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Show HN: Visualization of US Flight Data(davetsao.com)
4 points by dvdt 11y ago|2 comments
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by dvdt 12y ago
Wanted to second the NICTA course as a top-notch resource for learning Haskell. It was only by working through the NICTA exercises that I finally understood functors, applicatives, monads, etc. and more importantly strengthened my intuiti
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by dvdt 12y ago
About a year ago, I got a free email address with Google Apps on my custom domain by doing the Google App Engine workaround ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/pVZfd... ). Does this not wor
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by dvdt 12y ago
This is awesome work. I just want to point out that it's pretty much a marketing lie to say that the lens gives you 160x magnification. Sort of like saying how digital zoom gives you magnification on a camera. A non-linkbait title woul
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by dvdt 13y ago
I can't remember the last time I ran 'git log.' Rather, I use tig to get a quick glance at commit history and staged / unstaged changes. Can someone explain the relative upsides and downsides to using tig vs git lg?
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Why Aren't Doctors More Tech-Savvy?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by dvdt 13y ago|1 comments
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by dvdt 13y ago
Looks like The Atlantic decided to preserve the 1996 layout of the "prefab hell" article. It is refreshingly minimalistic -- no ads, no links to "Just In" or "Top 10" articles. I like it much better than the mo
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by dvdt 13y ago
Cvx is basically a convex solver that is called from matlab. Boyd wrote it. I'm not sure how easy it would be to divorce it from matlab, but there is a lot of existing instructional material built off of cvx, including examples in Boyd
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by dvdt 13y ago
I'm confused. Is python really so far ahead of the competition to be considered the "language of choice for data science?" My impression (and I am not a statistician/data scientist in my day job, so I would very much lik
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by dvdt 13y ago
Demanding President Obama's resignation by comparing the current NSA scandal with Watergate is an outrageous false equivalence. The Nixon administration was spying on the DNC for political gain . PRISM was built in the name of nationa
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How To Form Good Habits(davetsao.com)
2 points by dvdt 14y ago|1 comments
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by dvdt 14y ago
> ... the elite players were significantly more relaxed than the average players, and the best of the best were the most relaxed of all. Presumably the best players also KNOW that they are the best--doesn't that make it easier to relax
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by dvdt 14y ago
In practice the Federal Reserve "prints" money when it purchases Treasury Bonds. Where does the Fed get the money from? That's the whole point--the Fed is able to create money out of thin air.
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by dvdt 14y ago
First of all, it doesn't sound like they are "hiring" anyone; that would run counter to being an entrepreneur =). Second, I assumed the statement meant that Kamen et al. would be especially receptive to local women running the machines. Rem
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Google Blocks Muhammad Video in Libya and Egypt(nytimes.com)
4 points by dvdt 14y ago|0 comments
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125 Harvard Students Suspected of Cheating(boston.com)
2 points by dvdt 14y ago|0 comments
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by dvdt 14y ago
Wasn't Morgan Stanley the lead underwriter for Facebook's IPO?
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Predict the next President using NLP(forbes.com)
4 points by dvdt 14y ago|1 comments
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Download My Gmail Filters(davetsao.com)
2 points by dvdt 14y ago|0 comments
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Climate change may cause ozone depletion over the US(nytimes.com)
1 points by dvdt 14y ago|0 comments
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My Music Tastes are 13.3% Terrible, Says Algorithm(blog.adku.com)
3 points by dvdt 15y ago|0 comments
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People scale frameworks(dtsao.posterous.com)
2 points by dvdt 16y ago|0 comments
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by dvdt 16y ago
How timely! I was actually at a Google recruiting event/tech talk today at my university, where a Google engineer repeated this quote to us. Fittingly, he also misquoted it and said that 5 exabytes of data are created every day, instead of
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by dvdt 16y ago
I also wondered about how much the survey results of disaffected officers could be attributed to problems inherent to any organization. It would have been nice to see comparable survey results for the private sector on questions like "does
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by dvdt 16y ago
Wow I had the idea to do exactly this only a few days ago.
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by dvdt 16y ago
I can't agree more. I think computer science is somewhat unique amongst fields that are typically called engineering. While mechanical and electrical engineers build things that are based off of scientific theories, computer scientists bu
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by dvdt 16y ago
Anyone know the reasoning behind the Cr-48 name? Maybe because that isotope of chromium is one of the longer lived non-stable isotopes of chromium?
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by dvdt 16y ago
To make broad generalizations, the point of quantitative easing is to increase the money supply. You do this by having more money in banks like Goldman Sachs (and of course there are many other banks that the Fed will be buying treasuries
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by dvdt 16y ago
In my experience, the number of words you write can be a reasonable proxy for the depth and intricacy of the argument. Granted, I also attend one of the best (if not the best) undergrad universities in the US, so this may only be true for
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by dvdt 16y ago
I coded my first JQuery app (www.quaverly.com) using JQuery Mobile last weekend. It was ridiculous how little time it took to make something look semi-presentable--it would have taken me maybe a week to code the equivalent in GWT, and it w

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