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by mtrn 10y ago
Erik Demaine is a wonderful teacher, I always enjoy refreshing algorithms with his 6.046J lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyuH4qXLZ0&list=PLfPEUgnJ0a...
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by mtrn 10y ago
If people would focus more on usability, comprehensibility, clear algorithms and project structure and precise requirements we could probably skip debating over languages altogether, because programs would look beautiful in any language.
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Transportation and Logistics: The Next Platform(medium.com)
1 points by mtrn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mtrn 10y ago
Can anyone recommend an a good paper or essay on this subject? This development looks like an amazing economical shift and I would love to read semi-sci-fi-ish scenarios by serious economists studying past and present systems.
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by mtrn 10y ago
> There is nothing about: part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology This is an interesting and deep question. I believe that there are multiple ways to tell the story of a phenomenon. Using POS categories or verb tenses hel
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by mtrn 10y ago
Impressive. I just wished some engineers could take at least a single day off to regenerate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg&feature=youtu.be... - especially when they are on a world changing mission.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Raymond Hettinger highlighted the community aspect for languages very well in this keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pTxGu2L04&feature=youtu.be... - he of course talks about Python, but the principles apply to
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by mtrn 10y ago
As a footnote: My first impression of Airpods was: Of course! These are not smaller earbuds, they are an iteration towards implants or patches or invisible computing devices in general. From that perspective they seem make more sense: Condi
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AI and Life in 2030 [pdf](ai100.stanford.edu)
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by mtrn 10y ago
In your experience, what personal characteristics, educational background or personal trait did successful individuals have?
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by mtrn 10y ago
Machine learning is an interesting case, in that the gap between theory and praxis is quite wide. You can basically create, run and evaluate a model within 10 minutes (e.g. with scikit-learn or Tensorflow). It would even be an acceptable mo
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by mtrn 10y ago
> don't think this new framework has much chance of gaining wide adoption I don't believe it needs to, I believe diversity in a relatively young field is an advantage as it helps to not get stuck in a local minimum , so to spe
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by mtrn 10y ago
Distraction is the right word. Focus on harder to measure notions of systematic, analytic or creative thinking are happily exchanged for measurable educational innovations like iPads. If there are two schools: one where they use iPads and
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An interactive tool for drawing UML diagrams based on syntax(nomnoml.com)
1 points by mtrn 10y ago|1 comments
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by mtrn 10y ago
Adalbert Stifter once said: The work of a poet is done before the first tram passes by.
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by mtrn 10y ago
I haven't used mapillary, so just a question: is the user-generated content made available to the public?
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by mtrn 10y ago
Knights tour was one of the earliest Java programs we wrote at the university. Fun times, even found an old jar with some cool Swing visuals: http://i.imgur.com/6Q5ODT2.mp4
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by mtrn 10y ago
Pandoc's Markdown to Word conversion saved me when I was writing a book. Thanks and happy birthday!
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by mtrn 10y ago
An acquaintance wrote his thesis about Setun and later (2007) published a book about it: http://www.irmielin.org/setun-an-inquiry-into-the-soviet-ter...
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by mtrn 10y ago
I would like to see more such models in the future, because two world seem to intersect here: open source projects and the public domain. Open source projects can have such a huge leverage, that the cost reductions in comparison to commerci
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by mtrn 10y ago
So many things can go wrong. But how do you assess, where to draw a line? What could be used as a guiding light? Currently I try to use the following scenario as orientation: If a completely new developer would walk in and wanted to install
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by mtrn 10y ago
Kanerva has discussed alternative computing styles as well. Especially, he asks, why it is hard to encode intelligence in such a rigid setup. > The disparity in architecture between brains and computers is matched by disparity in perform
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by mtrn 10y ago
I really hope for that. Working with Unix tools a lot, I appreciate these programs, that were already useful over thirty years ago. The developer mindset needs to change as well. I seldom here people wondering about the sheer computing powe
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by mtrn 10y ago
> is there anything stopping you from re-implementing the Erlang memory/GC-model on the JVM Apparently not, never used it, but impressive: https://github.com/trifork/erjang
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by mtrn 10y ago
Well, at least the TV shows invite mathematicians, that's not a bad start.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Whichever subject Prof. Konstantinov is an expert in, it's not cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle .
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by mtrn 10y ago
I would probably start with elasticsearch and establish a business case first. Only once that's proven and some need for lower level customizations arises, I would descend the stack.
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by mtrn 10y ago
For one, Lucene[1] is quite amazing. With a slight stretch of imagination, you can think of it as a document oriented database, with all fields indexed by default. Imagine loading 100M rows with 100 columns into an RDBMS and then index e
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by mtrn 10y ago
This reminds me of some open source angle on business: try to provide more value than you capture. I believe this to be a healthy attitude, hopefully more companies and entities can live up to this challenge.
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by mtrn 10y ago
A company once flew me to Madrid for an interview. Unfortunately, I cannot understand Spanish, but the receptionist at the hotel seemed to mumble to a friend: look they are flying people here, but our people are unemployed. It seemed a bit

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