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by eadan 7y ago
Nebulet [0] was an interesting take on this -- a Rust microkernel compiled to WebAssembly. Unfortunately, the project seems to have run out of steam. [0] https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
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by eadan 7y ago
The experimental Singularity OS [0] from Microsoft implemented processes in the same address space using so-called "Software Isolated Processes" or SIPs [1]. Singularity was a microkernel design with the filesystem, networking, dr
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by eadan 7y ago
A recent discussion here on Latacora's "How (not) to sign a JSON object" [0], had me thinking of CBOR. Unlike JSON, MsgPack, protobufs, BSON, or any other commonly used data interchange format that I'm aware of; CBOR has
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by eadan 7y ago
Previous HN discussion [0], and associated lectures [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701767 [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s097-applied-cate...
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Simple IPC Using Named Pipes(eadan.net)
2 points by eadan 7y ago|0 comments
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by eadan 7y ago
Paul Stamets is a fascinating person. You're right, the Star Trek character is named after him [0]. I remember hearing, perhaps in the Joe Rogan podcast, that he consulted for the show. He has a brilliant TED talk on the world-changing
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by eadan 7y ago
People have used a similar strategy to estimate iPhone production [0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/08/ipho...
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by eadan 7y ago
It's actually fairly straightforward to derive the estimators by hand [0]. It's just a bit tedious to do in a blog post. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_uniform_distribution#...
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by eadan 7y ago
I implement the Bayesian solution in pymc3 at the end [0]. [0] https://www.eadan.net/blog/german-tank-problem/#probabilisti...
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The German Tank Problem(eadan.net)
422 points by eadan 7y ago|104 comments
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by eadan 8y ago
When using argparse, I find subparsers [1] useful in these situations. import argparse def add_file(file): print('Added ' + file) def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() subparsers = parse
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by eadan 9y ago
This is a serendipitous discovery! I'm also a data scientist working for an Irish company in the process of moving to Portugal. My email address is in my HN profile if you want to talk.