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by rspeer 9y ago
The problem is that both Pandas and Seaborn are customized by passing their kwargs onto matplotlib, or by giving you back matplotlib axes objects. You have to break through the abstraction pretty much immediately. You can't really pu
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by rspeer 9y ago
The Guardian has apologized for the bullshit story that you love, and completely retracted the claim of a "backdoor". Do you still believe HN users instead of security researchers? Do you still give security advice based on randos
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by rspeer 9y ago
Did you read the article? It didn't talk about currency replacement, and it's about vacuous statements like the one you just made.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> Few people predicted the massive jump in AI ability the last few years. I'm guessing you work in image recognition, or mostly hear from people who work in image recognition. There is more to AI, and not all of it is instantly impr
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by rspeer 9y ago
The post isn't objecting to the firewall, though. I totally understand the need for a campus-wide firewall. The MIT network is a juicy target for botnets, and individual students are not good enough at running security on their own com
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by rspeer 9y ago
ResearchGate has the "emailing other researchers" feature built in so deeply, in fact, that it will email other researchers in your name automatically. Without you asking it to. Without your permission. Even after you die. A site
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more background here. Last time I heard Musk say anything about AI, he was still on the hype train to crazy-town, talking about the world-conquering things it would do in the coming decades that have nothin
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by rspeer 9y ago
Except now you launch the game halfway through its development. This results in a lot of bad deals for consumers, but it's true that the fact that people will buy games in an unfinished state makes a lot more games possible, and makes
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by rspeer 9y ago
That's pretty much the point. There are a handful of indie games that made their creators a lot of money. You can probably name most of them. But they are no longer representative outcomes from making an indie game.
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by rspeer 9y ago
In case people want to give him lots of money for no reason.
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by rspeer 9y ago
The number of fonts that cover the whole Unicode character set is zero, as the Unicode character set grows faster than fonts are designed for obscure scripts. The fonts that come closest are Google's Noto Sans (an Android-esque font th
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by rspeer 9y ago
Denial of service.
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by rspeer 9y ago
"Standardized fields" here meant columns in a relational database, things you can index and look up quickly. "Birth date" would be such a field that you'd hope would be standardized, for example. > I can query a
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by rspeer 9y ago
As a feature to put on a checklist, not as the way they expect you to use them. Powerful graph databases generally have to come up with their own query languages.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yeah, that's kind of how APIs have to work. It turns out it's not feasible or desirable to just let arbitrary people make arbitrary queries. SPARQL doesn't make it any more feasible, it just ignores feasibility.
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by rspeer 9y ago
The linked article is describing a world where you encode SPARQL in HTTP query parameters and get back RDF+XML. It really is attempting to be an API for querying everything, but querying nothing well. You can write reasonable REST APIs for
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by rspeer 9y ago
What were your triple stores running on? A database, right? Do your SPARQL queries turn into anything within orders of magnitude of an efficiently indexed SQL query when they get to the database?
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by rspeer 9y ago
SPARQL is what happens when you try to define an API for doing everything, from abstract principles, and end up with an API that does nothing. It wraps your database in a worse database with a worse query language. It makes simple queries i
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by rspeer 9y ago
No, Rust went 1.0 a while ago. They will not make breaking changes to the language until a hypothetical 2.0 release, which at the moment they are not considering. Of course the standard library changes; it's not a dead language. New fe
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by rspeer 9y ago
In case it isn't clear, this is a bit of mathematical play, not an actual proposal.
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by rspeer 9y ago
The article already accounts for a difference between Canadian and US currency -- the US has no $2 coins and nearly nonexistent $1 coins, and the smallest bill in Canadian currency is $5. They suggest "optimizing" Canadian change
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by rspeer 9y ago
Nice! As I started reading about it, I idly wondered if they talked to Marc Brysbaert, who is very serious about researching which words people know. And the answer is yes, they did.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I use VScode currently (for Python) but I'm not entirely satisfied with it. How do you set up this very good autocomplete? The official Python plugin (by Don Jayamanne) seems kind of bad at autocomplete and related features. I get auto
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Zeynep Tufekci knows more people who need crypto to survive than the average HN user, and understands their trust model better.
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by rspeer 9y ago
That article is false. A large number of people in the security community have spoken out against that article, which had the effect of convincing people in dangerous situations to switch to less secure communication methods. "Security
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by rspeer 9y ago
After skimming the "respect" idea, I am convinced that echo chambers are the dominant strategy. In fact, make a complete subgraph of order 9 or more of people who respect each other. That subgraph has order-N respect that goes to
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by rspeer 9y ago
No need to shoot down an NLP task because it can't be solved with 100% accuracy. That's every NLP task. The kanji -> kana direction should be considerably easier than the kana -> kanji direction. There are many fewer sources
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by rspeer 9y ago
An "authoritative answer" that may not be true, has no context, and may have been put there by SEOs or propagandists, is worse than no answer at all.
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by rspeer 9y ago
We've already seen the problem with Google confidently giving answers that it got from searching the Web. "Hey Google, is this batshit conspiracy theory I heard about true?" Google: "Yeah, sounds right"
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by rspeer 9y ago
I think some mathematicians need inspiring natural scenery like programmers need a good keyboard. I have a friend who did a math post-doc at Calgary. When he "went to the lab" to get research done, "the lab" was a mounta

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