de Méré's Paradox(cjauvin.blogspot.com)

   2 points by cjauvin 12y ago|0 comments
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   Show HN: Turning a classic gamebook into interactive fiction(github.com)

   6 points by cjauvin 12y ago|0 comments
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   by cjauvin 12y ago

   Thank you for the sunk cost fallacy reminder: because of it, I'm closing my browser tab after about 35 minutes. The premise is good and intriguing, but I agree with you that the movie is not very good, for the reasons you state.
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   by cjauvin 12y ago

   Thank you very much for this, I think it strikes a major chord with many in the "knowledge worker" community at large, and I hope it stays in the top spot for a while, and spawn a healthy discussion. For my part I've been doi
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   by cjauvin 12y ago

   I very much agree with all of your points. ExtJS is hard to beat in terms of the breadth of its widget set, layout configurations, data handling models, etc. Just for the almighty GridPanel, it's worth it I would say. But it's als
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   An intuitive view of the DBSCAN clustering algo(cjauvin.blogspot.com)

   1 points by cjauvin 12y ago|0 comments
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   by cjauvin 12y ago

   I wasn't aware of Association Rule Learning, which seems like a very interesting and useful concept.
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   The Indie Bubble Is Popping(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

   125 points by cjauvin 12y ago|108 comments
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   by cjauvin 13y ago

   The philosopher Nick Bostrom has an interesting view about this question, based on the selection effect[1]: if you consider your presence in the traffic as a random sample from "observation acts", then you are more likely to be in
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    This seems like it will be a very interesting book. If anyone is interested, I have written a short and compressed intro to NNs, using very simple Python code: http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2013/10/neural-network-101.
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    I concur that 6502 programming is great fun. When I had a bout of C=64 nostalgia recently, I created a simple Tetris clone as a relearning project: https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-c64
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    I've been doing freelance geocoding gigs for a couple of institutions in the past years (canadian addresses), with only open source tools and data. I also wrote a primer explaining the basic geocoding ideas: http://cjauvin.b
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    I have written a small series of posts which show (with some simple Python code and math) the relationship between the training procedure of an ANN (backpropagation) and some simpler, more basic machine learning algorithms (like logistic re
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    I agree with all the comments saying that this is dangerous and not a good idea in general. However I've been doing (and using) something related (more in the spirit of Clojure HoneySQL, as I discovered recently), where the idea is to
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    by cjauvin 13y ago

    I recently posted a small example showing how to construct a magic square of odd degree using a surprisingly simple algorithm called De la Loubère (or sometimes also the Siamese method), with Python: http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca&#x
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    A surprisingly deep AI/sci-fi/surveillance flick from the early 70s(youtube.com)

    6 points by cjauvin 13y ago|1 comments
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    Gamebook.js, an IF-style gamebook engine(projectaon.org)

    3 points by cjauvin 13y ago|0 comments
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    Algoraves: dancing to algorithms(boingboing.net)

    28 points by cjauvin 13y ago|14 comments
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    by cjauvin 14y ago

    I have solved a similar problem in a similar way ( https://github.com/cjauvin/little_pger ) by creating a very thin wrapper just above psycopg2, allowing to assemble SQL queries with kwargs and plain data structures.
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    Impossibly Lean Access Control with Postgres + Flask(cjauvin.blogspot.com)

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    Weekend HN: gamebook.js, an IF-style gamebook engine

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    Ext JS 4.2 Released(sencha.com)

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    Find True Love (on a dating site, using Python)(cjauvin.blogspot.ca)

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    ARrgh: an angry guide to data types in R(github.com)

    4 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    A Tribute to an Unsung (UI) Pattern(cjauvin.blogspot.ca)

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments
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    Shocking results from a recent and secretive GM corn study(dailymail.co.uk)

    2 points by cjauvin 14y ago|1 comments
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    by cjauvin 14y ago

    Maybe this might help some helpless other Clojure newbees like me: I just compiled clojure and core.logic from the github repos, and it seems that the author just changed "everyo" to "everyg" very recently: https://github.com/clojure/core.
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    by cjauvin 14y ago

    In fact, I don't know if what I did really corresponds to "real" double-buffering: at any point, the next move is created in an alternate buffer, which, when ready, is then switched as the visible portion of the video RAM (at vblank, using
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    by cjauvin 14y ago

    Very elegant and well done! I recently went through the process of learning 6502 C64 ASM (an unfulfilled childhood dream), by writing a simple Tetris clone: https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-c64 The basic concepts came very easily (with a
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    Two Tales of Data Clerking(cjauvin.blogspot.com)

    1 points by cjauvin 14y ago|0 comments