michael_j_ward

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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Interesting bit burried in section IV that I'm posting here in the likely event that most people don't read that far. TL/DR- he's mostly critical of the book, but provides this update: >[Update, written a few weeks af
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Do you have an opinion on which to read first?
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I am interested.
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
The article contains clips of the "Ass" version. For those that want a link to the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGcDi0DRtU
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
If you want more than the PDF- here's the site: https://lectures.quantecon.org
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
I don't know if you edited your comment, or if it was just my pre-coffee reading comprehension missed the part "because the compiler isn’t always removing bounds checks that are provably true." I understand now, gracias.
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
What exactly does "you couldn't implement it yourself any better" mean if the current implementation isn't as fast as it could be? Or are you saying that the current implementation fails to live up to the "zero cost
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
You can get type annotations at runtime. And you can use this for validation with something you roll yourself or with 3rd party packages. I've used pydantic [1] before and found it quite nice. [1] https://pydantic-docs.helpm
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
It seems like the USDA includes people on federal food assistance programs as being "food insecure. From your first link defining "Low Food Security"[1]: """ These food-insecure households obtained enough food
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
I'm not familiar with the "rfs page"- what is it?
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
I haven't gone through this yet- but my understanding is that there are some examples of this here "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" [1]. [1] http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Matt Levine has an worthwhile take on the new "stakeholder" mission statement: """ It is productive—not 100% accurate, but a useful heuristic—to assume that all corporate governance debates in the U.S. are about whe
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
An aside, after you've learned a few langugages- the biggest friction to learning a new one is learning the tooling and dev environment for that language. If someone is looking for an side-project idea, something like "Show me you
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Two minute video answering the question[1]. Summary: they'll use a "urine diverting dry toilet" to collect the feces- which supposedly will be used for fertilizer. They don't say what exactly will be done with the urine,
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Guido resigned as BDFL in July of 2018[0]. [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-Jul...
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? I tried a few google searches and came up empty
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
I'm taking the "Manners and Means Section" to be equivalent to "these are the acts that taken together constitute the crime." That is the context of my post. If you don't agree with this, what do you take that
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
You're correct that he's charged with one crime. OP means "of the alleged acts that constitute the crime," all but the password one are things that journalists do routinely. Read the section "Manners and Means of th
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
Link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr498W8oMRo
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
You may be interested in Sandi Metz's article "The Wrong Abstraction." https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti...
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by michael_j_ward 8y ago
I received one of these messages just a week ago. Alexa sent me a message of my friend and his girlfriend having a private conversation. I immediately texted him to ask if he intended to do that and he did not- so weird.
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by michael_j_ward 9y ago
My local python meetup in Chicago (ChiPy)runs an outstanding mentorship program that I have mentored for twice. The program lead does a great job of matching mentees with mentors- so all skill levels can apply. If you're interested in