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by sqrt17 15y ago
In my opinion, Postgresql + hstore + PLv8js (Javascript as a language for stored procedures, see http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/ ) could really rock the world if it became an accepted standard and got some people behind it. It's not so gr
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by sqrt17 15y ago
If you look at the code, it's more like "write an ARFF file parser in 40 lines" and "do a NB classifier with add-one smoothing in 10 lines". If you use a better-adapted input format and code things more concisely, you'd probably end up with
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by sqrt17 15y ago
How is that simpler than, e.g., Python's matplotlib?
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by sqrt17 15y ago
New slogan: "MongoDB. Better than JSON file blobs on an NFS store."
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by sqrt17 15y ago
It's also that CouchDB is (or at least used to be) rather slow compared to MongoDB. 10gen sure has done a lot to keep MongoDB growing despite many people having their homework (or essential customer data, or...) eaten by MongoDB; so part of
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by sqrt17 15y ago
I didn't want a smartphone that couldn't do the job of a computer in a pinch, and I got a Nokia N900. Smartphone use is definitely ok, with a smartphone (non-realistic-calfskin) contacts app and messages/phone apps that are well-integrated,
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by sqrt17 15y ago
So, Chess and SC2 must be ok because (somewhere, sometime) there are people playing these games competitively and making money, while D&D and WOW are evil, at least doing more than 10hrs/week, because it's not done competitively and you
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Where I work, rooms on the 1st floor have numbers like 1.01, 1.02 etc., on the ground floor it's 0.01, 0.02 etc., and in the basement it's -1.01, -1.02 etc. This is confusing for some people (unfamiliar with the situation), who need to go t
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by sqrt17 15y ago
In the 90s they had services that would send you HTTP pages and FTP files via email, for the poor schmocks that had email (e.g. via UUCP) but no FTP or WWW. You'll be surprised about all the boxes that have been erected for people to think
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by sqrt17 15y ago
The problem with this way of thinking is that, this is not necessarily true: Regular ways of getting income also make you take part in the risk of whatever or whoever you get your income from, and as a result, more and more things that woul
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by sqrt17 15y ago
... and? (I see the publications page of the Etzioni group. Anything that's especially interesting there? There's lots of other groups working on NLP, including large-scale, semantically oriented NLP).
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Having two versions that only differ in the ads would also make it very easy to take only the common (non-ad) content and throw away the rest. Considering that there is DRM software, and that it's largely accepted for at least some content
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by sqrt17 15y ago
> No, wait. Yes I am. I taught a course at my university on the topic. Teaching a course seems to be an excellent way to learn the basics. It does not make you an expert, though - that needs a couple years of practice.
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by sqrt17 15y ago
The alternative to using last-mile transit is for everyone to have a virtual server somewhere. Even this seems to be a bit off since 90% of all people only ever consume content and can't be bothered with anything like creating their own con
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by sqrt17 15y ago
... and the point is? You can ignore 90% of the machine learning literature, treat the whole thing as a craft rather than a science and use OPAL/PA-II or an averaged perceptron (which are closely related with proven 50s and 60s machine lear
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by sqrt17 15y ago
One slightly un-orthodox solution to that problem is to find a (porn) site that has what you want, get a 1-year subscription, and consciously force yourself to feed your habit exclusively from that one site and never look at any of the othe
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by sqrt17 15y ago
The problem is: there are plenty of 13-year-olds that apply the same astuteness to ants, pet rabbits, pocket calculators and other things that are not really interesting to the mainstream. So the reason why everyone is excited about it is t
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Rewriting things in C, or Cython, also makes things much, much faster, without the hassle of PyPy. And because you can do your own memory management (in the places where it makes sense), Cython code is quite a lot better for well-defined nu
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by sqrt17 15y ago
* Jython is a really nice alternative if you want to use Python-the-language in a Java environment. Its suboptimal speed and the fact that it's really easy to write Java code that can be used from Jython means that you'll probably use it mo
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Most philosophers know the difference between "known" and "known to have property P". If Clinton is a well-known ex-President, and he is a peanut farmer, he might be called a "well-known ex-President" in the "known" sense, but not necessari
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The secret behind Google's "realtime" search(versley.de)
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by sqrt17 15y ago
I know what you mean, even though Java was pretty much a niche language up to 1999 ;-)
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by sqrt17 15y ago
I can understand that you're aiming at "content auditing" as a task - taking an inventory of a website and gathering a bunch of statistics, as well as insights. If the minimal alpha product only produces an inventory and nothing else, well,
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by sqrt17 15y ago
a cloze test (i.e. some text with a gap for a word) would do very poorly in filtering out bots, as they're much easier to do automatically than captchas.
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by sqrt17 15y ago
There is no non-exclusive copyright. J-STOR is not the copyright owner, period. They do own the right to the composition of their collection, so someone who got the whole collection would be liable to infringing their right on the compositi
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by sqrt17 15y ago
This reminds me that most of what PyPy delivers today - 10x speedup, full range of the Python language, was available within CPython in a module called Psyco that you could easily install. Like PyPy for a long time, Psyco was only available
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Cython, in my eyes, would qualify as a "production"-level compiler project - the lxml library uses it, and you occasionally run into it in other projects. Cython follows the "optional static typing" approach, and implements a rather large (
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Actually the bigger event around it was the Black Friday in 1992: The Bank of England was hoping/pretending that the pound would stay strong against the FRG Mark, whereas Soros lent a massive amount of pound to other people. When the pound
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by sqrt17 15y ago
No, but that's also what would happen when the stock market behaves weirdly enough. It's a good thing, though, that stock markets and foreign exchanges have more trading volume; I'm starting to wonder what happens if a random blokes with a
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by sqrt17 15y ago
There are really two valid uses for aliasing/type-punning: one is bit twiddling (e.g. you have a data structure where you want to access specific bits or bytes, e.g. the exponent of floats, or having a mixed stream of floats/characters/shor

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