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by f00_ 7y ago
I think databricks and Apache Spark are probably the most successful at this. An open-source project, whose maintainers offer a hosted/managed version.
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by f00_ 7y ago
I enjoyed the audiobook versions (while following along with or having already read the written version) of Grokking Algorithms and Classic Computer Science Problems with Python
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by f00_ 7y ago
Wish I could use this but doesn't work with Firefox or Safari :c
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by f00_ 7y ago
I mainly use virtualenv and would recommend that to people until they have this problem trying to use matplotlib on osx: https://matplotlib.org/3.1.0/faq/osx_framework.html osx includes a "non-framework"
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by f00_ 7y ago
Possibly because you're european, most companies are US based and would need a to apply for a visa right? This is the actual virtual internship I did, which doesn't actually seem accessible from the workatastartup website: https:
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by f00_ 7y ago
I actually got a job after completing the modules for https://www.workatastartup.com , the last module asks you to apply at ycombinator companies. Would recommend to others. The tasks aren't very difficult, there are PDFs th
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by f00_ 7y ago
My current favorites: https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/published/pythonds... Grokking Algorithms Classic Computer Science Problems in Python
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by f00_ 7y ago
Could you have just used dijkstra or breadth first search?
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by f00_ 7y ago
Little Snitch https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Lulu https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html Haven't used a block-first, prompt to allow firewall on windows or l
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by f00_ 7y ago
+1 vega-lite and altair The interactive crossfilter part in particular https://altair-viz.github.io/user_guide/interactions.html https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/interactive_seattl...
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by f00_ 7y ago
fuzzing using something like AFL possibly? http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
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by f00_ 7y ago
The US doesn't allow dual-citizenship either right? My girlfriend and her family have Taiwanese, Chinese and US citizenship/passports though. Wonder how that works
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by f00_ 7y ago
>making it easy to flag propaganda in apps and then blocking it as she describes is in fact building in a type of censorship. Devotion, a small Taiwanese horror game, is an example of people abusing these types of control on steam &gt
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by f00_ 7y ago
They should just find a new business model, if their currently one can be bypassed so easily. giantbomb.com sells premium subscriptions and merch and does okay
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by f00_ 7y ago
Have been reading the late and great David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air lately (completely free on withouthotair.com) https://www.withouthotair.com/c1/page_5.shtml >The climate-change moti
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by f00_ 8y ago
Haven't read this yet, but just from Jake Vanderplas' reputation, I think it's probably worth If you want some more recs, my two favorites are Chris Albon's Machine Learning with Python Cookbook and Joel Grus' Data
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by f00_ 8y ago
there is someone in the comments that brings up a good point: Varoufakis hadn't recognized a currency developing and classified tf2 as a barter economy. But scrap metal/earbuds is/was effectively working as a currency. >in
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by f00_ 8y ago
Pretty crazy series of jobs: economist at valve, visting professor at UT Austin, leading up to greek finance minister
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by f00_ 8y ago
Really we are building on the shoulders of giants (calculus, linear algebra, statistics) but it seems like the modern use of recurrent neural networks crystalized in the 80s with the publication of Parallel Distributed Processing by David R
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by f00_ 8y ago
I'm not saying higher taxes aren't something I want, but it's impossible to get by the heavily lobbied government
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by f00_ 8y ago
The author (rightly in my view) doesn't group Hayek under Austrian. What you're talking about sounds like transaction costs and information asymmetry, which are interesting. Hayek's work is interesting to me, even as someone
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by f00_ 8y ago
Last year, I finished The Great Transformation by Karl Polyani, published in 1944 (the same year Hayek published The Road to Serfdom), Judea Pearl's The Book of Why and Mastering Metrics by Angrist and Pischke. The methodology of Austr
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by f00_ 8y ago
+1, I made this repo awhile ago as a learning exercise, basically a c+p of chapter 1: https://github.com/f00-/numpy-mnist-nn
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by f00_ 8y ago
Driverless cars aside for a second, government grants are essential to R&D and commericialization. Having learned recently about Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants, I can'
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by f00_ 8y ago
non paywalled version: https://outline.com/YycYjt
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by f00_ 8y ago
I was about to just recommend you pandas, but just realized it doesn't natively support running sql on dataframes, but pyspark does!
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by f00_ 8y ago
I can't think of any projects that use it off the top of my head, but i'm pretty sure i've seen "one click setup" buttons for heroku and digital ocean binder is kinda similar for python jupyter notebooks https:&#x2
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by f00_ 8y ago
How long did it take you to complete the exams? I think I read a lot of actuaries actually finish them while on the job Think it's possible to self study the exams? Not a likely path for me, but interested in seeing if anyone has done
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by f00_ 8y ago
exactly, Judea Pearl's The Book of Why opened my eyes to the fact that most of what happens in machine learning is really just curve fitting It connected with what i've heard Chomsky say about trying to develop laws of physics by
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by f00_ 8y ago
i just thought it was interesting if not just for the subjects it covers. information theory before shannon, Henri Bergson's time philosophy, thermodynamics/statistical mechanics, learning machines (neural networks?) I'll try

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