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by usgroup 8y ago
Why not! A bit of benefit multiplied by a large number of applicants should pay some dividend for some time. But there is a big difference between the craft and the science ... and phd or not , ratively few practitioners have the chops for
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by usgroup 8y ago
Study perpetually ... preferably formal so that you have exam dates. Ie something to motivate you and make sure you’re not just skimming. Just always be learning something. Learn until your last breath.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Fantastic guys, thank you! I’ve been looking forward to it becoming an extension for half a year. This is great news. This basically means Postgres now has continuous views and a toolkbox of functions for running calculations. Combined with
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Popularity Dynamics and Intrinsic Quality in Reddit and Hacker News (2015) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
62 points by usgroup 8y ago|12 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
Yeah ... people . But the good news is that once you get past the naive phase of things not working as you expect , there is a light at the end of the tunnel and ways to organise things so that they do work with human (or at least cultural)
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by usgroup 8y ago
So great to see this ... The slow roll of LuaJIT, made me despair a bit that Lua would ever see a thriving JIT project. Hopefully this will be it... If you haven't tried Lua, do. You can be up and running in about 3-4 hours, writing us
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by usgroup 8y ago
Well, looks to me like you definitely get the game. Not wanting to play is an entirely separate problem :)
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by usgroup 8y ago
Well, you could find someone that doesn't do any engineering and compare yourself to them. That'll do it :) I kid, but seriously forget the hype. The way you get better at anything by any amount is usually a bit at a time, and the
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by usgroup 8y ago
I think what you’ve said is true. People interviewing typically opt for something they can apply to everyone. Therefore your side projects may be unfairly discounted. Think you need to approach interviewing as a sport and consider how to ge
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by usgroup 8y ago
This is false. PG has a well defined and modular query engine. pgstrom works by replacing and adding modules which allow for GPU support.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Personally I'm most excited about PGStrom, because it means faster Postgres all the time, not just when it fits into memory, and not just for SQL.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Mastodon!
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by usgroup 8y ago
I got the Clojure bug at some point not long ago. Decided I’d write a crawler and some data munging stuff directly in Clojure since it’s all about data processing. Crawlers naturally want to be stacks with pipelines and expressing them as t
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by usgroup 8y ago
That's an interesting point. I don't do "drugs" ever (coffee and wine permitting), but definitely there is a right balance between "care enough to do this for N hours" and "mentally capable to jump the hoo
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Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)(nautil.us)
29 points by usgroup 8y ago|42 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
If you like this then you’ll appreciate these guys: https://www.bellingcat.com
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by usgroup 8y ago
The UNIX Philosophy; every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Make small, quality, interoperable things, and glue them together for as long as you need them.
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GNU Scientific Library Lua Shell(nongnu.org)
2 points by usgroup 8y ago|0 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
Except don’t use this one. It’s buggy and forgotten. Use: https://github.com/pllua/pllua-ng Rewritten, much better and actually updated.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Simple answer is past-times. For example, I have a side interest in ODEs and PDEs, which I basically never get to apply for work. So I'm working on 3 problems from orbital mechanics, control theory and investment science respectively,
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Ask HN: Can you recommend a cheap analog computer?
1 points by usgroup 8y ago|0 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
Absolutely don’t :) Emacs + ESS all the way .
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by usgroup 8y ago
Also, anyone planning on writing a pl/Julia for Postgres? Please do ...
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by usgroup 8y ago
Anyone actually switched from R to Julia? As in a deep R user that’s done it for a while. Really want to hear your thoughts if you did.
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by usgroup 8y ago
I only use notebooks in R (via knitr). Unless you choose to cache specific blocks by flagging it, it re-runs the whole notebook from scratch every time... So personally I haven't had any of these problems before. Further, the rendering
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Steel Manning(en.m.wiktionary.org)
1 points by usgroup 8y ago|0 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
SQLite guys, please add FDW support ala Postgres and easy foreign function support for Python and R, and you’ll corner most of analytics and data science.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Click bait. Not universal. Nearest neighbour algo that works well for a family of distant measures.
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Julia for R programmers (2013) [pdf](stat.wisc.edu)
44 points by usgroup 8y ago|5 comments
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by usgroup 8y ago
Anyone read Judea Pearls, Causality book? I’ve started, and Im hoping it’s going to be my next of those rare “oh f??k ... wow ...” moments. It’s a short-ish textbook that needs to be slowly read. I read a SEM book , with a chapter on casual

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