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by papaf 10y ago
This is really impressive and the probability distribution plots are excellent. I recommend adding a lot more explanation text (Markdown/Latex maths) as this would help people like me who have never done any calculations with wind and
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by papaf 10y ago
I am renting a virtual stake in an Ethereum miner with Genesis mining and I am not seeing anything like a spike in my return. In fact it is about half what it was a few months ago. Edit: this is not an advert, there has been plenty of specu
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by papaf 10y ago
I know R and have used Octave. I started learning Julia this morning after a physicist recommended it to me after he switched from python. I used Jupyter/Julia to simulate a neuron as a practice exercise. This is my experience as a beg
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by papaf 10y ago
I recommend the ethereum whitepiper. It has a clear description of bitcoin and then goes on to describe other applications of the blockchain: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
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by papaf 11y ago
There's no planning, forethought, or central driving will at play here. Do there have to be these things to show intelligence? Simple markets without central planning absolutely destroy central planning in terms of efficiency: http:
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by papaf 11y ago
Ants can be though of as a super-organism. This makes them super interesting: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism - http://news.wisc.edu/17398 - http://jn.nutrition.org/con
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by papaf 11y ago
Its an authenticated query. Why is it scary - is there a problem with the authentication? If the authentication is sound it is actually quite cool.
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by papaf 11y ago
It is also worth looking at NFS if you use a NAS. I have been able to stream movies over terrible Wifi by switching from Samba to NFS. This wasn't with a Pi though.
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by papaf 11y ago
Thank you for writing a tutorial - saltstack needs one and it will save people a lot of pain. I don't know of any good tutorials or tutorial theory. However, someone once showed me a trick that works well when describing something comp
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by papaf 11y ago
Scala is a complicated language. I would see it as a good thing if new features are rarely added.
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by papaf 11y ago
I am not sure if dnscrypt helps much, but it at least makes them work a bit harder. Here is a guide for getting off your ISP's DNS and encrypting the traffic: http://blog.lowsnr.net/2014/08/08/dns-privacy
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by papaf 11y ago
I would never argue against science but the following is a true anecdote: A friend of mine was up all night smoking pot and drinking alcohol. She had a University exam the next day that involved writing essays. She picked herself up, went t
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by papaf 11y ago
I know that writing code comments isn't in fashion at the moment, but both the original and the refactored code would have benefited from comments.
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by papaf 11y ago
a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc... I understood Alan Kay t
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by papaf 11y ago
Isn't Scheme a Lisp 1?
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by papaf 11y ago
The previous announcement about turning into a subscription based IDE pushed me into trying Netbeans again. Netbeans is suprisingly close in features to IDEA and better in some places (in my experience XML handling and performance). This ne
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by papaf 11y ago
In several style guides I have seen, both in academia and journalism you always Introduce An Acronynm (IAA) before using it. You don't get to pick your audience on the internet and IAA strikes me as a sensible thing to do.
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by papaf 11y ago
Why do you care about overlap? The green nasties are attacking your privacy in multiple ways, it seems sensible to have redundant layers of protection.
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by papaf 11y ago
I can relate to a "no easy internet" rule. It is possible to download a lot of important information (godoc, cppreference, perl man pages) so that internet interaction is minimised. It is possible to plan what needs to be looked u
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by papaf 11y ago
I had no idea what Tame was but this introduction helped: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2
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by papaf 11y ago
Secret in negotiation is like source control in software development. It is universally recognized best practice. Its not secret: http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2015/07/ttip-...
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by papaf 11y ago
I just downloaded it - really nice. A suggestion with a bit of irony, I am unable to find this actual article easily because even though there is "Show HN" there is no "Show HN New". Thank you for making it free and open
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by papaf 11y ago
Don't worry about picking the wrong tools - everybody does that and a CS education won't help. If you want an informal coding education, I 100% recommend Code Complete [1]. Its an old book but absolutely fantastic. Please give it
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by papaf 11y ago
This is true but the assumption of Gaussian noise carries with it the assumption that the model is correct. Most models are not correct which is why particle filters perform much better than people expect.
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by papaf 11y ago
The Unscented Kalman Filter is a type of Sigma Point Kalman Filter -- I just had to look this up to be sure, but it is kind of obvious.
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by papaf 11y ago
This appears to be a really nice writeup. However, at the end: For nonlinear systems, we use the extended Kalman filter, which works by simply linearizing the predictions and measurements about their mean. I would recommend looking at an
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by papaf 11y ago
The LDA stands for Latent Dirichlet Allocation which is the basis for a probabilistic model of words in documents. The wikipedia article is excellent and goes on to explain why you would need to use Gibbs Sampling: https://en.wik
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by papaf 11y ago
I actually did this switch 25 years ago for the same reasons. I studied Microelectronics in the UK and I was the first in my graduation year to get a job - 6 months later, by switching to software development (CPU and graphics card benchmar
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by papaf 11y ago
I have a hard time believing that the cost of a TLS lookup and a couple of writes per freed object is more expensive than a Cheney scan for objects in the nursery This paper describes how it is possible if you are happy to throw a lot of
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by papaf 11y ago
I can't even dismiss it as typical Guardian progressive ranting FYI because it is not clear from the article, but this is actually a marketing piece for a book: Postcapitalism is published by Allen Lane on 30 July. Paul Mason is the

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