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The Friendship That Made Google Huge(newyorker.com)
1 points by bladecatcher 6y ago|0 comments
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A second potential Covid-19 vaccine backed by Bill and Melinda Gates(techcrunch.com)
10 points by bladecatcher 6y ago|0 comments
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by bladecatcher 7y ago
Great point re: the “Bespoke” style of programming. It takes some unlearning and getting used to tacit programming [0] and trains [1] to appreciate this. I’ve worked on fairly complex systems using kdb/q that are a joy to debug because
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Bats, snakes or pangolins? Hunt for the animal behind the coronavirus outbreak(wired.co.uk)
1 points by bladecatcher 7y ago|0 comments
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Behold, the Product Management Prioritization Menagerie(deanondelivery.com)
2 points by bladecatcher 7y ago|1 comments
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by bladecatcher 7y ago
> Now if it were possible for it to accept an event from Kafka but not guarantee that the event will eventually make it into the materialized view but may be lost, that'd be a problem. This is usually not a problem these days as it’
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by bladecatcher 7y ago
You’re right. You don’t get read-your-own-writes guarantees in a typical Kdb tickerplant architecture, as the event streams are propagated to the real-time nodes asynchronously.
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by bladecatcher 7y ago
I think the usecase for this is streaming queries and aggregations where the query output is materialised asynchronously
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British man jailed for hacking Liberia, taking the entire nation offline(independent.co.uk)
2 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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An Infinite Orchard(alaricstephen.com)
22 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|5 comments
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Fold-and-cut theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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How Well Do We Understand Probabilities in Medicine? (2016)(psychscenehub.com)
53 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|21 comments
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An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
312 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|62 comments
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
In Indian cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, one can easily spend 3 to 4 hours a day commuting
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
I suppose one can measure the risk of losing messages - I’m not suggesting that it’s always possible, but calling it an unmeasurable risk is probably not true
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Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days(ds26gte.github.io)
1 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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The Unseeing Insight(affinemess.quora.com)
2 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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MU puzzle(en.wikipedia.org)
83 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|45 comments
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Coin balancing puzzles(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
Typically, one would start off in a quant trading desk which uses kdb+ for their analytics or join First Derivatives [0] that trains graduates [0] https://www.firstderivatives.com/
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
https://code.kx.com/q/ has learning material and documentation . Hope it helps
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
You can start the 32 bit instance with the -s switch (for q to be started with multiple slaves) for parallel execution of a function over data using the "peach" command [0]. But yes, I do agree that the 32 bit instances have limit
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
As mruts pointed out above, kdb+/q provides what you're imagining - it provides fantastic distributed computing support via its IPC protocol and also has multi-core support.
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
Related article posted on HN recently: APL is more French than English [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640451 ]
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In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)(jsoftware.com)
117 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|57 comments
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Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016)(queue.acm.org)
61 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|6 comments
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Indian Hotel-Booking Startup Oyo Raises $1B to Fund Overseas Push(bloomberg.com)
1 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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Just Enough Scala for Spark(github.com)
1 points by bladecatcher 8y ago|0 comments
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
Those who’re interested in lucid dreams should definitely watch the film Waking Life - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
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by bladecatcher 8y ago
>> Which substances are you talking about because I'm talking about Cannabis I see. That might be true in most cases, but even Cannabis can have adverse effects on people with predisposition to mental illnesses

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