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by equark 16y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree with this. Digg seems to be more sophisticated technology wise than pretty much any competing site. Besides some basic scalability issues and a few bugs when launching a new features, all these sites don't require m
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by equark 16y ago
True but there are actually pretty good reasons to think some traits will be universal. How many different ways to swim are there really, beyond what we see on earth. Hawking talks about this point. Eyes are another example of a hugely us
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by equark 16y ago
Interesting perspective. But another possibility is that ecosystems can only support one species like ours per planet.
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by equark 16y ago
I am often frustrated by this as well, but I'm not sure it's specific to Python or Ruby. Why is it Math.log(1) rather than 1.log()? And given whatever reason it's Math.log, why is it a.inverse() when a is a Matrix not MatrixMath.inverse(a)
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by equark 16y ago
If you are talented, study finance intensely at a top school for a few years, join a large Wall Street firm, and aggressively seek advancement. This is the lowest risk strategy. It's not instant, but it's almost a guaranteed way for a sma
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Ask HN: What would you change about Python for scientific computing
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by equark 16y ago
Steve Jobs has said as much. He often talks about how apple is "the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."
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by equark 16y ago
Which remain? The advantage of generators as threads is that they work with other Python implementations like Jython and IronPython. It would be nice if whatever Python adopted in the core wasn't still inferior to greenlet based libraries.
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by equark 16y ago
I'm curious if PEP 380 (yield from) would make greenlet less convenient. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/
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by equark 16y ago
I know next to nothing about P!=NP, but am quite familiar with the statistics literature. Glancing at this paper made me immediately skeptical. Pages 12-27 are reviews of very basic results in statistics. Maybe it sounds like important st
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by equark 16y ago
The grammar of probability calculus works fine. Causal inference is simply a missing data problem as described by Rubin (1978). The potential outcome view dominates statistics literature for good reason. Why invent unnecessary new operator
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by equark 16y ago
You're doing better than 90 percent of everybody else just by expressing this as a bandit problem rather than an AB testing problem.
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by equark 16y ago
This is basically the business model of RapLeaf.
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by equark 16y ago
This CNN article is much better account: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/27/sasselov.earth.planets... The important graph is around 8:00.
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by equark 16y ago
Seems like it depends. The Dodgeball guys clearly hated the transition. Then there's FriendFeed. Bret Taylor became CTO of Facebook very quickly after the acquisition and is now the second, and arguably better, public face of Facebook. Hi
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by equark 16y ago
I have a hard time getting excited by R as the future, given that the entire core development team has been talking about why R needs to be replaced since the late 1990s. See the OmegaHat project and the motivating paper behind Incanter. I
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by equark 16y ago
How would PEP 380 improve Monocle style programming? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/ I don't have enough experience to really understand.
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by equark 16y ago
This statement is becoming incredibly cliche. Ideas are not sufficient but they are necessary. There are many well executed but fundamentally worthless products. I find most startups mentioned on hacker news well executed but I often just c
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by equark 16y ago
Sas. Still private no funding, founder is worth 8 billion.
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by equark 16y ago
You're citing an article from 1982? There's been a massive amount experimental work done since the mid 1990s. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=+Experimental+...
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by equark 16y ago
Not anything internet related. Personal robotics. Fully autonomous robots, cars, trucks, planes that can operate in the personal domain (cities, houses, roads) not just factory floors. No guide wires, etc. Autonomous agents that can pick u
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by equark 16y ago
Most of those objections are adressed at the bottom of the github page.
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Yup. On all the demos they have absolutely trounce Chrome. SVG too.
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Hiring for speculative summer project?
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This looks horrendous. Watch the video for the hello world example. It's probably 100 lines of unintelligible code. Miguel de Icaza's CLI for the web idea ( http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/May-03.html ) looks like a much better approa