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by omeze 7y ago
Someone hands me a thumb drive and it consists of one byte, 0000 0001. On Monday, the owner of the thumb drive tells me the contents are a counter of how many apples they had in their kitchen on new year. On Tuesday, the owner tells me the
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by omeze 7y ago
> For instance in Chrome the overhead of an additional request is still several milliseconds of local CPU time this is pretty interesting, do you have links or knowledge of why this is the case? is it simply JIT overhead? What could be t
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by omeze 7y ago
True - at the same time its easier to switch majors at a school than to switch schools for a given major. So there’s a slightly different risk profile if one decides by major primarily.
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by omeze 7y ago
I think this is super cool and definitely fits my mental model of how I think about diagrams and designs! Would love to take a look at the code if its available. I'm not a front-end engineer but it seems to me like a more expressive ve
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by omeze 7y ago
I mean, its not like markets reach equilibrium in an instant, or that financial education/operations are particularly robust in these communities. A more competitive lending market takes time to setup (i.e. to learn idiosyncratic risks
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by omeze 7y ago
Differential privacy is more about preserving privacy from consumers of data (e.g. a user running a query) -- it doesn't have guarantees around what sort of data is collected (e.g. google could expose a differentially private API, but
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by omeze 7y ago
Yes. I would say people or teams which developed solutions that look as if they "just appeared out of careful consideration" did not -- they simply learned from others and took in that prior world knowledge. The solution space for
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by omeze 7y ago
The main problem with fat clients is that for polyglot architectures (which most large companies that end up building a service mesh evolve into over time) you have to maintain a fat client library for every language. You can get very far l
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by omeze 7y ago
We did fix one bug, but after the 2nd incident decided that using a tool that silently corrupts your repository is not worth the marginal benefit it provides against alternative more naive solutions. Most companies run post-merge checks so
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by omeze 7y ago
Bors when introduced at my workplace was summarily disabled after 2 separate incidents where it was improperly applying commit messages (which we patched internally) and improperly applying patches (at which point we disabled it and explore
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by omeze 7y ago
This is a pretty nice tutorial! My courses in FPGA design in school taught me a ton about 1) concurrency and 2) good state machine design. In modern backend web development these topics receive so little attention (from interviewing all the
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by omeze 7y ago
People ~5 years ago were certainly using Black Scholes where I worked, just with a lot of caveats. The volatility smile you describe only really applies to out-of-the-money puts - people trading with black scholes as a signal will look at t
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by omeze 7y ago
I was an undergraduate at Caltech and helped with some admissions work. There is no bias towards admitting females. The student body is extremely small (200-250/year) and the student pool extremely self-selective. The 4 year graduation
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by omeze 7y ago
I think hydration as a phrase/concept has been around in the OOP world for a while, in the context of ORMs. At least I remember it as far back as 2011-ish. Its not an Uber-ism
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by omeze 7y ago
This concept was explored by the show "Westworld" (don't worry if you haven't seen it, this point isn't all that relevant to the plot). From what I can tell, this theory, like most theories of consciousness, has fal
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by omeze 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this? What would it offer?
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by omeze 8y ago
(I disagree with the downvotes here - this is a reasonable position if you have no context) In practice, non-competes that pay out 200k+/yr are quite common in finance (think firms like 2 sigma, Jane Street). They will pay to keep peop
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by omeze 8y ago
I have this exact same pattern, where the effectiveness lasts for 1-3 days then stops. This is regardless of whether the dosage is 10 mg or 1 mg (Ive never tried 0.3 mg because I never bothered to crush the pills and weigh). The reset perio
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by omeze 8y ago
This is cool, but to what extent is the DB-per-Service pattern actually used, or desirable? The alternative of sharing a DB across many services is simpler because you still just rely on transactions in you RDBMS. I get that at some point y
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by omeze 8y ago
I believe the distinction is: information is encoded in data (or, data holds information). E.g. a compressed data file stores the same information as it's uncompressed form, but the information is not necessarily usable without further
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by omeze 8y ago
It's cool that governments are taking action now, but this is a chicken vs egg scenario. If services like Yodlee didn't exist to prove that there was significant demand for programmatic access to consumer financial data by buildin
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7 Ways to Handle Concurrency in Distributed Systems(colin-scott.github.io)
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by omeze 8y ago
Its a long article but he’s advocating for a hybrid approach to deal with problems that DNNs encounter today which he believes are fundamental to DNNs (reasoning, causality). An example of such an approach taken with success is given at the
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by omeze 8y ago
The biggest annoyances are the lack of exhaustive pattern matching and the lack of sum types. I say annoyances because its possible to get most of the behavior for sum types with interfaces but a lot more boilerplate must be written. And, w
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by omeze 8y ago
TypeScript is amazing. Not just from a feature point of view, but also from a tooling and usability point of view. The flexibility of tsconfig.json and the sheer volume of @types packages has allowed my workplace to introduce it to our core