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by scribu 7y ago
I wonder how this stacks up against a dedicated graph database like Neo4J. Are arbitray-depth graph queries a design goal, or are the nested results just for optimizing network traffic?
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by scribu 7y ago
I'm curious how scalable this is. If it can't go beyond what you can load into memory, it doesn't seem that useful. If you already know SQL, you could just as well use Pandas (the Python library) to load data from various sou
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by scribu 8y ago
Modelling uncertainty is definitely a useful tool to have, but I'm not sure why the author expects there to be a "scientific" (a.k.a. mechanistic) way of doing it. In normal programming, there's no fool-proof formula for
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Scientists grow mini-brain that can contract muscles(theguardian.com)
4 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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SoS: A Cure To Pipelineitis(vatlab.github.io)
2 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
Thanks for the link! That lightweight SoS notebook seems like the sweet spot between agility and tidiness.
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by scribu 8y ago
Why would you lend a company money, interest-free, when you could put it in a savings account, invest it, pay for something else, etc.?
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by scribu 8y ago
My experience with Git(hub) LFS was that it doesn't work with files that are several GB in size. Was constantly getting upload/download errors from Github.
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Amazon can't sell it's own products in India anymore(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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Study finds only small percentage of users vulnerable to fake news(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
This page [1] lists query times on a 1.1 billion row dataset, performed using a variety of systems, from GPU DBs all the way to SQLite. [1] https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html Edit: Unfortunately, each run is on di
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by scribu 8y ago
Youtube creators already have the ability to create series inside playlists. Example: The Slow Mo Guys channel has a "Planet Slow Mo" series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbIZ6k-SE9Shmj0Uvxtrv...
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by scribu 8y ago
The most interesting question addressed in the article, for me, is why so many people create “me too” businesses that clearly have no significant expansion prospects. It’s also fun to contemplate that Schumpeter figured this business strate
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New Picture of Ice-Filled Crater on Mars(nbcnews.com)
6 points by scribu 8y ago|3 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
You mean like Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
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by scribu 8y ago
Can you point to a summary of the history of marijuana legalization in Colorado? I imagine most non-US readers, such as myself, won’t have any idea about that.
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by scribu 8y ago
I don’t follow your logic. If the first step to entering the Chinese market requires bending to the government’s will, what makes you think Google would have any leverage in the future to be able to “make it a better place”?
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by scribu 8y ago
There’s a broader story about poor regulation in the medical implant industry as a whole. [1] Unlike drugs, implants don’t need to go through clinical trials in most cases. Furthermore, there is no central registry for aggregating problems
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EU to ban various single-use plastics by 2021(futurism.com)
2 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
Just because DDG makes use of the Bing API doesn’t mean that DDG users are being tracked by Bing.
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by scribu 8y ago
Are you refering to hypnogogia? That usually happens right before falling asleep.
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Distributed kernel (LegoOS)(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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End of the Tech Bubble?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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Meta-Analysis Shows Thas Sex and Violence Don’t Sell [pdf](apa.org)
1 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
For those who are looking for web frameworks that use async I/O: https://github.com/huge-success/sanic https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart
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Acne Vaccine in the Works(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by scribu 8y ago|0 comments
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How air-conditioning created the modern city(theguardian.com)
138 points by scribu 8y ago|180 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
> what's our goal for today? The same as it was yesterday or whenever the last planning session happened. Like TFA said, the team, as a whole, shouldn’t be changing priorities like socks.
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Was Wittgenstein Right? (2013)(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
28 points by scribu 8y ago|52 comments
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by scribu 8y ago
I think they're right to point out that there are corporate interests on both sides, but I also think they're doing the public a disservice by failing to mention the effect on smaller companies and even on regular internet users.

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