kuwze

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   by kuwze 8y ago

   It's sort of ironic considering France's history with Minitel[0] and encryption[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel [1]: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/1201/60120
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   Big Mechanism (started in 2014)(darpa.mil)

   1 points by kuwze 8y ago|0 comments
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   by kuwze 8y ago

   They forgot to mention Zhusuan[0]. [0]: https://github.com/thu-ml/zhusuan
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   Is R better than Python at anything?(reddit.com)

   3 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   There is this video[0] on the subject matter. [0]: https://vimeo.com/151465912
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   I remember reading this recent Financial Times article[0] about how China is innovating in the area of providing immunotherapy and other breakthrough treatments. [0]: https://outline.com/tdDNdd [1 non-outlined link]: https
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   There is a huge history of how much aid has hurt African countries[0]. After doing a bit of research, I have come to the conclusion that the best way to help poor people is to give away phones. I think it would really help people keep in co
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   Towards a mathematical science of programming (2016) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

   4 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   I don’t understand why s2n doesn’t get more love. It’s a TLS implementation in just ~10,000 lines of code! And Amazon is behind it.
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    Semi-related, here is a really interesting article: "Unexplained communication between brain hemispheres without corpus callosum"(2011)[0]. The article also references the electromagnetic theory of consciousness[1]. [0]: http:&#x
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    That's awesome! Also D-Wave uses Common Lisp[0]. [0]: https://cjelupton.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/quantum-computing...
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I think the future of age-related research is going to focus on inflammation. There is already a term for it: Inflamm-aging[0]. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963991/
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    Hadoop Superlinear Scalability (2015)(queue.acm.org)

    2 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    Comparing genomes to computer operating systems [pdf](pnas.org)

    2 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I really like NetBSD. It supports Xen[0], it has the awesome multithreaded NPF[1], the CHFS filesystem tailored for SSDs[2], and support for rump kernels[3]. [0]: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/ [1]: https:&#x
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I believe SAP has had this for a while[0] (but they are columnar while Redis is key-value). [0]: http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/ziti/uploads/ce_group/2015...
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I remember being introduced to quaternions recently by this post[0] which recommended this book[1]. [0]: https://www.haroldserrano.com/blog/best-books-to-develop-a-g... [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Quate
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I've tried playing around with Pharo but I never could figure out how to practice that development model of using tests and depending on the debugger. Is there a tutorial you would recommend that focused on that tactic?
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    Aren’t RDF stores synonymous with triple stores?
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I also just realized that this is only for big numbers, not arbitrary precision.
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I would recommend the following websites for practice: http://exercism.io/ http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/ https://projecteuler.net/ https://www.hackerrank.com
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    The biggest problem is the query language. Without a query language, a company must hire and keep on-staff a developer who can help express problems to the database. Time after time people told me that they ended up with giant databases and
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    There is also BSDNT[0] (which is obviously BSD licensed) in case anyone is still interested... I think this takes the cake though (as it is MIT licensed and superior). [0]: https://github.com/wbhart/bsdnt
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    Orchestral Live Coding with Impromptu Lisp(vimeo.com)

    3 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    Here is a passthrough link[0]. The tech seems like the PC version of OnLive, the stuff behind PS4 streaming. [0]: https://twitter.com/FinTechie/status/968674531148693504
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I love the fact that they chose s-expressions for the textual representation of WASM[0][1]. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst... [1]: https://github.com/WebAsse
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I know he said "All the code here should be translatable to OCaml if that’s more your taste" but I have read multiple examples about the power of ML modules and the code always seems to be in SML and not OCaml. Why is that?
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    There is also the sequel “Learn Quantum Mechanics with Haskell”[0]. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09471
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    Ask HN: What book/paper/link keeps you motivated?

    4 points by kuwze 9y ago|6 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I'd say considering the crazy mergers we're having stateside that this is just another example of sinophobia.