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oluckyman
10y ago
The shining light angle is close to clickbait, since it's presented as a lower-order hack at best. But the article itself is comprehensive and interesting. The focus is on looking for hacks that might work, so medical studies are cherr
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oluckyman
10y ago
Neural nets! Is there anything they can't do?
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oluckyman
10y ago
I'm not aware of any evidence that his "Dr." title is accurate.
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oluckyman
11y ago
"UC Davis spent thousands...". Shades of Dr Evil.
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oluckyman
11y ago
The algorithm is indeed incorrect, as I've explained in a more recent comment on the article.
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oluckyman
11y ago
Given its author, it would be even more remarkable if this algorithm was incorrect. See my comment on the article.
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oluckyman
11y ago
"The code twists and contorts ruby in unimaginable ways." Doesn't sound like my idea of beautiful software.
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oluckyman
11y ago
My nephew played in a minor tournament that Sam Groth won a couple of years ago. He said Groth did a second serve kicker that bounced over his opponent and continued over the back fence.
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oluckyman
12y ago
"To my surprise, he never owned a tube amp and preamp—both of which allow for a smoother, more organic sound." I put my tube amp in a tray of tofu for an even more organic sound.
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oluckyman
12y ago
Surprised to see this here, but very happy to thereby discover it. Very nice piece.
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oluckyman
12y ago
Same issue for me.
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oluckyman
13y ago
Not only are the poor not storming the barricades, in the USA especially many (most?) of them vote against their own interests.
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oluckyman
14y ago
http://litebyte.net/blog/?p=135
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oluckyman
15y ago
Yes, Declarative Programming rules. Check out how well it's done in AngularJS.
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oluckyman
15y ago
AngularJS's bindings beat all 3: it works with POJOs, you don't have to write glue code, and views are augumented HTML. Not "real-time", but capable of handling that with, say, Firebase. Furthermore, its testing infrastructure is best of br
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oluckyman
15y ago
Do yourself a favor and look at AngularJS.
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oluckyman
15y ago
This should play beautifully with client-side JS web app frameworks like AngularJS where the JSON models are 2-way bound to the views.
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oluckyman
15y ago
Heads up. AngularJS is getting ready for its 1.0 release after moving this year from a 20%-time Google developer's project to a well-resourced one with full-time developers. It's going to really shake this space up.
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oluckyman
15y ago
This adds AngularJS to the benchmark done originally to compare Backbone and Ember, and extended to include Knockout and YUI. jsfiddle links to those are provided. TL;DR: AngularJS is significantly faster than all the others on this benchma
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oluckyman
15y ago
Another vote for AngularJS. Not your father's client-side Javascript library.
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oluckyman
15y ago
Props. Nice results, and beautifully presented.