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by dj-wonk 12y ago
> Because the proper construction of statistical evidence against alleged cheaters requires such technical expertise, Regan believes that it’s necessary to establish a centralized authority responsible for the administration of anti-chea
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
After seeing the term "gold rush" get thrown around, I compared a 19th century gold rush to a (supposed) deep learning / data-based gold rush in terms of economic terms (e.g. rivalry and excludability): http://djwo
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Economics of a Supposed Deep Learning Gold Rush(djwonk.tumblr.com)
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For many (most?) analytics tools, the application developer has to specify what gets recorded and what gets fed as an input to predictive analytics. I expect to see more tools that assume any data is fair game; e.g. all data is worth at l
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
> Deep learning requires very large training sets, and these shouldn’t be shipped around a lot. To the extent that this is true, companies that offer these services may be driven to integrate more closely with customer data. This may inv
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
See also: * http://blog.ona.io/general/2014/05/05/automated-infrastructu... * http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pallet-DevOps-for-the-JVM
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I remember hearing that Pallet may not be deterministic in the same way as Chef (i.e. convergence happens in a deterministic way), but I'm having a hard time tracking down or proving such a claim.
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From the article: > A glaring omission in Chef is the lack of proper support for push deployments; the agents can only ‘pull’ new instructions by periodically checking in with the master. So you can’t deploy changes instantaneously, you
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Pallet vs. Chef by Steve Hall(scriptrock.com)
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Some comments, which may be obvious: * I have not tested Kuzu in production yet. * It has a tiny fraction of the power of real projects like Hadoop, Storm, Spark, and so on. * I created it because I wanted a simple way to run maps, reduces,
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Simple distributed computation with Clojure and nREPL (github.com)
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This is crazy; perhaps that's what makes it intriguing. In any case, I'm scratching my head. For example: > We can thus, for any Brainfuck program, create an integer optimization problem with 3n decision variables where the opt
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
One key difference from other "let's get people coding" initiatives is that YesWeCode targets low-opportunity youth. > There are currently 300+ coding and computer education programs serving youth in America. Of the 300+,
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Also, it is annoying that this non-standard choice by Gmail puts other companies and services into the position of (a) surprising and maybe disappointing users with behavior different than Gmail or (b) behaving in the same way as Gmail by d
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
What Julien laments is strange to many people. I found this behavior unexpected and hackish when I first heard about it. Now, after thinking about some of the implications for users and other applications, I'm not sure I have a firm op
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Amen. Standing up, walking, biking, roller skating, skateboarding, boxing, hot-air ballooning, ...something different!... can be a big help. We are not robots.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Re: "Spending a little bit of time to make sure your data is clean can pay off big in the long run." Clean data is better, sure! But who spends just a little time cleaning their data? For data of any significant size, that'
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Both have to do with open data, but otherwise, there are significant differences. The Github @unitedstates Project, is an open, relatively decentralized directory to find tools and data related to the United States. Based on the organizatio
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Although many folks from the Sunlight Foundation support the project, it has relatively decentralized control: > This is an unusual, and occasionally chaotic, model for an open data project. the /unitedstates project is a neutral sp
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Git's release numbering scheme (if there is any 'system' to it) is mysterious to me.
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I can't tell if Git, the project itself, uses semantic versioning. Is 2.0 considered a major (backwards-compatibility-breaking) release?
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Perhaps an unintended fluid exchange would follow?
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I haven't done it but see https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html
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Re: "There are other solutions, but reviving Python 2 is so obviously the correct thing to do, that other solutions are not worth mentioning." I don't even know how to respond to such "logic".
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Re: "One of the great strengths of Python 2 is the long tail of 3rd party libraries to do, well, just about anything. Python 3 doesn’t have this." Sure, this isn't ideal, but this is open source... if you use a library, step
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Right. Breadcrumbs and/or nav bars on apps are nice.
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"Creeper" nav bars (an appropriate term, I think) are partly a consequence of mobile devices not letting you instantly jump to the top of a page. Mobile devices should offer a snappy, intuitive way to jump to the top or bottom of
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
In context, I think McRaven offers powerful advice. I wonder how it translates to the entrepreneurial world. Here are some observations. A. For SEALs, there is a process to get through (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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Exactly. Not everyone is suited to be a member of special forces. Leaving to do something better (e.g. more achievable) may be a wiser choice.
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I must be missing the actual argument that supports the headline, "Out of Prohibition’s Reach: How Technology Cures Toxic Policy". If the claim is that governments cannot keep up with technology, I would hardly call that a cure. T

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