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Human Brain-Like Functions Emerge in Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network(scitechdaily.com)
6 points by phaefele 7y ago|0 comments
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Nuclear Power Plant Docker-Style(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by phaefele 7y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 7y ago
I found this book very helpful in several difficult conversations over the years - https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-... It has quite practical advice as well as a framework helping one navigate.
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by phaefele 8y ago
My favourite cell documentary is this. Has more information about the various transport mechanisms in the cell itself. Simply awesome - have watched several times to understand better. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzc
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Ask HN: Best practices for a Fee service
2 points by phaefele 8y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 9y ago
In the qualia / physical world distinction, I wonder if there are good reasons we see things the way we do. Take colors: colors map to wavelengths of light. I wonder if there is a good reason for our perceptions of color to have red be
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by phaefele 9y ago
Thanks for doing this Peter. I am currently thinking of accepting a US computer programming job (part in US, part in Canada) and am thinking of using a TN visa to travel back and forth (1 week per month in US, 3 weeks in Canada.) Do I need
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by phaefele 9y ago
Did you try an inversion tableÉ I went from shuffling around with lower back pain to fixed in about 6 weeks.
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by phaefele 10y ago
Most of those floor traders is running a small business (2/3 guys/girls) based on past contacts and trader know-how (such as it is - some better, some worse.) It's really more of a 'bazaar' for small, likely well co
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by phaefele 10y ago
I'd be happy to pay my $45.71 per person per year. The BBC makes amazing shows - I don't see that Canada can't do the same. As Canadians, if we believe that we have something to say to the world, we need to fund saying it.
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Wall Street runs the 2nd largest charity in America(nybooks.com)
3 points by phaefele 10y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 10y ago
Am reading his book called Breach of Trust. An easy read, but very compelling. I'd vote for him for sure.
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by phaefele 10y ago
If you haven't yet, check out Noam Chomsky - he holds the US up to their supposed 'good guy' status - fascinating. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Colonel, also has lots of interesting things to say on this. See https:/&#x2F
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by phaefele 10y ago
'Between 1946 and 1958, the equivalent of more than two hundred million tons of TNT was detonated (on the inhabited Marshall Islands by the US Military) — like a Hiroshima every day for almost forty years.' ... The local language
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by phaefele 10y ago
Has anyone looked at SciDB ( http://www.paradigm4.com/ ) as a replacement for KDB. Seems like it would fit the bill and has a community edition. I do see some usage in the financial markets.
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by phaefele 10y ago
Most definitely - 'Additionally, DeepSpark, during its code scanning, is capable of generating code for new components of Spark'
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Silver Market in Disarray After Benchmark Price Fix Manipulation(bulliondesk.com)
2 points by phaefele 11y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 11y ago
This is great. Wasn't too clear on exactly how this is used from the documents (e.g. do I just run 'python') - didn't seem that there where any 'imports' either. Found this example which seems a little clearer:
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Japanese Star Wars Trailer has far more detailed footage(techcrunch.com)
2 points by phaefele 11y ago|0 comments
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PopcornTime shut down in Canada(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by phaefele 11y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 11y ago
The one key part this seems to be missing is a backtesting framework. Did you look at https://www.quantopian.com/ ?
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by phaefele 11y ago
Gladiator, Baraka, My Neighborhood Totoro, Holy Motors, 12 Monkeys
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by phaefele 12y ago
Did you consider Summingbird? Seems like a lot of what you are doing might have been simplified by using Summingbird rather than building separate speed and batch layers in Hadoop / Spark.
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Python logging for maximum output and maximum speed(bigspreadsheet.blogspot.com)
1 points by phaefele 12y ago|0 comments
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by phaefele 12y ago
Content free - there is really no information in this article outside of the fact they say Norway's Sovereign fund use "Block Trades" which is really what dark-pools are supposed to be all about. Dark pools and block networks
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by phaefele 12y ago
After building a large Hadoop simulation environment and contemplating how to use the same codebase in a streaming fashion, Summingbird seems like an exciting answer. I am concerned that I don't see much discussion around its use onlin
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by phaefele 14y ago
We have run into issues with VPC being tied to a specific zone and the availability in that zone.
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by phaefele 14y ago
Yes - this is what we are doing. With this 4x cost differential however, we calculated that it takes only 6-8 months to have the hardware pay for itself, so if you plan to be in business in that time frame you are better of buying.
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by phaefele 14y ago
Understood that Amazon needs to make a profit, but these are still dollars that I need to pay for, that I could be feasibly be using for something else (hiring great developers perhaps.) I think the advantage of EC2 is exactly fast scaling,
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by phaefele 14y ago
Some of the difference comes about due to the number of cores in the machines we purchased - they are 16 core machines (each E5-2650 has 8 cores.) In terms of storage, we are utilizing HDFS with commodity 3TB drives, thus no specialized sto

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