heckless

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   mlpack 3 released: a fast, flexible machine learning library(mlpack.org)

   6 points by heckless 8y ago|1 comments
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   by heckless 8y ago

   Pedant alert: "it's" -> "its" :)
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   by heckless 8y ago

   I don't have a huge issue with the ACM or even so much with IEEE. But have you ever submitted to or reviewed for Springer or Elsevier? It's an emasculating and thankless experience, and Springer and Elsevier go get to make huge
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   by heckless 8y ago

   Although reviewership is a useful thing that gets put on CVs, I can't think of a position I've ever seen where "review X papers" a year is part of the job requirement. A more salient point about why it is important to no
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   by heckless 9y ago

   I've been the organization administrator for a library that participates in Google Summer of Code for many years now. Of the questions that we typically see and the requests we typically get, some are high-quality and constructive---a
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   by heckless 10y ago

   I agree about the futility of trying to answer this question---that is what the entire article is about after all. But I am a practicing statistician so I feel the need to "well actually" sometimes when I see stuff like this. I
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   by heckless 10y ago

   > And if we go by the assumptions that every possible state in this set of possible states is equally likely (a common assumption in classical probability theory) I know I am being nitpicky, but despite the fact that yes, it's commo
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   by heckless 10y ago

   > Demanding for a feature without making a case for it. Not using any polite or nice phrasing in a thread. In virtually every case where I have seen impolite issues filed or even abusive issues filed, the biggest success has always been
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   by heckless 10y ago

   Thanks for writing this. It takes a hard head to be an open-source project maintainer and taking a step back and evaluating how to contribute to open source software while keeping it enjoyable is a good thing to do. I see so much abuse on
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    by heckless 10y ago

    It really irks me, when a sentence has an unnecessary comma in it, it probably should have been a semicolon instead. Bugs, the crap out of me and I can't keep reading anymore!
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    by heckless 10y ago

    I recently finished my PhD and had a terrible relationship with my "advisor"---who left part of the way through to start a startup doing the exact same thing he had brought me on to do (except I was not invited). I don't hav