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by iskander 13y ago
>You will need to break Tor, trace BitCoins, trace deliveries, or trick sellers. These aren't all of equivalent difficulty...
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by iskander 13y ago
>Your neighbor will have a bad day but won't won't get in trouble This may result in your neighbor being raided and possibly being injured (and small chance they might be killed). Please read the description of some of these bo
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Nay on GMO labeling laws(holycrapscience.tumblr.com)
5 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments
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by iskander 13y ago
My grandfather interviews holocaust survivors and helps make small books of their stories. I set up a dropbox account for him to share transcripts of the interviews, and now he uses it along with the other volunteers. A half dozen retirees,
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Contractors blame government for healthcare website woes(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments
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by iskander 13y ago
Well, at some point you're down to the addresses of known murderers, at which point I don't think you'd want to sub-divide any further. "Franky's house is fine, just don't go in the basement".
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by iskander 13y ago
Once you get used to the nuances of a place then you start to internalize its dangers in this way. I heard and experienced the same logic about threats while in the West Bank. The danger is really overblown, as long you don't drive tha
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by iskander 13y ago
I know people who regularly go between NYC and Philadelphia. The distance is about 100 miles, covered in 70-90 minutes (depending on the train). During peak hours trains run every 15 or 30 minutes and even the night-time gap isn't terr
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Training Random Forests in Python using the GPU(blog.explainmydata.com)
15 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments
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by iskander 13y ago
Any idea why the street cars were scrapped?
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by iskander 13y ago
> Sees like the government is terrible at building anything, especially when contractors are used to do the job. Strange to contrast that with a tremendously active and efficient era of public works from the 1890s through the 1950s. Just
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by iskander 13y ago
I sincerely don't understand what you're saying. Can you clarify? Also, I feel like maybe I wasn't clear. You are considered Jewish by even the strictest standards if you (1) converted or (2) can trace matrilineal descent f
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by iskander 13y ago
Since you seem to know about this field, any chance you can share you opinion on the working going at DE Shaw Research? Does developing custom hardware for molecular dynamics give them any sort of qualitative advantage? Are the systems the
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by iskander 13y ago
>If being Jewish is defined as genetically descending from the Israelites through the maternal line, then many Ashkenazi Jews fail the test, according to this data. This assumes that the conversion of long-ago wives were somehow invalid
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by iskander 13y ago
(1) This article is talking about Ashkenazi / European Jews. Other Jewish populations (North African, Mesopotamian, Ethiopian, Indian, etc..) generally have patrilineal descent from the original Levantine population and to varying degr
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by iskander 13y ago
I work on a runtime compiler with LLVM and gcc backends. LLVM presents me with a nice API to generate its IR in memory. For gcc, I actually write out a ".c" file and then invoke gcc to compile it into a shared library, which I loa
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Parakeet: A runtime compiler for numerical Python(parakeetpython.com)
3 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments
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by iskander 13y ago
Any interest in also trying Parakeet ( https://github.com/iskandr/parakeet ) for the backend? I'm curious to see how the performance would compare with Numba. I also have a semi-usable Builder API which constructs t
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by iskander 13y ago
Why did you guys choose to compile through Numba rather than directly to LLVM or C?
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by iskander 13y ago
Cool use of Numba. Does anyone know if there's more information available about their query language and what kinds of Python expressions they dynamically generate?
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by iskander 13y ago
Good comparison with the big inland empires. Any idea what qualifies as 'civilization' in the ground truth data?
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by iskander 13y ago
What about medicine? The leap from Galen (whose methods dominated Europe for a shockingly long time) to Islamic-era methods was pretty dramatic. You have the invention of modern surgical methods in Cordoba in the 10th century (many still us
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by iskander 13y ago
>Neither civilized areas nor technology (except in China) changed much during that period. The extremely sudden rise of Islam seems like a pretty big change to me. You had Western Roman influence in North Africa, a big functioning Easter
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by iskander 13y ago
I think you might have evaded the question :-). There really are some "webapps" with tight performance requirements. For example, Google's web frontend is a statically compiled C++ application. And yes, anithero, you could wr
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by iskander 13y ago
In particular, a lot of was written by Siu Kwan Lam ( https://github.com/sklam ), who doesn't seem prone to taking public credit but has been quietly doing an awesome job.
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by iskander 13y ago
Yes, Nuitka ( http://nuitka.net/ ) and Cython ( http://cython.org/ ) both compile a Python program to a chain of C API calls. The performance benefit isn't typically all that large, since removing dispatch
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by iskander 13y ago
In a similar vein, does anyone want remixgrid.com or gothamroommates.com for any sort of interesting or altruistic project?
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by iskander 13y ago
I've been enjoying it: work with smart folks, occasionally speak at conferences, learn whatever you're curious about.. However, the money situation can become tricky (especially in New York). I double my income from summer interns
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Programming a Game in OCaml(cranialburnout.blogspot.ca)
2 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments
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Parakeet: Runtime Compiler for Python (video from PyData Boston)(vimeo.com)
3 points by iskander 13y ago|0 comments

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