kirillseva

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by kirillseva 9y ago
I prefer the syntax of STAN or edwardlib. Curious why Uber would choose to work on a PPL library in-house as opposed to contributing to existing mature OSS packages
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by kirillseva 9y ago
The browser with its plethora of extensions is arguably even worse than an operating system, and yet people keep using online banking and don't get hacked 24/7. Software can be reasonably secure and is basically as vulnerable as
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Be careful when posting unpopular opinions on internet forums! You might get downvoted and get no constructive criticism in return
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Thanks for the blog series, Jack! When is your ICO?
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Well supposedly you'd use native data.frame's if you're using a faster R implementation. However, I would agree with you that at this point in time it's fair to assume that R is no longer a language in and of itself - it
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by kirillseva 9y ago
that's a fairly toxic and silly attitude towards a free software project. Don't like it - don't use it. I personally think it's great that there are people who are working on making R faster/better/popular, eve
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by kirillseva 9y ago
umm, generating a block whose hash starts with N consecutive zeroes (e.g. 000000009A8C3...) seems to be exactly that - an NP hard problem that's trivial to verify in polynomial time.
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by kirillseva 9y ago
If you're only using a "stable whitelist" of websites on the internet then you're not the target audience
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by kirillseva 9y ago
ICO
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Didn't know about MLK blackmail. Reminds me of what happened to Hemingway. [1] Sometimes when you have paranoia it doesn't mean that you're crazy. [1] - https://stevehuff.net/2015/07/02/ernest-h
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by kirillseva 9y ago
"decentralized" wikipedia with a flat UI that requires 1.5Mb .js just for the landing page and running either a full eth node or a half-assed chrome extension (and hence isn't available on mobile). As Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Ethereum has pretty much delivered on both the technical promise and financial return
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by kirillseva 9y ago
who controls the rest of the money? Could be the same people, just indirectly, via friends or shell companies incorporated in Switzerland
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by kirillseva 9y ago
correct, if we sample without replacement here https://gist.github.com/kirillseva/961fa1f5b5d64254e0117caf1... then we'd indeed have a balanced situation where everybody keeps their initial balance. However, we do
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by kirillseva 9y ago
without any cap it doesn't look fun for the unlucky person. Take a look at my other comments on this thread, there's a link to a gist that generates an animation with the same starting conditions as OP, but forcing the person with
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by kirillseva 9y ago
with the following parameters: NUM_PEOPLE = 45 INITIAL_BANK = 45 # everyone gets 45 dollars INTEREST_RATE = 0.1 # 10% per turn that you didn't pay ROUNDS = 5000 RENT = 1 # how much to pay each roun
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Modified the problem from this post to also include debt. If someone doesn't have the funds to pay during the turn, they have to borrow money from the person they should be giving it to, and pay back with interest. Check out the source
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by kirillseva 9y ago
Not wrong, just not what you're used to. Oh, and not to mention the `1`-based indexing! Such heresy! R excels at two things: statistical packages and generating reports/papers (the rmarkdown ecosystem is simply fantastic at this).
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by kirillseva 9y ago
disclosure: I work with robertk at Avant, where we've developed syberia and lockbox specifically to have reproducible model builds and to turn R model objects into API servers in a deterministic way. Lockbox is closely modelled after r
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by kirillseva 10y ago
It's a wrapper around https://github.com/rstudio/httpuv I'm pretty sure it's blocking though, R doesn't really have good concurrency primitives. However, you can launch multiple R processes behind n
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by kirillseva 10y ago
This is not REST API per se, but it's something that we've used in production for a couple years now and it's working like a charm https://github.com/robertzk/microserver https://github.com&#x