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by pjin 13y ago
A hearty second for mechanize. It basically wraps urllib2 which is neat. Although, I've encountered situations where language support for distributed systems would have really saved some frustration. There's a version of mechanize
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by pjin 13y ago
Here's the original Nanex source in question: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4500.html
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by pjin 13y ago
To me, the most interesting thing about PNaCl is that it'll be the first real test of LLVM as a portable assembly bitcode, rather than just a compiler IR. There are arguments for why LLVM may not be such a good idea, but given the momentum
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by pjin 13y ago
It would be unethical to maintain a harmful allele of a gene, assuming that the particular allele is unequivocally harmful. But that is not always the case. The textbook example is sickle cell anemia: although it is very harmful in homozygo
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by pjin 14y ago
A search on Wikipedia turned up this 1976 paper [1] (unfortunately, behind a paywall), which derived a memristor circuit emulating Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics, a good biophysical model of the membrane potential of a neuron. In particular, it ca
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by pjin 14y ago
There's a really cool experimental history behind understanding the cochlea, especially concerning George Zweig, once a particle physicist. A lot of this work was done in the 70s and is, IMHO, some of the best examples of biophysics you can
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by pjin 14y ago
To nitpick at the math: "No free lunch" results are asymptotic in the sense that they necessarily hold over the _entire_ domain of whatever problem you're trying to solve. Obviously, algorithms will and do perform differently over the relat
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by pjin 14y ago
I'm not a condensed matter researcher, but from what I know these particular majorana fermions are quasiparticles, so it's a little misleading to directly compare this to the Higgs boson which is an elementary particle. Still, this is cool
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by pjin 14y ago
A more extreme example along the same lines as Watchmen is the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. NGE totally rips apart mecha anime and gives its characters psychological issues to tragic effect, mirroring the creator Hideaki Anno's own
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by pjin 14y ago
Looks a lot like TeX, which is a good thing. In fact this might even be better. I'm tired so I might be missing an obvious weakness but to take the analogy a bit further here are some comparisons between this suggestion and a more TeX-like
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by pjin 14y ago
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/natur... Dunno if there's a preprint somewhere.
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by pjin 14y ago
Hmm, so gaussian distributions are easy to use and ubiquitous and all (they're the basis functions used in SVM), except that I don't see any reason for them to be priors here. But since 2012 > 2008 I feel like I'm obligated (and I'm sem
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by pjin 14y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880
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by pjin 14y ago
From the whitepaper [1]: After an appropriate transport period, the brain is perfused, sectioned, suitably stained, and each section digitally imaged. These 2-D images are co-registered into a 3-D computer stack that is subsequent
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Pentagon Eyes a Drone App Store(wired.com)
2 points by pjin 14y ago|0 comments
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by pjin 14y ago
While it could be reverse psychology to troll HNers to linking their site, it's also bad publicity among hackers, and the argument breaks Occam's razor.
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by pjin 14y ago
You didn't include an email. I've been having success with Go for backend work, and easy C integration in this kind of database like this would be useful for what I do. I'm not sure if R integration should be a priority though, since most R
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by pjin 14y ago
Have you tried just replacing redis' Lua dependency with LuaJIT yourself? LuaJIT 2.0 should be a drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, it has the same headers and even builds the same way.
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by pjin 14y ago
It's probably best to post this when people are headed to work in GMT or US timezones, or in the afternoon before they leave.
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by pjin 14y ago
This whole divide-by-zero rhetoric is a little silly. A quick google search yielded the following explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_New_Area Ordos City itself apparently has close to 2 million people, but there's a fully
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by pjin 14y ago
From the Kaspersky article, Flame ships with a Lua VM, sqlite3, zlib, libbz2, and an SSL library (probably OpenSSL?), and these and more apparently result in its unusually large size (almost 20 MB). Sounds almost like "lean malware" written
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by pjin 14y ago
[0] Ben Horowitz's blog: http://bhorowitz.com/ [1] patio11: http://www.kalzumeus.com/
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by pjin 14y ago
This looks like a frontal assault on MATLAB Simulink. Knowing Stephen Wolfram's past works, I think this will turn out well.
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by pjin 14y ago
I'm not sure economics is the right angle. This is an (re)election year, and these newspapers are all in "Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida." Think what you want from that.
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by pjin 14y ago
Clarification: this is the official backend Nvidia pledged to open source a few months ago. Exciting times.
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Official Nvidia PTX Backend in LLVM trunk(llvm.org)
2 points by pjin 14y ago|1 comments
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by pjin 14y ago
It's happened before, at least once very early on: Google had taken ill. The problem was the index storing the contents of the web in Google's servers. For a couple of months in early 2000, it wasn't updating at all. Millions
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by pjin 14y ago
luajit2 in interpreter mode is also very fast, originally written in x86 (Mike Pall has probably finished the arm port by now). But I've never heard of any benchmarks between the luajit2 interpreter v. havokVM, that would be interesting to
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by pjin 14y ago
Funny, on my first query I found an obscure HN scraper: http://tazod.com/
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by pjin 14y ago
At least for me, the pinwheel is accessible and gives the website a baseline of "being fun."

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