tmarthal

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by tmarthal 13y ago
People are doing all sorts of great things with Scala. Scala Notebooks, which can be classified as a learning resource https://github.com/n8han/scala-notebook/ - It is an in-work conversion of iPython notebooks us
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by tmarthal 13y ago
That document is from 2010. ArsTechnica and other places wrote about what came about when the shit hit the fan in 2011: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/the-ridiculous-pl... From the article: "
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I think that is the author's point though: he has a lots of private repos on bitbucket that he doesn't want to share. The work history and depth of his code and such is not publicized. Note also that this is the same for private r
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Well, I would posit that the majority of data science positions are in advertising and marketing optimization. I would believe that 'global food security' may be more important than social media analysis, as the original posted sp
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by tmarthal 13y ago
"I do think that it would be really cool if the actor model is like picked up by the Swedish phone company." Does anyone have an explanation for this reference? It was at the end of the concurrency section, while talking about the
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by tmarthal 13y ago
For those interested, there is a twitter bot doing exactly this with the twitter firehose. https://twitter.com/pentametron Singular re-tweets do not make sense, they need to be taken in pairs.
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by tmarthal 13y ago
It's because the public Freebase data that this visualization is based on is far from complete. For these programming languages and other things, it is as if most of the Wikipedia articles existed on the subject, but they contained not
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by tmarthal 13y ago
python has a ton of in browser plotting mechanisms (including matplotlib inside iPython notebook files), and you can always use vincent which is a wrapper around vega to create d3 plots (svg html elements, which can be styled with CSS). Her
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by tmarthal 13y ago
It's not a catalog, but you can use the 'extension:' search option in the command bar. https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ageojson&type=Code&re... Will give you all of the results, it definitely n
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by tmarthal 13y ago
I also have no problem with people building businesses around a civil service. However, this is a kickstarter campaign which seems to be trying to raise money for work that has already been done. I put the exclamation point there because it
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by tmarthal 13y ago
It seems to me that if they really wanted to disrupt the Malibu beach scene and provide more access for the public to the beaches, that they would just release the data as an annotated geojson file, rather than raise 30k(!) to create an app
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by tmarthal 13y ago
There is a Thiel Foundation fund for scientific ideas that can't get traditional academic funding: http://www.breakoutlabs.org/home.html
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by tmarthal 13y ago
IMHO, I think that is because no one uses the Vine app to consume vine content, so they must post to twitter to share their videos. However, with Instagram, I open up that app specifically to look at photos that people I follow in Instagram
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by tmarthal 13y ago
FYI, that all units measuring physical properties named after scientists use capitalized letters for their abbreviation[1]. So the ohm (named after Georg Ohm) is abbreviated as the uppercase omega, no idea why they are different unicode val
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Here is adobe's guide to self-signing documents: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010... This generates a .p12 file rather than a typical .pem file to be shared.
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by tmarthal 13y ago
You can get an LED bacteria pen. Those will kill most of the bacteria in the water before using it to make coffee. Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/SteriPEN-Adventurer-Opti-Handheld-Puri...
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by tmarthal 13y ago
It looks great! Strange that you added 4 new chevron icons { icon-chevron-sign-left, icon-chevron-sign-right, icon-chevron-sign-up, icon-chevron-sign-down} when it seems that they could been a single icon-chevron-sign, recreated by the new
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by tmarthal 13y ago
According to this Akka document - http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/1.3.1/scala/dispatchers.html "Akka supports dispatchers for both event-driven lightweight threads, allowing creation of millions of threads on a single workstation, and thread
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Can you tell me how the premise is uninformed and/or inaccurate? I am interested in learning and will definitely keep an open mind.
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by tmarthal 13y ago
There is one difference that everyone always seems to overlook: design is very opinion oriented, development is not. Now, it really boils down to the type of feedback that you get as a designer is much different than the type of feedback th
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by tmarthal 13y ago
Obviously there are subtleties to things that may not be apparent, but his example makes sense to me and so does the SQL queries that are generated. The first query is operating at the "object level" and the second is operating at the "attr
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by tmarthal 13y ago
The last picture in this article accurately describes what doing a PhD is all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727 Pushing the envelope of human knowledge, one pixel at a time.
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by tmarthal 14y ago
It really has turned into a great local discovery platform via their personal recommendations. As an anecdote, I am not from San Francisco, and visited the bay area in February. I checked into my hotel, 4sq knew that I had travelled over a
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by tmarthal 14y ago
You can double-tap with spread fingers to zoom back out. A semi-one handed gesture.
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I personally did not update my phone iOS from 5.x to version 6 until Google released their Maps application about 4-6 weeks after the major version upgrade. I know of at least 2 other people that also did not update for the exact reason tha
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by tmarthal 14y ago
In POSIX thread programming the "state machine" that you talk about is commonly called a Condition Variable. https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/#ConVarOvervie...
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by tmarthal 14y ago
As an aside, I just want to thank you for making the project/book text available as iPython notebooks. I haven't seen a mathematical writeup as beautiful and interactive as the chapters that you've put out. I've only had time to go through
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Have you profiled any Grails applications? It was a 1.x grails system. I no longer work on the codebase, but we were running into permgen space above 256MB, we believed because of the way that the dynamic classes were created/never-destroye
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by tmarthal 14y ago
My .vimrc is the following: <quote>set number</quote> Which shows the line number no matter what in a vi editor. Jumping to a loop on the screen is as easy as viewing the line the loop is on, then hitting colon+line number (
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by tmarthal 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention custom mapmaking. Google provides a similar service - creating a KML file hosted from a Google Spreadsheet. Here is the newest version: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/spreadsheet.h... I've

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