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by goodside 7y ago
Bad, sloppy, breathless writing. Reiterating the central metaphor for pages on end doesn’t make it right. It’s like the author really wanted to vent with their preferred insult for more successful game developers and needed a few pages of f
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by goodside 7y ago
Domestic steel and coal production, which is why Trump is uniquely popular in the rural areas surrounding Pittsburgh.
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by goodside 7y ago
Also see Facebook’s XAR: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
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by goodside 7y ago
This concern is vague, frequently raised, and not especially useful. What are you advocating, specifically? That the amount of compute being thrown at problems is excessive relative to the economic benefit that Google (or whoever) derives f
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by goodside 7y ago
The surgery needed to install the chip is itself detrimental to your IQ. The brain was not made to be exposed to air. You don’t get your skull opened up unless there’s no other option — these are patients who were already forced into this c
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by goodside 7y ago
That value will not change when the contents of the dict are updated. You’re keying on the dict itself rather than the hashed contents. That’s what you want in some situations, but it’s not what the parent post is looking for.
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by goodside 7y ago
> Most Python programmers wouldn't see a need for that, but that can be attributed to Python not having the capability by default and so they've just internalised not to use dict for anything that needs to be a key. You're
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by goodside 8y ago
> a variable annotation expression could require the right-hand to be a type expression. It's not clear to me why these kinds of moves aren't taken Because when annotations were introduced in PEP 3107 they were not meant exclus
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by goodside 8y ago
Mypy intentionally does not check annotations inside untyped `def` statements. This is a feature meant to make it easier to gradually introduce types in code that wasn't intended to be typechecked. If you call mypy with the flag `--che
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by goodside 8y ago
The real problem, as others point out, is not using a linter to catch errors before runtime. Mypy flags this problem through static analysis. You’re right I’m being uncharitable by saying “understanding”. I’m annoyed he bothered writing an
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by goodside 8y ago
Understanding the basic syntax for assignment isn’t a high bar to clear. While it’s maybe not ideal to use colons for both the “assignment-like” separator between keys and values inside dictionaries and the annotation of types, introducing
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by goodside 8y ago
If you find 1.5x-faster gzip useful, you should consider benchmarking pigz, a parallel gzip implementation that goes faster still: https://zlib.net/pigz/ Similarly there's lbzip2 ( http://lbzip2.org )
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by goodside 8y ago
You should definitely consider using xsv under the hood. It’s dramatically faster than any other tool of its kind that I’ve tried, with low-level implementation in Rust.
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by goodside 8y ago
It's standard practice to validate forecasts on non-randomized test/validation splits of the same time series, since this simulates the conditions where the model will be deployed in reality: It will know everything there is to kn
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by goodside 8y ago
Less so. Log-normal returns are better because they have the property that a summation of log-normal returns over contiguous intervals is equal to the log-normal returns of the combined interval. In other words: Losing 5% and then gaining 5
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by goodside 8y ago
The problem isn’t that ML has gotten worse. It’s just as rigorous and far more powerful than it ever was. The problem is ML is hard, it hasn’t gotten orders-of-magnitude easier to understand, and there’s enormous incentive now to pass off a
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by goodside 8y ago
This is pure nonsense. This isn’t even the right way to begin thinking about this as a forecasting task — the target series should be log-normal returns, not raw asset price. The performance of this model is laughably bad, which is probably
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by goodside 8y ago
Yes. This is what Chainalysis does, among many other things — track tainted coins that people are intentionally obscuring the origin of.
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by goodside 8y ago
The comment I was replying to stated that n was a "huge number", presumably bigger than 3.
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by goodside 8y ago
This is not true! Nearly all of the hypervolume of a high-dimensional n-ball is located near its surface. A popular way of stating this is "If you peel a high-dimensional orange, there will be almost nothing left." The ratio of &q
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by goodside 8y ago
Argue each issue on its individual merits. Don’t dismiss others as Luddites or neophiles, and don’t worry about people who do. Nobody thinks you’re a Luddite because you don’t like DevOps. Nobody cares that much.
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by goodside 9y ago
The original name of the feature actually was "stalkers" — that's how it was presented to users before 2010 or so. The site had a lot of dark humor then. The word "stalk" also works as a clarifying synonym for &qu
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by goodside 9y ago
Coinbase did that to me and at least three people I know personally. You’re not a special edge case —- they just suck.
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by goodside 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "control the miners" — they're building this on OmiseGo, which isn't mineable. All of the substantial ICOs require some level of KYC/AML registration for direct public sales and pr
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by goodside 9y ago
It makes it possible for the asset to be traded on third-party markets without the knowledge, consent, or control of the organization that issued the tokens. It also helps you trust that movement of the asset will not be hindered by the iss
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by goodside 9y ago
> But if you bought BTC and held it--at any high or low, for any significant amount of time--you made a lot of money (either realized or unrealized, that doesn't matter). This isn't entirely true. If you bought Bitcoin anywhere
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by goodside 9y ago
The issue is that cities and entire states (RI and CA) started banning elephants, so the "vocal minority" they listened to was the government. You're making it sound like they screwed up by following the law.
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by goodside 9y ago
Even if your strategy is short-selling companies with exposure to Bitcoin assets before alerting the world, your profits are proportional to how big Bitcoin is.
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by goodside 9y ago
> "To my knowledge, there is no altcoin with any significant amount of use that does not use this principal. Please tell me which altcoins do not use this principal." Ripple, which currently has a market cap of $6.4B USD and $2
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by goodside 9y ago
> "Other crypto-currencies that attempt to have faster transactions are simply trading safety for speed." This hasn't been true since about 2013. Altcoins don't just twiddle the parameters of BTC anymore. They're

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