rlayton2

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by rlayton2 5y ago
Researcher in authorship analysis here. Yes, punctuation specific patterns have been used in the literature for this purpose, quite a bit. Removing the words also reduces the impact of the content of an article on your results (i.e. acciden
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by rlayton2 5y ago
On Firefox, reader view made it look quite nice and readable.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
For me, anything over 10-15 minutes is "long". It has always struck me as a weird concept that 45 minutes-each-way is a "normal" amount to travel to work, or even that people are happy its under an hour. Edited to say I
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Ah, just checked. I thought it installed python versions as well, but it can create environments (virtualenv, conda, system pythons, pipenv, docker), and can install packages in those environments. I do not see a way to install a whole new
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Anaconda is also great for beginners - GUI, lots of normal packages precompiled (also numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn). If you do the full install, it comes with lots of packages pre-loaded.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
It does install them too - however I have the pro version, and I'm not sure if that's a pro feature or not.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Don't forget that it's easier to get a raise by changing jobs than asking your boss.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Perhaps a toaster is a machine because it toasts for 2 minutes (or whatever it is present to) while a robotic toaster takes the bread and toasts it until it's done?
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by rlayton2 5y ago
It's funny you say that, as I'm starting to draft up a common core library (or SaaS) to share common techniques between projects and to streamline some of the constants. FYI, I'm a data scientist that does front-end developme
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Thanks for the comment. I am generally a technique expert rather than the domain expert in a project, so your comments about "being an expert" definitely makes sense.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Thanks. I do aim for high test coverage, but still not driven by the tests.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
That's a great answer I hadn't considered. Thank you!
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Thanks for the comment. > Do you know what comes next? Not really. As another comment put it “hey I need this car to work with both gas and diesel?”.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
I'm happy with time-to-prototype, and wouldn't even mind spending longer on it. I'm looking for patterns that allow me to deliver the prototype, but not get in the way when adding features later in development.
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Ask HN: Software design patterns for projects without a scope?
42 points by rlayton2 5y ago|32 comments
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Only if it's unlikely I'll believe #3
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by rlayton2 5y ago
I love looking at pharmaceutical advertising in this way - what they do say is the absolute legally maximum they could say about the product. If there were stronger claims, they could make them. Therefore, if they say "may help again
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Great analysis. I used to play a fair bit, and ultimately gave up due to the chained-campaigns, where if you "succeed" early, but not with enough high level units, you end up losing 8 missions later, leading to many hours of backt
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by rlayton2 5y ago
I feel your pain. On one small thing. I've started asking people where they want to be on the fast / polished scale. I've always struggled with this. Have budget for a prototype, call is a prototype through speccingand end up
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by rlayton2 5y ago
I'd go further and say it's easier to teach prepared queries than string building (or at least equally difficult). That might not be true for other security issues but I think tutorial writers should be fine saying "here is a
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Clever! I've written routines to use xlsxwriter for things like exporting a table to a sheet. It was a fair bit of effort the first time, but now its an easy function call.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Pandas doesn't do formatting very well. Using pandas to generate non tabular data is also a non starter. So using pandas to fill out an existing Excel file, say by entering data in specific cells, won't work. Libraries like xlread
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by rlayton2 5y ago
I may not have sold at that ratio, not sure. Either way the site definitely had potential. Also this is the first and only time I have done this so please don't take my experience as representative. I do not know
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by rlayton2 5y ago
This is why I sold a website making about $150/mo in ad revenue for $5k. I knew the site could make more, but had other things on the go and I couldn't spend the time on the site to improve it. The person that bought it from me d
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by rlayton2 5y ago
There is another great little thing in Australian voting that plays on this - political parties get paid per #1 vote (I think it is about $4 or something). This means you pick the party you want to win, they get paid, and then preference fr
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Easy. Just get a copy of Fifa 2021 and a sharpie.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
If they can find your backups, then they can encrypt those too, wait a few cycles and then give you your notice.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
What are some general patterns for retreiving the data, client side, for async apis like this? I.e. client makes a long request in browser, then gets back a response saying the job is logged. The task completes in the background and then wh
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Abc.net.au is the public owned broadcasting in Australia. No Murdoch, however it has got very click baity in the last couple of years.
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by rlayton2 5y ago
Agree. I've moved my business email off Google because, despite being a paying customer, I had zero confidence in getting a resolution if my account got banned for any reason. I still have an Android, and a personal gmail etc, but if t

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