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by mbil 7y ago
Awesome -- yes please share! For a long time I'd been using a spreadsheet, roughly laid out like the Jeopardy board, with custom functions for scoring. Scoring while playing was sometimes difficult because I had to look down at the sco
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Show HN: Jeo.py, a CLI for keeping score to Jeopardy written in Python(github.com)
3 points by mbil 7y ago|3 comments
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by mbil 7y ago
Singer taps and targets can do this: pip install tap-postgresql target-google-sheets tap-postgresql | target-google-sheets https://www.singer.io/ disclaimer: I used to work at Stitch Data
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by mbil 7y ago
Air freight rates skyrocketed due to fewer passenger flights between US and China. Presumably there will be similar impact to air freight rates between US and Europe https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus
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by mbil 7y ago
...the inferential procedure of Bayesian statistics is to assume a prior distribution and a probability model for data and then use probability theory to determine the posterior. But if these steps, or something approximating them, are nec
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by mbil 7y ago
The post is just the abstract for a paper, which is linked in the post. Here's the paper: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ba...
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by mbil 7y ago
Animals also output methane, and there are land-use issues with meat production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
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A genetic algorithm Twitter art bot in Clojure(matthewbilyeu.com)
13 points by mbil 7y ago|1 comments
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by mbil 7y ago
Cool app. I agree with your points about Confluence's issues. > At this point documentation becomes viewed as a time sink and people start to prefer other practices like pairing, comprehensive user stories and tests. These unfortuna
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by mbil 7y ago
> its useful to be able to break down complex queries into parts, step through with a debugger to follow the logic, don't see how the functional style of Lisp aids in doing any of that In Clojure normally rather than a step debugger
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by mbil 7y ago
I like the ancestor simulation theory and it's really fun to think about. But I don't understand why humans specifically would be the thing to get simulated. Couldn't we just be a bi-product of a universe created to simulate
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by mbil 7y ago
I don't see a moral issue with this. The state is using its power to help ensure individuals have pertinent information with which to make health-impacting decisions. Individuals are using their power to decide whether, given that info
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by mbil 8y ago
hey, author here, thanks for the attention on this post, especially the feedback regarding CV techniques. i wanted to write about some basic computer vision tools in the context of a Seinfeld reference. it was intended as a joke, but i real
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The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos(matthewbilyeu.com)
225 points by mbil 8y ago|62 comments
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by mbil 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but anybody who's interested in thinking about the simulation hypothesis might get a kick out of this short fiction piece: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/166941
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by mbil 8y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying here, but this didn't resonate with my experience: > basically unsearchable after a few days Recently, a coworker asked me for more context about a pull request I had authored 14 months
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by mbil 8y ago
> It’s called the function machine game. I will think of a function machine. You tell me things to put into the function machine, and I will tell you what comes out. Then you have to guess what the function machine does. Cool, this sound
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Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light(matthewbilyeu.com)
170 points by mbil 9y ago|26 comments
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by mbil 9y ago
I was wondering how Augur got around the need for an oracle, since on that system (iiuc), one can create a prediction market around any publicly-observable outcome. In centralized markets, one person determines the final market outcomes
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by mbil 9y ago
A couple years ago there was a quiz going around based on this concept. You answer 27 non-political questions and the quiz guesses your political leaning. http://www.metafilter.com/161320/27-non-political-questions-...
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by mbil 9y ago
Great suggestion -- Demaine's lecture videos were so illuminating for me when I studied cache-oblivious algos. Here's a corresponding paper describing the cache-oblivious Funnelsort algorithm: http://erikdemaine.org&#x2
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by mbil 9y ago
Programming Clojure applications with CIDER[0] is a really slick experience. By connecting through an nREPL port to a running environment you can capture variable values like function inputs, change and re-evaluate function definitions on t
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by mbil 9y ago
Based only on this description it sounds like a Kickstarter-esque model might work. E.g. get tens to hundreds of dollars from thousands of would-be customers, then start building once the funding goal is reached. Contributors would get X GB
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by mbil 9y ago
It would be cool if the govt had to develop an open-source tax estimator whenever tax-change bills were introduced (or make modifications to some base tool). An iteration of a tax bill would be presented alongside the tax-estimator tool so
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by mbil 9y ago
Here's more info about the program https://www.givedirectly.org/basic-income We will assess the impact of a basic income against a broad set of metrics, including: - economic status (income, assets, standard o
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by mbil 9y ago
Here's a "Pharo Cheat Sheet" PDF from pharo.org http://files.pharo.org/media/pharoCheatSheet.pdf
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by mbil 9y ago
> While standardization and support for [threaded] APIs has come a long way, their use is still predominantly restricted to system programmers as opposed to application programmers. One of the reasons for this is that APIs such as Pthrea
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by mbil 9y ago
Google Inbox has this feature. There, after sending an email, a small notification appears, allowing you to 'undo' the send for a few seconds. For the small number of times you are too trigger-happy with the Send button, the abili
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by mbil 9y ago
Here's the cost breakdown per course and semester: https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/cost-payment-sched...
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by mbil 9y ago
You pay at the beginning of each semester for the classes you'll take during that semester. It's not a lump sum.

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