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The Storm and Cassandra Realtime Computation Stack(youtube.com)
2 points by crc 15y ago|0 comments
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by crc 15y ago
> 229A is close to worthless > This course included gems such as "if you don't know what a derivative is, that is fine". It also included other gems like debugging models with learning curves, stochastic gradient descent, artificial
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by crc 15y ago
You should put an end to this mode of trying to figure out some kind of globally optimum sequence of learning. There is none. If somebody tells you otherwise, they are either lying or they have forgotten the countless hours/days/months/year
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by crc 15y ago
> I think for myself Then you should think that there may be others who aren't really that concerned about being their own boss and financial freedom(strange as it might sound); others who love learning new perspectives. Other than say
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by crc 15y ago
> I just think this point tends to be overlooked when talking about "social" websites, almost like it was not polite to point out where these businesses make their money. I am not sure that this is overlooked. I think most people know i
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by crc 15y ago
Don't pride yourself too much on being "honest". It is far easier to go around always telling the truth than to apply discretion.
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Economic Reasoning vs Accounting Fallacies(fare.tunes.org)
2 points by crc 15y ago|0 comments
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Confusing constants and variables: Accounting fallacy in programming. (fare.livejournal.com)
1 points by crc 15y ago|0 comments
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Ubiquity Illusions and the Chicken-Egg Problem(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by crc 15y ago|0 comments
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by crc 15y ago
Egan looks interesting. Which is a good book to start reading Egan?
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by crc 15y ago
I was a little disappointed by the abstract nature of some of the later chapters. I bought the book the same week that I stumbled on his blog, but after having read the book, I had to go and deep dive into his blog archives and only then I
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Why Model? (pdf)(mit.edu)
4 points by crc 16y ago|0 comments
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by crc 16y ago
> 2. ubiquitous laziness can lead to some really subtle bugs After the recent compiler change to prevent accidental head retention of lazy sequences, I don't remember having faced any subtle issue with laziness. Can you give me an examp
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Scaling Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond(facebook.com)
2 points by crc 16y ago|0 comments
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Clojure finally on SPOJ(groups.google.com)
1 points by crc 16y ago|0 comments
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by crc 16y ago
> So it reduces to, "For any given language some things are simple and others complex. For other languages what is simple and complex differ". Though that might be the case, what doesn't change with languages is what users typically con
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by crc 17y ago
Clojure was the first lisp that I could seriously get into. I have a java background and the familiarity of JVM was partly helpful when I was learning it. I guess for people who are new to both java and lisp, it may be bit harder. The langu
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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References(infoq.com)
14 points by crc 17y ago|0 comments
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by crc 17y ago
The fact that we could get design so wrong if we just rely on intuition surprises me everytime I re-learn it. The discussion on the cultural challenges and the things can go wrong with A/B testing were fascinating. This is wisdom from peopl
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Data Driven Product Development: Experimentation and A/B Testing(exp-platform.com)
19 points by crc 17y ago|2 comments
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by crc 17y ago
"Its kind of like about time". That is the point. This is just concurrency control, and looking at as time is just a different perspective. (Actually, it is more than concurrency control, since he also talks about aliasing, but anyway..)I f
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by crc 17y ago
An introduction to probability - Vol I (William Feller) Introduction to dynamic systems - David Luenberger
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by crc 17y ago
I didn't know about the stale attribute for couchdb(mentioned in a comment in the article). I can see places where it will speed up things in our set up. Also, Mongo DB is interesting and I have plans to evaluate it for our setup(batch read
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Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB(mongodb.org)
40 points by crc 17y ago|6 comments
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by crc 17y ago
Been there! :). Clojure was my first lisp and I was learning emacs along with it. Looking back, emacs was a really good investment. Also, the ability to develop and debug through remote swank connections is so useful. Slime(with paredit) an
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by crc 17y ago
Some generic advice: 1. Read lots of clojure code. There is clojure-contrib which has lots of little libraries, read through them and see how things are done. 2. I will second the SICP suggestion, atleast the first few chapters. Bottom up p
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by crc 17y ago
> Possibly that should be partition-all from seq-utils As of June 20th, there is now an optional padding argument in clojure.core/partition.
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by crc 17y ago
On #clojure, Rich once mentioned that Jim Gray's "Transaction Processing.." influenced his design of clojure's STM. IIRC, he mentioned that the MVCC aspect of the STM and the commute operation were some of the ideas that he took from the bo
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by crc 17y ago
The biggest advantage of CouchDB - compared with its competition - seems to be the ability to create views to query the schema less dataset. If I have to do this in mysql, then I will have to create and maintain seperate columns with indice