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by llimllib 12y ago
Regexps with backtracks are not regular languages (IIRC, right?), does that matter here?
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by llimllib 12y ago
> Lyme is now the number one infectious disease in New England. Do you have a source for that claim? edit: asked an ER doc, they joked "that's ridiculous, it's the common cold". Also my research and the doc suggest th
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by llimllib 12y ago
I actually had, and remember, and certainly ordered from, that exact CCS catalog. What a weird memory you just brought back.
544.
by llimllib 12y ago
From a certain angle, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk can be thought of as a book about midieval selfies. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375706852
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by llimllib 12y ago
I did something pretty similar, but it seems definitely less comprehensive: https://github.com/llimllib/soccerdata/ . Will be using this, thanks!
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by llimllib 12y ago
I have that aliased to 'cack'. Then ruby is 'rack', python is 'pack', go is 'gack', etc. (I've never needed to use the rackup "rack" command directly, fortunately, if you do you ought t
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by llimllib 12y ago
There's a tipping point. Eventually, you're likely to end up with half of a poorly-specified, bug-ridden implementation of an ORM if you don't use one at the start. However, sometimes it's much simpler to just write cust
548.
by llimllib 13y ago
I did something similar with my python make-alike, pub[1], where you can have something like: def outname(f): return f[:-1] + "o" @file_rule("*.c", outname) def compile(f): #do the compilin
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by llimllib 13y ago
The usual method for calculating these percentages is to calculate a power rating for each team, then to use the log5 formula[1] to arrive at the percentage chance of a team winning. So, the 1-4% chance of a 16 winning is the result of appl
550.
by llimllib 13y ago
it's on the TODO list, just haven't gotten there. ALSO the data is there in the JSON, it would be easy to file a pull request over that way ---> :)
551.
by llimllib 13y ago
Those are all on the list, but I wrote it yesterday and there's obviously a time-based component to getting it out the door :)
552.
by llimllib 13y ago
Totally agreed, but I wrote the whole thing yesterday, so some corners got cut.
553.
by llimllib 13y ago
Nate Silver doesn't make that information available... I'm considering writing code to calculate that information from the odds he gives.
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by llimllib 13y ago
Yes, although they have a slightly different model. rbenv basically just chooses which ruby (along with the gems that are installed with it) is active on your system. rvm also provides a gemset functionality that is more like the virtualenv
555.
by llimllib 13y ago
I'm not in the industry, but I understand that those are generally called "contract brewers", and the originator of the beer recipe may be more or less involved as the contract brewer begins production, but they definitely do
556.
by llimllib 13y ago
> How is this code not covered by a unit test? ...or an integration test. or a functional test. When you write an SSL lib, I suspect that at some point you ought to test that it checks f%^&ing certificates :/
557.
by llimllib 13y ago
ipython notebook rocks, these sorts of analyses are super easy to cook up.
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by llimllib 13y ago
> I've never heard of a tech genius who also cared much about the qualities you mention. How about von Neumann, famous for always being in an impeccably tailored suit? I hope he's genius enough for you. You don't even have
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by llimllib 13y ago
Neat! We were also obsessed with our customer rating, that just didn't happen to be my job. It was tough to get happy customers to come back and give us 5-star ratings; people with bad experiences would come by and rate but those with
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by llimllib 13y ago
> The price-setting robot sets its price far enough above that of the other vendor that if someone buys, the robot-owner can buy the book from the other vendor, send it to the customer, and still make money. Yes, this is what book arbitr
561.
by llimllib 13y ago
What is the correct value to sell a book for, when you know it's rare, and know nothing else about it?
562.
by llimllib 13y ago
Buyers are willing to pay a very small premium for feedback score. Furthermore, one of the bots will know that it has a lower feedback score, immediately killing any hypothetical positive feedback loop.
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by llimllib 13y ago
that doesn't work on amazon, any book with an ISBN will get condensed into one listing. You can get a little tricky with it, but not enough to allow intra-market arbitrage. I understand that he's claiming it exists, and it might w
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by llimllib 13y ago
My guess would be that they listed the book a long time ago and lost track of it or that their pricing bot has a bug. Or they're humans (one dedicated person can do a surprising amount of book sales, we discovered). Our experience was
565.
by llimllib 13y ago
that doesn't seem true to me, and it certainly wasn't when I was writing the software. I follow what you're saying, but it's not what happened IME.
566.
by llimllib 13y ago
I actually used to write book arbitrage software, and this person has managed to completely misunderstand it. I'm not arguing here for its societal value, just that dan appears to have misunderstood some fundamental bits about how it w
567.
by llimllib 13y ago
(He was making a joke. GRANTT -> R&D Grant) #jokesAreLikeFrogs
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by llimllib 13y ago
A simple upgrade to your algorithm would be bidirectional search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_search This image from Norvig's AI may help explain it better than the wiki page: http://www
569.
by llimllib 13y ago
The "How it works" page gives exactly zero information about how it works.
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by llimllib 13y ago
Interesting. I am on python 3.3, but I don't know if it's the updated interpreter that fixes the bug.

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