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by scribu 10y ago
I was confused by the fact that you only linked to the first notebook. There are actually several notebooks related to staging in the course outline. Anyway, thanks!
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by scribu 10y ago
That's an interesting article you linked to, but how is motivation (intrinsic or otherwise) relevant to the topic of problem solving?
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by scribu 10y ago
Generalist Software Engineer I've been working remotely for over 6 years and would prefer to continue doing so. -------------------------- Location: Romania Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Python, Javascript
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by scribu 10y ago
Since it's polling for I/O events and doesn't use threads [1], it does indeed sound like a plausible alternative for doing non-blocking I/O. I think I'm going to take a stab at using it, since asyncio doesn't h
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by scribu 10y ago
Not sure what you mean by "getting all these patterns into Python". Just because you don't work on projects that can benefit from concurrent IO doesn't mean they don't exist. I work on such a project.
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Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking(propublica.org)
513 points by scribu 10y ago|288 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
How exactly does passing through the initial screening make for a good indicator on salary range match?
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by scribu 10y ago
Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.
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by scribu 10y ago
This is pretty cool! Feature request: Allow me to filter by technologies that a company doesn't use.
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Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
What exactly is "the whole point of going electric" that even Tesla is missing?
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by scribu 10y ago
As someone living in a country where there are very lax building codes, I would welcome regulation that mandates what colors you're allowed to use!
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by scribu 10y ago
But if the engine speculatively loads modules, doesn't that counteract the developer's intention to increase performance by loading a module only when needed? This is not a problem in HTML loading, because HTML doesn't have `
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by scribu 10y ago
After using d3 to produce a slightly customised bar chart, this tool certainly seems more pleasant to use. Too bad it was never actually released (as far as I know).
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Turing Learning breakthrough: Computers can now learn from pure observation(extremetech.com)
1 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
> So should the metric for that be total people that are part of a topic, or the % of total city population engaged in that topic? Ideally, both. You want to have a community with at least N people, but cities with a high % should rank h
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The art of forecasting in the age of artificial intelligence(dupress.com)
7 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
> Furthermore, I hypothesize that social groups develop [particular tastes] partially to foster in-group cohesion and out-group separation I'm pretty sure this hypothesis has substantial support from sociological studies. > which
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by scribu 10y ago
I think the picture you posted is of the side of the building. This would be the facade, which looks pretty balanced to me: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CgY4n5BsK9o/VafsZ-ccfcI/AAAAAAAAVS...
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by scribu 10y ago
I don't think there's any great significance behind it. I guess I jumped at the idea because it seemed to provide a simple theoretical explanation as to why Python is easier to grok than other languages which don't have conte
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by scribu 10y ago
I watched the introduction video and the author made a surprising claim: that deciding if a string of characters is valid Python code is fundamentally simpler than deciding if it's valid code in some other language. In more precise ter
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by scribu 10y ago
You seem to assume that the temperature will slowly increase, giving us time to adapt, without descending into another global war due to all the shufling of agricultural areas and mass migrations. But there's a scarier scenario, where
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Entropy Explained (using sheep)(aatishb.github.io)
2 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
> if users dislike the way Microsoft do it, then they have other alternatives they can easily switch to. So tell me about all those alternative OSes that can run all the same applications that run on Windows. Before someone suggests it,
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by scribu 10y ago
It seems like you're talking about human-created models (e.g. a manually-constructed decision tree), whereas the paper's primary concern is machine-created models (e.g. the weights derived mechanically by a neural network). So the
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The Redistribution of Humiliation(roreiy.blogspot.com)
1 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
My hunch is that there are several factors that make outside contributions easier to leverage or less so. One of course is the maintainer's ability to mentor new contributors into becoming co-maintainers - writing guides etc. Another w
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by scribu 10y ago
Yes, dynamic typing allows experimentation. But just because you can make JS look like Haskell doesn't mean it's the most effective way to get stuff done. You'd be better off writing Haskell and transpiling it, IMO. Note that
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by scribu 10y ago
> America sorted its banks out swiftly after the 2008 credit crisis. Is there general agreement that the US government acted effectively in this matter, not just for bankers, but for society as a whole?
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by scribu 10y ago
It will turn into a hell because JavaScript lacks Haskell's strong type system. The tooling will not give you early warning if you pass a plain function into a construct that expects a promise etc.

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