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by xyzzyrz 13y ago
Hah, surprised the Lisp section even exists! Yeah I took SICP with Harvey (though long before starting these notes). This is probably an artifact of me filling in notes opportunistically/as I come across things. But thanks for the comm
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by xyzzyrz 13y ago
I basically use these notes as a reference from time to time, esp. when revisiting an area I haven't worked in for a while - stuff like seeing a summary of what insights/tricks were used for successful collaborative filtering mode
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by xyzzyrz 13y ago
Author here. "Organized" isn't exactly the word I would use to describe my notes either, but I guess it's all relative! I started using gitit since I had already kept my notes in a bunch of git-versioned text files (form
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by xyzzyrz 13y ago
Hello, author here. It's just a set of reference notes I mainly keep for myself, but it's not really private - I share it as-is in case others can extract value from it (I'm surprised that this made HN front page). I do think
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What's coming in Java 8: modularization, Javascript, JRockit merge, more...(cr.openjdk.java.net)
2 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzyrz 15y ago
FWIW: > chisq.test(matrix(c(10,3784/2,26,3784/2),2,2)) Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction ... p-value = 0.0129
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VC Insanity, Explained(danshapiro.com)
109 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|18 comments
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by xyzzyrz 15y ago
Ugh, sorry about comments being disabled. No idea how that happened; should be fixed now. I do want to hear feedback, flames and all, so finding that comments were off this whole time was disappointing for me too. I assure you I didn't stro
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by xyzzyrz 15y ago
"Notice how several of the problems I pinpoint above are of the form, “How do I accomplish this expression that isn’t even possible in many other languages?” And these are mostly static build issues, which are far from the worst fates imagi
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Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model(eff.org)
127 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|10 comments
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Postgresql 9.2 will have boat-loads of performance enhancements(momjian.us)
156 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|27 comments
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Microsoft drops Dryad; puts its big-data bets on Hadoop(zdnet.com)
8 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|0 comments
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Critical Windows Vulnerability in TCP/IP Stack Could Allow Remote Code Execution(technet.microsoft.com)
68 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|18 comments
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What's there to like about R?(yz.mit.edu)
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Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive(arstechnica.com)
285 points by xyzzyrz 15y ago|74 comments
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by xyzzyrz 16y ago
very niice! how much?
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Scala 2.8.0 Beta 1 released(scala-lang.org)
32 points by xyzzyrz 17y ago|12 comments