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by aidanf 3y ago
An embedding is a collection of learned vectors. Each vector is an array of n floats that represent a location of a thing in an n-dimensional space. The idea of learning an embedding is that you have some learning process that will put item
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by aidanf 4y ago
I’ve worked on e-commerce recs. Typically you would represent each product with a vector. Then finding similar products becomes a nearest-neighbour search over these vectors. Depending on your use-case it’s feasible now to do this search in
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by aidanf 5y ago
> This is about countries, like Ireland or Netherlands, with 0% corporate tax rates. Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5%. It is one of the lowest in Europe but certainly not 0%.
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by aidanf 6y ago
Why is this a Show HN? It's a blog post/article. See the Show HN rules here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html " Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can
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by aidanf 10y ago
Add to that the fact that the meeting breaks up everyones day, making it more difficult for attendees to have long uninterrupted periods of deep, concentrated work.
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by aidanf 10y ago
The Tesla Model S scored 82% for adult protection and 77% for child protection in the Euroncap crash tests: http://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model-s/7897 That's quite a bit below best in cla
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by aidanf 10y ago
Here are 2 good articles that follow up on the arguments presented by VWO in that article. From the first link below: "They do make a compelling case that A/B testing is superior to one particular not very good bandit algorithm, b
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by aidanf 11y ago
Yes, a lot of sales platforms now handle EU VAT. I've used Gumroad, Sendowl and Leanpub and they all handle the EU VAT problem. In each case the author sets a price. They then detect if the customer is in an EU country and apply the VA
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by aidanf 11y ago
In theory, if you are selling to customers in the EU you are supposed to collect VAT from your EU customers and make the appropriate VAT return to the VATMOSS authorities. Or else stop selling to EU customers. In practice, if you're ba
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by aidanf 11y ago
I used softcover for writing http://books.aidanf.net/learn-swift The software is awesome for the purposes of writing the book. The reason I didn't go with softcover as a selling platform is that the new EU VAT rules ca
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by aidanf 11y ago
Nice work! I'm a long-time emacs user who thought that emacs was the best way to write clojure code. I was really happy with emacs as a clojure dev environment but after trying cursive recently it's now my preferred environment fo
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by aidanf 11y ago
From the README, under the performance section: > This package is not written for speed. It is meant to serve as a working example of an artificial neural network. As such, there is no GPU acceleration. Training using only the CPU can ta
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by aidanf 11y ago
This is nonsense. Taxi services are regulated for good reason. Many cities and countries have well-regulated transparent taxi industries. Uber often seems to seek to bypass that regulation because, eh, disruption. I would expect any city to
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by aidanf 11y ago
There are quite a few machine learning API services. Here are a few: * BigML https://bigml.com/ * Dato https://dato.com/ * Amazon Machine Learning http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning&#x2F
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks for that - I'll fix the errors you've listed. I know how to use its and it's, and I've proof-read the book several times, but there's still a good bit of stuff like this that I've missed. It turns out th
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks. The code is 1.2, but the Xcode references are out of date. I'll update soon, I'm also going to update the whole thing to Swift 2 when it's released.
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by aidanf 11y ago
Was it the share buttons? I tested these on iphone and they dropped to the bottom of the page. But it looks like they only do this for phones below a certain resolution. So I've removed them.
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll add another chapter at the end that walks through a longer example start-to-finish.
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks, I'll try that. Although I'm reluctant to clear the cache until it goes off the HN front page :)
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks :) The REPL example with the error has a deliberate typo (int instead of Int) to show how multi-line editing works in the REPL - is that the part you're asking about?
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by aidanf 11y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I hadn't noticed that.
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by aidanf 11y ago
You're right - it's not as comprehensive as the official documentation, nor is it meant to be. It's a quick tour of the main language features, with a particular emphasis on the parts that I (as a ruby, python, clojure dev) f
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by aidanf 11y ago
I used Softcover ( https://www.softcover.io/ ) to generate the ebooks.
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by aidanf 11y ago
I've been learning Swift in recent months, and as part of that process I wrote a short book about the language. It's aimed at developers (like me) who can already program in a language like Ruby or Python and are looking for a qui
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Show HN: Learn Swift(books.aidanf.net)
238 points by aidanf 11y ago|55 comments
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by aidanf 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote. Location: Ireland. Experienced Rails developer (9 years). I’ve worked with several large rails codebases and high-traffic rails sites. A few things I can do: * Help scale your rails app, find bottlenecks, improve perf
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An Introduction to Swift for Ruby Developers(aidanf.net)
3 points by aidanf 11y ago|0 comments
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by aidanf 11y ago
I used to struggle to sleep but eventually after experimenting a lot I got into a routine of consistent sleep. Here's a few things that I think helped me: * Try to exercise every day. The days now when I struggle to get to sleep are da

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