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by nestorD 8y ago
There is a great article on the fact that everybody hires only the top 1% : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/
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by nestorD 8y ago
Here is a very good simulator to get a feel for the different voting systems : https://ncase.me/ballot/
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by nestorD 8y ago
He seems to have kept writing philosophy, his essays are in line with his proposal for philosophy : > The test of utility I propose is whether we cause people who read what we've written to do anything differently afterward.
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by nestorD 8y ago
Having discovered the TCL programming language because of a single person using it in a bioinformatic lab I can second the recommendation.
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by nestorD 8y ago
A few days ago in the description of a paper found on hackernews ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18346943 ) : > We also noticed significant improvements in performance of RND every time we discovered and fixed a bug
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by nestorD 8y ago
> To find these patterns, a growing number of geneticists are turning to a form of machine learning called deep learning. Proponents of the approach say that deep-learning algorithms incorporate fewer explicit assumptions about what the
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by nestorD 8y ago
As I understand it the key is that we do not have the distributions making it, apparently, ill-defined. If we add the Principle of Indifference the problem becomes defined enough to be solved (which is a progress) but, with two equivalent p
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by nestorD 8y ago
> We also noticed significant improvements in performance of RND every time we discovered and fixed a bug [...]. Getting such details right was a significant part of achieving high performance even with algorithms conceptually similar to
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by nestorD 8y ago
Or, also in the ML family, F# ?
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by nestorD 8y ago
Vox has some very good videos on Hong Kong and one in particular on China's current approach to the integration of the city : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyxG4vTyZ8
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by nestorD 8y ago
I am pretty sure you were thinking of 0.1 which, indeed, requires an infinite number of digits to be represented in binary (like 1/3 in decimal).
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by nestorD 8y ago
Imagine having Tinder's dataset for your target audience and, for each potential customer, generating advertisement with faces designed in order to attract that particular person. That's a disturbing thought.
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by nestorD 8y ago
One thing that is often missed about tarot is that it is not about reading the meanings of the cards in the void, it is an interpretative and reflective practice. The reading will at least push the client to fit the meanings to his problem
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by nestorD 8y ago
O(1) restructuring, as I understand you need to do a classical log(n) search before any restructuring.
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by nestorD 8y ago
Which gets us to this very good article in the Journal of performance magic (an academic journal published by the university of Huddersfield that offers some really good reflections on the subject) : http://eprints.hud.ac.uk&#x2F
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by nestorD 8y ago
I would love to see more ML derived language gain traction (F# being my current favorite) but it has to be said that Rust was first derived from Ocaml : https://fr.slideshare.net/KelCecil/hey-theres-ocaml-in-my-ru...
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by nestorD 8y ago
And if you want the second derivative... You have hyper-dual numbers! http://adl.stanford.edu/hyperdual/
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by nestorD 8y ago
The "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners" talk does a great work of touching the problem from the opposite angle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ak6xtVXno
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by nestorD 8y ago
A very good toy problem in general : it is visual, simple to get something up and working while leaving ample space for optimisation and added complexity.
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by nestorD 8y ago
An interesting fact is that, for a time, phrenology was linked to atheism : both of them stemming from a materialistic point of view.
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by nestorD 8y ago
My experience with F# is that functional programming is the default paradigm while object oriented is used when it is required or easier (or required by a C# library you really want). A striking difference with the little Scala I read in th
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by nestorD 8y ago
And if you ever want to convince a manager that F# could make a difference in productivity/safety/... : http://fpbridge.co.uk/why-fsharp.html
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by nestorD 8y ago
The language does support laziness, it is just not the deafault.
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by nestorD 8y ago
Here is a good serie of articles on static analysis tools : http://btorpey.github.io/blog/categories/static-analysis/
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by nestorD 8y ago
A very nice example is the use of dimensional analysis to cook a turkey : http://physicsblog.otterbein.edu/?p=34
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by nestorD 8y ago
Not sure about the choice of pie chart as the default leaf format (humans are bad at guessing proportions from pie charts) but otherwise it does look great and convey the information efficiently.
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by nestorD 8y ago
I find that ML (Ocaml and F#) does not get in my way (Haskell being the exception due to the absence of quick and dirty mutability) while dynamic typing (in python) does hinder me when I depend on external libraries.
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by nestorD 8y ago
Pypeline is a library you use in your code while Bonobo seems to be a framework that use your code. I tend to think that you lose flexibility with the latter.
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by nestorD 8y ago
He has great examples. Sadly he found shortcomings to his unum numbers and his new alternative[0] do not seem that great compared to the current status quo. [0] https://posithub.org/index
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by nestorD 8y ago
I have a paper that should be out in few months (I might do a show Hackernews). It details a method+tool, which provides fine-grained information out of the box, that I used on published simulation codes. In the meantime, if you want a way

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