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by slx26 8y ago
have to say that reading this comment made me nervous
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by slx26 8y ago
I agree with most of your ideas, and I usually apply them myself. But wanted to ask about graphics and charts, do you use any specific tool? They can be time-consuming to get right and update. Also, I believe a problem here is that on large
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by slx26 8y ago
Why do we need such high density slow storage anyway? Would that lead to more energy-efficient systems, even if just due to space reduction? I mean, for regular data (video, music, images, text), we already have better resolutions than we c
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by slx26 8y ago
>> I’ll illustrate this by examples in Julia, using the conjugate gradient method for positive (semi)definite linear systems as guinea pig Which links to a paper that says "An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Withou
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by slx26 8y ago
For computer vision without context (2D images standing alone), we have some nice solutions already, but I think that as long as we keep using the same methods, it will be insufficient for many purposes. Because the truth is that projection
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by slx26 8y ago
Write a comment for this, delete it, go back to music... which is the closest you get to communicate with appropriate weight. You can never explain what you really want, but at least you can express how strongly you feel about whatever it i
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by slx26 8y ago
well, when you use technology to uncover problems, you open the door to both fixing them and exploiting them. knowledge is power, and power can be used for whatever you want. and yet no one is thinking about pulling kids out of schools.
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by slx26 8y ago
yeah. and if it was only the mbs, well, ok. everyone prefers hd to sd video. but the real problem is that the extra mbs we see are mostly things that we don't need, that don't add anything, that we would be better without, and tha
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by slx26 8y ago
I particularly liked how you explained some of the concepts in the second part of your comment. But about the last part, I tend to prefer a slightly (or vastly) different way to put it: "meaning" is a human concept, it only makes
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by slx26 8y ago
this is awesome, nice job! it really has a lot of features. the presentation and explanation of those features, as you yourself admit, could still be improved a lot, but I can definitely see how much work went into it, and it's fantast
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by slx26 8y ago
When you suffer from depression or just have a miserable life that feels like a very cruel and direct rejection from others. I'd suggest to complement that with "can you make the person life better or make the person happier?&quot
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by slx26 8y ago
as I understand it, both simplicity and correctitude are requirements for most programs, but imo the article talks about the design, the writing process, where you should focus first on writing a program that's not more complex than
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by slx26 8y ago
and funnily enough, writing simple code is the hardest part to learn, because you can't measure it until it falls down on you now that I think about it, that would be a good exercise for programming students. after writing a program th
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by slx26 8y ago
That's pretty much the first line I would write. And then I would continue explaining. If you can have both, start with honesty and not wasting people's time. You'll be more likely to earn it.
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by slx26 8y ago
I can personally suggest FreeLing [nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling]. It supports most languages in the iberian peninsula (spanish, portuguese, catalan (including multiple dialects), galician), and then it also includes english, italian, frenc
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by slx26 8y ago
I made a comment like this not so long ago, also here on HN, mentioning how every 4.2 seconds we collectively live a bit more than 1000 years. It really gives a lot to think about, indeed.
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by slx26 8y ago
It's very difficult to communicate something when in most cases, in order to do it right, you need to understand the mental model of the other person, or explain a new —usually simplied— model from the ground. And as the article mentio
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by slx26 8y ago
any plans for multi-language support?
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by slx26 8y ago
To me the situation is explained too vaguely to tell: exec tells current charity director that he wants to talk with previous charity director before making a donation. If we weren't talking about donations, I would say that's def
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by slx26 8y ago
I agree with other responses to this comment. Ugliness might have had a reason, ok. It's important to understand that. The question is whether it has a reason to stay. And here we find the usual balance between the effort it takes to m
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by slx26 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. It's very difficult, but in my opinion the most complicated part in teaching is getting the attention and grabbing the interest of students. If you have that, as long as you do it ok, people will learn. Firs
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by slx26 8y ago
>> To this day, 90% of the programmers I talk to have never used awk. Ok, time for someone that doesn't regularly use awk to say something. I understand that awk is great. The language being terse is nice if you use it regularly,
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by slx26 8y ago
You are right, but in my opinion the page/writer completely fails when they don't explain and clearly state that the possibility of "correlation =/= causation" exists. And it fails because we lose 80% of the people
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by slx26 8y ago
It will answer the second question correctly (though with very low confidence) if you use (A), (B), etc. instead of just A), B). Silly format error for the system, but yeah. To the first one it will answer "letter". But that'
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by slx26 8y ago
this is a very sensible article. kudos to nytimes and the writer. we also need this kind of advice on tv, schools, etc. a better general understanding of depression by society as a whole is not only one of the best tools we have to deal wit
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by slx26 8y ago
interesting, but I'm not sure of some of the UI decisions. upload file a bit too relevant, easy to confuse with submit, when people is most likely to copy paste. I would have also added at least a 1 week expiration option, and probably
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by slx26 8y ago
pros: - crystal clear rules - the laughs cons: - people not thinking about what are they doing - customers going like: do they even know what are they doing? that first con outweights by a large, large margin any pros I could come up with
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by slx26 8y ago
I learned shoes some time ago for a project I wanted to test, and dropped it because it didn't suit my needs, but ... reading "Nobody Knows Shoes" was extremely fun. The kind of fun that makes you want to keep coding random
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by slx26 8y ago
Now, this might already seem dramatic, and then you start thinking about the tragedies that are not even brought to justice, like many abuse cases, rapes, or not ever solved, like people kidnapped for human trafficking, disappearances and u
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by slx26 8y ago
Yes. Sadly, in business the concept of "ethics" seems to only ever apply as jargon for marketing and PR. Hello world, we are humans, not products.

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