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by rpedela 9y ago
If the question is historical, it is because Python is easy to learn, easy to read, interfacing with C/C++ is easy to get existing ML/DS code, and it was one of the first scripting languages to handle huge numbers which is importa
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by rpedela 9y ago
You need to put a centralized pooler, such as pgbouncer, in front of your DB and have your lambdas connect to that.
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by rpedela 9y ago
What a misleading chart. It makes it seem like the market drops significantly every January. Yet if you look at a chart of the entire history of Bitcoin, you realize that Bitcoin has never dropped as much as in the last month or so. Not eve
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by rpedela 9y ago
> You still have a house to live in, no matter what it's worth. Maybe. If you actually own the house, sure. But many people had a mortgage, lost their jobs, and they couldn't afford the mortgage any longer. Additionally you can
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by rpedela 9y ago
The fact that there are "too many people" is why a run is possible [1]. If enough people start believing Bitcoin is going to lose value, there will be a run/crash. Ironically threads like this one, news of Bitcoin regulation,
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by rpedela 9y ago
AWS Aurora supports cross region read replicas. Is geo-replication something different?
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I want to echo the advice about interns from David Wind. I have hired a few interns. While relatively cheap, which is attractive at an early stage, they took up a lot of my time and most of their work couldn't be used in the end. The l
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by rpedela 9y ago
I am curious why is that the case? Organizations afraid to upgrade? People in developing countries using outdated OSes? Some other reason?
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by rpedela 9y ago
API key != TOS
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by rpedela 9y ago
Investing in Bitcoin, the currency, is just that: currency investing/speculation. Buffett knows and understands that. Investing in the blockchain technology is no different than investing in any other technology: invest in companies yo
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by rpedela 9y ago
My comment was in response to a question whether PG can do TF/IDF or BM25 and fuzzy search (handle misspelling) simultaneously. And as far as I am aware, PG cannot do it. My comment had nothing to do with your blog post.
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by rpedela 9y ago
FYI you can now split [1] and shrink [2] the number of shards. 1. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/... 2. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic
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> You could lean on the relevancy strategies built in to ES, but in my experience you're better off understanding what relevancy means for your dataset and implementing a strategy yourself. Ranking is hard. You SHOULD lean on the to
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by rpedela 9y ago
Can you expand on the difficulty with synchronization? With ES I understand because you have to build it from scratch. However Solr has the DataImportHandler [1] which is made to sync data from a relational database. 1. https://l
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by rpedela 9y ago
Depending on the ES version, it either does TF/IDF (older versions) or BM25 (newer versions) by default. You have to explicitly disable it if you don't want it. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsear
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by rpedela 9y ago
As far as I am aware, you cannot get ES/Solr quality ranking + fuzzy search out of the box.
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by rpedela 9y ago
What complexity is added by keeping data in the tree? If we are talking about GB+ datasets, then yes that shouldn't be stored in the tree. But a small list of products that needs to be manually updated regardless of where it is stored?
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by rpedela 9y ago
Water from a mountain spring or creek tends to be clean enough to drink. I personally never treat the water if I am in the mountains and far from civilization (live in Colorado) even though there is still a chance I could get sick. However
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by rpedela 9y ago
AoE 1 and 2, yes. AoE 3 is 3D. True 3D works fine for RTS games and generally looks better, and can apply dynamic shadows, physics, etc. If you are simply saying that you prefer the old-style graphics, then okay. But your initial statement
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by rpedela 9y ago
Yes performance is better overall. It is still possible to choke though depending on machine, map size, and number of units.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Sprites in a 3D game look horrible for most objects: buildings, characters, terrain. Sprites are typically used for particle effects, grass, or objects that are far away. The latter is often used a performance optimization.
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by rpedela 9y ago
Yes much better. I have trouble beating the default AI on its highest setting now. I am not a great player, but I don't suck either.
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Sling TV?
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by rpedela 9y ago
Yes, but the reason for fire is the liquid electrolyte. Lithium batteries don't have to catch fire. A short clip from PBS Nova: https://youtu.be/m9-cNNYb1Ik
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by rpedela 9y ago
Publishing fees could introduce a perverse incentive for publishers to accept any paper regardless of quality. Although maybe making it a "review fee" may be better. Publishers get more money the more submissions, but quality woul
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by rpedela 9y ago
Github uses Elasticsearch [1]. I agree that ES is too dumb by default, however the analysis pipeline can be customized for searching source code. 1. https://www.elastic.co/use-cases/github
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by rpedela 9y ago
FYI you no longer have to bid for AWS spot. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlin...
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by rpedela 9y ago
You are the first person I have heard define Midwest that way. Midwest includes Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri too [1]. Although many people view the Northwest Territory [2] after the revolutionary war as the "Midwest&quot
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by rpedela 9y ago
Did you know that one of the best places in the US for biotech is Indiana? That is because both Purdue and Indiana University, state schools, are powerhouses in that field. I don't see any significant funding issues for them from a res
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by rpedela 9y ago
AWS Cognito just announced some security features to help with that. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcin...

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