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by timtadh 12y ago
My wife tried this on me with yogurt. I like yogurt a lot and like to try every type of yogurt available in the store. She thought I just like buying the most expensive stuff. So one night she setup a blind taste test for me. I was able to
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The coolest thing about this is it actually works. You can go ahead and copy the number out of the wikipedia page put it into a python prompt convert it to binary write it to a file and decompress it. Pretty awesome! >>> s =
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by timtadh 12y ago
The loop update is unreachable.
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My wife recently began learning python with the book "Hello Python." It seems like a solid intro from what I read. The book uses hunt the wumpus as its starting example. If you combine that with Steve Johnson's excellent Pygl
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KPlugs – A Kernel Space Bytecode Interpretter. Python in the Kernel(kplugs.org)
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I am working on an x86 code generator today for a small language I have been working on. This story seems very timely to re-read because it is so difficult to generate really good x86 code. Even though I basically know what I am doing when
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by timtadh 12y ago
I think you mis-interpreted the parent's example. Larry and Sergey were academics before they were founders.[1] Their research lead directly to Google's success. I believe Google still licenses Page Rank from Standford. (A huge wi
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by timtadh 12y ago
Not perfect but the alix boards[1] ship with a full board schematic. They also ship with the source code for the bios and some information that would help you write your own. All the major open source router projects work on them. 6f2 even
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Yeah, the developer has a really strange take on indexing. I got into a bit of an argument about it with him on a bug tracker. Baloo had decided that it would index all of my data files which are huge (multiple GB) which was going poorly fo
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Yes, I apologize for the parent comment. I realized I had misread your comment after I had posted and did the edit to try and rectify the situation. I left the original because I thought it might clarify some of the differences between the
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Not at all true, the language of balanced parens is not regular and cannot be matched by a FSM no matter how much memory you have.[1] It can be matched by a Push Down Automata PDA. The primary difference between a PDA and an FSM is a PDA ha
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That blog post is basically explaining untyped Lambda Calculus and Church Numerals with the ruby lambda syntax. If you liked that you maybe interested in the real thing. The best introduction I know is a really great book on Type Theory cal
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I aim to do packaging (putting things in tarballs). Godep is trying to solve the harder problem of creating metadata and systems to say what versions of libraries to (transitively) depend on. I actually want to utilize the Godep stuff to
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by timtadh 12y ago
This is a great article. I have also been vendorizing my dependencies. I recently have been bit by projects that I rely on (config parsers, things of that nature [and for a couple of my projects, I have too much config for using command lin
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by timtadh 12y ago
Ooo. I had not seen mat64 before. That looks very interesting. I believe I need LAPACK on top of BLAS with respect to the BLAS lib. Thanks for the pointers! EDIT: The lack of README and documentation beyond the API docs concerns me for mat6
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by timtadh 12y ago
I have found that most difficult thing about doing machine learning in Go is the lack of a really good matrix library. I always just end up using Python because I end up wanting to do something like "find eigenvectors." Easy in Py
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Show HN: gopkgr – Go Package Installer(github.com)
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@masklinn good point. I haven't used argparse (mostly out of compatibility requirements with 2.6). So I may have mis-characterized the state of the art. It does do many things well. One note, is that the `prefix parsing` functionality
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by timtadh 12y ago
Armin, my feedback is in the form of my own version of this library.[1] I have been working on this on and off for some time and like you have not made a release. That said, I have been using it quite a bit both in my research and at work a
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by timtadh 12y ago
Sounds neat I will definitely do some research on it. Smoking is a similar process but without a fancy rig you can't get control very precise (+/- 30°f is what I can achieve over an 8 hour smoke. pros can do much better). The idea
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I see. So a hard sided container won't trasfer heat properly? Sounds like I need to talk to a friend in polymers to really get a grasp on the right approach because I can't really think of a non-polymer material that would meet th
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by timtadh 12y ago
I don't know a lot about sous-vide, I am more of a wood fire and smoking kinda person, but what would prevent you from using a stainless steel canister? That would eliminate the risks from plastic. Perhaps, a ceramic would also work?
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by timtadh 12y ago
I don't know about "on demand" but PCEngines will give the source for the BIOS and has an older version posted to the site. http://pcengines.ch/tinybios.htm
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Stuff like this is why I built my own router (I recommend the ALIX series http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm ). High quality hardware and you don't have to worry about the software because you control all of it. Right down to
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I have also played around trying to achieve a high performance trie in Go.[1] My approach is to use the Ternary Search Trie structure. Unfortunately, I have not yet approached either the performance of the native hash table or a hash table
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by timtadh 12y ago
Not a windows user so I can't check but given that it is the kernel driver the compiler we would be concerned about is the MS visual c++ compiler.
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by timtadh 13y ago
Actually there is a tool for this. I think the author was simply un-aware of it. It is called oracle* and is able to answer this typing question and many more. *: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse&#x2
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by timtadh 13y ago
Actually, Assembly is sometimes called Mnemonic Assembly. Mnemonic roughly means "a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something." Assembly was developed to help humans write ma
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What I noticed using this to read a couple Ars Technica articles was it worked really well for short words. But, if a longer complicated word appeared, at say 600 wpm, I would miss it. It seems like an adaptive algorithm based on word lengt
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by timtadh 13y ago
I use SQL-Alchemy to help provide portability between SQLite and MySQL. That way I can run my apps in standalone mode or as part of a "real" deployment (nginx, uwsgi, python-app, mysql). SQl-Alchemy definitely helps take some of t

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