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Recommendations for the AI Field in 2017(medium.com)
3 points by isp 9y ago|0 comments
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by isp 9y ago
I hadn't thought of this approach. Not a good alternative to a meaningful (to the user) message like "Disk is full", but an interesting alternative to an opaque error number/code. Original Reddit post: https:/&#x2F
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One way to improve usability in error messages(twitter.com)
1 points by isp 9y ago|1 comments
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by isp 9y ago
I'm glad it was helpful. I found this list (a very helpful list, with good posts!) during $DAY_JOB. Following your comment, I've shared this more widely here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464921
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by isp 9y ago
Thank you for the posts that you authored. These were very helpful for me at $DAY_JOB. BigQuery itself is a very impressive piece of tech.
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by isp 9y ago
Excellent suggestion - though remember when reading that BigQuery has since added "Standard SQL" - which is much more flexible and close to the standard (as the name suggests!).
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by isp 9y ago
A collection of condensed, easy-to-read posts that I found helpful when learning about BigQuery (BQ).
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BigQuery: Required Reading List(medium.com)
72 points by isp 9y ago|22 comments
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by isp 9y ago
Some good reading on BigQuery: https://medium.com/@thetinot/bigquery-required-reading-list-...
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by isp 9y ago
Linux Libertine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine $ pdffonts loRaBackscatter.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------
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by isp 9y ago
Good correction, but a small second nit. > sometimes they're just plain faster Not faster for sufficiently large N (by definition). But your general point is correct. I've best seen this expressed in Rob Pike's 5 Rules of
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Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy(arxiv.org)
1 points by isp 9y ago|0 comments
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by isp 10y ago
Representative quotes from the article: "The birds proved to have a remarkable ability to distinguish benign from malignant human breast histopathology after training with differential food reinforcement; even more importantly, the pig
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Pigeons as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images(journals.plos.org)
3 points by isp 10y ago|1 comments
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Why Typography Matters – Especially at the Oscars(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by isp 10y ago|0 comments
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by isp 10y ago
Kindred AI (the mentioned start-up): https://www.kindred.ai/ IEEE Spectrum on Kindred AI: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...
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How a Human-Machine Mind-Meld Could Make Robots Smarter(technologyreview.com)
2 points by isp 10y ago|1 comments
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by isp 10y ago
New SVN attack category: denial-of-service by SHA-1 collision.
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by isp 10y ago
Parts of this are already possible. A challenge, though, is that cancer cells tend to have wildly unstable genomes. Further reading - with good summaries of current thinking: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of
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by isp 10y ago
Interesting keyword to research: "p53". Example (very readable): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NB14L6Y > If a cell makes a mistake in copying its DNA during the process of division, p53 stops it in its tr
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by isp 10y ago
There are tie-ins with Taleb's concept of anti-fragility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Introduction
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by isp 10y ago
Wirth's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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by isp 10y ago
> It embeds some bitcoin into each copy of a file that is sent to a licensed recipient, usually a reviewer I wish the article had more details about how the Bitcoins are embedded - because the obvious question is whether they could be tr
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Bitcoin is the film industry's latest weapon against piracy(gizmodo.co.uk)
3 points by isp 10y ago|1 comments
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by isp 10y ago
Research in progress at Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK. This has been picked up by the media (how I heard about it) - but with the usual hyperbole, e.g., - Microsoft will 'solve' cancer within 10 years by 'reprogramming&
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How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to 'solve' cancer(news.microsoft.com)
53 points by isp 10y ago|38 comments
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by isp 10y ago
Via patio11's tweet: "Pretty brilliant idea: 'Imposter Handbook', for teaching self-taught devs what they missed by not doing a CS degree." - https://twitter.com/patio11/status/767204505578
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The Imposter's Handbook(impostershandbook.com)
331 points by isp 10y ago|227 comments
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by isp 10y ago
Essentially yes. But note that it is using a row hammer attack to physically flip the bit in the shared memory. Doing so bypasses the normal copy-on-write shared memory safeguard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hamme
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by isp 10y ago
These specifically apply to Postgres, and don't necessarily generalise to all databases. One example: counter-example to #4. Oracle database (since 11g) has a "fast add column" feature - which allows adding a non-NULL column

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