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by nraford 4y ago
The two iconic texts are: - "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter (Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Ar... ) - "Normal Accidents" by Chuck Perrow (Amaz
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by nraford 4y ago
Mixxx is such a legend. It's absolutely competitive with the "Big 3" (Serato, Traktor and RB), although it doesn't have real time stems separation like VDJ or DJay Pro. Neither do the Big 3, either, although I hear rumor
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by nraford 4y ago
Have met Brand on a half dozen occasions or so and I even did a 1 hour interview with him as part of a never released documentary on the origins of scenario planning and foresight. Can confirm, he is the opposite of a jerk. He was lovely, i
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by nraford 4y ago
Lenny Smith's "Chaos: A Short Introduction" is an absolute gem. Lenny's book is an absolute gem for anyone working in statistical modeling, time series analysis or prediction of any sort. Every ML engineer should read it
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by nraford 5y ago
Just to say that this is probably one of the best written, most thoughtful, caring and lovely "exit articles" that I've ever read! Well done and I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing you all the best.
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by nraford 5y ago
LinkedIn - the social network for people who have dust where their souls should be.
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by nraford 5y ago
Just chiming in to share my disdain and rancor against JIRA. "JIRA shitlets" is the best term I've heard in weeks. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a storm of whimperin
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by nraford 7y ago
And my work firewall blocks it as malware. Nice.
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by nraford 7y ago
The Reddit GPT-2 simulator is absolutely, gut-bustingly hilarious when it comes to this stuff. It trains different GPT-2 bots on different sub-Reddits and then creates long, elaborate posts where the bots talk to themselves in the style of
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by nraford 7y ago
How is this different from AirTable or any other of the dozen of online spreadsheet tools? Just looks like an auto-aggregated table. Serious question: Where's the "research" here? Sorry, not trying to be antagonistic, just no
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by nraford 8y ago
I just picked up a Condesa V and it is no doubt the best, most enjoyable mixing experience I've had in my 25+ years of DJ'ing. And Medhi is a legend in his attention to detail and customer support. Well worth every penny and minut
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by nraford 8y ago
I own a Model 1 also and freaking love it, but I just picked up a Condesa Lucia V and have to say, I'm totally converted. The isolators alone are worth the switch. I miss 6 channels on the Model 1 since I use a lot of Ableton drum fill
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by nraford 12y ago
The purpose of the supplement is to support research and experimentation, not define the price of the the service. The actual cost of the system or prototype may be more or less. This is just to help reward the time and effort people will p
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by nraford 12y ago
From the website: "The UAE "Drones for Good" Award has two parts: - National competition - International competition The National competition carries an award of 1 million AED. It is dedicated to rewarding the best, most prac
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by nraford 12y ago
Short answer from the website: "The first of its kind and scale, the Award is dedicated to transforming these exciting technologies into practical solutions for improving people’s lives today." Slightly longer answer: Most of thes
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by nraford 12y ago
Thanks, please do!
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by nraford 12y ago
Hi, my name is Dr. Noah Raford and I am part of the competition's organising committee (proof: http://ae.linkedin.com/pub/dr-noah-raford/1/a68/4a0 More proof: http://noahraford.com/?