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by ntoshev 16y ago
You should point out a counterexample. I guess it would reveal that your definition of optimality is different from "evolutionary fitness", and it shouldn't be. Note I didn't claim that "evolutionary processes strive for streamlined and opt
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Strong AI is overrated: evolution beats intelligent design every time.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Machine learning? Implement pagerank or SVMs on CUDA :) What is the mapreduce of CUDA going to be?
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by ntoshev 16y ago
The image proxy won't work: Google's js APIs are throttled per IP to prevent abuse.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Are there incentives to have a lower/higher barrier for someone else to reproduce your findings and build on them?
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I don't think he meant things you can prove, more like he is looking for speculations and unique perspectives that may as well be wrong.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Remember this only applies to the F# compiler and not to the .Net runtime which you need to run the compiled code. Microsoft is friendly with Mono currently, but so was Sun with Android.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
To run F# you need .Net runtime, which is as closed as it can be. It's like Sun open sourcing the Java compiler but not the JVM.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I think moonlight can't show you any DRMed content; it's still the technology that is at fault.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Why don't you validate this in software on application time? Just put a big warning on every save and don't allow final submit.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
To prevent SQL injection, use bound SQL variables instead of embedding user input in SQL queries. You will also gain performance. To prevent xsrf attacks, check referer header before you take action.
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Kent Beck: minimal (sometimes no) automated testing before product/market fit(quora.com)
2 points by ntoshev 16y ago|1 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Yup, from the ShedSkin tutorial ( http://shedskin.googlecode.com/files/shedskin-tutorial-0.5.h... ): "Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler designed to speed up the execution of computation-intensive Python programs. It conver
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by ntoshev 16y ago
No generator support is a big limitation to me: my CPU intensive code uses generators. An alternative to watch is Shed Skin: http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/
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by ntoshev 16y ago
They were likely trying to help you and wanted to say they don't care whether you write an iterative or recursive solution.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
If you like Python, Theano may be useful to you (haven't actually tried it): http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-d
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Yeah, I also thought he expected to serve it all from a single disk. Hopefully in real life it gets clear in the discussion. It's a problem when asking interview questions: there are many ways in which the question may be unclear and the in
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by ntoshev 16y ago
What are the biggest challenges you meet in terms of missing software infrastructure to support your NLP/ML work? Things you wish someone would implement?
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I wish they provided an option for the datastore to be even less of an RDBMS, but much faster. I suspect a lot of the current write latency is due to the transactional guarantees they provide. Just give us access to the raw bigtable, pleas
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Yes, RDBMDSes have built-in cache, but they are not as fast as memcached. So why the difference? I haven't really checked, but you have to populate and invalidate memcached explicitly, and it doesn't honor database isolation (if you invalid
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Quora shows who voted up an answer among the people you follow (presumably you value their opinion). Makes a lot of sense in that context.
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Microsoft Web N-gram Services(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by ntoshev 16y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Rails scaffolding does this for Rails. You need to provide a way to implement custom functionality on these pages though.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
If a user is looking for a resource that is not available via the community, the service can offer a commercial alternative. I have built a first version of a service for sharing physical stuff (yet unreleased) and monetization seems like a
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Hiring executives: if you’ve never done the job how do you hire somebody good(bhorowitz.com)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Looks great, but wouldn't it make sense to support Kindle's WebKit-based experimental browser too?
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You are right of course, but this kind of syntax doesn't help the programmer to cognitively parse the code, which is what I am talking about.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
There is a language and there is an ecosystem surrounding it (libraries, community, etc). Ignoring the ecosystem, the question "to lisp or not to lisp" pretty much boils down to "syntax or macros" - if you want macros, you go with a lisp, i
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by ntoshev 16y ago
There is a cultural reason for googling instead of looking at the source: a lot of developers started programming for closed platforms like Windows or Mac OS, where looking at the source was not an option. In the same way, if you are accust
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What automated testing should a startup have during the first six months?(quora.com)
2 points by ntoshev 16y ago|0 comments

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