johnwatson11218

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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
When I was in school and first leaning about programming I assumed that code written in C or Java would eventually be ported to hand tuned assembler once enough people were using it. Then I got in to the industry and realized that we just k
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
The use of the term 'p-value' seems off, it looks like he is referring to a different concept but using an overloaded term.
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by johnwatson11218 7y ago
When they don't generalize well it usually means you have over trained on your training data. When you take classes on this stuff they have whole sections that talk about trying to detect this and what to do about it e.g. regularizatio
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
Doug Stanhope was talking about how he was in Norway and there was a 12 hour show that was all about a single boat trip. He said he loved that kind of tv and that even if he had been on that boat ride he would have stayed in his cabin and
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
I agree with the article and comments as well. Does anyone else get so fed up with this light and fluffy style of "gamefication"? I see so many apps that have this same design where there are lots of bright colors and birds but l
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
Phoenix resident here. I find that in summer I need to limit my caffeine and get plenty of sleep. I buy Nuun electrolyte tables for runners and drink them all day in my water while just sitting in the office. Get your AC looked at, make
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
yea I did that program. I'll check it out again at some point and see if they added more description on that part of it.
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
This book really shaped my views on luxury https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Up-Consumers-Goods-Companies-... I really liked the parts where they talk about how new luxury items are often based on some technical aspect that ma
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
I have also noticed that many of the frameworks for writing unit/integration tests are so flexible that developers will easily develop a mini-framework that makes their specif tests able to be expressed in a declarative manner. The dow
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by johnwatson11218 8y ago
I did the Udacity nanodegree last year and the only part I never understood was the call to the "de-convolution" operator in tensorflow. It seems that every description keeps painting the same picture of how the two networks are
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by johnwatson11218 9y ago
what about just calling it "slang"?
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by johnwatson11218 9y ago
Like I mentioned in the top comment, I'm still reading the book, so I'm interested to see how things like moral hazard and preventative care are addressed. In the first chapter he advocates splitting our system into two parts. Th
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by johnwatson11218 9y ago
I am about half way through this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00957T4QK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_CEV... And I think it makes many good points about our health care system. Thinking about why I don't use geico i
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by johnwatson11218 9y ago
I think what the above returns depends on the language. In java I think there is an actual run time exception for this. The point of the original comment is to show how 100% coverage is easy to achieve but often meaningless. There is some o
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by johnwatson11218 9y ago
Not sure if this is already mentioned but for me the most concise illustration of this fallacy was in The Pragmatic Programmer book. They had a function like this: double f( double x ) { return 1/ x; } They pointed out that it is tri
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I remember reading of another example like this on reddit where they referred to this kind of thing as "weaponized autism". In that example they had looked at training videos of a terrorist training camp and managed to get the ph
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
Nobody can know with 100% certainty what the weather will be like tomorrow but you would be a fool not to look at forecasts. Especially if you are are farmer or are planning a picnic. The mental shift to statistical thinking is something th
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I had to dig into gradle dependency resolution once I think I did see it falling back to ivy if it couldn't find it in the maven repo, or if the workstation had a config file for ivy but not maven. Kind of fuzzy on the details at this
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
good to know. I had heard of this stuff before but just assumed it was yet another framework.
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I'm only half kidding but how complex does modern js have to get before it is easier to code business apps in something like unity3d?
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
So far I have only tried fiction. I have Bose headphones so I can pause the audio with a button on the headphones which is nice when I need to stop and go back over a paragraph. If I were reading non-fiction and there were charts or diagram
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I have used the zapreader.com website to read longer articles before and found that I can understand everything when I keep it to about 500 wpm. Recently I started downloading the audible.com audio books for novels that I have laying aroun
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
What about this issue that big winnings would be taxed but you would only be allowed to deduct a certain amount of your losses each year - otherwise people could claim unlimited losses. Even if you had a slight advantage over the house I do
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
Have these techniques been used to generate realistic looking test data for testing software? I have had ideas along these lines but people think I'm talking about fuzz testing when I try and describe it. I'm imagining something w
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I'm not against making it look like Tokyo, I agree that it would be more productive if it were more dense. I don't live there so it isn't my problem. I do think that it limits the amount of economic growth and could hurt t
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
yea I agree that remote is a big part of the solution. Despite all the talk about how easy it is to "work from anywhere" remote still has a lot of pain points. Where I work we can do it one day a week but it sucks when people are
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
Every time one of these articles appears it seems like the comments always mention prop 13, rent control, NIMBY and environmental regulations, and a difficult permitting process as the underlying reasons for the high rents in sf. It seems p
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
sorry - I didn't mean to indicate that using transactions to signal a roll back is an anit-pattern. I started out that comment listing good things I had see exceptions used for. Then that example of the userNameInUse exception came to
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
The best use of exceptions in java that I have seen in production is when an exception is used to roll back a database transaction or when the web layer is able to catch all exceptions, log them, and then redirect the end user to a nice lo
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
The case I remember was the exception handler was trying to do file I/O and got a second exception that was handled somewhere up the call stack. That second exception is the one that was listed in the support ticket.

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