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by tjl 10y ago
I have an earlier edition of "The Art of Electronics" and I'm wondering how different the latest edition is. That said, I rarely open it so it probably doesn't really matter anyway. I've done only one electronics pr
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by tjl 10y ago
I believe that's how it works. They even limit the number of samples they get from a specific person so they can't filter out the noise for that person and get their individual response. But, keep in mind that Apple will have reco
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by tjl 10y ago
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/102/ You can find all the videos from WWDC 2016 some time after the session is done. I usually check the next day. They have the videos for several previo
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by tjl 10y ago
According to the State of the Union (where they explain how they're doing differential privacy) there is an overall database, but only in aggregate. It's specifically designed so you don't know the individual answer from each
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by tjl 10y ago
They talked a bit more about differential privacy in the State of the Union. Basically, they hash the data and add noise. By collecting data from a bunch of people that noise gets averaged out. They also limit the amount of samples (over a
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by tjl 10y ago
Actually, they put up the videos on their site and you can watch them there or download them. So, complaining that you can't stream it is a really minor complaint. Plus, I tried to stream it on my Apple TV and it wasn't available
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by tjl 10y ago
When Apple dropped ZFS, Sun was in the middle of a lawsuit with NetApp regarding ZFS. If I recall correctly, Apple wanted Sun to be on the hook in the event of any possible patents, but they balked. Apple isn't going to touch ZFS.
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by tjl 10y ago
https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/742435975079419905
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by tjl 10y ago
They cover things like this in the "Developer State of the Union" which is the talk really focused at developers. That's later today.
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by tjl 10y ago
The beta for XCode 8 is up which includes Swift 3 and support for iOS 10. Before you decide you're disappointed, wait for the Developer State of the Union later today and the other sessions. There's interesting things like an &quo
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by tjl 10y ago
It's sort of open. https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/ Basically, it looks like you can extend Siri in a few different ways, just like extensions last year. I expect that it will open up as time goes on. The API
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by tjl 10y ago
I think people underestimate how much work a professor does. Everybody in my department who started a company either did it before starting at the university or they did it while on sabbatical. Good luck!
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by tjl 10y ago
It's not really road-ready. Right now it requires a very precisely mapped set of roads. Plus, they've only been testing it in a state with very good weather. I'm very curious to see how it behaves in a harsh winter. Even then
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by tjl 10y ago
They also have some accounts for specific things, but no general Apple one. The support channel is about the closest to an official overall Apple account. The support channel seems to be pretty decent so far.
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by tjl 10y ago
For me, it's two reasons. First, they have a history of changing their policies that mess with what the user has explicitly set in the past (e.g., changing all the e-mails to facebook.com ones, changing private things to public). That&
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by tjl 10y ago
I first saw the term hamburger menu several months back and I thought, "huh?" as I had no idea what it meant. I had to go search the net to find out that they meant those three stacked bars. Why not just call it that? It doesn&#x2
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by tjl 10y ago
When I was going through undergrad engineering we were taught linear algebra in first year but didn't really have a lot of the other background for the different applications. As a grad student, I had a friend of mine who was teaching
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by tjl 10y ago
The simplest way would be to cheat and prioritize traffic for a few minutes and then throttle. That way, any speed test would come out fine but not actual shows.
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by tjl 10y ago
They've made the conscious decision to use their Material design and Roboto in all their iOS apps. This is funny because in their Android UI documents they stress that you should stick with the OS style. But, they do exactly the opposi
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by tjl 10y ago
It's been $7 for a while. It was $7/month when I cancelled my service back in 2013. I was paying for private repos when I was doing my PhD thesis and once I finished I just kept my local copies and deleted the GitHub version. Now
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by tjl 10y ago
When I was doing my PhD I ended up putting all my development into one repo and all my documents in a second because of GitHub's per repo rules. I didn't know about an academic pricing (they might have had it, but I think it was a
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by tjl 10y ago
Borrowing words is pretty common. I went on an exchange to a small town in Québec when I was in high school. They borrowed English words to use in French. The only thing is that their use wasn't quite the same as English. For example,
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by tjl 10y ago
I hadn't tried the UI stuff in playgrounds (I use it for experiments mostly). I'll take your advice and set up a project. Table views are useful, but a definite pain point. Good luck!
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by tjl 10y ago
I don't need to do any RESTful JSON apps at the moment, but this is being put on by a friend of mine and I like to learn new skills in the event I need them for something else. Thanks for the pointer!
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by tjl 10y ago
I spent a lot of time researching cell phone providers here in Ontario as I was just getting a cell for the first time. All the plans are pretty universally terrible. I ended up with Wind Mobile for $40/month for BYOD. Unfortunately, t
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by tjl 10y ago
I like that it's coming through by e-mail. Are you expecting that we play with the code for the lesson in a playground? P.S. This has got to be somewhat challenging to do while living on a boat.
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by tjl 10y ago
I have the iPhone 5 now. Until getting this phone, I've never had a cell phone (I don't really get that many phone calls so I haven't bothered). To be honest, the battery life isn't great, but I just bought a small exter
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by tjl 10y ago
It won't really help. You'll get the same issues with stiff DEs or ill-conditioned matrices for perfect precision or floating-point. There will be some cases where it will help, but not a lot. I've implemented a few DE solver
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by tjl 10y ago
My parents only replaced their iPhone 5 when the battery wasn't holding a charge as well as they'd liked. So, they replaced it with a 5S (this was before the SE, but it was free with a contract anyway). They use it for calls and d
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by tjl 10y ago
That's basically the main reason why I left MacPorts. The other was the fact that they'd build their own version of already installed programs. The worst offender for a long time was tetex until they finally added support for look

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