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by programnature 15y ago
Yes. Also, almost all APIs are designed around small bits of user or query data, just like your example. This seems more intended for bulk data, which is likely going to be some pregenerated chunk in the MB, GB, TB range and so less suited
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by programnature 15y ago
Let me unpack it for you then. There is a reason XML, the semantic web, linked data failed to really change the data world, whereas hadoop did. The reason is computation. The problem isn't data interchange formats and ideal representations,
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by programnature 15y ago
Bringing everyone’s data as close to “computable” as possible is an all-round win so I hope this takes off. A big problem is how to ETL these datasets between organizations, and I think Hadoop is a key technology there. It provides the inte
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by programnature 15y ago
A bunch of the people FMRI'd in this study were pulled from the pragmatic dharma movement: http://thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com/2011/04/pragmatic-dha...
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by programnature 15y ago
One of his featured projects is http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle It requires knowing how to program. All I'm saying is that its a shame he doesn't seem to know about what Mathematica has done in version 6 and beyond, since its seems square
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by programnature 15y ago
Work is very nice by web standards, but Mathematica's version of interactive documents is much more sophisticated. Strange that he seems to be unaware of what Mathematica can do, given the rant on tools at the end. Its pretty much exactly w
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by programnature 15y ago
The claim that 1) the universe is a computer, and 2) the subclaim that it is a cellular automaton are NOT the primary claims of the book. 2) is explicitly argued against even.
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by programnature 15y ago
ad hominem much?
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by programnature 15y ago
My theory is they are popular just because rants are more entertaining than reason. People just want to high-five the person who expresses their hate most eloquently.
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by programnature 15y ago
I think OP is saying he understands the difference in what they do, but can't keep the names straight. I felt the same way for the first few months of using hadoop. I eventually got that in real-life, a task is just a subpiece of a job. But
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by programnature 15y ago
Also they throw a killer holiday party...
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Visualizing The New Arab Mind(kovasboguta.com)
99 points by programnature 16y ago|16 comments
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by programnature 16y ago
Berkeley. The new philz on shattuck and cedar is also nice
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by programnature 16y ago
Speaking for myself, I found the assessment about labeling all experiences as good, bad, or neutral (and then ignoring the neutral bin 99% of the time) to be right on the money. I also find the rollercoaster metaphor to be pretty on the mon
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by programnature 16y ago
I highly recommend http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion as a forum for open and fairly nondogmatic discussion of practice. The existing threads have a huge variety of practice techniques and discussions/diagnosis for their
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by programnature 16y ago
That article is shocking, in the sense that most of the meditation teachers are unaware of the bad side effects. Basic relaxation techniques are mostly harmless, but "serious" meditation very often leads to profound challenges to one's sens
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by programnature 16y ago
Hallucinations are very common once you get high enough concentration. For example simple visual hallucinations (lights) is commonly associated with the onset what is called "access concentration". Complex hallucinations are also possible,
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by programnature 16y ago
amen
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by programnature 16y ago
Interesting ideas. But would be a lot better with some evidence. Take some examples of massively scaled start ups and explain how they conform to the theory.
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by programnature 16y ago
(@lispm Looks like our symbolic language flame war has exceeded yc metrics) Yes, I understand what ' does. You are manually controlling evaluation. The same way, once upon a time, people manually controlled garbage collection. Having a+a ex
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by programnature 16y ago
There is 1 mechanism instead of 4, and it also happens to be the fundamental basis of evaluation. There is no way to measure "absolute power" of elegance, which is the issue being gotten at here. Not to say Mathematica has it gotten it perf
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by programnature 16y ago
My point is that putting "structure assumptions in argument lists", though not a good idea 100% of the time, is often extremely useful, as illustrated by the example. The greater point is that if this is so, one might as well deal in a mode
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by programnature 16y ago
Good question. Here is what I mean: 1. Pattern matching as the basis for function definition, to determine which code executes and expedite argument destructuring. 2. Patterns themselves should have first-class representation (preferably sy
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by programnature 16y ago
What is ' other than a special mode? The fact is that symbols are treated more systematically in Mathematica, and that makes it easier to assemble and dissemble symbolic structures of all sorts. Sounds like a case of blub. You look at Mathe
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by programnature 16y ago
Consider the Mathematica function Take[], which would save millions of man hours if it existed in other languages. Take[{a,b,c,d},2] --> {a,b} Take[{a,b,c,d},-2] -> {c,d} Take[{a,b,c,d},{1,3}] -> {a,b,c} Take[{a,b,c,d},{1,-1,2}]
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by programnature 16y ago
Pattern matching is the missing feature. I keep thinking about switching to Clojure from Mathematica, but then I think "How can anyone get anything done in Clojure? It doesn't even have pattern matching." Its not something that can get patc
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by programnature 16y ago
I can't decide what is more comical. That he's going to write off FB and Twitter because parsing JSON is too hard. Or that he thought the Open Graph was a bad idea in 1997 and still thinks so today, and apparently is proud of it. Or that he
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by programnature 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I just added some more explanatory text. We just invented this visualization last week and are working on the minimal explanation..
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SXSW buzz network data visualization(austin.dataistheinterface.com)
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by programnature 17y ago
I don't think the authors intention is to compare the relative merits of the languages in the context of a particular project. Its more about horserace and market niche. And these are terms in which startup founders are accustomed to thinki

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