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by nikonyrh 5y ago
Yeah I was about to highlight this, for example the core.async library bringing "go channels". Like the `while` loop is not "part of the language", it is a macro which rewrites it as a `loop`. Also `for` is just a macro,
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I think that is very doable, companies used to need a team of masters / PhDs to implement the ML stuff more or less from scratch, but libraries are nowadays very advanced and easier to use. Just start learning stuff that interests you,
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
There is a joke that COVID mandated 2 meter gaps between people, which is way less than what we are used to.
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
Indeed. I am still amazed about the Cuban missile crisis, which happened only after USA put nuclear ballistic missiles (Jupiter) to Italy and Turkey.
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
But when will the torturers be prosecuted?
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
Arguably it is rotating around the Earth once a year, but it will never be between the Earth and the Sun.
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I read that it cannot actually even brake in the case it is going too fast. It only has a major motor pointing towards the Sun!
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
My understanding is that in Finland only the Government (or an other democratic entity such as the Municipality or the City) can execute surveillance on a public space. For example the bike parking area next to my office is deemed a public
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I really appreciate how they have separated the computational layer from data storage. Want to do a massive pre-calculation without disturbing others? Run it in a separate warehouse. Also the underlying copy-on-write datastructure is a time
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
"...so you hold onto properties realistically valued at multiple millions while paying taxes at rate appropriate to tens of thousands." Doesn't that make the tax percentage very low when prices have risen so much? And in addi
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
Any links for a reference?
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I am not an user of this service, can backups be deleted due to inactivity? This sounds very confusing.
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
When I did my DIY AWS Glacier solution in 2014 (still in use), for 500 GB of storage Dropbox billed 499 eur/year. However there were many other companies (haven't looked whether they are still in business) at 59 eur/year. ht
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
>How is everyone so productive and enthusiastic all the time? They aren't, but it isn't sexy to post about your problems on social media or maybe even talk about them with your close friends or family. And it isn't easy ei
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I am familiar with Python and Clojure, and have peeked at Haskell. Have a look at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com for just how succint you can get. In general dynamically typed languages require less up-front definitions and
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I think they are already limited, for example to 240 km/h.
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson Galileo got funding for his project due to its high utility in the context of war. This puts telescopes to the same category as airplanes, rockets, satellites, nuclear powerplants, submarines and lots of ot
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by nikonyrh 5y ago
I wonder if we are still allowed to use statistics (or math) in these contexts, where do you draw the line?
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
At least you'd need to pay careful attention to eventual consistency: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... I have done this in many of my hobby projects. An other importan
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I might be looking at this at a wrong angle, but why not just have a blog where you post your stories and share your pictures? People could still "like" your photos and comment on them. Make URLs shareable and then they can email
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I wish I could watch these without creating an account.
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
Well in addition to all that Data Science stuff I have become quite knowledgeable about several related fields. At least these topics come to mind: - Data Engineering: various DB technologies' pros and cons (AWS Athena, Snowflake, MS S
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
Oddly in Finland the full name, address and phone number corresponding to a car's registration plate is public information. But a full data dump isn't available. You must query them one-by-one for a fee of a few euros (I think).
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
If you want to share your every-day events and pictures why not just host a blog? Then see how many people are actually so interested that they'll visit the site :D RSS feeds would help aggregating updates from several people.
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
Is feature engineering still a thing? For example transforming circular images (like coins) to log-polar coordinates and maybe even taking the absolute value of Fourier transform to get rotation-invariant features.
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
2 - 7 days? In Finland it takes 10 - 14 weeks :D There are mandatory theory and driving lessons to take. Well actually the law changed recently so now it takes "only" 6 - 10 weeks.
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I just use the moderate power saving mode which disables network traffic of the background apps. Now my 2017 Samsung A3's battery lasts about 3.5 - 4.5 days / charge. If I need to be "urgently" contacted people can still
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I tried to write an answer a few times but I got stuck on the definition of what a Data Scientist actually does. I guess this varies from company to company. Maybe you could check work place ads you'd like to apply to and see what are
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I have used both professionally at a senior data scientist role so I feel like pitching in. Perhaps due to my background coming from Matlab I never got too keen on dataframes (be it Pandas or whatever Clojure has to offer). Instead I use ma
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by nikonyrh 6y ago
I run two browsers: Chrome which is logged into Facebook, Youtube (thus Google) and any other such service and I don't use it for browsing random websites. Then I have Firefox with NoScript to do the actual browsing with exceptions on

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