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by edejong 7y ago
No, accuracy is but one possible goal. "Machine learning practitioners take pride in models that optimize the value of that model." And since we cannot define exactly what this value is (accuracy, RMSE, bias or a specific confusio
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I’m just waiting for the day when Tinder is down in popularity, security fixes are a bit more lackadaisical and a zero-day exposes a decade of personal preferences of a large share of the population, not unlike a nuclear waste leak. Imagine
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by edejong 7y ago
Currently running 4 JVM based solutions on 2 RPi's in our home. One is a fairly heavy one (OpenHAB 2), consuming 700 MB of memory. The others are simple importers (written in Scala), using around 50 MB each. It runs fast, is extremely
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by edejong 7y ago
The question was whether it is hard to determine the space/time complexity of ‘a’ function, which firmly placed the question in Rice’s theorem grounds.
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Personally I was hoping the cat-picture-meme would be a passing thing. I am allergic to the little critters and am not particularly fond of them. They carry parasites and bacteria which can be permanently harmful for us. So, although I resp
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Current Senior Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera(youtube.com)
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It was not my intent to convert anyone to Buddhism (in any of it’s hundreds of mostly peaceful substreams). I am merely pointing out that mindfulness requires a wider context.
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Enlightenment.
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The ego: indestructible, why fight?
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Well, the problem is rather simple. If you decide to only engage in mindfulness, you'll have a great time discovering things about yourself and your environment. You will feel better about yourself . That will work for a while and it
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Accepting her change is accepting ourselves.
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The problem with the mindfulness approach is that it only leads you knee-deep. Enough to enjoy the waves and the joy of water, but too little to start swimming. For example, I can still see you are not accepting your past self for what it i
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by edejong 7y ago
It all depends on interpretation of the law, lobbying, stalling and the amount of bad press an actor can handle. Microsoft is a much older company and is likely to have stronger ties to the established government.
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Github owned by Github. But this is something different. It is Github owned by Microsoft. Acquisitions, in general, do not end well for the established user-base. Suggestion: move you repositories! Host your own repositories! Use something
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I used the power of Google, but to no avail...
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When I saw the politicians atrocious response to the Grenfell Tower disaster I was worried what that would do with the commoners behavior. I guess I have my answer.
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It's a long piece, so she's probably afraid she'll forget a passage later on.
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I find it intriguing how people keep making these mistakes. Something is not 'public' because it is shared by many people and used as if it is public. It is a wolf in sheep's clothes and it isn't even lying about it. Git
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by edejong 7y ago
The classical example of expecting another piece is when Maria Joao Pires performed in Amsterdam and only during the orchestra introduction figured out her mistake. See her reaction on Youtube [1]. As opposed to the article above, she hadn&
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Temperature in the Netherlands tops 40 degrees Celsius for first time(news.yahoo.com)
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LinkedIn Open-Sources 'Nearline' Data Streaming Service(datanami.com)
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Cambridge Analytica: Firm in data scandal made election boasts(bbc.com)
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Thanks for that link, I didn't know about that video. I read his "The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol", which provided me fundamental insights. Wrote just some weeks ago about that [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.
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by edejong 7y ago
You're right: coding standards have improved. Still, I wonder if we might be biased. From my perspective I see a lot of well engineered code (Scala, Rust), but the majority of the code produced is probably not that clean. The move to m
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Well, I think (and many of my fellow engineers as well), that we were making good progress in UI design and abstractions until AJAX and the modern web came about. I've said this before and I will say it again: the web has brought moder
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More like 70's best practices [1]. Reusable GUI components were first (? citation needed) used on the Alto machine developed in 1974. The developments of the Xerox PARC team were a huge inspiration to Steve Jobs, who later would create
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by edejong 7y ago
I really second that set of articles. Great introduction.
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Yes, that’s exactly the skew popular media will give this (already way too sensational) reporting. And we shouldn’t do this, unless we want to lose the scientific moral grounds.
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There is definitely a difference in outcome in the programmers community. The question is whether there is a difference in opportunity. Don't you think that by emphasizing the differences by forcefully changing our accepted speech, you
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by edejong 7y ago
"They" as generic third person singular goes back at least five centuries. I am (obviously) referring to address a known individual using "They" / "Their".

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