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by fnl 9y ago
Well, that is a good thing : You still can buy regular support for Java 6, which was released more than 10 years ago. So if you really think updating your monolith to Java 9 is worth less than paying for that support, you can do so. Not al
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by fnl 9y ago
Yet, all that is besides the point: In essence, those reasons would apply to any installation you have once you run it long enough. I.e., those particular problems are not Java-specific, and in fact, I would even dare speculate that such is
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by fnl 9y ago
None of these points are valid: 1. Dependency management is probably a lot easier with Maven than with C++ or Python. Hope that needs no reference... 2. No idea why, but Java is backwards compatible. So not updating to the latest version
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by fnl 9y ago
Actually, those are Scala code examples, so I believe it will be end up using ints for this case, not Integers. Edit: I'm wrong, the example still needs a @specialized version.
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by fnl 9y ago
Yeah, there is a bunch of "xyz consultant" titles floating around in English. Executive, corporate, or financial consultant are some more. For the English titles, the distinction seems to be that the "management consultant&qu
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by fnl 9y ago
Great point - most people are not aware that finding good personnel to hire is like diving for pearls.
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by fnl 9y ago
Consulting refers to advising the executive branch of a company. So one key ingredient it requires is experience (that the client company lacks), and the ability to communicate (in business/cash-flow terms) why the advice you are givin
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by fnl 9y ago
The only way we ever got this kind of stuff to work, back in the late 80s, was connecting Atari STs with MIDI cables. But if you're not on a LAN, the lag will kill the UX - so, a great way to procrastinate in the office :-)
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by fnl 9y ago
Well, I'm baffled. :-) Thanks for this great response, looking forward to the changes!
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by fnl 9y ago
As a FastMail user, I must say the UI startup time is painfully loooong ...
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by fnl 9y ago
Interesting point. Normally, your programming language can do little about fragmentation other than requesting a better allocator, if available (Windows?). Makes me think, maybe Rust's model would allow it to plan for better allocation
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by fnl 9y ago
Yes, obviously. Yet, I'd assume space/memory problems persist today to - games are always pushing the PC hardware envelope.
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by fnl 9y ago
Makes me wonder why Rust isn't popular with game devs. Wouldn't Rust's borrow checker and resource management at compilation time make most of the described memory reclaiming issues obsolete?
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by fnl 9y ago
No offense, but "like, China?" I don't see how involving government(s) and therefore politicising the whole thing is going to make the situation any better. Even if it were support from a government you (but others not) would
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by fnl 9y ago
after or before the bubble... :-)
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by fnl 9y ago
I completely agree. The mathematics behind the argument are so boring and obvious, yet explained in an extremely convoluted language. Fascinating how you can describe 10+1=11% to otherwise intelligent people here and get to the frontpage of
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by fnl 9y ago
I work with language, not images. There, clever feature engineering isn't just better, it's essential to get anything that is production worthy. In fact, it will even be embedded in some expert system process if your system needs
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by fnl 9y ago
Great book, thanks for writing it!
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by fnl 9y ago
As usual, this kind of misses the point. Trampolining for TCO/TCE is fun, but not really worth it. Rather it's cool for concurrency and scheduling, like in Twisted. Dabeatz had a great tutorial in 2009 (using Py 2.5+ - oh my! :-))
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by fnl 9y ago
Most of robotics is about reinforcement learning. EDIT: Oh, and expert systems/rules. Lots of em. EDIT2: Well, an engineering, obviously... :-) Heck, just check Wikipedia on the topic...
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by fnl 9y ago
While I agree with others that more is better, if you can take only one course, I strongly recommend taking Andrew Ng's. While it is true that you don't need to be able to design and understand 'nets from scratch to be able
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by fnl 9y ago
> While you are right that some feature engineering is needed, there's no reason DL can't be a part of your workflow. I (and, I believe, the earlier poster, too) never implied you can't use deep learning on such examples.
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by fnl 9y ago
Sorry, I meant that in the sense of the origin of the term. But yes, DS is mostly just another word for statistics. About as pointless as the term AI has become.
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by fnl 9y ago
A bit extreme, but yes, saying that robotics is driven my ML is ... weird.
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by fnl 9y ago
Or you don't have millions of annotated examples to learn from, and no similar problem to transfer from...
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by fnl 9y ago
Well, I live in Spain - the qualitative difference here between a standard public school (the ones you can go to are the closest ones and we live in no fancy neighborhood...) and a private one simply is that in the public school not even I
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by fnl 9y ago
As someone in a similar situation: I hold a PhD in Molecular Biology, yet the pay as a post-doc was so low, I couldn't even get my two kids into a decent school. And don't even discuss pre-doc salaries if you have any family ambit
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by fnl 9y ago
Here's another factual error: Data science is from the 1960s, and was used first in a paper published by Peter Naur in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
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by fnl 9y ago
Um, no, that's yet another falsehood in that interview; The term DS is much older, and stems from Peter Naur, anecdotally coined in the 1960s and with a provable [edit: removed wrong ref] paper in 1974 using that term: https:/&
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by fnl 9y ago
Which then gets us to the topic of GPL vs MIT & friends.... :-)

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