dingfeng_quek

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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
Cars are optional and aren't even the fastest way to get around (public transport + taxicabs + bicycle/e-bicycle is fastest). Rent can be low as well, depending on where and how big. Low crime stable environment with strong regula
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
According to the paper, there's a decrease in demand by the primary home device for activities trackable by comscore. This is the data used (not technically an assmption). I do not see the paper claiming more than this. The conclusions
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
It does not. Dataset is from comscore, see the comscore website, and comscore is unable to track the click-stream of native apps. If it did, that would raise many security issues.
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
The study measured primary home device use based on click-stream data from comscore. This requires interpretation with the following considerations: - The dataset they used is from a commercial entity with its own vested interests - Seconda
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
--- Western diet is associated with poorer inhibition of wanting for palatable snack foods when sated T.N. ATTUQUAYEFIO1, R.J. STEVENSON1, R.A. BOAKES2, M.J. OATEN3, M.R. YEOMANS4, M MAHMUT1, H.M. FRANCIS1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Aus
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
While there are other plausibilities, this agrees with a food addiction model of overeating.
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
Couldn't figure out a way to solve them reasonably (and within schedule) using RethinkDB, so I did a "master-slave" with the RethinkDB as the master and PostgreSQL as a slave replica. Then did all the queries and analytics on
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
The capabilities and performance of graph databases do differ, and many aren't cheap, nor well known, so if you need one, you'll need to shop around. Btw, Neo4J is definitely a graph database, although it might not be what you nee
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
Besides multi-document transactions, I've encountered these problematic use-cases (something I discovered after scope creep of projects): 2. When I needed "more exotic" data types (e.g. but not limited to Decimals) where you
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by dingfeng_quek 10y ago
The most common and relevant difference is that a graph database has a storage engine that is optimized for graph traversal. For example, in a RDBMS, another row is referenced via a foreign key which involves a lookup to an indexed column,
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
Here's a partial answer: You gain some, you lose some, but in different things. There's a tradeoff, e.g. automatons can do things a lot faster/cheaper, at the expense of "creativity". The nature of society changes i
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
It could be depressing as well, since the described effects correspond to the erosion of many important public institutions (like democratic governance). Seems like this decade is a good time for an update on this issue, now that entertainm
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
I read the book (Amusing Ourselves to Death), and I would recommend it for these reasons: - It explores a contemporary topic of significance. Relevance will depend on your interests. I do think it's an essential perspective for analysi
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
the license also undermines the legitimacy of the ruling party without reducing the spread of information and propaganda that goes against the ruling party - these tend to arise from smaller (individual) publications which are not governed
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
You ask: 1. Is X good? How is it good? 2. Is it entirely separate from reality? While you might think of it as a simple question, you asked it in the general sense, without any context. In the general sense, these are two central questions
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
Covers the same thing with more technical jargon, but much more accurate and insightful: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=time-crysta... EDIT: A lot of comments appear confused about stuff in the article from Wired. That's
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
On the other hand, the investment in [Startup X] is partly justified by the idea that spending money on "10x" talent is a chance for "100x" returns.
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
I wouldn't generalize this way. P( Y | X ) != P( Y ). X: Hired by google, good grades, good school. In fact, it doesn't test the difference between institutionalized tertiary education vs a lack of it, only differing academic performance am
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
There are many sources of competitive advantage, which includes but is not limited to good hiring practices and the development and retention of talent. Companies which were not dependent on cheap/competitive talents were able to get away w
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by dingfeng_quek 13y ago
why should desires just before death take precedence over desires during the prime of life?
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
I used to use Racket in production and prototyping (few years ago), as a "glue language" and "business-logic" for a web-app, for the parts that are not IO, memory, compute intensive, etc. My metrics for language choice are: 1. Simple to lea
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
I once did an Ant to Maven conversion job on around 10 mature projects I didn't code. So that a large enterprise can move over to Maven and reap the productivity benefits. Various Maven modules were restricted, including Antrun. Because the
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Perhaps your economy won't recover to its former glory, like the way Japan's didn't. Then you'll have at least one first-hand empirical data point, even if you're unable to learn from observing others.
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that for anything you can cook with a rice maker, I can cook something else, to an equivalent quality/pleasantness/enjoyment-when-consumed, in a microwave. And vice versa. * I assume you are not a professional food scientist
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Because much of people's preference for certain types of food are acquired and not necessary (or even beneficial). During times of poverty, there are often pressures to change preferences, leading to a much higher rate of innovation. (Speci
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Must point out that the rice is different too. Bryani is not as nice with other rice shapes and textures.
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
It's not changing. There's a lot of evidence that ordinary healthy humans need a particular amount of salt each day (adjusted for activity, age, etc), with not much variation. There's some epidemiological studies that show that most humans
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Temperature: - Rice cooker: Cooks until water evaporates/absorbs, then warms - Crock pot: Cooks at a steady temperature, usually for items immersed in a liquid (for water, that's generally around boiling temperature), without evaporating th
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Boxed stock is different - read the ingredients/constituents and use it appropriately (it is very different from actual stock, if you understand what stock consists of). Boxed stock is generally not a substitute for stock, like how sugar is
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by dingfeng_quek 14y ago
Do you like curry? Chicken curry? Beef curry? Mutton curry? Thai style, the various China styles? Indian? Green red yellow?

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