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by superbatfish 8y ago
Tyler Cowen may be the best interviewer on any podcast. He digs deep into each guest's corpus of work, and finds an interesting lens to frame their work for the conversation. I can't recommend his podcast highly enough.
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by superbatfish 8y ago
The shortened HN title here is nonsensical. In this context, "joint" means "together" or "at the same time". The work's title, "Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment", essentially mea
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by superbatfish 8y ago
That's interesting. Thanks very much for the correction, and the link!
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by superbatfish 8y ago
This stuff is the active ingredient in glass "etching cream". Amazingly, many DIY craft videos on YouTube demonstrate it WITHOUT USING GLOVES!
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by superbatfish 9y ago
FWIW, I highly recommend using conda as a package manager for your own pure C++ packages. You can compile everything with the compilers they ship, and the only external dependency from your own system will be glibc. Yes, it means you'
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by superbatfish 9y ago
In 1989, Victor Allis "solved" the game of Connect 4, proving (apparently) that the first player can always force a win, even if both sides play perfectly. In 1996, Giuliano Bertoletti implemented Victor Allis's strategy in a
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by superbatfish 9y ago
This is a very cool visualization. Weirdly, though, the visually apparent proportion of natural vs. human causes seems to change depending on my zoom level. Plotting this much data presents several challenges. I recently discovered a good
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by superbatfish 9y ago
This looks useful for learning the basic syntax of a new language, but the exercises look to be somewhat generic. Most of the exercises seem to be duplicated across languages. Once you've mastered the basic syntax and control construc
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by superbatfish 9y ago
Good tip! IMHO, I always recommend the Miniconda installer over the full Anaconda installer, except for absolute beginners who would struggle to understand basic concepts like environments or the PATH environment variable, etc.
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by superbatfish 9y ago
Yes, that's of course a potential issue with any distribution. The good news is that's relatively easy to tweak their recipe to build your own version. $ conda install conda-build # prerequisite... $ https://gith
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by superbatfish 9y ago
Yeah, that's what I do also. conda-build makes it easier to use your code downstream, but doesn't obviate the need for build scripts in general. However, if you're using conda, you might be able to at least simplify your b
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by superbatfish 9y ago
Yes, numba is great; I've had a good experience with it for some functions. Some problems aren't suited well for it though, especially those that involve Python dictionaries or sets. For those problems, switching to C++ results i
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by superbatfish 9y ago
The conda package manager and it's subproject conda-build are fantastic tools to solve this problem. I write scientific software (primarily a mix of C++ and Python), and I use conda for literally every dependency I need, including pur
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by superbatfish 9y ago
You're right -- that's amazing.
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by superbatfish 9y ago
One easy way to see it in action is to try it in your browser via the xeus-cling project. [1] The live demo is here: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/QuantStack/xeus-cling/0.0.7?filep... [1]: https:/&#x2
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by superbatfish 9y ago
If you don't need GPU support, vigra is a great option for ND image processing. conda install -c conda-forge vigra python -c 'import vigra; help(vigra.analysis.watersheds)' scikit-image ain't bad, and has more functions,
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by superbatfish 9y ago
I don't know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is, but I can tell you for a fact I'm too smart for it to affect me.
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by superbatfish 9y ago
If one is familiar with the term 'CRISPR' in the first place, then the intended meaning is pretty clear.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
This article violates Betteridge's law of headlines.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
>This isn't really the _reason_ that companies have these kinds of policies though I think it's fair to say that there are multiple reasons. The one you listed is definitely one of them. Joel Spolsky wrote about this a few mon
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by superbatfish 10y ago
If the company wants all of your ideas, even the ones you come up with on the weekends, then they should offer you a higher salary than the companies that don't demand that time. As it turns out, many companies do exactly this. And (a
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by superbatfish 10y ago
Look, this is nice for github employees, but it's worth noting that this is not an easy decision for all companies to make. We (developers) aren't like factory workers cranking out widgets by the hour. We're paid to think de
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by superbatfish 10y ago
The question here isn't whether your should work on side projects at all. It's about who owns the side project when you're done.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
As developers, we're biased towards one view of this issue, but it's intellectually lazy of us to just say "Yeah, we deserve it! Because... fairness!" Last December, Joel Spolsky wrote about developer side projects, and
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by superbatfish 10y ago
This sentence has forty-five (45) characters.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
You are mistaken. For example: - He wrote Slate's economics column, "MoneyBox," for a number of years. - He wrote a book about the economics of the housing market. - He co-founded Vox.com, which -- presumably -- reinvests it
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by superbatfish 10y ago
The 2nd edition was published in 2015: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-NumPy-Travis-Oliphant-PhD/dp/15...
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by superbatfish 10y ago
This might sound weird, but I think the primary "victim" here might be parents, not the children. Here's an (admittedly imperfect) analogy: There are a lot of reasons to oppose constant government surveillance, even if you&#x
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by superbatfish 10y ago
Sure, I was even a little worried that it would be perceived that way immediately after I posted it. (Although my concerns weren't articulated to myself as well as your point.) But at the time that I left my comment, this thread had ve
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by superbatfish 10y ago
>More so, this is another Satanists/Rock and Roll converting our kids issue No offense, but your post makes it sound like might have missed the point of the article. This isn't about "converting" kids to anything. (

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