nimrody

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by nimrody 11y ago
Thanks for the video link. This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsx4I8gkKk is very impressive.
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by nimrody 11y ago
Brought back memories of Phil Karn (AKA KA9Q) discussing this very patent fifteen years ago: http://www.ka9q.net/patents/
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by nimrody 11y ago
"Typeset by the authors in Minion Pro, Lato, and Consolas, using Go, groff, ghostscript, and a host of other open-source Unix tools. Figures were created in Google Drawings." groff still going strong... although it seems like Kern
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by nimrody 11y ago
Right. And the advantages of the Gaussian kernel with respect to image processing: 1. It has no negative coefficients (hence the output will always be a valid color value.) 2. It is circular symmetric, yet separable (X and Y may be filtered
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by nimrody 11y ago
Regarding CLI: mycli and pgcli are both much nicer than the built in alternatives.
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by nimrody 11y ago
Can you expand on why Cassandra is not good for analytics? Is that because you have to think of the queries before designing the data model? Or perhaps there are other issues?
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by nimrody 11y ago
Gilbert Strang's "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra" is very well written and expands on the topic of matrices as mappings.
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by nimrody 11y ago
The fact that A is updated in-place is an optimization that happens only if you pass a variable and assign the output to the same variable. It is not a characteristic of the function `plus_diag`. The function itself is completely pure.
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by nimrody 11y ago
What Matlab function edits its inputs in-place? I cannot think of any. Actually Matlab's pass by value is one of its best properties (as a language). This is how functions work in math and is much easier to reason about. I really disli
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by nimrody 11y ago
What did you end up using instead of Pandas?
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by nimrody 11y ago
Can you recommend a resource for learning powershell? (Assuming one has UNIX background) [it does generate annoyingly long error messages!]
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by nimrody 11y ago
It's a language for high performance computing (HPC). I think it's the only one that survived out of three languages competing at the time: Fortress (Sun), Chapel (Cray), and X10. See https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~ac
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by nimrody 11y ago
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” Hermann Goer
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by nimrody 11y ago
I guess this should be u <- Future(uploadPhoto(p)) right?
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by nimrody 11y ago
Not sure if this is entirely accurate. Intel's process tend to be optimized towards high performance chips since this is where the big margins are. I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development
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by nimrody 11y ago
The one thing I like about React's JSX "html in javascript", is that it lets you reuse all of the host language (javascript in React's case) control structures. Otherwise Maud has to re-implement if/then/else,
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by nimrody 11y ago
So do job / company descriptions. A company has to be doing Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud computing these days to be "buzzword compliant" :)
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by nimrody 12y ago
Should be relatively easy to make a tool that uses `losf` or similar to get a list of all running processes that depend on a shared library.
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by nimrody 12y ago
Object files should not be placed in the same directories as source files.
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by nimrody 12y ago
Could you recommend something more appropriate for someone who would like to explore the world of database implementations?
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by nimrody 12y ago
Interesting to read that djb is in favor of automatic exception handling rather than explicitly checking return codes: "Fortunately, programming languages can—and in some cases do—offer more powerful exception-handling facilities, abor
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by nimrody 12y ago
The real problem with this type of technology is that you'll see great performance with a small number of subscribers. So unless they will be able to get enough subscribers the results will still be questionable.
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by nimrody 12y ago
It's easier to connect when you have something in common. So my suggestion is that you join some group doing things you like - be it art, music sport or anything else that you like and will introduce you to different people (suggestion
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by nimrody 12y ago
The real problem with shell scripts is that they usually tie together a few external commands and tend to pass information around using the filesystem. This, together with poor error handling is a recipe for disaster: Problems with permissi
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by nimrody 12y ago
Kernighan and Pike's "The UNIX programming environment"[1] is still my favorite despite being old and certainly not up to date. The book teaches the UNIX way of approaching problems with a set of simple tools that complement
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by nimrody 12y ago
What do you do when you want to break the contract? I.e., after 6 months you decide to switch carrier? Now what?
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by nimrody 12y ago
This is probably the price with contract (i.e., it's subsidized by the carrier and the true cost is higher)
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by nimrody 12y ago
asfq1
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by nimrody 12y ago
No pointers. Range limited types, e.g. Type Day = (0..7); Days = (monday,tuesday,wednesday,thursday,friday, saturday,sunday);
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by nimrody 12y ago
I usually add a commit hook to run 'mysqldump'. Then you get a matching database snapshot along with the source code. TIP: For better diff's use "--skip-extended-insert --skip-dump-date". A nice gui on top of that i

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