thibauts

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by thibauts 13y ago
Because either a thing has no measurable effect on our reality and is thus both unknowable and irrelevant, or it has a measurable effect on our reality and then this effects exists in virtue of a kind of relation that can be described, ma
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by thibauts 13y ago
Very interesting. I feel like the very concept of a grammar is only a model we cast on language to make it easier to deal with. Langage is pretty free and can work without it. Grammar feels to me like a normalization "by contract"
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by thibauts 13y ago
Writers used to have some untold rules. Nevertheless tagging / grafiti is at its core, and before being an art form, a subversive means of expression for people that usually are invisible. Why do you think writers use names like ads
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by thibauts 13y ago
Has it been acquired by microsoft ? (sarcasm) @user downvoter and (max-iq: 12) { Wow ! In my humble opinion this site may have lost its identity and brand, if I'm not mistaken ! }
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by thibauts 13y ago
You're still doing filtering. The difference I see is your database request code is duplicated. Conceptually the condition is moved but it is bound to exist somewhere. This is IMO a semantics question. Thanks for your input anyway, you
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by thibauts 13y ago
I dream about this every night.
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by thibauts 13y ago
Why not use one resource and return different fields depending on the type of the requesting user ? I have the same problem to solve right now and not sure yet which way to go.
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by thibauts 13y ago
It's not that users are spending most of their time in a browser, it's that browser technologies are quickly becoming an ubiquitous platform. The OS is not changing in a browser, the browser is changing in an OS. The fact is many
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by thibauts 13y ago
Minimize the gradient ...
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by thibauts 13y ago
The author talks about Google Cloud Messaging to avoid polling. I've been researching the topic and gave it a try with websockets without much success. TCP connections tend to hang on cell tower switching and I suspect TCP keepalives k
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by thibauts 13y ago
What if you break the company in two companies (or more) ? The problem may be trying to keep a flat looking small pyramid look small, when it is in fact starting to show its real face. I don't know if it's even possible, but why n
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by thibauts 13y ago
I once thought it was at hackers' core to look behind the appearances. Core values and myths are long gone, buried into memory traces of hidden places that never met the instant share button.
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by thibauts 13y ago
So being smart equates to not being able to put oneself into question ? Not the way I'm used to think about intelligence. Though, programming cultivates the habit of rethinking your premises, I think we can all testify.
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Researchers Build World's Largest NN with GPUs(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
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by thibauts 13y ago
I remember just about the same, some 15 years back. Discovering networks and being able to mess with them, even though my programming skills were still very basic. This is a good part of what made me enjoy programming. Exploring this world,
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by thibauts 13y ago
I love the idea of sharing knowledge and insights for the benefit of the community. I think it's sad to put money in the equation. Upvotes are a nice and simple way to say "thanks, you've been valuable to me", more so than a tip that will b
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by thibauts 13y ago
What I feel makes us different from animals is not being able to adapt, as you pointed out (many animals exhibit learned behavior and conscious decision making), it's not even being self-conscious (it's been proven animals can be too), it's
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by thibauts 13y ago
Indeed. I'd say intelligence tries to keep its environment in a state it can predict.
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by thibauts 13y ago
Most likely, an unifying framework of nature would come from cross-disciplinary work. That's almost a tautology. Unfortunately we're stuck in a world where isolated people playing with narrow albeit very detailed views of nature, try to cap
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by thibauts 14y ago
Pretty nice. I'd like to see how it goes in a real world scenario with concurrency, manipulation of extracted nodes and general HTTP post/auth/etc. I'm not sure about Ruby+Nokogiri but Clojure+Enlive may well be a great choice.
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by thibauts 14y ago
I'll second, lxml.html is in my experience very robust and fast. I've been writing a lot of scrapers along the years and the best combination I found so far is requests / lxml.html / gevent. It doesn't get any simpler than this IMO http://
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by thibauts 14y ago
tl;dr web fonts
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by thibauts 14y ago
Most importantly, building a machine that can really communicate with us without giving it a body is obviously a dead end. If the point for Ray is mastering language in AI, then I think Ian is right. Reading "Methaphors we live by" By Geo
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by thibauts 14y ago
I had a dispute with an hotel booked through booking.com a month ago and their customer service was really impressive. As said above they called the hotel, sorted it out, called me back, sent me a few emails for order cancellation, and pers
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by thibauts 14y ago
Of course knowing we could be observed has profound effects on our behavior. I wonder if any studies show it. This looks a lot like what religion can induce, and I would really like to see what happens once you ask people to "confess". I
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by thibauts 14y ago
I'd say academics are very good on theory, but tend to lack the real world experience of working in teams bound by company processes. They make code for machines and students to read, not for other engineers, I suppose.
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by thibauts 14y ago
I would say that programmers that have a choice will work on anything but banking software. And it's most likely that talented programmers will be driven by passion and not by money.
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by thibauts 14y ago
> one commonality of 10x programmers is that they have done a lot of different kind of programming That is exactly what I was thinking about. What makes me faster than less able programmers often is previous experience on related topi
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by thibauts 14y ago
Sure css, js etc are fetched, but this is hard-coded behaviour, there is nothing dynamic or discovered about it. Or I fail to understand it. This may well be the problem then, as we can see here and elsewhere. Many people like me don't unde
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by thibauts 14y ago
> Hint: Your browser is an API client Apart from parsing, I am the API client in this instance. I'm the one making decisions from understanding what services are about. The universal API client seems to be a kind of silver-bullet-IA

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