davidkretch

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   by davidkretch 3y ago

   A similar insight from economist Daniel Davies from 2005: >> The optimal frequency of disasters is not zero. This graceful formulation is due to Prof. Richard Portes, who used to say it about emerging market financial crises. However
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   by davidkretch 5y ago

   Right, one of the explanations is in the Psychohistory essay in the Gold collection of essays, which you can read here: https://novel122.com/gold-the-final-science-fiction-collecti... .
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   by davidkretch 8y ago

   Hey HN, We often use R and AWS, but felt limited in our ability to use them together. While AWS provides SDKs for many languages, R is not one of them. This led us to ask: how hard could it be to build an R SDK ourselves? It turns out that
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   Show HN: Paws, an AWS SDK for R(github.com)

   5 points by davidkretch 8y ago|1 comments
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   by davidkretch 10y ago

   > Perhaps surprisingly, given how fundamental optimization is to so many fields, there isn't consensus on what's best. And as I previously hinted above, the answer may change with the hardware landscape. Not entirely to your po
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   by davidkretch 11y ago

   Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI) does this to an extent with machine learning papers from arXiv: http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/
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   by davidkretch 11y ago

   On Windows, use ggsave, or if not using ggplot2, use Cairo. Linux's png output device has antialiasing.