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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
At the moment, Python is the language I am most proficient with and my go-to language. I definitely appreciate the functional aspects that it has incorporated (list/dictionary comprehensions, functions like map, zip, reduce, and anonym
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Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language for data science?
15 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|17 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
Would be helpful to see this list be updated with a few others. A couple of that come to mind: SQL: Tuple relational calculus is too low level? Julia: Hadoop is a kludge for data science? Clojure: We need Lisp for the JVM? Dart: JavaScript
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Ask HN: Why is Rap Genius Getting So Much Hacker News Attention?
3 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|3 comments
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Understanding the Reaction to Amazon Prime Air(nbviewer.ipython.org)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
Just discovered this JavaScript 8080 emulator with Space Invaders implemented. Pretty neat. http://bluishcoder.co.nz/js8080/
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Arcade Space Invaders(computerarcheology.com)
75 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|3 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
I thought it was disappointing that no mention of a distributed denial of service attack or a cyber warfare angle was really developed in the story.
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We Asked a Military Expert if All the World's Armies Could Shut Down the US(vice.com)
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A Gentle Introduction to Data Mining with Twitter's API and IPython Notebook(rawgithub.com)
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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures(interactivepython.org)
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25 Data Mining Recipes for Twitter(rawgithub.com)
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Why More Data and Simple Algorithms Beat Complex Analytic Models(data-informed.com)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you objectively review a tech book?
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
"Apple's goals for Topsy are unclear" is mentioned in the WSJ article - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230485480... Given that Twitter integration became a native part of iOS bac
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Ask HN: Why did Apple buy Topsy?
3 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|1 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
The fundamental takeaway is that a tech book is a startup (if you want it to be). Thinking of it as a product (not a project) fundamentally changes the dynamics of how to go about writing and supporting it.
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Confessions of a Prolific Moonlighter (with a Chronic Writing Disorder) [video](miningthesocialweb.com)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|1 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
Nice link to the official Amazon video about this as well - http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
So the ultimate goal of doing something like this would be to make same delivery normative? I wonder if there are patents filings that somehow try to protect this "intellectual property"?
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Amazon Is Experimenting With Autonomous Flying Delivery Drones(techcrunch.com)
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Linux tools to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them(unix.stackexchange.com)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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How distortion in source reporting affects HUMINT(isn.ethz.ch)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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An Introduction to Decision Trees with Julia(bensadeghi.com)
77 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|5 comments
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Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?(unix.stackexchange.com)
62 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|17 comments
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
Nice!
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by ptwobrussell 13y ago
That seems a very apt analogy. The work in this post was fairly cursory since my primary goal was to "teach people how to be dangerous" as opposed to "prove" anything definitively, but once you start really working with
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What Tim O'Reilly, Lady Gaga, and Marissa Mayer All Have In Common(miningthesocialweb.com)
8 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|10 comments
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How to Deliver a Successful Tech Workshop(miningthesocialweb.com)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments
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An Approximate Solution for TL;DR [A ~1.7MB Animated GIF Screencast](miningthesocialweb.com)
1 points by ptwobrussell 13y ago|0 comments

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