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by haddr 9y ago
I wonder how they justify the use of proof of work to maintain consensus. Wouldn't it consume a significant amount of the electricity generated by those solar panels?
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by haddr 9y ago
Very nice and promising thing. I would suggest performing a second iteration with the following improvements: - classify on all characters (not only one word) - add some more fonts, at least those most popular ones. I tried with a few very
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by haddr 9y ago
While this is a great article, it also transmits some truth about R: writing anything fast is a pain in the ass. Especially frustrating when you hear those R "experts" repeating "use apply" functions. The truth is, the d
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by haddr 9y ago
You will maximize your job opportunities with Java.
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by haddr 9y ago
I'm amazed that nobody mentioned in comments that this memory leak is not a "typical" memory leak, but rather quite an obscure one. It happened to me once (through some 3rd party library), and before that I had no idea that P
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by haddr 10y ago
Wow this looks really cool! I didn't know it before... There is another one that i'm using: tracker, but it's less cool.
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by haddr 10y ago
It's hard to be "invulnerable" these days. I guess you could avoid the majority of infections by using some "weird" software configuration: such as linux with some nightly built of chromium. I heard that Macs are al
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by haddr 10y ago
I'm curious what is the trick in building the whole Nautilus in under 5 minutes? I mean how do this new build tool accomplish that?
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by haddr 10y ago
I don't have one, and I guess that's still somehow unsolved problem. But there are some works on creativity and AI. This is definitely an interesting space to observe.
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by haddr 10y ago
But given the whole corpus of all human-written texts, couldn't they be as creative as us?
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by haddr 10y ago
We are getting better and better with automatic text generation. I wonder who will be the copyright owner of an AI-generated text, comments, songs, etc.?
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by haddr 10y ago
Thanks! it's good to know that it is easier now to diagnose those complexity issues. Anyway if you can post an example, that could be really cool!
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by haddr 10y ago
There is a class of problems which you can solve using Prolog with pure pleasure. There is one thing however: Prolog can magically hide the complexity of many things, which is a two-sided sword. On many occasions you are hiding away the com
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by haddr 10y ago
I mean false positive that null hypothesis is rejected.
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by haddr 10y ago
I think there is a whole class of statistical "strangeness" with using p values for hypothesis testing. For instance, p = 0.05 means that we have ~30% chance that our hypothesis is a false positive [1], which is far from what intu
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by haddr 10y ago
I love this one, but I guess it must be less common to have such a problem in the real life. Or I'm wrong?
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by haddr 10y ago
For this reason R has a function for comparing results of floating point math: all.equal() it is quite tricky as it might show that .1+.2 is 0.3, but this is only due to the fact that default output is a subject of default formatting (i.e.
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by haddr 10y ago
The title is misleading in a way making it a click bait. The article is cool, though. Both languages are equally fast.
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by haddr 10y ago
Totally agree! Once we were very close to implement a very similar scenario (stream of events, some lightweight processing, kafka for distribution, hbase/solr for storage). If you go for such thing, better be sure that your business an
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by haddr 10y ago
How does the concept of linking translates to a deployed database that is interfaced using some SQL endpoint or REST service?
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by haddr 10y ago
Couldn't disagree more with this article. VPN is a solution to a policy problem until policy makers forbid VPN to enforce their core idea in the first place. (e.g. see United Arab Emirates for some restrictions of VPN use)
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by haddr 10y ago
If I'm making a step forward, and keep doing the same thing, it will lead me to different places.
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by haddr 10y ago
Brilliant thing! As a person pursuing a PhD I'd something that is in my opinion the best way to avoid research debt: have a good tutor or a good group (peers). This way you can learn new things (or ask for something you don't unde
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by haddr 10y ago
The Antidesktop aside, but I'm missing freshmeat website. It seems that most open source stuff is advertised now on www.openhub.net but I'm not sure if this still have the same spirit.
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by haddr 10y ago
I have a feeling that blockchain is more of a solution in search of a problem. Blockchain is really a clever thing and it amazes me in many details e.g. specially when looking at bitcoin. But it still doesn't convince me where else it
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by haddr 10y ago
There are several services like this if you are interested (or you try to find some very rare font), one that gives quite good results is whatthefont
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by haddr 10y ago
I remember this website from early '00. I'm really glad it is still online and flourishing! This is literally one of the best (if not the best) website with font resources on the web.
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by haddr 10y ago
I think editing comments is disabled once someone posts reply...
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by haddr 10y ago
Ok, I got this, but honestly i thought you meant the opposite
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by haddr 10y ago
Spot on. I laughed on every single font. Each one actually has a long story on abuse. For replacement fonts I also like Palatino

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