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by doug1001 10y ago
insightful. this question has been asked (at least) since i've been a professional programmer, which is 20+ years. start of my career, >80% of my code was directed to memory management--allocating it, re-pointing it it, and de-refer
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by doug1001 10y ago
big fan of the yhat blog. > reshape/reshape2,pylr/dplyr -> pandas R users have a choice here, so this line could be data.table -> pandas and in fact data.table has a significant performance advantage compared to the resha
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by doug1001 10y ago
It looks like you stopped reading after the second paragraph; this caused you to completely mischaracterize the OP. In particular, the paragraph you quoted is the second in the OP; in it, the author is summarising the conventional techniq
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by doug1001 10y ago
$30M seems not far off the piece-meal value of their physical assets & hard-dollar equivalents--eg, current inventory, customer lists & purchase histories, a warehouse-sized collection of studio-grade photography gear, (nor sure wha
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by doug1001 10y ago
yep--but in this instance, the renewal cycle isn't 20 but 50 years. MDD re-packages a 50-year old paradigm--the OODA Loop by USAF Col John Boyd. The wikipedia page on OODA gives the use cases that led to OODA's conception, eg, &qu
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by doug1001 10y ago
Here's a complete tutorial--from concepts to step-by-step command-line scripting. Eg, you provision EC2 instances, deploy a Hadoop cluster, and build a simple data processing pipeline on the cluster. this is intended primarily for data
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by doug1001 10y ago
thank you. Looks like 1000 is not enough though. Next 'reminder' maybe place between <h2></h2>; 'blink' tag might not hurt either.
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by doug1001 10y ago
I've been a developer for 20+ years (traditional CS/EE degree) and i think it's more difficult to be an excellent developer now than it ever has been. The sheer number of DSLs and the rate at which new ones appear and extant
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by doug1001 10y ago
so a sailor stationed on a US Navy nuclear submarine is facing four to five years in prison (and a dishonorable discharge) for taking six photos from inside the submarine. The subject of the photos--the propulsion system--seems alarming unt
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by doug1001 10y ago
JB: if you observe a serious problem w/in Amazon, you are welcome to bring it to my attention and i will take immediate action well it looks like mr Bezos was at least telling the truth when he made this offer.
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by doug1001 10y ago
i used to work at Simply Hired; the employers are the customers of these job aggregators--eg, they give you access to a their database of current open positions often via an API, and we would load them into our ETL pipeline then put them on
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by doug1001 10y ago
before his "invention" was thoroughly exposed as a fraud--eg, there are youtube videos showing its faithful reproduction in under a minute from readily available components--Ahmed Mohamed, during his numerous television interviews
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by doug1001 10y ago
thank you for this "annotation" to the OP; the sentence in the OP "The fact that there is no such entity as the State of Palestine...." is intended so clearly as a factual assertion ("The fact that....") that
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by doug1001 10y ago
ZeroMQ: awesome docs (i recommend also the ZeroMQ O'Reilly book by the MH, the library author) particularly for a library with a broad range of functionality not easily described by a single technical category. New York Times API docs
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by doug1001 10y ago
fascinating--i would have bet that sex toys have a fairly high price inelasticity (> 20% anyway) and are purchased impulsively.
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by doug1001 10y ago
your question caused me to spend a little time comparing the two (NumPy, which i know quite well, and nd4j, which i don't know at all). so based on comparison, it's clear the nd4j uses the key structural features of numpy arrays--
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by doug1001 10y ago
this might be valuable technology, but as far as i can from reading the OP and from a look through the repo, this is not ETL--despite the fact that "ETL" is in blog post's title, despite the fact that the technology is desc
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by doug1001 10y ago
nice one--i learned a few things, in fact (& caused me to realize once again, just how sloppy we are with benchmarking on my team)
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by doug1001 10y ago
"repeated" in this context is not incorrect, but i think "replicated" is perhaps a better choice. That aside, i think repeatability is a much more useful goal (rather than "has been repeated"). For one thing,
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by doug1001 10y ago
i think a small addition to this chart (but not requiring any data not already gathered) would significantly increase its value and interest. in particular, adding one small column (about the same width as the "Types" column) with
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by doug1001 10y ago
nice one. small, sharp tools in the unix toolbox. given that this is the type of processing one might routinely over a file with tens of millions of lines, what's your guess on the difference in performance between the python snippet a
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by doug1001 10y ago
so in the parent thread, i've learned more about hedge funds than i knew before, and i certainly formed a favorable opinion of the fund discussed here. So i'll reiterate a prior post's suggestion regarding education. Beyond i
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by doug1001 10y ago
i bought one in 1995 played it regularly until i was posted to the UK in 2000 and had to sell it. the reason the guy only charged me $250 for it was that the fire button didn't work. i was aware of this but i bought it with the intenti
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by doug1001 10y ago
a well-written summary of a paper by Ivan Srba and Maria Bielikova of Slovak University of Technology, published this week IEEE Software. from the Vice article, near the end: > Stack Overflow's talent for self-regulation is really,
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by doug1001 10y ago
nothing in the OP about this robot having been struck by lightning though.
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by doug1001 10y ago
so my rep on SO is about 41K with an average rep per answer a little shy of 100 and about every third answer is the accepted answer. My numbers on Cross Validated (the SO for "data scientists") are significantly better. but i&#x27
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by doug1001 10y ago
great questions; here's where we drew the line (our Terms of Service (TOS) were fairly standard): it was within the TOS to use a "poker assistant"--an app that worked with the Site client (eg, PokerStars, or in my case, bwin.
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by doug1001 10y ago
i worked in anti-fraud for a large online gaming house for about six years from 2003 to 2009 so my information is not current. At that time, there were no bots (whether in the wild or in academic, eg, University of Alberta) that could compe
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by doug1001 10y ago
yep, from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository ( http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Poker+Hand); a vetted data set of just over one million Texas Hold'em hands, 11 attributes per hand (suit and rank o
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by doug1001 10y ago
The precise context--which i didn't see mentioned in the OP--makes this story many times worse: Why were the SS out to get Rep Chaffetz? Because he was asking them questions during a Congressional Hearing. Why was the Hearing called? B

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