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by spot 9y ago
conda is the standard tool. tell your students to use it, not venv. problem solved.
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Two Sigma rapidly rises to top of quant hedge fund world(ft.com)
3 points by spot 9y ago|2 comments
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by spot 9y ago
I can't recommend go highly enough. Not only are the rules simple enough for kids (mine are 5-9), but counting the score is directly mathematical (counting for the little ones, multiplication and addition for the older ones). the key t
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by spot 9y ago
tldr: 2037-2080 for "brainlike computers". sounds like a reasonable estimate to me. but who would say that is "nowhere near"? A few decades compared to billions of years of evolution to create life here on earth? a f
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by spot 9y ago
"[Art is] the expression of mind." Right. Now, my mind is full of thoughts and emotions about ML. And I use ML to make some videos that express my thoughts. And you judge my work and say it's not art? Really I profoundly di
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by spot 9y ago
The Electric Sheep is an infinite animation created with the collective intelligence of the internet, crowdsource, AI, and distributed computing. It has been a free service for many years but now there is a premium HD version.
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by spot 9y ago
https://gold.electricsheep.org/
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by spot 9y ago
JavaScript was definitely partly inspired by Scheme.
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by spot 9y ago
apache2 because of the patent protections.
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by spot 9y ago
sounds like you know what's going on, maybe you can answer the questions on the email? ps. it's only a smear campaign if the accusations are false.
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by spot 10y ago
the result itself was already extensively covered. this isn't poor journalism, it's just not the story that you are looking for.
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by spot 10y ago
We are actually working on improving the polyglot support in Jupyter by porting/merging work from Beaker Notebook ( http://beakernotebook.com ) into Jupyter and especially into Jupyter Lab. This new effort is called BeakerX:
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Internet Archive is a finalist for $100mm grant(100andchange.org)
5 points by spot 10y ago|0 comments
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by spot 10y ago
i am more interested in accuracy comparison than i am in design.
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by spot 10y ago
My contribution, "Double Blind": https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27146
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by spot 10y ago
Beaker Notebook (Two Sigma), New York City fullstack, devops & test develop the next generation of open source data visualization and analysis and distributed computing tools ( https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-note
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by spot 10y ago
Crazy Stone deep learning has analysis mode where it identifies your mistakes and recommends alternatives: http://www.unbalance.co.jp/igo/eng/ the game engine is strong, 5d running local on my phone, no server! he
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by spot 10y ago
however, Pascal was the official OS language, and all the original documentation (Inside Macintosh) for the APIs was written in Pascal.
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by spot 10y ago
no it was 68k asm: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-...
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by spot 10y ago
Beaker Notebook (Two Sigma), New York City fullstack, devops & test develop the next generation of open source data visualization and analysis and distributed computing tools https://careers.twosigma.com/careers/Job
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by spot 10y ago
similar results using a smaller set of inputs, 20 years ago: http://draves.org/fuse/
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by spot 10y ago
that's interesting. what file is this and where is it kept? so if i want to send my notebook to someone and include my results, i have to send two files? or is there one file per output, per directory, or per user?
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by spot 10y ago
predating Efros & Leung by many years: http://draves.org/fuse/
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by spot 10y ago
" the most popular mobile OS " iOS at 23% and falling... http://bgr.com/2016/06/02/apples-mobile-market-share-sees-bi...
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by spot 10y ago
they have a track record.
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by spot 10y ago
there are much worse things, like spamming.
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by spot 10y ago
not it isn't. if you sell the data then it goes into 3rd party hands and out of google's control and they can do all kinds of bad things with it.
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by spot 10y ago
google does not sell your data. this is such a tired canard.
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by spot 10y ago
i work at a hedge fund where people are nice, there are yoga break-out spaces (literally), and the prevalent culture is laid-back, like a typical west-coast tech company, or academia.
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by spot 10y ago
what is superior about %%javascript? here are some examples of JS working in beaker (in addition to the above python/JS demo): https://pub.beakernotebook.com/publications/87a444cc-fb85-11... https://pub

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