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by jules 9y ago
I am not sure microservices are good for scalability in that sense. Microservices divide your application vertically, but for scalability you want to divide it horizontally. You don't want a separate service for each feature of your ap
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by jules 9y ago
> No it wasn't (and no it isn't), it's aimed at abolishing the class structure. So it was aimed at replacing the existing structure... > The "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory posits that there is a group
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by jules 9y ago
I don't see how this contradicts what I said. A class struggle is about disrupting the existing structure, which is western society. Classical communism was also aimed at replacing the existing structure. There are people who don'
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by jules 9y ago
What do you mean by scalability?
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by jules 9y ago
Why is cultural Marxism a conspiracy theory? It was my impression that Marxism just means class struggle in this context, and that cultural Marxism means class struggle on cultural issues rather than economic issues?
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by jules 9y ago
Tasty Tom is very nice, but they are 2.5x more expensive than these.
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by jules 9y ago
Buy this type of cherry tomato, they're nice and still relatively affordable: http://rooi.versuit.nl/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9... They won't beat summer sun grown tomatoes
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by jules 9y ago
The tomatoes themselves don't have a strong smell, though the vines do.
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by jules 9y ago
There are flavourful varieties such as Tasty Tom or small plum tomatoes, but they are much more expensive at €10 per kg versus €2 per kg for a basic variety and less than €1 per kg for the most tasteless variety.
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by jules 9y ago
The log(total) term increases without bound whereas the pos/tot term is at most 1, so in the limit of a lot of votes you will beat an item with fewer votes even if all your votes are downvotes. That there are two configurable parameter
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by jules 9y ago
GPUs are massively multicore and there we see the opposite of what this article predicts or hopes would happen: grids win even more over graphs. The best graph algorithms for those chips try to turn the graph problem into a grid problem as
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by jules 9y ago
That formula will give an item a higher score the more down votes it gets. A better approach is score = (pos + a) / (tot + b). Where a<b, e.g. a=1, b=2. See this post why that formula follows from Bayesian reasoning: http:/&#x
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by jules 9y ago
I wrote a blog post about a simpler and statistically grounded method: http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-...
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by jules 9y ago
Most of ML is fitting models to data. To fit a model you minimise some error measure as a function of its real valued parameters, e.g. the weights of the connections in a neural network. The algorithms to do the minimisation are based on gr
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by jules 9y ago
Well, information theory isn't much more than the logarithm of probability theory, so it doesn't hurt to learn it anyway. The only thing you need to know is that given a probability distribution P there exist a compression scheme
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by jules 9y ago
Why do you need partial differential equations? I don't think you necessarily need any knowledge of differential equations to do ML, though the top ML people certainly would know it because of their general math education.
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by jules 9y ago
* Calculus * Linear algebra * Optimisation * Probability Various universities have very good course content freely available online, often including textbook recommendations, course notes, exercises, sample exams, and video lectures. Realis
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by jules 9y ago
This is a nice technique in theory, but in practice it isn't so fast, mainly because of the implementation details. Radix sort is actually faster than comparison sorts if implemented well.
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by jules 9y ago
I wonder if it is possible to express this analysis as a datalog program.
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by jules 9y ago
A play on regular expressions: https://sebfisch.github.io/haskell-regexp/regexp-play.pdf This paper explains a beautiful algorithm for matching regular expressions with a Socratic dialogue.
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by jules 9y ago
> It's even ineffective. I wouldn't be so sure. Do this to a few people and thousands of others start to mince their words. It could be extremely effective if it were employed as a political strategy, because being locked out o
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by jules 9y ago
Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor, also got locked out of his account. He also happens to have incorrect views. Have any other professors been locked out of their account?
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by jules 9y ago
Men are impacted the same way. The argument in the memo is that (1) tech jobs are passion jobs for men to a greater degree than women, hence in societies where people are more able to follow their passion you'd see relatively more men
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by jules 9y ago
You are projecting your own biases onto that statement.
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by jules 9y ago
The top comment in that thread has a hypothesis.
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by jules 9y ago
Local agriculture usually costs a lot more energy and land than large scale agriculture or agriculture in a climate that is best suited for the plant. The transportation costs are a rounding error for many products. Organic products are par
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by jules 9y ago
For the recipes that I cook multiple times I have figured out optimal pan/bowl management, including reusing dirty bowls or pans if it doesn't hurt. For example for rice pudding I whip the egg whites in the bowl that will be used
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by jules 9y ago
It may be a great habit in a restaurant where you always have more work in the queue, but for home cooking it makes a lot of sense to interleave cooking with chopping. It saves time not just because the cooking and chopping happens in paral
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by jules 9y ago
The freedom to leave gives you leverage within the company, even if you don't leave. Imagine how it would be within companies if the government forced people to stay.
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by jules 9y ago
I didn't truly understand regular expressions until I saw how they are executed. There are simple algorithms for executing them, so that might not be such a bad way to teach.

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