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by joefkelley 11y ago
The crucial difference here is between using a totally open-sourced technology like Storm (or Heron, if they release it) and being a consumer of a public API with a proprietary implementation, or making use of their platform/users&#x2F
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by joefkelley 11y ago
If nothing else, this is immediately useful to the sport of fencing. If you're not aware, competitive fencers already wear metallic jackets to detect when one has been hit by the other's weapon. If this could make them cheaper&#x2
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by joefkelley 11y ago
Google has some serious chops when it comes to image recognition and machine learning. Telling the difference between a photo of a car and a photo of a train is much more difficult that telling the difference between a real photo and some r
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by joefkelley 12y ago
I think my situation might not quite fit this survey, and I'm wondering if it's common enough to skew the results. I interned at a company the summer before my senior year, and they gave me a full-time offer at the end. That meant
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by joefkelley 12y ago
A typical generous estimate of human visual acuity is 0.3 arcminutes. As in, any pixel density beyond that is probably not visible to us. It's not an exact measurement since there's disagreement over how to properly measure it. Bu
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by joefkelley 12y ago
Seriously, DOOM is in his own league. At one point in "All Outta Ale", he rhymes "3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine" with "oxyacetaline." Also, probably my favorite individual rhyme of all time, from "Meat
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by joefkelley 12y ago
This is cool for this example, but it seems like for a non-trivial state machine (I'm thinking TCP open/close or similar) the co-routine code could get very messy. It's really a small subset of state machines for which this i
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by joefkelley 12y ago
For a great counter-argument, see: http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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by joefkelley 13y ago
I just put up a blog post covering this and a number of other interesting decimal expansions: fibonacci: 100000000/99989999=1.000100020003000500080013002100340055... integers: 1000000/998001=1.002003004005006... square numbers: 10
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by joefkelley 13y ago
Songza would be awesome, but it seems to not really actually work.
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by joefkelley 13y ago
Think Big Analytics - Mountain View, Chicago, Salt Lake City We do Big Data Consulting. There aren't many companies where you can be working with Petabyte-scale clusters but still be at a start-up, but we're one of them. We curren