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by nsriv 8y ago
R is cumbersome, but then you look at Matlab and Stata and try to explain that to social science graduate students that just managed to grok LaTex, and R starts looking like a streamlined vision of the future.
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by nsriv 8y ago
Any chance you've open-sourced this solution? I've been looking for something self-hosted for ages.
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by nsriv 8y ago
This was a great read, thank you!
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by nsriv 8y ago
This looks wonderful, just signed up! Looking forward to APIs
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How I Composed the Windows 10 Calendar Alert(news.microsoft.com)
2 points by nsriv 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsriv 8y ago
I've used doc2txt to OCR some old book scans, works really well in my experience. https://github.com/jlsutherland/doc2text
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by nsriv 8y ago
The most comparable laptop on the market with the 1050ti Max-Q that I can find are the Dell XPS 15 9570 i7 UHD (tapering width 11-17mm) and there are no reports of overheating in that frame. Lenovo also chose to go with a monohinge design f
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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: 15“ Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM Under 4 Pounds(arstechnica.com)
42 points by nsriv 8y ago|9 comments
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by nsriv 8y ago
You could also use a Jupyter notebook uploaded to colab.research.google.com
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by nsriv 8y ago
So...opt-out then.
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by nsriv 8y ago
Running it on my Pixel 2XL, the new navigation pill is strictly optional.
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Android 9 Pie:Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you(blog.google)
12 points by nsriv 8y ago|1 comments
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Introducing Android 9 Pie(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by nsriv 8y ago
Definitely true. I've had a student call for this sort of ideation, after taking prescribed medicine, identified himself as black so they could tell who he was when they arrived, but didn't ask for a 'crisis prevention team&#
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by nsriv 8y ago
This is a cartoonishly naive idea of the operations of a union. 1) Unions set wage minimums and working conditions. You're free to negotiate for more. Underachieving workers receive more, and overachieving workers also receive more bec
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by nsriv 8y ago
Thinkpads have magnesium chassis (X1 is carbon fiber).
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by nsriv 8y ago
Quick little issue in the docs for Getting Started>Installation>Quick Start:Altair+Colab: Following the instructions leads to an error at the from vega_datasets line. Needed to fix by first running !pip install vega_datasets I see the
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by nsriv 9y ago
By the time you retire you have more capital accruing interest, and generally more to invest in the attendant better investment opportunities available. That's what they meant.
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by nsriv 9y ago
This is still a major design consideration for developing world mobile apps with webviews and sites, removing box shadows tripled time-on-site immensely for a site I designed for a client.
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by nsriv 9y ago
They're bad for browsing, I agree. I do a lot of file management and reorganization across network drives, and it would benefit me by immediately exposing one or two directory levels above a file location for drag and drop simplicity.
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by nsriv 9y ago
I really just wish Windows had a Miller Columns view in Explorer like OSX. All the apps on Windows that promise this are utter garbage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
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by nsriv 9y ago
To remedy this: File > Options > Save >Save to Computer by Default (yes, agreed that this is ridiculous). A habit that I've developed from earliest computer classes in elementary school is to save the file in the location you
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by nsriv 9y ago
For economics at least, there is this rich online textbook called The Economy, published by The CORE Project (Curriculum in Open-access Resources in Economics). It's opinionated in its approach, in that it stems from students and instr
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by nsriv 9y ago
In upstate Western NY there's definitely a big push towards offering kids the option of vocational school. Kids I work with generally have their minds made up about it by 11th grade, but there are two interesting phenomena. Many studen
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by nsriv 9y ago
A quick perusal of names from two universities I have been affiliated with, along with some of the organizations the signatories belong to, reveal that these are mostly emeritus business admin or finance professors. Of course they're i
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by nsriv 9y ago
For those interested in a Windows Beta, check here: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&...
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by nsriv 9y ago
Betteridge's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by nsriv 9y ago
I'm much the same way, but you should try f1calendar.com for session timing.
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by nsriv 9y ago
I think the phrasing was a joke
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by nsriv 9y ago
This sounds like a push/background data issue, where refreshing forces the phone to update. I haven't had this issue since my OG HTC EVO, but toggling Sync on an account basis in the app could help. There was also a catastrophic b

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