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Sampling from Streams: Reservoir Sampling and Variants(tech.magnetic.com)
14 points by screwedup 10y ago|0 comments
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by screwedup 10y ago
If you don't feel like reading the article: the guy wasn't printing bigoted content just to bring attention to the lack of security on printers, he seems to actually believe in this stuff.
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by screwedup 11y ago
It's usually not considered wrong or sinful in the USA either.
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by screwedup 11y ago
No, it's an introduction to Machine Learning (without much neural network stuff).
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by screwedup 11y ago
Is it really true that Chinese money prefers SF? Chinese money definitely loves LA, perhaps its impact is just more pronounced on a smaller city like SF? My knowledge on this is purely anecdotal, I'd love to see some data.
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by screwedup 11y ago
Ideally, our government would be user-friendly enough to make this service simple.
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by screwedup 11y ago
Unless your whole portfolio is correlated...
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by screwedup 11y ago
> the bank has outperformed bigger rivals, not just by lending to fledgling firms but by taking small ownership stakes in them to help offset their higher risks Doesn't taking equity in a company that you've already loaned mone
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by screwedup 11y ago
I've gotta ask - if people are going so far out of their way to request you in particular, why schedule the ride through Lyft or Uber? Is there some regulatory issue that keeps you from cutting out the middlemen?
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by screwedup 11y ago
A dating site is only worthwhile if other people are on it. Obviously it's possible, but you need people on it to attract more people.
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by screwedup 11y ago
The other 40% are not necessarily against it completely - they may want gay marriage but want to call it civil unions.
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by screwedup 11y ago
Neither does the US...
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by screwedup 11y ago
I don't think PaulHoule was saying it isn't a racist symbol.
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by screwedup 11y ago
I'm very comfortable with games that display the Nazi flag, why shouldn't the Confederate flag be different?
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by screwedup 11y ago
Anecdotally I've been told that Alberta has some rats, they just keep on telling outsiders that they don't.
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by screwedup 11y ago
Probably because there aren't many Vietnamese-Americans in NY, at least compared to Texas and California.
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by screwedup 11y ago
There's a lot of emphasis in this article on how that era's ideas of what constituted science and medicine blinded them from the truth and cost them lives. What analogous contemporary ideas will people be laughing about in the
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by screwedup 11y ago
LA's "sandwich shops" are burrito trucks. As a Texan who used to live in LA, I much prefer them to any east coast sandwich shop.
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by screwedup 11y ago
Goddamn engineers, always counting from 0...
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by screwedup 11y ago
Did anybody else initially read this as "Kanye West Declared..." and then get really confused when they got to "...in 1982"?
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by screwedup 11y ago
Perhaps I'm just glorifying an age I don't remember, but I'm somewhat jealous of a time when computers weren't black boxes - everybody who owned one had to buy separate components, do bits of physical maintenance, and wr
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by screwedup 12y ago
I imagine that's true once you get tenure, but not before.
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by screwedup 12y ago
Clever, but that gives you every nth row - you might want a truly uniform sample.
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by screwedup 12y ago
I'd imagine that the platform on most light-rail trains is built so that a ramp is unnecessary?
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by screwedup 12y ago
Ya but those ideas are boring. Here in North America we prefer whimsical to practical.
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by screwedup 12y ago
Partly because it's important to society. Partly because programmers love to talk shit about their peers who studied non-STEM subjects and had a lot more fun in college.
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by screwedup 12y ago
".. concludes the report which is stamped “protected/Canadian eyes only” I smell a Canadexploitation ripoff of James Bond...
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by screwedup 12y ago
I think you neglected to fix the last picture.
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by screwedup 12y ago
I guess that's legit if the purpose is language immersion. The article made it sound like she was paying to find out how much she'd enjoy selling clothes.
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by screwedup 12y ago
To be fair, paying for an internship might have higher returns than paying for classes. Although that doesn't mean an internship abroad is worth a whole lot more than an internship at home.

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