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by kilburn 13y ago
I didn't see the picture at first, and reasoned just as you exposed. However, the teacher corrects it by writing "4 = 20". This is plainly wrong and with no possible explanation, since following the above reasoning, cutting in 4 pieces woul
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by kilburn 14y ago
You are describing a bad implementation of a bloom filter [1]. Anyway, people expect "uniq" to be correct in all cases (i.e., to never filter a unique line). A default implementation where it would possible (even with a minuscule chance) th
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by kilburn 14y ago
Highway driving and driving everywhere are two very different problems. This car seems to try to solve the former only, so it is not really comparable to google's car or this one.
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by kilburn 14y ago
Also, the human (non)driver here seems _very_ aware during the whole experiment, whereas they've always seemed totally confient in google's car videos.
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by kilburn 14y ago
From the website: "[...] the ability to zip for 265 miles (426 km) on one charge —that's the equivalent of 89 m.p.g. (2.6 L/100 km)" I have a hard time figuring out how on earth did they calculate that. My (european) Ford Focus is not a v
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by kilburn 14y ago
I think it is easy for us to agree in that, from the client's point of view, logging out of a website is idempotent. Now, you got a point about idempotence from the server's point of view. However, it would take a _badly_ programmed website
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by kilburn 14y ago
From the Wikipedia article on Idempotence [1]: Similarly, changing a customer's address is typically idempotent, because the final address will be the same no matter how many times it is submitted. So, even if in one case there'
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by kilburn 14y ago
> Know why it’s important that your GET requests should always be idempotent. For example, your sign-out should only work as a POST request so that someone cannot make your users sign out by just including an <img> tag in their
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by kilburn 14y ago
> google stops being regularly helpful after year 2 of a PhD, for example ... and then you switch to google scholar ;)
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by kilburn 14y ago
The fun fact about this story is that -at least in my country-, a lot of those so-called medical "doctors" actually are not doctors. They completed medical school and some specialty, but they never completed a research thesis.
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by kilburn 14y ago
Do you have a reference for "(2) how to assign interceptors to targets in the best possible way in guaranteed execution time"? I would love to read that paper!
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by kilburn 14y ago
One of the most famous collections/frameworks for development and usage of (traditional) machine learning algorithms is weka [1]. It is written in java, and actively developed by the machine learning group of the University of Waikato. They
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by kilburn 14y ago
To clarify, the original title said that this was a method for _exponentially faster_ data transfer. That said, you got me in that it is not linear. As you have shown, that function is quadratically decreasing (which is _worse_ than linear)
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by kilburn 14y ago
I fail to see how is this _exponentially_ faster. "Transfer time T(K) = 1.25/K where K = number of servers" seems pretty linear to me...
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by kilburn 15y ago
The algorithms used in this article are _extremely_ bad for the case! Realize that the guy is just trying to find the _longest overlap_ between two strings. This is, the longest part at the end of text1 that is repeated exactly at the beggi
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by kilburn 15y ago
The old microsoft box model was basically this one, but the implementation was so full of bugs that it ended up being "test and change until it shows the way you want". There are even lists compiling those bugs, such as http://www.position
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by kilburn 15y ago
Yes it should. If you don't want that space to be from within the element, then you should be setting a margin, not a padding. Box analogy: when you add foam padding to a box to protect its content, are you effectively widening the box or r
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by kilburn 15y ago
Could you please elaborate on why exactly using (non-CNAMEd) "naked domains" is a problem? What do "naked domains" and DDoS attacks have to do with each other?
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by kilburn 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it would blend...
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by kilburn 15y ago
I somehow asumed that the article was about the human's memory works, and tips on how to maximize your (programming) efficiency by better exploiting your working memory. I guess I'll have to wait for that. Bummer! hehe
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by kilburn 15y ago
From their features page ( http://cloud.webspecies.co.uk/features ): "Pulling code from a repository You can configure a Git repository we are going to pull code from every minute or so. Once we find new commits they are going to be automa
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by kilburn 15y ago
Deploy from git sounds like a simple "git pull" being run by cron every minute. Am I missing something?
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by kilburn 15y ago
What about all the other europeans? From my experience as a researcher (on another field), europeans in general tend to use british english way more than american english...
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by kilburn 15y ago
I can not find a reference to explicit "DOs and DONOTs", but you can surely gather experience from systems that have used this schema for a looong long time: mail handling systems. For a quick start, I would look at the maildir specificatio
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by kilburn 15y ago
Haha, looks like they could put some of the article's suggestions to good use there. Home page of blitz.io throws a 500 Internal Server Error right now...
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by kilburn 15y ago
Were you able to actually clear lines? I have been playing with a pair of colleages and when we finally got the whole thing ready for a tetris clear... the lines stood there laughing at us! :S
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by kilburn 15y ago
1. Switch your keyboard to dvorak (can be done with a key combination in all OSes) 2. Write "paypal" as you would in a querty keyboard The result is both easy to remember and very hard to guess ;)
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by kilburn 15y ago
Thanks, it totally makes sense now. "Where we are going" was an affirmative (sub)sentence because the interrogative is already expressed in the "Do you know" part.
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by kilburn 15y ago
I am a non-native speaker, and to me it looks like the second captcha is wrong. According to what they've taught me, it should be "Do you know _____ are we going?" instead of the proposed "Do you know _____ we are going?" , shouldn't it
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by kilburn 15y ago
You, and many others, seem to imply that being "bad math" (mathematically not sound) is the same as being "bad" (in the broad sense). The author never said that the method was useless, nor anything similar. PageRank was an obviously great a

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