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by ninjin 14y ago
As someone close to me working with foreign countries and the Japanese nuclear energy industry said: "Which country is willing to buy the products of our industry if we are not willing to buy them for ourselves?" There are already a bunch o
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by ninjin 14y ago
If this is the case, I believe there is a word for this phenomena... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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by ninjin 14y ago
Well, it has already happened at least once for Git [1]. I seem to remember someone else suggesting to move the Linux Kernel to C++ ending up with a similar rant (someone can feel free to dig that up if they have the time). [1]: http://thr
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by ninjin 14y ago
> Under the guidance of the FSF, GCC has intentionally tangled the front end with the back end. The purpose of this was to make it hard to modularize GCC, because if GCC were modular, then you could write a proprietary component for it
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by ninjin 14y ago
Well, while you mention forward compatibility, there is also backwards compatibility. I am really a person that loves to move towards 3.x, but having a ton of users (some not technical enough to compile Python) with old Python installations
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by ninjin 14y ago
This seems like a great read! I have wished for years to dive into music theory and this would suit me great. I would prefer a physical copy though, any chance of seeing an e-mail list where you can get back to people that want to wait for
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by ninjin 14y ago
For those wanting to experience those days again (or for the first time?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_A1GNx0M9M Another one that springs to mind is from Constructor; "Hello this is constructor are you receiving?" with that very dist
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by ninjin 14y ago
> Unlike Dune 2, which only allowed the user to select a single unit at a time, and which necessitated frenzied mouse-clicking to initiate joint-unit tactical combat, it was obvious that enabling players to select more than one unit wou
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by ninjin 14y ago
> I commonly do ten-fold cross-validation on the test set... Um, darn, edit period ran out, test set should obviously be train set in the above quote. Otherwise my PI would probably smack me in the face for overfitting the test set.
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by ninjin 14y ago
> Is there any mathematics on defining what % of the dataset should be training vs. testing or is it left to the analyst (like with confidence intervals (95% hypothesis testing etc.))? In my own field, Natural Language Processing (NLP),
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by ninjin 14y ago
Not that I am doing Machine Translation (MT), but saying accuracy is a bit vague. The whole notion of what is lost in a translation using MT is to the best of my knowledge not fully captured with any well-established measure. Fair warning,
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by ninjin 14y ago
Sadly, I'll be out of the country. I have gone once last year and I can highly recommend the event. I am in academia and I did find the conversations very interesting. It was nice to get out of my little box and see the world, my own work a
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by ninjin 14y ago
Schneier has recently written an excellent analysis of the exploit market. He also links to a ton of interesting related material. https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1206.html#1
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by ninjin 14y ago
> I find JSON tedious and error-prone to generate by hand. I also frequently wish I could document the data with comments. I whole-heartedly agree with you on the tediousness, but JSON has this dubious double-nature that it is sometimes
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by ninjin 14y ago
It seems to be that there are pretty much "roles" that we expect public persona to fill. RMS is supposed to be a freedom nut, Linus is supposed to be a rude ranting geek, Palin is supposed to be a complete nut that never gets anything right
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by ninjin 14y ago
Russell was and is an excellent read although what he wrote is now mostly over half-a-century old. Sorry to shamelessly suggest interesting historical reading but I personally found for example "The Problem of China" a wonderful document, e
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by ninjin 15y ago
You would use "Application-specific passwords", basically a one-off password used only for your IM or E-mail.
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by ninjin 15y ago
Ironical as it may be and as the author mentioned briefly in the article, "there is an app for that". Google provides an authentication app for at least Android and iOS. I personally put my phone in "airplane mode" for the trip (still waiti
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by ninjin 15y ago
I am still in my "academic days" and just like you I try to push code into my public repository from the start of a project and onwards ( https://github.com/ninjin/ ). The only limitation I make is that I generally want either a test-suite
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by ninjin 15y ago
In the interest of adding context, a "Smudge Attack" paper was presented at USENIX 2010 (Aviv et al. 2010), linking it for those interested. I only read security papers as a layman but I did enjoy this one. Paper link: http://static.usenix
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by ninjin 15y ago
Agreed, I personally counter this by having different private keys for different networks and levels of security clearance. My work key gets me onto the work networks, once inside, I have a network specific key to use inside the network its
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by ninjin 15y ago
If we put the ideological issues aside there are some other potential issues about using Disqus that I have thought of: 1.) Control of data, I am not sure what rights I am legally signing away to Disqus when using it as my comment service.
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by ninjin 15y ago
Love the idea, thought the same thing after having seen detexify and doing web development looking for suitable Unicode glyphs (glyph lists are a pain in the, well...). Keep it up and by all means fix the current error. ;)
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by ninjin 15y ago
Interestingly it appears that the ML-class ( http://www.ml-class.org ) and DB-class ( http://www.db-class.org/ ) are not associated with Know Labs. But I might be wrong. I initially thought all three of them was a part of a Stanford effort
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by ninjin 15y ago
Mark Pilgrim reversed (or ripped out, can't remember) the encoding detection that Firefox uses. It has done a fairly good job for my web crawling: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet
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by ninjin 15y ago
Had no idea about these kinds of events taking place, very interested but a three day heads up is too short notice for my current calendar. I will keep my eyes peeled for #9 since I'll be in Japan for the foreseeable future.