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by muraiki 10y ago
Your comparison to musical notation is insightful. I think that I can expand upon it a bit. I can read both western notation and Byzantine notation. Byzantine notation is very different from western notation: it describes a melody using sym
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An article[1] claims Wes McKinney was inspired by APL while working on pandas; some of the pandas verbs such as "ravel" come from APL. Also, the <- instead of = in R comes from APL, although that's relatively minor. :) [1]
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I've slowly been going through "J Tutorial and Statistical Package", which teaches J (Iverson's evolution of APL which uses only ASCII characters) in the context of building a library for statistics[1]. I've found t
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Thanks for sharing your experience. As a bad amateur musician, I've wondered about what it's actually like to pursue a career in music. It's sad that the odds seem to be highly stacked against people who want play classical a
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Hosting a web site for a blog is expensive? A local webhost offers 75GB of transfer for $6 a month, with the highest transfer day per month dropped completely. If you want a CDN on top of that, it's a whopping $1 per month per 10GB.
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> But seriously, shell scripting in JS or even Go is not a pleasant experience when you know of other tools. You can not deny that. I most certainly can and do deny that. Writing scripts in Go, in my professional experience, was extraord
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> I have been working in mostly Java, PHP and JavaScript shops lately and trust me, the "cool" tooling you get there Given this and your earlier comment, you seem to think that people who have had bad experiences with Perl simp
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I have an anecdote to add. I worked for a web hosting company that has around 20 years or more worth of Perl code doing all aspects of devops and also for building numerous services along with web applications. I spent a lot of time learnin
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Thank you for your response, but I'd like to understand modern perspectives in the frequentist vs Bayesian debate. I know that in the past, Bayesian methods were oftentimes impossible to use in non-trivial analyses because calculating
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Ask HN: Criticisms of Bayesian statistics?
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Yeah, I had been using Ubuntu as my main OS until I got a new job at a place that is mostly Windows. There are a few applications that I need to use for work that simply aren't available on Linux (or even OSX). Work encouraged me to us
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I'm so frustrated with Microsoft. I want to like them -- I'm using (and loving) C# and Visual Studio, I've used Visual Studio Code with Go and Typescript, I'm using whatever they call their cloud version control system,
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The creator of APL also made an open source language called J that uses ascii characters (although there are some other important differences between APL and J). J has a pretty nice IDE which can do things like break down code into its cons
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You may be surprised to learn that React's paradigm is basically how Windows GUI apps have been written from 1.0 up through at least Windows 7: https://bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/
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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan. It is very approachable and also has lots of practice problems. It's not a math-heavy book at all. Edit: I wouldn't recommend Probabilistic Programmi
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Yes, also Excel has a subset of Power BI's functionality for data cleaning. One of the great things about Power BI's data cleaning is that it presents a summary of all of the operations taken on the data in a linear format, so tha
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That depends on where you are in the US relative to where the good you want is stored. One thing to remember is that the US has 26 times more land mass than Germany[1]. But in general, it's 3 to 5 business days. [1] http://w
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Want to Be a Space Archaeologist? Here’s Your Chance(wired.com)
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If you are really considering this, I recommend that you first see if you can volunteer a bit at a local bakery. I also was considering a career change to becoming a baker. I knew someone who worked at a fairly large yet still artisan baker
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In my current job I use Informatica Cloud, which either by itself or in combination with other Informatica products can do these things. I have two main complaints about it: 1. The UX is subpar. It insists on running in only a single tab at
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Have you looked at http://seaside.st/ ? Seaside has been around for a while; it offers a component based approach to building web applications from objects, including an in-browser way to inspect and modify the code of disp
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Sometimes it can be the opposite case. The Udacity course on statistics with Katie Kormanik has lots of well designed problems to work on as she taught various statistical concepts. This helped make sure that I really understood what was be
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I also owe my career to that course -- and really, to Steve Huffman's excellent instruction. The course has just the right level of depth. From that course I went on to build a paid site with Django (which also has great instruction in
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I have a friend who has struggled with increasingly severe "RSI", for lack of a better diagnosis. He even had carpal tunnel surgery on both hands. In the end he went to Mayo Clinic and they diagnosed him as having fibromyalgia. Th
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DNSChain: secure decentralized alternative compatible with traditional DNS(github.com)
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I appreciate your contribution to this discussion and will think about it further. Thanks.
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I did not make a blanket statement that all ML algos are racist against Asians. My point was to convey that if the training data do not accurately represent the population, the algorithm will carry the biases of that inaccurate representati
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Big data somehow being unbiased and impartial is a myth. The algorithms are still a product of humans. One notable example is a Google algorithm for labeling objects in photos that tagged black people as gorillas [1]. Now I don't have
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"The broadest and most established definition of derivative work for software is the abstraction, filtration, and comparison test (“the AFC test”) as created and developed by the Second Circuit. Some circuits, including the Ninth Circu
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> But this language is not a DSL, but a general purpose language that has pattern matchers, HTTP libraries, XML parsers, data structure implementations, etc. I'm not expressing this as a criticism that I have, but for some people wh

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