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by shoyer 11y ago
Actually, according to the status report, they confirmed that the issue affected all regions at 19:21 and resolved it by 19:27. That's six minutes of global outage. Disclaimer: I work for Google (not on Cloud).
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by shoyer 11y ago
It's still not clear to me that there's any feedback to the user based on how they swipe. Tinder could simply be adjusting scores of the people being rated. I can see the feedback loop going very wrong if how you rate others has a
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by shoyer 11y ago
Indeed, it struck me as very awkward and sexist. I enjoyed flying Virgin America, but losing this part of their culture will not be a bad thing.
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by shoyer 11y ago
HDF5 is a clunky file format and dependency. There's a whole host of usual complaints, many of which have already been mentioned: http://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/ My biggest personal annoyance is that
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by shoyer 11y ago
This seems like a less sophisticated variant* of the AlphaGo approach. In both cases, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is constrained by model for likely future moves. Here, they use a genetic algorithm. In AlphaGo, this is called the "p
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by shoyer 11y ago
Anyone else bothered by the misleading chart "Rent as a percentage of income, people age 22-34"? It claims 78% for San Francisco and 65% for New York, which is absurd considering that people pay taxes. I suspect the graphic is rea
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by shoyer 11y ago
I'm sure the tech was part of it, but my guess is that they were mostly buying it for the ready made team. I think this is pretty similar to the Monsanto acquisition of Climate Corporation (where I worked) several years ago. If you&#x2
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by shoyer 11y ago
Agreed -- this is the first thing I looked for. My guess is that this feature is probably next on their TODO list. There's not much point in sorting by +1s before there are many +1s accumulated, anyways.
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by shoyer 11y ago
and/or they live in the East Bay, where rent is still much more affordable.
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by shoyer 11y ago
The title here should have a (2015) in it -- this blog post is from September 25, 2015.
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by shoyer 11y ago
Agreed -- a decorator seems like a much cleaner way to handle this.
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by shoyer 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the OP intended to write "economical" instead.
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by shoyer 11y ago
This is a fantastic step forward for Julia, and array-oriented computing in general. Routines that smoothly generalize to arrays with an arbitrary number of dimensions is also a strength of NumPy -- it's the core idea behind NumPy&#x27
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by shoyer 11y ago
Uber and Lyft already do this in San Francisco, and it works very well.
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by shoyer 11y ago
Even better (with Python 3.5 or newer): from contextlib import suppress with suppress(OSError): os.remove(temp_file) More generally, context managers are the right way to refactor repeated try/except/finally
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by shoyer 11y ago
This is yet another downside of unicorns ;). Though I doubt investors need much help at this point to realize how overvalued it is. Theranos will never raise at anything close to a $9B valuation again.
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by shoyer 11y ago
This is a hilariously bad idea. As the author notes, there is no way to make conference presentations anonymous. But the problem is much bigger than that. Even most informal conversations between scientists involve promoting and discussing
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by shoyer 11y ago
This design doc from DyND (a possible NumPy alternative) has some useful references on this point: https://github.com/libdynd/libdynd/blob/master/docs/string-d...
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by shoyer 11y ago
I actually interpret their data quite differently. There is a statistically robust and positive correlation between perceived and actual ratings: - 44% of the time, the actual and perceived ranking was identical. - 91% of the time, the diff
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by shoyer 11y ago
It's been clear that the D-Wave machine is exhibiting quantum effects for several years now. See Aaronson's blog ( http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 ) and this Nature Communications paper ( http:/&
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by shoyer 11y ago
Agreed. It's very strange that the article doesn't mention any of the very real recent scientific advancements in this space. I expect better on HN :).
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by shoyer 11y ago
I think the more fundamental flaw in PG's argument, which is just as present here, is that it assumes the populations are otherwise identical. That's obviously not the case -- there's no random assignment for bias -- so this
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by shoyer 11y ago
My preferred approach to finding listings on VRBO/HomeAway is actually to immediately click past the first few pages of results. "Platinum listings" on VRBO can be much more expensive than other properties without a corresp
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LinkedIn decided I don’t need sent mail anymore(medium.com)
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by shoyer 11y ago
It's not just inadequate computing power. Cliff Mass has a good run-down on his blog: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/03/us-fallen-behind-in-nu... The number two reason on Cliff's list is "The U.
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by shoyer 11y ago
Kindle Unlimited no longer works this way. Amazon now distributes payments among authors in proportion to the number of pages that are read: http://mashable.com/2015/06/22/amazon-kindle-unlimited-autho...
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by shoyer 11y ago
I appreciate where you are coming from, but on many of these projects you are just misinformed. The entire point of dask is to enable parallel and bigger than memory computations that are not be possible with NumPy arrays. It uses an intern
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by shoyer 11y ago
It really depends on your use case. Cython is more flexible and suitable for libraries, but Numba is easier to write. I elaborated on this in a recent blog post: http://eng.climate.com/2015/04/09/numba-vs-cyth
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by shoyer 11y ago
> The problem with the Python ecosystem is that there exist a lot of libraries for scientific computation mostly incompatible with each other (blaze, numpy, numba, numexpr, dask...). I actually disagree completely with your specific exam
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by shoyer 11y ago
This is a well known fact in the pharmaceuticals industry. For example, here's an article by the Chief Medical Officer of Merck in the Harvard Business Review. It took me all of 10 seconds to find on Google: https://hbr.org&

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