philshem

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   by philshem 7y ago

   Here’s more info about the race between calculating and downloading digits of pi https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/4024/1511
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   by philshem 7y ago

   We are all sitting here in collective awe, and the JS source contains this header: > /* Dear explorer, this code works, but is by no means of high quality. Once a post is written I don't go back to the source code again and the
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   by philshem 7y ago

   For the record, July 2019 is still at least 18 months after the release of SciPy 1.0 (late 2017) https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/release.1.0.0.htm...
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   by philshem 7y ago

   After the recent release of Pandas 1.0, I was curious to see if/when Conda would upgrade my SciPy to 1.0. Turns out I'm already on 1.4.1 :)
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   by philshem 7y ago

   You can try https://osmbuildings.org/documentation/viewer/ Or perhaps directly from the city
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   by philshem 7y ago

   cool, although if you want to play snake in the terminal without building C++ from source, and you use the debian/ubuntu package: apt-get install nsnake http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man6&
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   by philshem 7y ago

   yes
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   by philshem 7y ago

   I know a MechE working as a MechE who works 100% remotely. But his job is 100% CAD. I can share more details privately...
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   by philshem 7y ago

   This gives a new meaning to the maxim "You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."
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    by philshem 7y ago

    From another comment on this thread > 20300302, 20400402, etc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214936
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    by philshem 7y ago

    _secret_
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I have a secret hobby of answering python + regex questions on stackoverflow with pure python.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I don’t know if this will go over well, but how about the infamous 1=1? WHERE 1=1 AND country = 'UAE' AND day >= DATE('2019-07-01') AND DAY_OF_WEEK(day) != 5 AND scheduled_accuracy_meters
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Main thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22187121
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    Pandas 1.0 Is Here(twitter.com)

    1 points by philshem 7y ago|1 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    command line tools like grep,awk,sed,etc are great for structured and line-based files like logs. For json documents I can add a recommendation for jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Desktop apps are (in)famously Electron.js iOS is native: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/931599784137363459?s=20 Android is native, too (no source)
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Forgot to add an older entry-level android tablet (7”) used as a digital photo frame, running Fotoo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bo.fotoo&h... It’s a better display and cheaper than any o
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    by philshem 7y ago

    + Thinkpad X230 (2013 model, i5, 8gb ram, ssd) with docking station as a media center running Kodi[0] + Samsung Galaxy Express I8730 (2013)[1] as a remote control for that media center[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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    Life in the Baby Universe: The Physics of Babies (2014)(medium.com)

    1 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    there are still some hypotheticals about if the star is going supernova, but if that is the case > When Betelgeuse does eventually go supernova, it will be the most fascinating act of nature witnessed by any human ever. Other supernovae
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    Betelgeuse Just Keeps Getting Dimmer, and We Have No Idea Why(sciencealert.com)

    4 points by philshem 7y ago|1 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    is this it? https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/4308/1511 http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~persingq/ICLE/orgDataset.html http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~persingq/ICLE&#x2F
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    by philshem 7y ago

    A couple good resources for finding datasets: + For individual requests, come over to https://opendata.stackexchange.com/ and ask! + Wikidata has loads of structured data, but using SPARQL is often a barrier. But you can re
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    by philshem 7y ago

    “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” —Edward Abbey
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    by philshem 7y ago

    the article states that > After “receiving feedback from the community” – that is, having its new parking enforcement method thwarted – OU has decided to pause the trial use of the five devices it’d borrowed from the Barnacle’s manufactu
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    by philshem 7y ago

    good content, but here is all of the content in one tweet https://twitter.com/saallyjohnsonn/status/121719070339206758...
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Here’s an interesting 2019 New Yorker article about Ocean Cleanup https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/04/a-grand-plan-t...
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Another use case for Sci-Hub is bulk downloads. This is especially important for machine learning. Building a dataset of academic papers across domains would be a insurmountable task, even with APIs like PubMed and using "interal"
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Slight variation: http://highdeas.com/