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by rw 6y ago
Operational Transformation and Conflict-Free Replicated Datatypes are very different from each other. As the author explains, OT relies on some ordering of system events, and CRDTs don't. That means CRDTs need to be commutative (and pr
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by rw 7y ago
Stegasuras is convincing work and the quality looks excellent. I wrote a steganographic tool in this same spirit back in 2011, called Plainsight. Back then, we didn't have deep learning, and the "Imagenet moment for NLP" had
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Tutorial: Use FlatBuffers in Rust(rwinslow.com)
2 points by rw 7y ago|0 comments
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by rw 8y ago
The TimescaleDB benchmark code is a fork of code I wrote, as an independent consultant, for InfluxData in 2016 and 2017. The purpose of my project was to rigorously compare InfluxDB and InfluxDB Enterprise to Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Mongo
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by rw 8y ago
Hi Scott, thank you for writing your blog all these years. Your Busy Beaver essay ignited my passion for computer science, especially in algorithm analysis, logic, undecidability, and probability theory. I used to be someone who only though
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by rw 8y ago
Why the hard dependency on MySQL?
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by rw 9y ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park
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The untold story of systemic gender discrimination at UC Berkeley's IT Dept(pando.com)
10 points by rw 9y ago|0 comments
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We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads(ted.com)
2 points by rw 9y ago|1 comments
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by rw 9y ago
Good idea, the READMEs would be best of all.
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by rw 9y ago
As I said, your approach is a clever way to use the GitHub API. I think you need to change the title and readme to indicate that this isn't an LDA index of GitHub descriptions. To ML practitioners, that's what you are implying wit
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by rw 9y ago
This only uses LDA on your starred repository descriptions, to find topic terms that describe your starred repositories. These topic terms are then used to query the GitHub search API to find matching repositories. The results are then sort
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by rw 9y ago
No, polynomial time. For reference, see these Wikipedia pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial-time_reduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karp%27s_21_NP-complete_proble...
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by rw 9y ago
Why has this article been removed from the top 250 news results? It was #1 for a few minutes, then #5, and now it's gone. We've successfully discussed much more risqué topics here on HN... Why did the comment by `TAForObvReasons c
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by rw 9y ago
No, it's called insufficient feature engineering. Data leakage is when your test data contaminates your training data.
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by rw 9y ago
A) How would you characterize the differences and similarities between AlphaGo and the best human players? B) How has human play style changed since AlphaGo's introduction? C) What is the answer to the question you most want to be aske
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by rw 9y ago
TensorFlow is a dataflow computation system. Keras is for building neural networks. Each exists at a different level of abstraction.
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by rw 10y ago
How does this contrast with Answer Set Programming (using e.g. clasp)?
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by rw 10y ago
How did you find these changes?
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by rw 10y ago
You could have answered all of your questions with "finitely many", because, after all, we can each only perform a finite number of actions in the world. In general, the infinite hierarchy of infinite sets "exists" becau
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by rw 10y ago
Interesting. Whether that approach is efficient depends entirely on the workload. That complicates the analysis. (And one of the major benefits of skiplists is that the analysis is supposed to be simple.)
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by rw 10y ago
I've read this page before, and again today, and I still don't understand how these unrolled lists are supposed to work in practice. Based on the author's example at https://i.imgur.com/FYpPQPh.png , how do yo
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by rw 10y ago
This is pulling from a too-small data set. I was able to get correct detections with too little data: In no world is a circle with a bar coming out of it a "dumbbell".
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by rw 10y ago
The world is bigger than web companies. For contrast, one experiment at CERN produces 40TB/sec of sensor data, before downsampling and filtering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid#Collecti...
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by rw 10y ago
> biggest energy source of our galaxy You meant the Sun, of course. However, your phrasing sent me on a quest to answer the galactic question. From the following article, I learned that the "supermassive black hole at the centre of
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by rw 10y ago
What part of tech are you in? Maybe you're burnt out on that niche's particular subculture, not tech in general. For example: Tired of 10-person startups? Move to a bigger company. Tired by the constant churn in front-end librarie
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What's Next for Artificial Intelligence(wsj.com)
1 points by rw 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing our Hybrid lda2vec Algorithm(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
6 points by rw 10y ago|0 comments
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by rw 10y ago
Under the documentation section for "Ambiguous Methods"[0], why does the example compile? I would expect it to barf at compile time, not runtime. [0] http://lbstanza.org/chapter4.html#anchor52
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by rw 11y ago
I confusingly used 'data' in two senses there... the second was is in the sense of 'code is data'.

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