jhokanson

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by jhokanson 4y ago
"Firstly, there are three main Python concurrency APIs, they are:" asyncio, threading, multiprocessing, ... oh, and concurrent.futures All kidding aside, I used the multiprocessing module lately and it was a mess. Do I want '
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by jhokanson 4y ago
> Spreadsheets.com, for example, lets users dump almost anything into a cell. Drop a photo or a PDF into a cell and the product will immediately create a thumbnail, which you can then expand, as if the spreadsheet were some sort of blog
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by jhokanson 5y ago
Speaking of math pages on Wikipedia ... and math text more generally Is it just me or are we horrible at teaching advanced math? Where are the examples (with actual numbers)? Where is the motivation? Where are the pictures?
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by jhokanson 5y ago
Does AMD have folks that you can reach out to regarding this? I know Intel has MKL and all the work around its own compiler for maximum speed. This seems like it should be trivial for someone at AMD to put together as an example of how to d
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by jhokanson 5y ago
My c++ is not great (so it is hard for me to tell what is going on) and I'm used to OpenMP where my understanding has always been that you tend to get a single thread per processor (or per hyper-thread) -- not sure if that is guarantee
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by jhokanson 5y ago
It is not exactly clear to me what is going on with threads (I guess you are using all of them?). I haven't done too much in this space but anecdotally I've had better luck if my summation is explicitly split into sub-summation ta
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by jhokanson 5y ago
Yes please! I like to search for examples of how to use libraries and often times the results are all the same exact call in forks or copies of the same code in multiple places. Perhaps deduplication could be optional when searching?
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by jhokanson 5y ago
I thought this would be referencing work by Nathan Myhrvold using a new type of reactor that supposedly runs on "spent" nuclear waste and in the event of power failure just stops running safely. Not sure of the other logistic issu
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by jhokanson 5y ago
As someone that rarely works with Python lists, as opposed to numpy arrays, I was pleasantly surprised to see numpy does what I would expect in providing a mergesort option. I'm surprised Python doesn't, other than via heapq and o
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by jhokanson 5y ago
Interesting take. I did not interpret their statement as vindication of being correct but rather that this version of events is a possibility that can't currently be dismissed.
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by jhokanson 5y ago
Agreed. However my reaction when first hearing about the lab leak (middle of last year?) was that the leak stories were meant to be malicious/propaganda against China. I didn't take any of this seriously until an article in Politi
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by jhokanson 6y ago
Maybe somewhat off topic ... I don't sell anything on any App stores currently but I do like the idea of having some way of creating "applications" that are a bit more discoverable. Last I checked GitHub search is pretty awfu
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by jhokanson 6y ago
Wow, those are big performance differences (660 MB/s for fast-double vs 1042 MB/s for the 'newer' fast-float), although most of the numbers (for the different libraries being tested) are all over the place, and even &#x2
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by jhokanson 6y ago
I'm curious as to what the biggest win in terms of speed was here (in terms of an approach, good lookup tables?). Also I'm curious how this compares to the many (?) JSON parsers that have rolled their own number parser because eve
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by jhokanson 6y ago
I thought my Garmin watch already did this and I thought Apple had differentiated itself with some sort of advanced ekg analysis. I feel like I'm missing something with this article? Is this truly different than the competition or just
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by jhokanson 6y ago
That was a great story about actually managing to debug a wireless problem. I wish there were better diagnostic tools commonly available that would clearly explain these things. I'm not sure if in the author's case there is some s
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Ask HN: Software for online group meetings or discussions?
1 points by jhokanson 6y ago|0 comments
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by jhokanson 6y ago
My introduction to Python (a long time ago) and "batteries included" was going to some random guys website to download all the compiled packages I needed. Thanks Christoph!
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by jhokanson 6y ago
Besides focusing on language 1 vs language 2 I think the author is also highlighting just how hard it is for people to get started in any language. You mentioned R/Rstudio .... I just wanted to work through an example in a book that I&
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by jhokanson 6y ago
Thanks i
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by jhokanson 8y ago
Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?
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by jhokanson 8y ago
The function bit has always confused me. I tend to write code with lots of functions/modules/classes for handling various aspects of the analysis and I just don't understand how that's supposed to be integrated. Instead
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by jhokanson 8y ago
Yikes! Good to know. I just wonder if there has been any official mea culpa announcement or if I (along with many other people) are just suffering from sort of selection bias. Did the screen material change at all?
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by jhokanson 8y ago
Has the iPhone screen durability improved at all? It seems like they are (or were?) extremely susceptible to damage from dropping and I always took that as a sign that Apple wanted to force people to upgrade. Edit: Here's a link discus
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by jhokanson 8y ago
What about learning? Would an update with more data and updated coefficients require going back to the FDA?
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Senate planning on passing bill to relax banking regulations(politico.com)
1 points by jhokanson 9y ago|0 comments
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by jhokanson 9y ago
I can't personally speak to the accuracy of the linked claim below, but it suggests that the coverage of residency spots is controlled by a physician led advisory board called RUC that intentionally limits the reimbursement so as to co
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by jhokanson 9y ago
The parent isn't talking about reducing quality, but rather waiting to pick "winners and losers" so to speak until after training.
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by jhokanson 9y ago
Does anyone know what the tuition is for the Abbott preschool program that is mentioned in the article? My impression has always been that one of the reasons that teachers get paid so little is that class sizes are relatively small (e.g. 4
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by jhokanson 9y ago
But isn't it possible to design multiple models, where the judgement of the "best model" is dependent on your goals (e.g. reduction of false positives vs false negatives)?

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