jgorham

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Maintaining Large Binary Resources in Git(stackoverflow.com)
48 points by jgorham 15y ago|3 comments
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by jgorham 15y ago
I agree with you that there's no real imperative for a sports league to need to "keep up" with technology. But one possible way to look at this is as a regulation on what technology coaches can or cannot use currently as they please. E.g.,
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by jgorham 15y ago
I wonder if in his installation of R he has ATLAS build in as the linear algebra workhorse. That seems to be optimized for something like this- I wonder how this would affect R's speed.
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by jgorham 15y ago
The average American eats twice as many kilograms of meat than the next nationality (last time I checked it was the British). As the article states, beef is by far the most environmentally draining; it turns out in terms of protein and calo
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by jgorham 15y ago
I don't know if this is a fair recapitulation of his "argument" - the three categories you are alluding to above were more criteria he offered for how you might judge the worth of college as an institution. I'm fairly certain the author of
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by jgorham 15y ago
I don't know if Ramsey's theorem really says anything as grand about disorder as Maxwell's demon and the like, but it does express something quantitative about the existence of subsets containing some specific properties as the size of the
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by jgorham 15y ago
While I appreciate Mike Rowe's sentiments and general argument, this speech reminds of politicians who lament the loss of manufacturing jobs as America's backbone. Economists have regularly pointed out that as a country becomes wealthier an
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by jgorham 15y ago
One interesting fact regarding population growth is that worldwide, having children on aggregate is a inferior good: if parts of Africa and Southeast Asia can make some significant gains in the next few decades, we will likely see populatio
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by jgorham 16y ago
While I don't doubt that in the future there may be some machine that can crunch logic at a ridiculous pace, Watson still seems far off from the AI the author here is alluding to. Machine learning of Watson's nature (classification problems