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by sqrt17 8y ago
> moving from spaghetti Python code to well-structured Java Python code quality is more a consequence of its beginner-friendliness (and subsequent prevalence of inexperienced programmers) than of the language itself. Similarly, the range
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The problem may be not headers itself, but that there are so many ways to split the compilation and build artefacts in a project. Java and (Turbo/Free) Pascal try to have few ways of dividing the materials: Java has class files (and Ja
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> Why should they demand that GHC generate readable C if it were generating C instead of assembly? Debugging in programs that are mixed C and other code. If you're in the middle of debugging Firefox (or any composed system) and star
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The difference is more in a "batteries included" sense - Python values developer productivity and gives you what you need, similarly Haskell which is on the opposite end of a Dynamic vs Static spectrum, while Java was traditionall
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Even the strictly GNU parts are in the minority in modern Linux usage. There are dozens of libraries, some GPL and some X11/zlib/Apache licensed but most of them not part of the "GNU project". Some parts only run on Linu
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> Now, in a system that has the rule of law you cannot be prevented to do something that isn't illegal. In a systme that has the rule of law, the lawmakers can choose to make certain behaviours legal if or when they harm the society
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by sqrt17 8y ago
It's pretty easy to end up with spaghetti, even for tasks that are <500 lines when you'd write them out in actual code. It's great for some quick do-A-if-B-happens scenarios, though.
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Google and Amazon have proprietary datasets for important sub-tasks (e.g. recognizing "consumer good" entities, or more accurate sentiment recognition, or supporting other languages better) that are not available to the public. In
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by sqrt17 8y ago
It solves different problems. flair doesn't include parsing, Spacy doesn't support embeddings, gensim doesn't do tagging or parsing at all but contains the most practical word2vec implementation. NLTK is nice for learning, bu
100.
by sqrt17 8y ago
Here's the thing: the authors, and most people in the NLP community (as opposed to people who can use off-the-shelf tools and nothing more) know how to get better performance on other domains. It's just that "it requires some
101.
by sqrt17 8y ago
The title seems to suggest that there's a memory leak in (C)Python, and while it's tedious to debug mixed Python+C code it's a Nice Numba memory leak rather than one in Python or numpy.
102.
by sqrt17 8y ago
Javascript has `I have ${n} apples`, or even `This is chapter ${i+1}.` In terms of interpolation, that's the variant that I like best.
103.
by sqrt17 8y ago
It seems to highlight matches both within strings and as normal identifiers (e.g. to_csv finds matches within strings)
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by sqrt17 8y ago
... it also makes perfect sense as a ruse if you figure all those buzzword-chasing QuantumComputinAIDeepLearningBlockchainOfThings will be flocking around something that is not just useful but also buzzword compatible. IBM has spent a bit o
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> presumably the domain name is a capital asset that preserves its basis the domain name doesn't have an inherent value or basis, it's (presumably) unlikely that the next Cover Inc would be willing the same amount within a shor
106.
by sqrt17 8y ago
The article shows a confusion between training (committing things to muscle memory, or to visual patterns that can be recognized or executed) and teaching (a deeper understanding of a thing). Training is always more testable than teaching,
107.
by sqrt17 8y ago
Our understanding of the neural tissue of the brain - as well as what it's actually doing are so poor, and the needs of what we're doing so different that there's a greater chance that our understanding of neural tissue is im
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Ng's Coursera course will teach you what happens in Deep Learning and Machine Learning, but at least the Deep Learning course is very very light on the math side and avoids scary mathematics rather than making it accessible. Without ha
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by sqrt17 8y ago
With the raise of all these "platform" companies - basically some inbetween that solves some QA and paperwork issues, we see that (i) there are "natural" monopolies/monopsonies developing (e.g. people don't loo
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by sqrt17 8y ago
There are still plenty of exceptions that are unchecked, i.e. subtypes of RuntimeException, which do not have to be declared on the callee. As well as people who think it's a good idea to throw instances of Exception and just tack a &q
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by sqrt17 8y ago
I can't tell whether this is serious or sarcastic. It lacks the "/s" at the end, so I'll assume that you're serious. > but it's not open source unless you know the OSI's definition. > Open sourc
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by sqrt17 8y ago
I remember distinctly when someone introduced Google (ca 1999) to me as an Altavista alternative where the good results were actually on the first page. As in, with Altavista you needed to rummage through the first couple pages (luckily bac
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The text misappropriates (or, to use a more positive term, re-purposes) the notions of generative and discriminative models. * Classically, a generative model is one that describes a statistical process that generates a whole observation (m
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by sqrt17 8y ago
One indication that this isn't B2B is the use of WorkMarket instead of dealing with gig workers in a B2B fashion. The stated value-add of WorkMarket is to allow businesses to manage their "freelancers and independent contractors&q
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by sqrt17 8y ago
RPA is mostly buzzword these days but this doesn't seem to be RPA. But "BI chatbot" probably sounds quite a bit less exciting... Also, it's quite obvious that setup costs will realistically dwarf the 99$/month it co
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by sqrt17 8y ago
1. Extrude each figure 2. Rotate to the respective angles that the figures will be seen at 3. Form intersection of the three(?) rotated extrusions 4. ??? 5. Profit I was mildly puzzled at all the pseudoscientific gobbledigook that the artis
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> don't forget to test your site at 640x480 with 256 colors. Don't forget: you couldn't (or shouldn't) bring your own 256 color palette, because the actual palette would be a compromise between all the applications op
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Snarky aside: you can also install a real Prolog (e.g. SWI Prolog) and run that in an Emacs session, and will be more performant and expressive than anything you would build on top of Emacs Lisp
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by sqrt17 8y ago
It's not - it starts with the unit coefficient (1), then x (-3), then x^2 (0), then x^3 (1). Some things become easier this way - including addition of polynomials of differing degree - and as an added bonus you can phantasize about re
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by sqrt17 8y ago
There's Redis (OSS), Antirez (OSS developer), and RedisLabs (commercial company and employer of Antirez). RedisLabs made some extra software available (nice) under a noncommercial-only license (well duh but ok), pretending some materia

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