tburmeister

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by tburmeister 6y ago
Ethiopians and Kenyans have been dominant in track and field since the 90s, that's not exactly a recent change; both countries, btw, train fairly differently from each other, and I would contend that "gaits" differ far more b
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by tburmeister 6y ago
The article is specifically about the sport of athletics, better known as track and field in the US; it has nothing to do with basketball.
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by tburmeister 7y ago
Thinner is faster, up to a point, but as noted in the article if you take it too far it leads to injury. I suspect a lot of the grey area stuff NOP was infamous for, i.e. abuse of prescription drugs and therapeutic use exemptions, allowed S
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by tburmeister 8y ago
If you currently have a job then you likely can't accept payment without violating your employment contract, so you wind up having to do all this extra work for free anyway.
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by tburmeister 9y ago
Cython is another Python-like language that gets compiled to C; it's a great tool for getting big performance bumps for very little effort.
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by tburmeister 9y ago
Maybe more men should consider it, "especially if their [wives] make a living wage."
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by tburmeister 10y ago
There's a big difference between shoes and blood doping. No athlete should have to jeopardize their health, e.g. death from blood clots, in order to be competitive. Personally, I draw the line at what's readily available to all co
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by tburmeister 11y ago
This is the big thing for me. I used to work almost exclusively on a remote dev machine, using my laptop as a terminal, and tmux meant I could pick up in the morning where I left off the day before. Now, I work on a desktop, but I've g
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by tburmeister 11y ago
It doesn't have quite the same feature set, but I wrote a simple, and I think "clean" neural net library for Python but with a pure C engine under the hood - could be pretty easily adapted to use directly from C. https:&#x2F
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by tburmeister 11y ago
Try now - I just merged in some changes to make it Python 3 compatible.
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by tburmeister 11y ago
I posted this earlier on datatau, but thought I would try a larger audience as well. This is a project I've been working on in my spare time, mostly as a learning exercise for myself. I've been using it with some success on the Ka
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Show HN: PyNeural – simple but fast neural network library for Python(github.com)
2 points by tburmeister 11y ago|1 comments