tmarthal

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by tmarthal 12y ago
This is almost akin to a celebrity getting upset and punching a paparazzi. It happens due to stupidity, human emotion and rash behavior. Is it right? No, but it does shed light on some issues. Reporters and journalists can and do scrutinize
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Actually, I think when Tobacco and Pharmacy companies start to get a piece of the financial incentives in the states where it is legal, you will see their lobbying arm start to influence federal elections on the national level. It is assum
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by tmarthal 12y ago
They added a Surfline channel last October, so a whole slew of non-technical surfers have started using it to get surf alerts. Granted, that is just one audience, but it is something that people are using it for. [Why Surfline doesn't
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by tmarthal 12y ago
What is interesting to me is that IFTTT is running as a cloud platform, yet some of these devices won't be accessible outside the wireless LAN. I wonder if they are going to have to create a hardware piece, software service or somethin
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Did you guys look into Bayesian Bandits? They seem much more tradeoff-able.
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Annotations work particularly well in two contexts; first, when explaining the meaning of a single word It's almost like people do not remember the mid-2000's where the New York times had the dictionary popups on their website.
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by tmarthal 12y ago
If anyone is interested in a similar basic crossfilters written in d3, you can check out dc.js - https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/wiki (edit: i have no relation to the project, but it's pretty neat) Here is a l
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by tmarthal 12y ago
For the last eight or so years, I have been a judge at the California State Science fair. At this level, the projects must have won the county or city level (not quite the same for all of them, but it is usually their second or third fair p
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by tmarthal 12y ago
I know that offhand gaming and financial services rely on very accurate clocks at the application level. And you can't necessarily rely on the clients to tell you what their time is, as it can be spoofed.
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Actually, it is basically Pivotal versus TypeSafe, not just Spring versus Akka or anything like that. I put my money on TypeSafe. Pivotal still (05/2014) doesn't have Java8 support for some of it's frameworks (grails https:&
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Moves.app was free up until November of last year when they released version 2.0. Here are the release notes http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/moves/
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by tmarthal 12y ago
Honestly, the only thing that a local well-funded library does not give you is instant gratification like Netflix streaming. If you are willing to setup a queue and allow most content 2-4 weeks for delivery, you should not have to pay for a
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Note: there is a great Django template at https://github.com/tommikaikkonen/django-twoscoops-heroku-s3... that will automate the creation and uploading of the s3 assets. It uses `collectstatic` to upload the static re
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by tmarthal 13y ago
A 'count-down latch' is commonly (at least when I learned it, using pthreads) called a 'Conditional Variable'. In your case case, your mutex would be the num_results variable and the conditional is that it is greater tha
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by tmarthal 13y ago
This looks super interesting, a great example of functional programming and an implementation of websockets. However, whenever something like this comes up, I always wonder about the new Java implementation of Web Sockets / actors. Do
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by tmarthal 13y ago
The Google engineers are also trying to release their methods. This is not detecting 'fraudulent' activity, but rather trying to classify adversarial advertisements: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37195.ht
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Everything old is new again. The 'Five Paragraph Essay' is not a 'Decker Grid', nor is it new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_paragraph_essay
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Do you have a network on Twitter? I see people looking (and responding to) freelance inquiries all the time. All based on word-of-mouth and friend-of-friend networks.
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I would also suggest checking out the TwoScoops book, very well written best practices. Barring that, just using the template defined in the book to start new projects will get you on the right path to great project organization. dja
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by tmarthal 13y ago
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ There are a ton of Java frameworks in the top performing benchmarks (See Lng:Jav). Whatever conclusion you've made from Java Swing applications running on top of WindowsXP ma
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by tmarthal 13y ago
If you look at one of LinkedIn's alternate applications, LinkedIn Contacts, http://contacts.linkedin.com/ it actually is a light-weight CRM application. The CRM meaning, it automatically connects to your email and cale
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by tmarthal 13y ago
That was almost the original intent behind sitemap.xml, ( http://sitemaps.org ). Except of course, that they were being used erroneously and changes published when no content was changed, and so the spiders stopped using them as c
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Even for strict java builds, I've been using 'sbt' (the Scala Build Tool). It really is the successor to gradle, in many regards. Not sure you've tried it as one of your alternatives, but I'd implore you to give it
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I think that the web is slowly starting to adopt SVGs where it makes sense. d3.js is bringing svg charting to the web in a major way. Most, if not all, modern web dashboards are using it. Google Maps has been using SVG icons for custom mark
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Not only does it use the same datatypes, but I know that it uses the same pg wire format such that the java (and I'm sure python) postgres drivers work out of the box.
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by tmarthal 13y ago
What entrypoint are you using to run your programs? REPL function calls / test runners / main methods from the CLI / local web server w/browser? I think understanding that matters the most. If you do a lot of development
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Have you see the Data Science course being presented at Harvard this semester? All of the lectures go through ipython notebooks and they turn in the assignments by submitting their notebooks. The url is http://cs109.org (with th
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I think the point is that at a certain level there are only 3 or so defense contractors that have the infrastructure to bid on and win those contracts. Given that they are not "subsidies", but when there are only 2 corporations t
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by tmarthal 13y ago
You can definitely get a job as a staff researcher at a national lab or small applied-science company (there are a ton of companies doing DARPA research). Note that due to the way the world is, you may not be able to be the prime scientist
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I would go one step further and suggest people that need structured queries use the Google BigTable API to query their structured Wikipedia data. Granted, their public dataset is from 2010, so is slightly outdated, but you can write structu

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