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by olympus 14y ago
I kind of disagree with you here, but you are close. The US military encourages critical thinking in all its ranks (something many other nations do not do), but it has to do so while discouraging risky behavior. This is what is so difficu
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by olympus 14y ago
I am glad that someone who knows more about language than I do can make a sophisticated sounding arguement that I can regurgitate to make myself sound smart. Who cares if it's correct or not, I can belittle a lot of people with words like
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by olympus 14y ago
From what I understand, it's fairly expensive. It's tough to make a profit on a phone when the battery costs $500. Costs are surely coming down but I think we'll have to wait before it hits the mass markets. From the wikipedia page on gr
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by olympus 14y ago
If you want an excellent OR role model, I suggest you check out Gene Woolsey. He has a book that is a collection of stories of real world OR, not just solving traveling salesmen problems: http://www.lionhrtpub.com/books/wp1.html He's an
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by olympus 14y ago
It's nice to see OR get some love on HN. I think one of the biggest problems with OR practitioners is that we have a hard time articulating what we bring to the table. My job title is "suitability analyst," but that doesn't tell the whole
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by olympus 14y ago
I don't know much about this guy's particular details (obviously), but he knew the rules. To break it down into something easy to understand, here are the the only two ways to continue getting money from the government after you quit: 1.
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by olympus 14y ago
This thing has more in common with a homebuilt kit plane like a Vans RV-8 than it does with a modern fighter jet. No HUD, and the rest of the c *pit looks like it is made out of styrofoam and plywood. The exhaust doesn't even have a vari
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by olympus 14y ago
I'll concede the point that pip can't handle non-python packages. But it can handle side by side versioning by way of virtualenv. But if I need a specific version for a project I just install that version into my virtualenv's /bin/ folder
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by olympus 14y ago
I'd like to just use apt, it won't work for me. At least with Python, pip easily integrates virtualenv, which isn't true of yum or apt as far as I know. Plus, python devs can package once for pip and have it work on any system, without h
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by olympus 14y ago
I agree. None of these myriad package managers does anything that pip doesn't do. Virtualenv + pip still can't be beat.
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by olympus 14y ago
Short domain names are hard to get on account of there being fewer possible combinations. Finding a short domain that meshes with your application is definitely valuable, since it is easier to remember and type. We can debate whether or n
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by olympus 14y ago
Sites like these rise and fall on two things: the delivery of the content, and the quality of the content. The delivery here is top notch, I found it very easy to navigate and get the information I wanted. I know your community is small
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by olympus 14y ago
I went and did a couple searches and the publications search always cut out after the first page. The list of authors would continue for multiple pages though. Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, but I thought I'd p
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by olympus 14y ago
Holy crap. Looking at examples from the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) The following expression sorts a list of strings by their lengths: x@>#:'x A function to determine if a number is prime can
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by olympus 14y ago
Thanks for that. Now I need to find out if they are cutting Top Gear and Dr. Who short on BBC America to make room for the commercials...
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by olympus 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand why the spike happens. Is there some etiquette that says you must wait until the T.V. show is finished before you may start making tea (why not switch the kettle on during a commercial break)? Also, is tea in the
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by olympus 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I know the guy that wrote this (seriously, how many physicists named Alex Alaniz are there?), and he can't have LaTeX on his work computer because of some really dumb rules. So I don't blame him for it being an exported Wor
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by olympus 14y ago
It seems like everyone else is giving you flak so let me offer some words of encouragement: This looks great! This really makes functional programming more readable. It forces the use of whitespace which is my favorite part about python.
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by olympus 14y ago
The GitHub version and the version on the jstat website are vastly different. Just thought I'd point that out. I like the way that the GitHub version is laid out in a modular format. Some of the functionality is different so you can't ju
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by olympus 14y ago
I think there probably isn't a reliable way to answer those questions unless it is after the fact. The problem is that true geniuses usually aren't recognized until after they are long gone, so you won't identify an excess until after the
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by olympus 14y ago
Flash is pretty much non existent on the Pi. The XBMC based distros can supposedly do some flash but it's pretty wonky and the other distros like Arch Linux and Raspbian don't have it at all.
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by olympus 14y ago
Very neat, I just had a few minor issues with needing to click some thumbnails twice to get the picture to display correctly. With that one issue aside, I think this is a pretty slick way to display photos and might use it myself to displa
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by olympus 14y ago
Oops, now my real name is out on the internet. Good thing it didn't ask for my SSN, I probably would have typed it in as well without reading anything.
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by olympus 14y ago
I really think this is cool, machine learning has a lot to offer the world and this can improve quality of life for lots of people. However, two things come to mind: 1. http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Parkinsons Does it really t