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by jimsmart 9y ago
All of that, plus a lack of understanding regarding the basics of astrophysics, it would seem. (e.g. I've seriously heard flat-earthers argue 'how can water stick to the surface of a ball?')
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Gotta love this final sentence of the whole piece: "[...] However, this essay uses the flat earth as a metaphor for explaining Wikipedia policy, not to describe any authentic historical controversy." — Very clever! (and also quite
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by jimsmart 9y ago
In Go, using strings.Index (from the standard library) will probably out-perform the naive algorithm used in the article — it's well optimised and, for that string length, will use Rabin-Karp search. - https://golang.org&#x2
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Would you be surprised to know that not all Mac owners are developers? </sarcasm>
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by jimsmart 9y ago
There are a few different datasets that might be of use, depending on what you're playing with:- - bAbI https://research.fb.com/downloads/babi/ and https://github.com/facebook/bAbI-tasks
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by jimsmart 9y ago
When I've done scraping, I've always taken this approach also: I decouple my process into paired fetch-to-local-cache-folder and process-cached-files stages. I find this useful for several reasons, but particularly if you want to
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by jimsmart 9y ago
This argument is similar to saying you don't care about someone else's freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Yes, probably. I have a Logitech wireless mouse, and it's terrible when anywhere even remotely near to a USB3 hub. [Edit: plenty of other comments about Logitech issues too]
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Thanks for this: Relaxed AVL trees look useful to me.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
I've implemented some website backends, a ton of 'micro' services, various command-line tools, and a bunch of data-processing stuff. (The distinction between some of these is somewhat arbitrary) These are the areas I think Go
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Well, your question is simply too open-ended: nobody can really answer that for you, as you give no indication whatsoever as to your potential use-cases. FWIW: I've been coding in Go for a few years now, for me and (perhaps more import
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Take a look at Buffalo, it's very much inspired by Rails. https://gobuffalo.io/docs/getting-started
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Mine have become tatty very quickly — perhaps just because I wear them too much? But, tattiness aside, I find their sound exceptional and still think they're worth every penny.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
If by "de-evolved" you mean 'not as high level', then I would agree: Go is indeed a lower-level language than Python. — Go is basically a better (more evolved?) C.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
fredPtr = nil // This line is superfluous. In Go, declarations always initialise variables to their zero value, which for all pointers is nil. (Perhaps worthy of a follow up article: "Go is Not C/C++"? ;)
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by jimsmart 9y ago
PHPUnit is greedy with RAM. I believe the default PHP memory limit is often only 128Mb, have you tried increasing this, or setting it to -1 to remove the limit? In php.ini, you need to change: memory_limit = 128M ;
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085844
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Well, in light of the fact that someone built an emulator of the 6502 processor in Minecraft [0], it would be difficult to argue that it's a not visual programming tool! (of some kind at least ;) [0] https://www.theverge.com
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by jimsmart 9y ago
That's not strictly true: vanilla React doesn't even use a router until you wire one up. It's perfectly cromulent to use just few bits of React on an existing web app/site.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Obviously, being a neural network, you won't know 90% (or more) of what's going on inside the model — which might therefore raise similar concerns.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Check out some of Siraj Raval's videos[0], he has several on building chatbots, one of which is less interesting/relevant as it uses a third-party API, but the others use neural networks IIRC. [0] https://www.youtube.co
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by jimsmart 9y ago
AlphaGo uses TensorFlow. DeepMind announced the were switching over to use TensorFlow not long ago. TensorFlow is fully open-source, you can go and read the algorithms on Github. Neural networks aren't particularly hard to understand.
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by jimsmart 9y ago
Err, the same emails that only a few years back they claimed they weren't 'collecting' anyway?[0] Totally believable. Yeah, totally — and I'm the King of England. [0] https://www.wired.com/2013/06&#x
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by jimsmart 10y ago
What you could do now you have an obviously successful open source project, is to offer your services as an open source developer for hire, and see if they'll pay you to add new features to your software. Though it kinda sounds like th
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Thanks - I've forked it. The 10k is now pretty much a moot point: if your original repo vanishes, there will still be forks of the project on Github. Makes me wonder if they actually know how open source works?
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by jimsmart 10y ago
"Divide and conquer recursive implementation" - so is that backward-chaining inference then? Or something different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_chaining
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by jimsmart 10y ago
I generally write tests for the initial/main functionality up-front - usually just a simple call to some func that's currently just stubbed, assert that it does the right thing (e.g. "I want to call my new code like this... a
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Unless efforts are made for results to be deterministic, concurrent algorithms may complete their work / return their results in an ordering that is unstable (depending mostly on host OS and CPU management of time-slicing).
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Programmer's idealistic thinking, perhaps?
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Generics weren't added to Java until J2SE 5.0 — which was years and years after 1.0, and Go is still 1.x, so I personally believe that ship is a long way from sailing.

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