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by pacala 7y ago
While I'm not an expert, I suspect you're right. Point being that some lakes serve a different purpose than supporting a thriving ecosystem.
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Depends on the lake. There is a reservoir near LA covered in millions of black balls. Apparently this is a side effect of water quality regulation, direct sunlight triggers a chemical reaction that produces harmful byproducts. As a bonus, e
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Alternatively, the present is the weighted average of past causal influences. This event had no causal influence over the humans figuring out how to make baskets. From Earth perspective, the event just happened.
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How difficult would be to fly one hd filming plane above, then scour the imagery with a fine comb, possibly computer vision aided?
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They have no use at scale yet. Expect prices to drop exponentially once a use at scale is found.
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With all due respect, this poor design on part of Hadoop and/or Hadoop configuration. Hadoop workers should be bounded to certain amount hardware resources, and killed if they surpass them. As opposed to killing random processes /
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by pacala 7y ago
Google/Twitter/Facebook are the ultimate stage in media consolidation. 3 mega-corporations controlling the information feeds for the vast majority of people in the world. Even with the best intentions, I can't see how this ar
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by pacala 7y ago
Because explicit memory management has a higher cognitive overhead than implicit memory management, a GC-based language is more suitable higher up the stack.
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The West is weak. It surrendered a long time ago. I see no reason to believe it would suddenly grow a will to stand for itself. Trump is but a blip, and he's merely a caricature to begin with.
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Spelling suggestion: YIYBY - YesInYourBackYard
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The task of an error "handling" mechanism could be then described as: A. Create an error object, enter "error mode". B. Annotate an error object with contextual information at each call point. C. Return the error object
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The example was a worst case example. There are weaker versions thereof, for example the familiar: def handle(request): try: return Response(200, process(request)) except UserError as ex: return Respons
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The confusing part is the underlying assumption that there exists a way to "handle" errors, understood as a way to workaround the error and somehow continue execution. This is most of the times futile, there is nothing to "ha
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One piece caught my eye: > In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go
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The side Roger Pielke Jr. argues for being concluded on slide 67: > So after this massive thread we come to the conclusions. > Have disasters become more costly because of human-caused climate change? > The answer is clear: No &gt
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I wish I understood what problems people solve day in and day out such that they need to call IO in the middle of Dijkstra’s algorithm. Most "business logic" ought be pure functions over persistent data structures with no IO other
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On Python packages, we’ve found miniconda + pip is great for isolated environments that JustWork.
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Thanks for the tip!
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How's the cross-platform library ecosystem? My distant sentiment is that the bulk of libraries are tied to / provided by Apple, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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by pacala 7y ago
Sorry, I meant persistent vectors. Data structures with type Vector[T] instead of Tuple[T0, T1, ...], amortized O(1) updates and list-like syntax for literals, e.g. i[x0, x1]. It's a minor annoyance, in most cases using vanilla Python
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by pacala 7y ago
Scala: Python + dataclasses [+ mypy] offers a programming experience close to pragmatic Scala. The tradeoff becomes: * worse performance * lack of immutable vectors, alleviated via style conventions * rarely, awkward lambdas vs. * wide pool
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by pacala 7y ago
Incidentally, Trump is the strongest "be wary of China" voice in US politics.
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At the far-left end: A. Millions murdered based on class: independent farmers [0], intellectuals, defined as anyone wearing glasses [1], entrepreneurs, professionals. Generally anyone perceived as better off than their neighbor was at risk
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The choice of the text scrolling over the collage, however, is the author's / NYT's doing. > Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube. > Soon, he was pulled into a far-right universe,
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by pacala 7y ago
Figure 5(c) illustrates the shape of the projections for a random branching embedding of the correct tree structure. This roughly matches the ideal Pythagorean embedding, and also the BERT embedding. Keep in mind that BERT only sees word se
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Amazon should ignore other people data. Amazon has plenty of its data from its own products, no need to create false dichotomies.
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Not so different than eating it in small amounts day in and day out for years.
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We know there are plenty of antivaxers because they sign certificates of immunization exemption. Plus we keep track of immunization rates. In WA there are about 4% kindergarten kids with non-medical immunization exemptions [0]. In some comm
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A friend tells you in private, and also cuts you a lot of slack. A jerk berates you in public at every opportunity.
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The federally & state funded public Universities that will fall over each other to employ adversity scores as a pillar of their academic life, on the other hand... One can attempt to outsource responsibility from a legalistic perspectiv

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