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by spot 12y ago
Two Sigma / Beaker Notebook ( http://TwoSigma.com / http://BeakerNotebook.com ) Based in NYC. Seeking front-end and full stack engineers to work on Beaker, the open source data science tool. http:/&#x
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by spot 12y ago
yes. contrast: 1) Beaker is language neutral from the ground-up, and not only can you mix languages, they can communicate. IPython does not have good support for multiple languages in the same notebook. And the backend is still pretty py
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by spot 12y ago
the easiest way to run it is via the docker container: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/beakernotebook/beaker/
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Beaker Notebook v1.0 released – open-source polyglot data science web app(beakernotebook.com)
19 points by spot 12y ago|5 comments
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by spot 12y ago
> Intuition says Google is selling the valuable information they collect to third-party advertisers. In this case your intuition has failed you.
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by spot 12y ago
javascript because 1) you can program anywhere, 2) it has incredible libraries for multimedia and interaction which makes it fun, 3) you can share the results with one click to anyone 4) it is a highly marketable skill a lot of other people
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by spot 12y ago
OSM is still so irrelevant that the spammers and scammers have not targeted it yet. Once they do, it will have the same problems Google does, but worse because they don't have the resources to fight back. It is much easier to fix mista
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by spot 12y ago
Looks cool. When it reaches 1.0 you might want to include Beaker: http://BeakerNotebook.com
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by spot 12y ago
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/markup/markup.html also used scheme for writing books, provided for embedding code execution, tex for math, targeting html and paper, etc. i made it in 1996 to write my phd dissertatio
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it is a common error. when the constitution means citizens they say "citizens" and when it means people it says "people". http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar... says "
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by spot 12y ago
i just noticed i have the update and i tried it out. wow, first try. amazing: https://plus.google.com/+ScottDraves/posts/W4ozBLTBmKy
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by spot 13y ago
unless this is programmable in javascript, how is it allowed by apple? and if it is javascript, then it's missing a key feature of hypercard that made it accessible, hypertalk. here's another hypercard inspired app: http:/&#
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by spot 13y ago
needs an animation for when you complete a graph. reward my success!
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by spot 13y ago
the list left off perhaps the most important language for the web: javascript. and my proposed "problem" for it: web pages are not programmable.
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Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang(nytimes.com)
44 points by spot 13y ago|1 comments
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by spot 13y ago
so what's your explanation?
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by spot 13y ago
there doesn't seem to be any explanation of how/why apple is doing this. anyone know what's up?
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by spot 13y ago
this isn't the problem. you can create a google account with whatever name you want, and as long as it looks like a regular name, they will never notice and not care. the problem is they have different accounts with different names th
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by spot 13y ago
there are more than those two sides. this definitely altered the balance between the left and right in the US. this lead to shutting down COINTELPRO, the PRISM of that age.
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by spot 13y ago
these are the clowns who say we should trust them with our private data?
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by spot 13y ago
yes it's real but it's useless and unused. mentioning it without disclaimers is confusing. that wikipedia page was mostly written by one of the people behind the hoax.
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by spot 13y ago
it's unfortunate that he is promoting the fractal image compression hoax. http://world.mathigon.org/Fractals
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by spot 13y ago
"The only human involvement is to vote for favourite animations" not true, must have been some kind of misunderstanding. there are a number of layers of back-and-forth between man and machine in the electric sheep. for example,
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by spot 13y ago
a few long intense sessions will do more for you than many single games. you need to play over and over again, ideally with a stronger player, right in a row. not once a week. do it 8 hours in a row. if you can do it several or many day
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by spot 13y ago
why study chess when you can play go? The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go. -Lasker
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by spot 13y ago
heh i found it's still available for download with samples: http://draves.org/cmu-research/markup/markup.html bonus points for getting it to run.
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by spot 13y ago
no, it just happened to be in the right place at the right time. like JS.
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by spot 13y ago
Olin mentions the Markup language, which I extended so that I could write my thesis and generate both HTML and Latex. Here's the resulting web version: http://draves.org/cmu-research/diss/main.html All the d
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by spot 13y ago
Olin's favorite city is Paris, where he is right now, if I understand correctly.
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by spot 13y ago
irony

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