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by fnl 9y ago
Whilst your application is in shatters for minutes or hours, your customer hotline going crazy, and your CFO will hate you for having to return thousands of good $$$ to your company's clients for the outage, to make them happy again. T
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by fnl 9y ago
Can you please point out what about Buckaroo's (i.e., the author's) solution is wrong? I take it, his version of Either is copied from the neither project [1], so the destructor of the union is: ~Either() { if(isLeft) {
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by fnl 9y ago
Ad #1: And bring down the whole process? Seriously, no, this is about the worse advice ever. Unless you are writing a tiny binary that works all on its own and on a single job/item, this is about as close as you can get to a mortal sin
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by fnl 9y ago
I only "partially agree": I often wrap entire sections of a program in a try block. This way, it can catch any unexpected errors, report them, and put the program back into a manageable state where it can keep running. So I thin
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by fnl 9y ago
Well, as you point out, the probability of not hitting a valid CVV this way is non-zero, or 0.672% - if using R: choose(5000,0)*0.999^(5000-0)*0.001^0 But that means, by brute forcing, while you should crack at least one ca
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by fnl 10y ago
How big is the chance that you select the candidate who happens to know all solutions (e.g. by learning them by heart recently for the dozens of interviews he's planning on doing), but is not a good technical fit? My estimate is: prett
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by fnl 10y ago
That's true; But Uber certainly should send the customer a mail to inform him he was charged by the driver $10 for not taking the ride, I think?
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by fnl 10y ago
I for one am not so convinced GitHub is likely to be around for another decade or two. But whatever, let's just pretend that Distill can always find a free hosting solution, that is not so unlikely. Maybe that's good enough? Re.
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by fnl 10y ago
How does this provide IF ratings? Probably irrelevant for industry, but publishing in academia is all about IF, no matter how bad and corrupt one might think it is. And what about long-term stability/presence. Most top journals and the
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by fnl 10y ago
Quite some overlap with others here, but to add some of my own favorites: - The Shock Doctrine by N. Klein - The Anarchist Banker by F. Pessoa - Collapse by J. Diamond - Thinking, Fast and Slow by D. Kahneman - a few books by Noam Chomsky E
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by fnl 10y ago
Totally agree, but RF's are more related to "CNN-ish problems" (image classification and...?), not RNNs, or generally, any graphical sequence model. EDIT: to clarify: "j/k" with the thing in parenthesis ;-)
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by fnl 10y ago
Here's another, even worse example: > It turns out that people’s interview language of choice matched their most endorsed language on LinkedIn just under 50% of the time, so, you know, just slightly worse than flipping a coin. A coi
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by fnl 10y ago
At 50% occupation, alleged 8 beds, and 28/bed=224/day (underestimating, as the single private beds are more expensive). 15days/month is €3360 per month, double that at full occupation. Those numbers might sound reasonable in
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by fnl 10y ago
This could become a fantastic resource for anybody who is teaching machine learning. One vital improvement suggestion to make that path attractive would be if the Jupyter notebook format were used. It would be easier to add more documentati
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by fnl 10y ago
First, income in the US for most jobs has stagnated, inflation adjusted. Second, goods and services that can be produced cheaply due to technical advances get cheaper. This did not affect education, and medicine probably only got more expe
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by fnl 10y ago
http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/4654 (Short answer: No, because it has [to support] subtypes.)
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by fnl 10y ago
Yes, I've noticed for years that Go gets heavily used in web service-oriented startups with many concurrent users (plus, its easier to pick up than Erlang :-)). But what I would really hope to see is Go being used for anything else t
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by fnl 10y ago
You should compare the actual syntax and constructs. I agree that JS and LISP certainly are as far apart as anything else, and Python is as "functional" as any other imperative language. But Scala indeed is very similar to (1) OCa
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by fnl 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) (first paragraphs and "influenced by") https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-influences-of-the-ML-lang... ...
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by fnl 10y ago
> I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM. Scala?
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by fnl 10y ago
Excellent point! My counter-argument to that would be: How many startups/SMEs embracing Rethink really need full four or five nines availability? I'd expect the costs of running that HA stuff is an order of magnitude higher than
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by fnl 10y ago
Good point, but I think that doesn't explain the "why" of the graphs, this observation only explains the fact. The "why", then, in my (also non-expert) opinion, is (once again) globalization: We produce cheap electr
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by fnl 10y ago
Re. work hours; Right, the Industrial Revolution had quite many work hours, possibly even "peak" hours for some regions, particularly central Europe and the US. However, prior to that, research says "we" worked less than
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by fnl 10y ago
Mind to elaborate on what? Writing servers/services, and devops tasks, or something different?
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by fnl 10y ago
Modern C++14 provides quite good support on those fronts, and modern Java8 has lost most of its "code notoriety". But that's just arguing back and forth. Here's the real argument: What popular OSS projects of noteworthy
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by fnl 10y ago
As a bioinformatician, I can tell you: no. Hardly anywhere you have that concurrency need. You have a few clients only, typically, but with very highly parallel work-loads (as opposed to concurrent ones). Go is a bad for there.
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by fnl 10y ago
Golang really seems to have come a long way. But what holds me back from using it are the dangers of deadlocks and segfaults (due to forgotten error handling) that might be introduced even inadvertedly if applied to industrial-scale project
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by fnl 10y ago
and ranger with plugins for PDFs and showing ASCII image previews :-)
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by fnl 10y ago
I wasn't asking about that. Rather, I was referring to applying casual modeling (like recommending, A/B testing, churn prediction, etc) to cases where [I believe] using a randomized experiment to test the causality seems peculiar.
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by fnl 10y ago
Maybe if multiplexing in Rouge Mode it works?

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