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by gaius 8y ago
are the borders of most countries now "locked in? Ask the Ukrainians.
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by gaius 8y ago
There already are many better things as many commenters have pointed out
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by gaius 8y ago
Your language was perfect the day it was created was it? R and it’s ecosystem stand head and shoulders above the rest.
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by gaius 8y ago
The majority of the complaints I hear about notebooks I think come from a misunderstanding of what they're supposed to be No, the majority of complaints are that notebooks are great, but Jupyter is a bad notebook. I mean maybe it’s i
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by gaius 8y ago
They're scientists who increasingly have to do programming as part of their science. And notebooks are a godsend for them 2/3 of scientific research cannot be reproduced by other scientists. But tell us more about why scientists
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by gaius 8y ago
In the Tidyverse everything in R is perfectly logical and coherent. What would you consider to be a “reasonable” language then?
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s fine if you just want to show something to someone who for whatever reason can’t run the notebook themselves, but it’s not up to producing a “formal” document. Maybe in a few years it might be.
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by gaius 8y ago
Working in RMarkdown it is super-easy to generate a publishable document from your research. Whereas there is still no good Jupyter—>PDF solution.
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by gaius 8y ago
it's a dumpster fire - in 2018 there should be something so much better than this In 1998 I was using a tool called MathCAD that provided a notebook interface running as a plugin to MS Word. In 2018, Jupyter is still not as good as t
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s called nominative determinism
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by gaius 8y ago
The free versions of RHEL will go the way of the free version of Solaris There’s a difference between what you want to happen and what you think will happen...
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by gaius 8y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. In the days of film the average consumer shot <1 roll per year . Whereas a professional photographer would shoot a dozen or more rolls per day. Their biggest customers would have been newspapers and studios buy
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by gaius 8y ago
It's all fungible land, rent, concrete store walls, and staff. They have many competitors with practically identical overlap in business. IBM is not like at all like this. Ermm yes it is. What do they do that HPE, DXC, Accenture, Cra
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by gaius 8y ago
consumer technology will obliterate all computer science over the last 20 years What does this quote actually mean?
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by gaius 8y ago
4-6 per meal, plus whatever you filled pockets with and drank in betwee How many is that per day? Like 20??
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by gaius 8y ago
They’ll still be extensively tracking you
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by gaius 8y ago
as fully remote Didn’t IBM have a massive crackdown on remote working recently? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/09/ibm_workfromhome_cu...
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by gaius 8y ago
Because having a PhD is proof that you can do research, and there are so many PhDs available that Intel has absolutely no motivation to increase their hiring risk one iota by extending their net past that market. Even if a BA was only 0.00
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by gaius 8y ago
My take on this is what's needed to succeed in DS/ML in a commercial setting is a) domain knowledge b) the diligence to acquire, clean, and generally pre-process the data and c) some fairly basic knowledge of ML. Someone with amaz
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by gaius 8y ago
would anyone be able to recommend the current best resources for acquiring useful AI / machine learning skills, for the average software engineer? EdX has a good one, I wrote about my experience of it here https://gaius.te
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by gaius 8y ago
Thanks to new text-mining techniques, this has now been done Thanks text mining techniques! Here's an article saying the same thing almost word-for-word from 2004 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/36
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by gaius 8y ago
Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can The problem is that the customers with disposable income to pay to see no ads are exactly the people that admen want to reach. So it&#x2
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by gaius 8y ago
As I understand it, they want to have a display of what the internet looks like without filtering to demonstrate the value of filtering, but also pre-filter it of any content that you would need to filter.
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by gaius 8y ago
we added a “skin colour filter“. What colour skin?
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by gaius 8y ago
once you peek behind the curtain it's just as mundane as anything else So much of interesting computation is just matrix manipulation/linalg under the covers. Which is pretty cool actually: it means the skills are very transferr
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by gaius 8y ago
I am a repair guy or even a police officer I've seen a few cyclists wearing gear that was obviously intended to be mistaken for police uniform at a distance e.g. blue and white checks, and only when you get closer do you realise it s
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s pretty clear what people mean when they say chemicals in food, so this pedantry is less impressive than perhaps you intended.
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by gaius 8y ago
This is the problem. I am an endurance athlete and I tried Rockstar but the sugar content just means spike, then crash, then crucially, you are more dehydrated after drinking it than you were before! So you either realize this was a mistake
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by gaius 8y ago
they only support four (x86, amd64, ARM, ARM64) To be fair, NT shipped on x86, PPC, Alpha and MIPS. There was a never-released version for SPARC. It was originally developed on the i860. Wasn’t later Windows also available on Itanium too?
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes - NTW was tuned for interactive desktop users and NTS for server type workloads. But everyone knew these were just tuning sets for the same kernel.

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