gopalv

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by gopalv 9y ago
This is not going to be fun for the real estate market - the biggest risk in buying a house is your visa renewal if you're heading into a lottery every six years. Double the risk if both spouses are on H1-Bs & you need a double inc
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Come on, all reasonable ARM have NEON and VFPv3 (including cortex M) about the only place I saw something that didn't was an old internet router ARM MIDP UI code in 2003-2004 - very interesting chip (ARM926EJ-S [1]) ... not that I
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by gopalv 9y ago
> But integer arithmetic is not necessarily faster than floating point arithmetic in general; GPUs was the first place I feel like floats got a much better pathway than any other data type - graphical pixel manipulations also can get awa
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by gopalv 9y ago
(man, I'd love to go work on this for three years, without worrying about a "customer" or "backwards compatability") > That is, if you have N distinct values, you can store them using ceil(log(N)/log(2)) bit
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Without saying how much is too much Body weight, metabolism and exercise have to be big variables. The scary part is how much sugar sneaks into your daily diet without noticing - I kept count of the sugar grams per day for a workday an
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by gopalv 9y ago
SFPL has said that they have air filters in some of their locations & the mayor tweeted that people can go sit around in the library if they have trouble breathing. https://twitter.com/mayoredlee/status/9184773
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by gopalv 9y ago
Over my CS education, the biggest logical leap I've made towards automating massive number of boolean operations came from using the normal forms as much as possible - conjuctive and disjunctive normal forms. I personally prefer the DN
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by gopalv 9y ago
> even those who know their algorithms are at a risk of bias are more interested in the bottom line There's more to it than the bottom line, the trouble is that nobody wants to take responsibility trying to change the world that the
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Starting with the Haswell micro-architecture, the indirect branch predictor got much better Looking at the results I get, I feel like there's also an inlined switch lookup so that the CPU can get ahead of it. Basically if I had to
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by gopalv 9y ago
> In dynamically typed languages you kind of just grep and hope the name is not too common. For four days, I spent debugging a python production script because in one place I had typo'd ".recived=true" on an object and ju
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by gopalv 9y ago
> The server only has to send one bit back to the client! As much as the example is a bad one because it leaks server-side info to an unauthenticated client, I've had scenarios where if you have > 3 ssh keys in your key-chain all
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by gopalv 9y ago
> But somehow when talking about Athena I always end up thinking about using big CSVs on S3 as data source, so what I really meant was Athena+S3 I guess. CSV is a very unwieldy storage format for Athena + S3, since Athena charges you by
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by gopalv 9y ago
> So maybe the article is onto something about the value of the language. The strongest feature of SQL is the lack of specificity about "How it should return results" and primarily deals with the details of what the expected re
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Is there marketing when it comes to hashing? Hashing is pretty much a market for lemons - the adopting user is confronted by a complex math they don't understand and there is a definite problem if you drive out with the wrong hash
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Just run astyle or indent. "Style" is more than indentation - my favourite example is something I worked with very closely, but always needed a cheat-sheet on my desk - the PHP arrays api. Just look at the docs for array_sear
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Why not just hash the hand itself? "3459To" where o stands for off suit? Permutable hashes - you could just sort them and hash again, but the prime multiply hashing is pretty neat way of mapping all items in any order to the
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Or perhaps children are simply less inhibited and aren’t so scared about making mistakes. Struck a chord there - because I had come to the same conclusion of sorts, about my ability to practice activities in public. Riding a bicycle is
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by gopalv 9y ago
> This sounds like basic Huffman encoding. What am I not understanding? The smallest item in a Huffman encoded tree is a single bit. You can end up with fractional bits with ANS. And this puzzled me too, till I ran into a fractional bit-
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by gopalv 9y ago
> So if I spot it then what does it tell me about the spectrum Probably nothing - except that you don't see a box in perspective, looking at the diagram below, the "shape" synthesis in your brain might be different. Your m
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by gopalv 9y ago
> All 2.12.x releases will be fully binary compatible with 2.12.0 That's the scary bit of detail about Scala releases, so far - I find that an upgrade of the compiler is only possible if you've ready to build up everything.
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by gopalv 9y ago
> This wouldn't be necessary if we actually invested in our own citizens. So much this - I know of this from my own life. I got a state funded CS education for around 500$ a year (if my family had been poorer, they'd have paid
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by gopalv 9y ago
To generate 100 Terabytes of data in parallel ... on Hadoop https://github.com/hortonworks/hive-testbench/blob/hive14/tp... The shell script generates a Makefile and the Makefile runs the hadoop commands
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by gopalv 9y ago
> also, instances die all the time This where the durability argument has a problem as well. At a first glance, this looks like an un-replicated system, which means that the loss of an instance is an availability nightmare. The worrying
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by gopalv 9y ago
> The first time I tried a packet (GU gel) in a practice run, I nearly puked I used to puke anything I had when I ran. My digestion couldn't handle food when I was running. It was a mix of slight heartburns (& coffee) causing a
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Maybe a 5K or a half ... the article mentions him hitting walls as he hit certain mile markers, Knowing where your walls are ... that's been one of the self-reflection exercises for me. Because it is an extremely personal limit &a
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by gopalv 9y ago
> But except for the parent and a lot of other people. I've seen placebos work too - most of my childhood homeopathic medication was probably placebos. For a single person, the important factor for treatment is outcome - not statist
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by gopalv 9y ago
"Power of 2 Random Choices" ... has nothing to do with the "Power of 2" directly. I like 2Choice because it is not dependent on hash function design & is temporal, but I have a positive aversion to the 2^n hash distr
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by gopalv 9y ago
That is the stuff of urban legends ... http://www.fleeb.com/rant/pot.html
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by gopalv 9y ago
> I just pulled out a python script, and combine that with Postgres and within an afternoon I had completed the project (albeit not production ready) There are two problems here - one is that people prototype their architecture using mas
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by gopalv 9y ago
Having worked for one of those names, I have to guess that this is probably clearing the bench rather than removing employees with billings. More often than not, the bench exists to promise a customer that they have the people to "star

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