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by kmerroll 2y ago
Ah, so considering the miniscule loss in the overall scheme of things, Walgreens locking up products in the stores is just to be annoying?
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by kmerroll 2y ago
I think its worth noting that inconvenience aside, the high rate of theft and stock loss is correlated to item price increases overall -- even above inflation. Watched a man walk out of Safeway with two 12-packs under his arms makes me unde
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by kmerroll 2y ago
No doubt that there have been poor teaching experiences, but I would counter that my experience with EdTech teachers has been amazing and empowering. Really don't think we can tar all the teachers with the "EdTech sucks" brus
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by kmerroll 2y ago
Aside from the Knowledge Graph buzzword, isn't this exactly the same idea as Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web back in 2001? - web of resources, not pages - ontology-based schema - RDF based encoding - URI (IRI) resource identif
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by kmerroll 2y ago
Very interesting article and helpful to visualize the layers and perspectives in and more comprehensive architecture diagram. I would add that the layers of abstraction could also be represented in a standard Semantic Web OWL ontology which
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by kmerroll 2y ago
I agree with you, but I read this as: > No process and tools > No / limited documentation > No RACI or alignment (yay, kumbaya) > No plan or managed dependencies I'm not saying this is the outcome of an Agile approach,
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by kmerroll 2y ago
I would venture the implied discussion is about more than shipbuilding. Resources, labor, regulation, and other factors raised in the article are endemic across lots of areas and seems symptomatic of market forces and government policy. As
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by kmerroll 2y ago
I hadn't heard the term "architecture astronaut porn" before. Seems highly accurate in this context and wondered if you could point me to other resources on this term?
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by kmerroll 2y ago
Good article on the high level concepts of a knowledge graph, but some concerning mischaracterizations of core functions of ontologies supporting the class schema and continued disparaging of competing standards-based (RDF triple-store) sol
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by kmerroll 2y ago
Paywalled, but not a huge surprise really. Sounds like part of the problem was the internal pharma team not having a plan for what to use CoPilot for and going for the "it's AI!" theme from Microsoft. I am seeing great value
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by kmerroll 2y ago
>> The attitude this instills is that of having to work hard, while scheming against the taxman, to improve your life. Sounds like a lot of politicians I know. Really, how is this not being "Smart" and gaming the system? If
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by kmerroll 2y ago
To take this a different way, Devs need AI-driven system design tools, not diagramming tools. The work to automate the process to define, code, deploy, and document tech/app solutions using GenAI is arguably well underway and the days
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by kmerroll 2y ago
These are great questions and match my conclusion after many years of big5 management consulting: (A) Organizations are not optimized towards efficiency or value, they are optimized to align power between the executives and their self inter
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by kmerroll 2y ago
Wholeheartedly agree, however... It's well accepted that most developers would rather chew off their own arms than write documentation. The acceptance, sort of, of TDD shows that developers would rather code even in pseudo code test la
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Some much this. If executives were held accountable and terminated for performance failures resulting in layoffs rather than rewarded with earnings bonuses I would feel more sympathy.
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Ashamed to say, but this made me bust out laughing with concerned looks from co-workers. Thank you.
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Kudos for sharing this and the implementation details. I guess I'll never get over not liking Cypher queries or the other ways property graph engines query the graph: (MATCH path = (s1:Station)-[r1:CONNECTED_VIA {line: 'U1'}]
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by kmerroll 3y ago
> you should ask yourself: With every decision you make, is this good for the company? (OfficeSpace, 1999) I'll counter that fake or self-serving cultures are more toxic and destructive in an organization than bureaucratic policies.
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Pretty sad assessment if it truly was useless as you say. I've found structured approaches to solution planning and design (UML, and others) to be very useful in most projects.
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Not exactly related, but this concept map looks amazingly similar to a semantic ontology. RDF/OWL may not be the easiest encoding, but is quite capable in organizing very large concept schemes.
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by kmerroll 3y ago
Excellent comment and while maybe not UML, something like it is likely to emerge for exactly that purpose.
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by kmerroll 4y ago
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Definitely hearing the game console signal, although my resistance was that there would be better ways to spend his time as school only goes so far. Sounds like gaming console and... Cracking the code in
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Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student?
9 points by kmerroll 4y ago|31 comments
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by kmerroll 4y ago
Okay, so "Unobtainium" is a real thing now?
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by kmerroll 4y ago
All respect, but regarding the UK economic situation I think you meant (Freedom and national autonomy, and Truss's job builders empowerment). Yes, self inflicted but also incredibly awesome -- just depends on your view. I'll see m
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by kmerroll 4y ago
Really nice article, but can't help but think those who don't know SPARQL are doomed to recreate it.
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by kmerroll 4y ago
Came here looking for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU Left disappointed.
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by kmerroll 4y ago
Interesting discussion, but buried in a lot of legacy thinking about schemas and personally, I don't find Yet-Another-Schema-Abstraction (YASA)™ layer very compelling when better solutions in functional programming and semantic ontolog
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by kmerroll 5y ago
Loading and running SQL on structured text files (.CSV) is definitely an underserved data tools niche, but this statement threw me: "No more custom and slow Python script. No more vlookup, no more pivot tables." Wow, I'll kee
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by kmerroll 5y ago
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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