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by kyllo 3y ago
Because it's a power law distribution and because wealth inequality is getting even worse over time.
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by kyllo 3y ago
Are you familiar with the edge popup algorithm introduced in "What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?" https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13299v2 Seems relevant to what you're working on. It st
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by kyllo 3y ago
The data types make sense to statisticians. Ordered factors are great when you need to fit, say, an ordered logit regression model.
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by kyllo 3y ago
A lot of programmers dislike R for the same reason they dislike PHP: weak typing. If you can get over that, though, there's a lot to like about R. It's sort of like a hybrid between a Lisp and an array language.
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by kyllo 3y ago
Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, which is designed for distributed multi-process concurrency, right? Why would this be advantageous for interactive data analysis work, which is typically done on a single node? I don't quite understand the
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by kyllo 4y ago
That is also happening--lots of Hawaiians are being forced to move to the mainland because they can't afford housing in their home state. https://news.yahoo.com/native-hawaiians-flock-las-vegas-1357...
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by kyllo 4y ago
I lived in Korea in 2008-2010 and can confirm the ActiveX thing was still in widespread use then. It was a pain because every website effectively only worked in IE, meanwhile I had a Mac and couldn't log into any secure websites such a
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by kyllo 4y ago
I think part of the problem with that pitch is that the cost of an IT integration in this industry could pay for a lot of people in Asia to manage a forwarding operation in Excel. Ocean carriers don't have like, APIs. It's all c
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by kyllo 4y ago
Yes, a freight forwarder is sort of like a travel agent for freight--it's a middleperson role, in contrast to carriers, which are "asset-based" and operate vessels/planes/trucks. Another significant cost factor for
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by kyllo 4y ago
Chilling effects are not unequivocally bad though. When the speech in question is advocating for stripping away the civil rights of or committing genocidal acts against certain groups of people, I'd much rather that speech be chilled.
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by kyllo 5y ago
data.table also uses OpenMP to parallelize operations, so it tends to be much faster
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by kyllo 5y ago
Why not? Honest question--I haven't used fastai myself but my understanding is it's just a high-level wrapper API for PyTorch. Any particular reason why you wouldn't want to use it outside of the course?
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by kyllo 5y ago
Yes, you can. There are algorithms for rounding up, rounding down, rounding to nearest, and banker's rounding, on the results of integer division. This is a solved problem.
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by kyllo 5y ago
I'm even seeing stories about U-Haul trucks all being rented out by tourists because rental cars are unavailable, causing a shortage of rental trucks for movers.
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by kyllo 6y ago
I think they're referring to the JIT compilation time. There are some ways to mitigate it, such as creating an image using PackageCompiler.jl, but it's definitely a noticeable issue IME. https://julialang.github.io&#x2F
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by kyllo 6y ago
Cool idea, I hope it grows. Would like to see more positions in Asian countries, they currently appear very limited.
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by kyllo 6y ago
I went from Pipenv to Poetry and then back to Pipenv after encountering an infinite loop in Poetry's solver on multiple separate occasions.
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by kyllo 6y ago
Yeah I think Rust's place in this ecosystem is a C/C++ replacement. All the Python and R data science packages call into native code to do the heavy lifting--the linear algebra, gradient descent etc. The next Tensorflow or PyTorch
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by kyllo 6y ago
"Deep Learning in Clojure with Fewer Parentheses than Keras and Python" Love it! :D What better way to define a neural network in code than an S-expression?
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by kyllo 6y ago
People go where the jobs are. They are going to live wherever employers "insist on" locating their offices. 20% down payment isn't a myth; if you don't put 20% down (and don't have some special situation like a VA l
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by kyllo 6y ago
Are you talking about things like very small differences in the results of floating point calculations?
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by kyllo 6y ago
You lose a lot of the benefits, but you can still take advantage of time range partition elimination just as long as your data is still physically partitioned by the timestamp column. That's the most important thing when processing tim
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by kyllo 6y ago
Is this generally the case across all major C standard library implementations or are some of them much faster than others?
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by kyllo 6y ago
Still around the Seattle Area, but a cabin deep in the Cascade mountains where I could go hiking every day, or snowshoeing in the winter.
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by kyllo 6y ago
SQLite was started by Dwayne Richard Hipp from North Carolina. 20 years ago.
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by kyllo 6y ago
Yep, compressibility is another big win made possible by columnar layout, and it looks like DuckDB implements at least some form of column compression.
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by kyllo 6y ago
Yes, it's geared toward reporting / analytics / data science workloads where the most common read operation is calculating aggregate metrics like count/min/mean/max and histograms. Statistics stuff.
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by kyllo 6y ago
Ah, good to know. I saw it when someone I follow retweeted it yesterday.
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by kyllo 6y ago
Perhaps, but the point is, if you're working in DevRel and you think your role is to defend the product from criticism, and you do it by placing the onus on the developer to figure out how to use your product safely, you've totall
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by kyllo 6y ago
DuckDB is developed by the same database research group at CWI that developed MonetDB, so they have applied a lot of the lessons they learned from MonetDB.

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