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by dswalter 8y ago
I know net neutrality is no longer law, but I think if you interviewed a thousand people on this site, you might be the only one miffed that Netflix isn't paying ISPs for faster routes. Put another way, it is my impression that consume
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by dswalter 8y ago
I agree that the first two three body problem books (I've just finished dark forest) have some weak points on character development and dialogue. But I've really enjoyed them so far because the books have surprised me at least a d
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by dswalter 8y ago
I think much of what people are objecting to is that, by virtue of its position as an _invite only_ paid service, it provides insight to only the employer party of a two-player game. It is apparently purpose-built to allow only the employer
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by dswalter 8y ago
Native emoji support, aesthetically pleasing front-ends, and clear product direction are some of the main positives I see, even if the combination of php on the backend and electron on the frontend aren't the most sophisticated technic
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by dswalter 8y ago
F-strings alone make the upgrade worth it.
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by dswalter 8y ago
Your idea is along the lines of 'rater reliability' in the field of educational measurement/psychometrics.
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by dswalter 8y ago
Indeed.
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by dswalter 8y ago
There is no mention of this in the document, but the timing suggests there may be a GPDR-related factor. It's hard to get consent from users that haven't touched the service for years.
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by dswalter 8y ago
I've edited my response, but I think you misunderstand the comic.
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by dswalter 8y ago
Bloom filters could do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
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by dswalter 8y ago
It's one of those difficult things. You have to restart and run all to make sure your code is working and your state hasn't gone fudgy, but you also don't want to re-run that cell that took 3 hours to run unless you have to.
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by dswalter 8y ago
Jupyterlab is here. I've been using it basically full-time since August, but it recently went to Beta, so it's ready for use. The major downside is that it disables JS by default within notebooks, so if you're using Bokeh you
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by dswalter 8y ago
Is your list of things AWS is notorious for available on your blog somewhere? That's valuable information.
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by dswalter 9y ago
What you describe, buying followers to analyze them, is exactly what Erin Shellman did back in 2015. http://www.erinshellman.com/bot-or-not/
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by dswalter 9y ago
I don't think it has to be anything more than inertia. They're a massive company that has millions of lines code running in production for a whole chunk of languages. Making a change from python2 to python3 probably seems like mor
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by dswalter 9y ago
I appreciate the work that goes into carefully crafting a longform piece like this and usually prefer the full-course meal that this represents instead of the fast-food version you're asking for.
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by dswalter 9y ago
This post is by the author of the dask parallel computing framework, which is written in Python and getting some traction in astronomy circles.
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by dswalter 9y ago
You're looking for the linguistic term 'collocation,' and these are good examples of idiomatic usage of English. Further, words located in proximity with each other is a big part of the distributional hypothesis: "you sh
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by dswalter 9y ago
Please call it "Large, a screen-friendly view for Medium".
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by dswalter 9y ago
Michigan is a great location to test self driving cars, because the lake effect makes the temperature fluctuate around freezing. This means we go from icy to wet frequently. It also helps that we get a decent amount of snow, giving us a muc
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by dswalter 9y ago
It seems most of my comments these days are singing the praises of this book. It should be practically mandatory reading for anyone in the field. It ties concepts together and builds understanding in a way that doesn't rely on specific
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by dswalter 9y ago
I would argue this question is not really related, but we use PrestoDB (the technology AWS Athena is built using), and it is particularly great for when data becomes too large to fit in a "regular" database. PrestoDB and Apache Im
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by dswalter 9y ago
For anyone who is just passing by, the article attempts to verify some claims from recent VLDB and SIGMOD papers that claim decent* performance on graph algorithms in RDBMs. It's worth reading not only for the technical merits of the d
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by dswalter 9y ago
One of the rules that goes with more expensive seeming menus is that you should pretend partial dollars don't exist. THIRTEEN is tolerable. NINE FIFTY is off-putting.
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by dswalter 9y ago
It's such a wonderful book. Reading it pushed me from thinking in terms of what I had worked with to building systems based on what was needed. I cannot recommend it highly enough, for pretty much anyone in {frontend, backend, data sci
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by dswalter 9y ago
This firmly points to his imminent appointment as the next CEO of Uber.
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by dswalter 9y ago
If AWS were to go to a per-minute billing cycle, they would be instantly more price-competitive with Google's offering. Or, to put it the other way around, those leftover minutes form a significant chunk of AWS's profit margin.
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by dswalter 9y ago
Even better than observing yourself is watching other people and trying to figure out what their problems are. If done with empathy, the side benefit is that you further develop abilities you will need if you ever have employees.
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by dswalter 9y ago
I'm of two minds on the use of scrolling as a method of interaction with the page. The term "scrolljacking" has been coined as the negative way to describe this particular style where the page itself is designed to render bas
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by dswalter 9y ago
I'm a little surprised, but this seems like a good idea. HTML5 certainly has a brighter present and future than flash, and skipping the OCR stem should save quite a few CPU cycles.

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