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by gjkood 8y ago
Being a total art ignoramous but clearly interested in the technical aspects behind the site, I quickly googled the painting and learned that it was a triptych (had to google that) whose dimensions were 87 in x 153 in. A few questions to an
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by gjkood 9y ago
I do remember the days when a database in the 'GB' size range was considered a very large database. But hey, why would you ever need more than 640KB memory?
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by gjkood 9y ago
I am curious what the definition of an 'AI engineer' is. Is it: a) someone with an undergraduate/graduate/doctorate degree in CS with specialization in AI/ML? b) someone with a non-CS degree (Math/EE/CE&#x
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by gjkood 9y ago
My first computer experience was with its under-powered sibling, the ZX81 [1]. Typing in and running silly little BASIC programs was the most exciting thing in those days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
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Are there teams considering using ZeroMQ for new projects in 2017/2018?
15 points by gjkood 9y ago|9 comments
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Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker(theintercept.com)
233 points by gjkood 9y ago|165 comments
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by gjkood 9y ago
Quick question. How is the issue of human waste processing done in large scale temporary human accommodations such as a military forward operations base or a large scale construction township? Would it have the necessary sewage handling&#x2
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by gjkood 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Great reference. This could keep me occupied for a while.
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by gjkood 9y ago
Ok, so the generality like LISP/Scheme with a few basic productions/rules and some basic operations could be used to create/represent any levels of complexity. Something like Northhead & Russell's Principia Mathemati
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by gjkood 9y ago
Thats really interesting. So config files themselves could be considered as some complex type and the inherent language type checking may be used to validate them? Somehow reminds me of Structs/Records in Erlang/Elixir and using p
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by gjkood 9y ago
Ok, so the Facebook example definitely falls under a contemporary heavy production usage system. Thanks.
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by gjkood 9y ago
Question to the Haskell experts here. Is Haskell more academic in nature or used heavily in Production environments? Is there an application sweet spot/domain (say Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, etc) where it shines ove
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by gjkood 9y ago
> Within a decade, though, anti-immigrant, eugenic and racist forces would persuade Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924, which dramatically cut back immigration of Italians, Eastern European Jews and other groups considered unde
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by gjkood 9y ago
Obligatory Pinky and the Brain reference. https://io9.gizmodo.com/every-single-pinky-and-the-brain-pla...
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by gjkood 9y ago
I agree. Everyone who now has the experience to do the job well was once a novice who had the willingness to learn and put in the necessary effort to do any job well.
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Stanford just abandoned Java in favor of JavaScript for its intro CS course(medium.freecodecamp.com)
1 points by gjkood 9y ago|0 comments
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by gjkood 9y ago
Yes, I was wondering the same. What were Edward Teller's secrets? This reminds me to finally finish reading "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes. I think "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" was one of the best non-fiction books
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by gjkood 9y ago
Woodscrews. See the image on page 7, column 1.
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by gjkood 9y ago
A perusal of the graduation rates [1] in the US in the following fields in the 2014-2015 time frame:- 1. Computer and information sciences: 59,581 2. Engineering: 97,858 3. Engineering technologies: 17,238 4. Mathematics and statistics: 21,
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by gjkood 10y ago
This is very interesting. I was surprised to learn that the British had three currency zones, the Pound Sterling, the Dollar and the Rupee. [1] The Rupee was used throughout the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and Middle East wherever the
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by gjkood 10y ago
> What astronomers hope to finally see when they add up all the signals is a halo of light surrounding a dark circle—the shadow of the black hole. The crescent of light comes from luminous gases, heated to hundreds of billions of degrees
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by gjkood 10y ago
Even more delay... > The hard drives from the South Pole telescope can’t be flown out until the end of the winter season there at the end of October. The picture will be incomplete till end of October plus associated processing delays.
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by gjkood 10y ago
> But that sense of relief is tinged with anticipation: So much data takes time to process, and the team must wait months to find out if their massive effort was truly a success. It could be a few months before something comes out. I hav
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by gjkood 10y ago
Wow, Small World!!! Thank you for your very kind feedback.
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by gjkood 10y ago
A shameless plug for my recent talk at PyCaribbean 2017 on the topic of MicroPython, IoT, ESP8266 and MQTT. It covers broad topics that a beginner to IoT will find interesting. It's a 45 minute talk so it only covers what can be covere
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by gjkood 10y ago
Over the years I have come to agree that "Laziness is the mother of invention". If I have to do something more than once or twice, the first thing I think about is whether it is automatable. One of the reasons I have always tried
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by gjkood 10y ago
And don't forget anti-moonlighting clauses in current employment contracts.
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by gjkood 10y ago
I didn't expect to wake up and read a John Le Carre novel first thing in the morning. How interesting that the author is named 'Carrie Gracie', solely for the Carre vs. Carrie name reference. Life imitates art.
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by gjkood 10y ago
Did you mean "Malayalam"? EDIT: For those who don't understand the reference, "Malayalam" [1] is the official language of the South Indian state of Kerala. The question was asking if the parent post mistyped "M
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by gjkood 10y ago
The reference is to Romulus and Remus, the legendary founding of Rome. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

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