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by dododo 16y ago
people keep citing btrfs. oracle could still kill this: it conflicts with ZFS and presumably oracle now owns patents in this domain too.
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by dododo 16y ago
i find often even if you don't know the word, you know something about, for example, the phoneme structure of words, which allows you to guess. it's not just it's not known, but also it has an uncommon composition. for example, you may not
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by dododo 16y ago
my favourite hangman word is tmesis. i'm yet to lose a game with it. it works well psychologically: people very quickly get to t_esis (e and t being the most common letters) but m takes too long: although m is common, tmesis is the only wor
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by dododo 16y ago
which machine learning algorithms is causata shipping to customers? i could not find this (nor the fact you were shipping) from the causata website. you wrote: Alas, the Haystack web site has zero technical details. the causata web site ap
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by dododo 16y ago
many companies build up the hype before they ship. isn't that just marketing? i call hypocrisy. jgrahamc is involved with causata: check out their website. http://www.causata.com/ count the number of times you read: "This has to change. S
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by dododo 16y ago
or use greenlets http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet at least in this benchmark, greenlets seem to do a very good job: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
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by dododo 16y ago
i've worked on code written during a phd that eventually graduated to a product. my role was making it production ready. code written during research is a complete mess, and necessarily so: you don't know what you're going to end up with. y
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by dododo 16y ago
i also use these guys; in the past it has helped to have a german speaker around...
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by dododo 16y ago
irssi. <esc># instead of <alt># for window switching.
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by dododo 16y ago
i only wish that i could annotate a kindle by pen or touch. this is super clumsy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... i read a lot of papers and text books: typically i want to draw pictures for intuition or wr
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by dododo 16y ago
this seems to be simply a ranking of organisations by the number of citations. there are a number of factors missed: 1. what's the earliest publication of each organisation? 2. what's the real world impact of the publications? (citations ar
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by dododo 16y ago
often the simplest things in machine learning/data mining work best---so maybe come up with a very simple way of achieving what you want, try it out. work out what's not so good, and improve. repeat. an important thing is to work out what m
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by dododo 16y ago
maths can be like programming: it can seem pointless without a purpose. too much is made of proofs and too little of intuition. so pick a project, something you'd like to know. then apply math as, and when, needed. what are you interested i
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by dododo 16y ago
the article mentions a python implementation of CSP which is here http://code.google.com/p/pycsp/ Invented by the same guy that brought us quicksort, CSP is actually a really nice framework for describing interacting processes. It's used
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by dododo 16y ago
you're right---consistently faulty products would certainly make a bigger (negative) impression than peacocking. but in this instance, for some time, the products were just fine. a customer's trust is most tested when things are going wrong
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by dododo 16y ago
unfortunately for them, i was a paying customer. sorry if my comment gave you a different impression.
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by dododo 16y ago
after some time, they delivered me a faulty product: i wanted to return it. it turned out they were 'peacocking' their customer service team as well as their accounts team. i don't think it's ok to 'peacock'; it's tantamount to fraud. if yo
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by dododo 16y ago
i dealt with a company that did this: after a short time it became obvious what was going on. as customer i no longer trusted the company: they were lying to me, trying to make their business look bigger than it actually was. if they were d
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by dododo 16y ago
you didn't name a single tech start up. why not if there are so many? there are many small businesses in the UK: http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/statistics/small-bus... but i cannot find any statistics on the area of business.
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by dododo 16y ago
note it depends upon cython: i suppose it's more likely it will make it into cython rather than python 3.2.
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by dododo 16y ago
can you name these european tech start ups? i can think of very few.
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by dododo 16y ago
it won't give you a prompt: try typing something, and you'll see it works fine (unless centos have done something funny).
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by dododo 16y ago
as well as "quick stuff" i'd like a peer-reviewed paper. the first question is: why should i care about it? the next questions are about the details.
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by dododo 16y ago
it would be great if every language on their home page, as well as listing how to do common things such as this: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoTutorial.html would also give a demonstration of what makes this language unusual (be
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by dododo 16y ago
you should try. all -T does is not allocate a tty: most shells will still work. bash/zsh/rc do for sure.
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by dododo 16y ago
hah! the dsp trick actually works surprisingly well IF you combine it with lame (iirc).
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by dododo 16y ago
want to log in without appearing in lastlog(8)/w(1)/who(1)? ssh -T host (of course syslog still sees you). if available, ssh-copy-id(1) is an easier way of setting up passwordless ssh(1). note also that openssh supports on-demand proxying v
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by dododo 16y ago
Monads are a special case of Arrows. You can think of Arrows as generalised functions: the type of a function is X -> Y, whilst the type of an arrow is A X Y, where A takes the place of the infix type ->. So another way you can writ
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by dododo 16y ago
there are two gnu utilites that are useful for writing: gnu style and gnu diction. http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html diction finds common mistakes. style gives some metrics (may or may not be useful, YMMV). they have a simi
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by dododo 16y ago
1. the point of doing statistics properly is to try to remove your bias about what you think the results are: every developer who has worked hard enough on a problem, probably thinks they made an improvement. it's a good idea to test this,

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