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by zwaps 6y ago
Out of interest, do you guys know of other such great data sources for other games, for example American Football? Or are those things mostly proprietary?
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by zwaps 6y ago
That year, Germany had a team and it trounced all the other countries who had one or two star players, most notably Brazil. Individually, none of Germany's players became a superstar in Football. It was a lucky combination of technical
723.
by zwaps 6y ago
In Germany of early 90s it was Lamy or Pelikan, Lamy having the long cartridges and Pelikan the small ones (if I remember right).
724.
by zwaps 6y ago
I know things about the banking industry and let me tell you, just downgrade your expectations coming from the tech industry. Then downgrade them again, just to be sure.
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by zwaps 6y ago
The author has a point that comments may be superfluous when going through a code line by line. However, that's not the only sort of code-reading. Comments can sometimes be better to get an overview of a complex program. Not if it is y
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by zwaps 6y ago
This is the same reason why such models are no longer popular in social sciences since the 1970s: responses to policy change are complex and one usually tries (with more or less success, which is another topic) to model the micro behavior,
727.
by zwaps 6y ago
Maybe you are using facebook container?
728.
by zwaps 6y ago
One thought: US centric.
729.
by zwaps 6y ago
As others have pointed out, resources are currently available. Especially in Germany. Nevertheless, countries who have been successful in reducing the spread also need to find ways to drive R0 below 1 for a long time. This has proven diffic
730.
by zwaps 6y ago
I know it's a meme for the GPT team to just take the latest transformer model and add a magnitude of parameters, done and done! It'll be interesting to see whether the new paradigm really offers new insights, or whether it's
731.
by zwaps 6y ago
Assume every website would use AMP. Like on mobile. How often do you get redirected to AMP already when you just click a random link? I sure do! From then on, every asset it loaded via Google servers. Google now controls the entire internet
732.
by zwaps 6y ago
It's not as if Netflix recommendation attempts are any good either. HBO has human defined categories that makes sense.
733.
by zwaps 6y ago
Here is the thing though, and I am gonna phrase this very carefully as I have stepped on some toes before and got downvoted. Imagine a naive young scientist who has been "trained" to code in Matlab. He is not a computer scientist,
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by zwaps 6y ago
I am reflecting on this post, and I am thinking of an ancient "Marketing" book I once read (paper back, well-worn) years ago. This book was written well before the internet was a thing, but the tenet was to not allow a customer to
735.
by zwaps 6y ago
That pink bar takes up almost half of my screen on my iphone 11 and makes the website defacto unusable. Not to be unkind, but you should fix that. Instead of being incentivized to pay you, my only instinct was to close that page asap.
736.
by zwaps 6y ago
This is common. I literally had to take Icelandair (another really terrible budget airline) to court because their engines don't work (really old planes) Not only did their system have me logged in another flight in another continent (
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by zwaps 6y ago
Question to web-devs: I am using firefox with ublock. Notion, like a few other pages, load only as blank for me. The only thing I have disabled are cookies and connections to trackers or ads. But cookies are not necessary to load a page. An
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by zwaps 6y ago
My favorite targeting so far: Cruise line adverts on a webpage talking about the coronavirus.
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by zwaps 6y ago
There is a law defining what open source is? Because then it is indeed fraud! Otherwise it isn't.
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by zwaps 6y ago
This does not seem to be a "real" library. It has a github, but no readme. It seems to be a julia implementation of some other c library, probably experimental.
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by zwaps 6y ago
He did take out the start-up time. but I agree. If you complain that compile takes 11 seconds when the program runs in 30, then I wonder if that's really the use-case where you need every last bit of performance. Now, on a program that
742.
by zwaps 6y ago
This seems to be a very specific benchmark. The second Julia benchmark is based on a truly obscure lib that has not been updated for two years?
743.
by zwaps 6y ago
I think it's probably good to know for every engine and besides, it's a beautiful book. That being said, armed with my baby knowledge of programming patterns, I then did find it frustrating that today's engines are very high
744.
by zwaps 6y ago
I once wrote up something that interested me at the moment and figured I'll post it on medium so people get to actually read it. To my surprise, medium doesn't let you publish (write yes, not publish) anything, unless you jump thr
745.
by zwaps 6y ago
US laws generally only hold for US citizens and US companies. The US had no issues using the NSA to spy on German IP and even bug the cellphone of Angela Merkel. And well, given that no consequences ever materialized, it won't seem lik
746.
by zwaps 6y ago
Nobody would or should trust Amazon, an American company, to actually stand by those promises. It will syphon off any trade secrets and other infos, especially if the NSA asks. It has literally happened. I think after Snowden we should have
747.
by zwaps 6y ago
There are blurry fonts on 1080p screens, which are the default to this day and essentially required if you seek high refresh rates on a budget. Everyone without a retina screen is wrong, according to you. And yet, fonts used to look just fi
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by zwaps 6y ago
It‘s like a strong light shines from behind the background.
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by zwaps 6y ago
New tools. Same as today. Ui designers have been replaced by algos generating nr of clicks, and programmers by JavaScript frameworks and libs. Remember there was a time, a sweetspot, when browsing was something that would never tax any mode
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by zwaps 6y ago
Well at least this retro experience is back with Javascript laden apps, that feel like they pull ui elements from a 56k connection

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