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by kdelok 8y ago
Agreed - I think the key to owning a house in Cambridge is to already own a house in Cambridge. That and work in the City or buy-to-let. On the other hand, buying in conjunction with the local housing associations is more feasible, so it&#x
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by kdelok 8y ago
Is there any reason not to use snprintf for almost every application of string manipulation (aside from strduping)?
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by kdelok 8y ago
I think the person above was maybe being too imprecise with their language. Obviously it doesn't affect the frequency of portscans and the like, but whitelisting ports is a reasonable approach to further mitigating your risks.
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by kdelok 8y ago
It's because most of the randomness used by software is actually pseudorandom. What that means is that you actually use a defined sequence. The sequence has behaviour that's close enough to what you'd get if you were picking
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by kdelok 8y ago
They do strain selection twice a year (once for northern, once for southern hemisphere). The years where they get it wrong are usually the years where the strain jumps between different clusters. It's really interesting stuff. Take a l
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by kdelok 8y ago
Yeah, I didn't look particularly critically at it, but this is where I got the figure from: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
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by kdelok 9y ago
Flu vaccines aren't useless, but they also aren't 100% effective. The CDC reckoned they reduce the risk by about 40-60%. Flu is a variable pathogen, which means that it evolves to look different from an immune perspective over tim
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by kdelok 9y ago
I'm not sure it's very confusing. Context suggests that you're not going to be told how many metres you are away from London.
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by kdelok 9y ago
I went to uni with the guy who didn't share his stuff with Cambridge Analytica (Kosinski). He presented the likes -> OCEAN analysis and it was pretty compelling (and frightening) stuff. In particular, with enough likes, it could d
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by kdelok 9y ago
I'd still argue that there's a lot of value in some form of teaching (via book or video or whatever). If left to their own devices, novices will often come up with messy, non-idiomatic ways to do things.
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by kdelok 9y ago
(not for me, so I'm not sure how much I could respond to questions) Is Leap for people who are i) female, ii) identify as a woman, or iii) both? I ask because I have a few friends who are biologically female, but genderqueer (by which
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by kdelok 9y ago
Not involved with Leap at all, but I've always felt like this sort of thing depends on how much discrimination your group is subjected to. Self-segregation like this provides a forum for constructive discussion, particularly if your gr
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by kdelok 9y ago
I couldn't see what their data sources were, but I wonder if this is just tracking when people make most use of work-tracking software?
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by kdelok 9y ago
This looks nice. I also really like: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html It's a pared down cheat sheet that covers most of what I need day-to-day.
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by kdelok 9y ago
The first author of this also developed tools that allow you to analyse all sorts of personality traits (including sexual orientation) via FB likes. He was aware and publicised of the potential consequences and risks here, but I seem to rem
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by kdelok 9y ago
The Khan Academy people wrote a JS script called tota11y that will let you inspect your site: http://khan.github.io/tota11y/
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by kdelok 9y ago
I don't know if it's the actual reason, but they break really easily and they cost a lot more.
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by kdelok 9y ago
I'm actually worried that one of the main things in favour of cryptocurrencies is that they can act as an effective currency for illegal activities, i.e. they'll stay profitable for as long as regulations struggle to keep up with
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by kdelok 9y ago
I can't really comment on non-technical managers, as all of the management at my company are former (and current) developers. However, this list itself doesn't seem like a bad set of questions for a developer to ask themselves, le
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by kdelok 9y ago
In general the performance of C vs Fortran is a moot point. However, for numerical performance, Fortran has (at least) two major advantages that I can see, both of which are about usability: - In-built support for multi-dimensional arrays a
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by kdelok 10y ago
We've been doing outreach work teaching 11-13 year olds to program microbits with Python. It's been a great tool and allowing the kids to see their code running on such a simple device turns out to be a great motivator. I also thi
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by kdelok 10y ago
Historically, the D->G mutation around 222 (numbering schemes vary) in 1918 Spanish flu caused a significant increase in pathogenicity. That's a single bit-flip.
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by kdelok 10y ago
I think the CU constabulary are largely ceremonial nowadays. The Proctors are still responsible for a bunch of disciplinary things, but probably not legal matters (more like exam rules, plagiarism and keeping a vehicle in Cambridge).
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by kdelok 10y ago
This really depends on what the hyperparameter landscape looks like. In general, global optimisation is a very hard problem and doing it by random sampling might take longer than the lifetime of the universe (cf Levinthal's paradox for
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by kdelok 10y ago
You might be interested to speak with David Wales ( http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/dw34 ). He has recently been looking into properties of the landscapes of neural networks and has considerable experience in energy lands