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by gtani 13y ago
Not alien, but not like ordering a sausage mcmuffin for breakfast. You'll recognize ideas taken from haskell (list comprehensions, especially) in other languages but the function definitions (multiple pattern matching clauses/"equations"),
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by gtani 13y ago
I think s7 was emphasizing issues getting what strict/eagerly evaluated languages refer to as stacktraces http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3693 http://www.haskell.org/wikiupload/6/6c/Hiw2012-simon-marlow....
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by gtani 13y ago
Benchmarking on the JVM is tricky, beyond pure algorithmic efficiency (assuming all memory accesses are equal), there's cache effects, JVM heap and GC effects and the usual warmup/inlining concerns of benchmarking. On page 551 of the excel
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by gtani 13y ago
machine learning techniques, which tend to be assumption-free ML should be a rigorous exercise in Bayesian and classical/frequentist stats, computational methods, dataset integrity, visualization etc, if you've been thru the text
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by gtani 13y ago
this is a good blog to follow: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/category/banking-security...
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by gtani 13y ago
I think target audience is folks who're mucking around the low-levels using javap, proguard, Jconsole/visualVM tools (jmap, jstack etc) and other diagnostic/disassembler tools like that for benchmarking/tuning, picking hotspot command line
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by gtani 13y ago
Sure they're patentable (but this one's expired) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis
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by gtani 13y ago
Is there currently a site that talks about the synth's features, pricing, etc?
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by gtani 13y ago
http://teachingtree.co/cs http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/ http://www.algorithmatic.com/browse?q=sort:latest
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by gtani 13y ago
I was a faithful reader of the law school scam blog before he furlowed it, a lot of his pieces were almost tragi-comic on a scale of Aeschylus and Euripides and those guys e.g. http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2013/02/straight-..
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by gtani 13y ago
I would call that an enclosed motorized paraglider. They've been around for a long time in that format(since late 90's or so(?) I'd have to check with friends). Once upon a time I was going to take lessons to learn how to paramotor, but th
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by gtani 13y ago
I think there's a dozen or so free haskell books: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_... http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFree...
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by gtani 13y ago
In my freshman Chemistry lab, this, uh, underperforming student decided to put a beaker of some extremely volatile solvent (carbon tet, acetone, toluene?) on a lit bunsen burner, shooting flames about 12 feet high, damaging the facility pre
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by gtani 13y ago
power/weight ratio: Sausage mcmuffin and other items are 400+ calories for US$1 I have noticed that many suburban McDonalds only care about serving drive-throughs quickly and you could easily wait 6+ minutes for your commodity Indifferent M
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by gtani 13y ago
All well and good, another measure of "lightweight" that is often quoted is a little over 300 words of overhead/erlang BEAM process and 300 bytes/akka actor, do you have comparables for Quasar? http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/pr
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by gtani 13y ago
Could you enumerate your specific perceived shortcomings of akka that you allude to in blog post?
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by gtani 14y ago
This is great. They have python/ruby bootstrap programs in San Francisco, and once in a while we'd discover a future CalTech prof, or something like that. There was one woman who worked in an art gallery, and if i remember correctly, didn'
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by gtani 14y ago
Hmm, H-M, AKA Damas-Milner, p 331 in TAPL (indexed as D-M only, so easy to overlook, and I can't see where it's in Harper's Practical Foundations, AFAICT. As an aside, the other day i started flipping thru Harper's Lazy Eval writeup, and fo
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by gtani 14y ago
Excel's main limitations (disclaim: I haven't upgraded to 2013 yet) - you can't easily audit a spreadsheet unless each cell only refers to cells immediately above or to the left. Otherwise it's GOTO and COMEBACK programming. "referentiall
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by gtani 14y ago
i found out the other day criticizing anything about excel gets you pushback or backlash or some kind of "back" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574764
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by gtani 14y ago
Innaresting. There was some blogging last year about consistency vs. availability issues, similar to what akka, riak, cloud Haskell etc are confronting. It occurs to me you need to do Bayesian inference to order packets on partition http
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by gtani 14y ago
I've had a few non-Thinkpads, non-MBPs: Dell, HP, Toshiba, that i purchased from Costco. And i had problems with power supplies and hard drives, but I always got replacement parts within 2 business days by FedEx at $0.00 cost (prepaid shipp
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by gtani 14y ago
I thought it was kind of well known: don't use Excel for floating point math, statistical analysis, anything moderately involved that would have to be reproducible and auditable http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/excel2007.pdf http://sup
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by gtani 14y ago
Here's a clojure book author on that: http://s-expressions.com/2012/08/05/rathores-10th-rule-of-pr...
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by gtani 14y ago
Thx. also this http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/173887/model-learner-popl... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fun/ http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/avi-pfeffer/figaro...
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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell(dev.stephendiehl.com)
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Steer clear of Facebook’s Home for Android (seattletimes.com)
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by gtani 14y ago
http://tech.cornell.edu/program/ http://www.cornell.edu/nyc/ Not a lot of info on curriculum, this seems similar to Zipfian Academy discussed a few days ago, or a certificate program in Data Science at the Univ. of Washington, but you g
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by gtani 14y ago
The saddest layoff story i ever heard: The CEO called an all hands and gave the canonical "we're too far ahead of our time but now we're out of cash" spiel. Somebody raised his hand and asked "just to clarify, does that m
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by gtani 14y ago
This is nuts, and a fantastic achievement, both. I have a state of the art push longboard (Dregs Uptown, probably the lowest deck you can buy except for a landYacht, 72mm wheels, very clean Red bearings) and I've injured my achilles a few

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