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How to Make Sense of Contradictory Science Papers(nautil.us)
1 points by taion 5y ago|0 comments
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The Taiwan Temptation: Why Beijing Might Resort to Force(foreignaffairs.com)
8 points by taion 5y ago|0 comments
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by taion 5y ago
I’m curious how accurate this reporting actually is. It seems to focus almost exclusively on smaller producers, but what about the larger ones? As I understand it, most hospitals use PPE from larger suppliers like 3M or Halyard for logistic
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A Glut of Chinese Masks Is Driving U.S. Companies Out of Business(nytimes.com)
4 points by taion 5y ago|1 comments
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by taion 6y ago
There's a Times obituary. It was cancer: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/nyregion/matvey-natanzon-...
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by taion 6y ago
Interestingly enough, in Python, the minimal, official style guide of PEP 8 actively suggests using properties (the equivalent of the JS getter/setter syntax) for simple things: https://www.python.org/dev/peps&#x2F
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by taion 6y ago
The thing that strikes me as weird about Cypress is that, while the DX is quite nice, their core claim of being an end-to-end testing experience is, for the most part, not true. You can see that in how most events are simulated instead of n
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by taion 6y ago
Per the piece, it's actually "2.5c a kilometre", or $0.025, so the EV driver is still paying quite a bit less.
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by taion 6y ago
Less than you'd think – it comes up in serializing/deserializing data, somewhat, because JNI has a fair bit of overhead, but this isn't really like Rust's "unsafe". To have fast Java, you really need the JIT to
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by taion 6y ago
There are still a number of players in the HFT space that use JVM languages. I think as with any space, if you really zoom into the details, you see a lot of diversity. You're obviously right in that people who are still hitting the CP
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by taion 6y ago
There's a major historically-contingent component to this, too. The Island ECN, later absorbed into NASDAQ's ECN, originally ran its matching engine as one of these low-latency Java processes, writing everything using explicit obj
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Centralized quarantine, not just lockdowns, may be required to control Covid-19(wsj.com)
2 points by taion 7y ago|1 comments
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GitHub blocked me and all my libraries(medium.com)
350 points by taion 7y ago|203 comments
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by taion 7y ago
I sorta doubt that any of those social psych studies replicated, though.
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by taion 7y ago
pip-compile added support for pinning hashes in 1.8.0 (in 2016) and support for non-editable URL dependencies in 3.7.0 (in May).
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by taion 8y ago
This was such an unexpectedly powerful piece of writing. Thanks for sharing this.
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by taion 8y ago
There's currently a TC39 stage 1 proposal to add something very like the Python syntax to JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-slice-notation . There's an active Babel feature request to implement exac
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by taion 8y ago
What's the benefit of using Exodus over just using the official-ish static builds of FFmpeg? https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/ This works just fine on AWS Lambda. The `ffmpeg` binary there weighs in at 46 MB. Unle
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Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers(arstechnica.com)
8 points by taion 9y ago|1 comments
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by taion 9y ago
It's funny that he would take the famously lazy and impatient Leonardo as a role model here. Unless he thinks The Last Supper is supposed to be like that.
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by taion 9y ago
This is a fairly poorly-informed piece, especially in light of the recent NY Times piece on construction costs in the New York area: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... Alon L
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by taion 9y ago
We didn’t hit a hard limit. Slack explicitly disabled new user signups for us because they thought we were getting too big.
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Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside(spectrum.ieee.org)
238 points by taion 9y ago|147 comments
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An Entrepreneur Aims to Peer Inside the Body with a Small, Simple, Cheap Device(forbes.com)
9 points by taion 9y ago|0 comments
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by taion 9y ago
Is the "two weeks" of time in the Dota environment, or two weeks of training time running in parallel as with A3C or something?
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by taion 9y ago
For those, like me, who find the writing style somewhat annoying, this is the part of the article that relates directly to the title: > Imagine the situation Florence Nightingale confronted in the Crimea. Everyone knew that, in a war, so
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Ancient Roman Lead Used for Physics Experiments Ignites Science Feud (2013)(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by taion 9y ago|0 comments
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by taion 10y ago
It wasn't; the link was malformed.
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by taion 10y ago
Clicking through to "very" is pretty amusing too.
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by taion 10y ago
I strongly recommend checking out TensorFlow-Slim if you're looking for a lightweight abstraction for using TensorFlow – at least the layers, anyway. The API looks similar to something like Keras or Lasagne, but the layers are just sim

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