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by spitfire 13y ago
Part of that cost was due to the market though. IIRC it and others like it were targeted at medical imaging and to a limited degree publishing. If you're an oncologist looking at MRI images, $8K is a Starbucks money.
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by spitfire 13y ago
No, I meant the provide a useful service to an industry and automate the hell out of it for a nice income stream.
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by spitfire 13y ago
There aren't enough high paying jobs here. Which is why everyone leaves (or works remotely). I know nearly a dozen people who have moved away because of the culture and cost of living. Victoria has a few main industries all extremely hostil
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by spitfire 13y ago
If they've already tried the "I can hire an Indian." line, then they've already ended the relationship. If you want to be cruel, you can point them to places like elance or rentacoder.
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by spitfire 13y ago
If you're critiquing the book in such a lucid manner, it sounds like you got good value from it.
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by spitfire 13y ago
The sort of people who tend to excel at raising money from VC's and gain media attention tend to be the more assholish sorts. I've seen this also. Raising VC is a human process. You need to convince some high status individual(s) that your
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by spitfire 14y ago
He's trying to fix/avoid a race condition caused by data created within a transaction not being committed yet.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Funny, I was just going to chime in with a Boyd reference. The Osinga book is excellent if you have the determination to read it. It isn't a light read.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Incorrect. Whoever learns faster is more fit to survive and thrive on their own terms. They have greater freedom of action.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Burroughs B5000. Stack based instruction set designed from scratch for programmers (and implementing high level languages). tagged architecture. Single cycle context switching. It was also a secure architecture directly on hardware, tasks c
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by spitfire 14y ago
I notice the GPU load time is about 53ms. This is a discrete graphics card so I do wonder how an integrated APU will affect this. I can imagine the overhead there being virtually nil. The long term trend is for the GPU to merge with the CPU
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by spitfire 14y ago
Often these trivial laws are passed in order to be catch alls. You might get off on a technicality of a murder charge, but they get you for the illegal silencer. Remember, they got Al Capone on income tax violations.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Then lenovo puts in a few coins into R&D and takes the market slightly up from the low end. Which IBM gladly gives away because the margins aren't high enough... Then Lenovo puts a few more coins into R&D and takes the midrange. Whi
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by spitfire 14y ago
"We don't need the low end. Let them have it." Didn't the american car companies take that route too? And steel mills. and... mainframes I think.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Funny. I had plans to build one of these in a month or so time. Now I can crib the answers, Cool.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Thanks for the update Carter. I'll root for you. one point to make. The interface and the performance don't have to appear at once. The interface will be the longer lived portion. So sort that out, and you can focus on performance as proble
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by spitfire 14y ago
So because his particular tool (or use of a tool) adds inconvenience or overhead means the entire concept is bunk? Don't confuse the thing with the concept. Tests are double checking your work. ("Yup. That condition I said would be true st
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by spitfire 14y ago
From my talks with Carter previously he's working on a haskell based platform for analytic tooling in Haskell. Basically the core primitives for making large scale data analysis apps in Haskell. Or that's what he was up to in august. Hopefu
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by spitfire 14y ago
Perhaps that rule could be rewritten as 6. Never drop your margins. Sure, find ways to save costs and pass this on to your customers, but only when it improves your margins a bit.
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by spitfire 14y ago
You should have spoken to them pre-2001 then. Waterloo dumbed down the first two years to be "more industry focused".[1] Waterloo has been founding great companies for decades - the Watcom compiler came out of there in the 80's and 90's. 1.
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by spitfire 14y ago
It's funny that theres a west coast startup lab called "grow labs". Wonder what sort of business ventures they focus on.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Thanks! I quite like the output. Are you the author? If soI took a quick look at your book and it looks excellent. https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
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by spitfire 14y ago
Good article. I'd like to know what he used to output those graphs.
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by spitfire 14y ago
tickdata.com has split adjusted, survivor bias free data. It isn't cheap however. You'll still need to go elsewhere for the SEC filings though.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Cool! Now add risk management. It's not sexy, but it is table stakes.
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by spitfire 14y ago
102. What's continuous integration? 103. What are tests? 104. The Project manager denies the existence of big-O. 105. The project manager "Know's what he's doing" and rejects CI. 106. What's wrong with doing it by hand?
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by spitfire 14y ago
If you try to regress people closer to the norm you're going to lose those star performers - the ones who have outsized, convex effects on the company. A fictional example. If you squeeze everyone into a narrow band, you'll loose your patio
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by spitfire 14y ago
Follow on development, and available talent pool. You wrote a super fast OLTP system in forth? Great! You're a god, but no one can support it or extend it to meet future needs. Perhaps Bob had reasonable expectations that he'd be able to or
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by spitfire 14y ago
I see cash and risk management both as separate domains in their own right equal to if not more important than the actual algorithm. I don't think they can be folded into the algorithm itself - there is a reason banks have separate risk dep
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by spitfire 14y ago
How about risk and money management?

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