stiff

6 ms·

1.
by stiff 3y ago
There is in fact a default timeout of 5 minutes and you can change it: https://rclone.org/docs/#timeout-time I shorten it to prevent lockups like you are describing.
2.
by stiff 3y ago
William Cleveland did some research along those lines and he wrote two good books: - The elements of graphing data - Visualizing data The first one is of general interest, the second one more specialized for statisticians.
3.
by stiff 3y ago
I think this is no longer true: https://www.baeldung.com/java-17-random-number-generators https://openjdk.org/jeps/356
4.
by stiff 3y ago
The book has eight voluminous chapters and only one is about hypothesis testing. Much of it is about design of experiments and statistical process control, think something like optimizing the workings of a factory. Hypothesis testing has be
5.
by stiff 3y ago
Programming is applied algebra just like tying your shoes is applied knot theory :)
6.
by stiff 3y ago
Here are a few popular science books: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker Yearning for the Impossible: The
7.
by stiff 4y ago
Stanford has ENGR108 [1] based on freely available book "Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares" [2] by Stephen Boyd, with video lectures [3] available. EE263 [4] is sort of a continuation of
8.
by stiff 4y ago
I think these people other than Feynman transcribed and edited the lectures into book form. This seems to have been the process with most (all?) books of his, "QED" and "The character of physical law" were also delivered
9.
by stiff 4y ago
The "Feynman lectures on physics" books are based on actual lectures to Caltech students. You can listen to audio tapes of the lectures here: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html
10.
by stiff 4y ago
Perhaps this was one of the talks by Radia Perlman?
11.
by stiff 4y ago
Peter Norvig wrote a good article on this: "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
12.
by stiff 4y ago
Paul Halmos wrote a book I like a lot titled "Linear Algebra Problem Book" that teaches you linear algebra through a sequence of problems - its different from the one posted here in that the problems are often preceded by 2-3 page
13.
by stiff 4y ago
You can use jupytext to maintain dual .py/.ipynb representation of notebooks and keep both versions in sync: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/main/docs/paired-not... It works both ways,
14.
by stiff 6y ago
Production failures due to bugs in both TCP-based servers and clients happen all the time, long time ago I invested a little time to learn basic socket programming in C and the ROI on this has really been spectacular. "Unix Network Pro
15.
by stiff 6y ago
Vim can't highlight Markdown correctly because it does highlighting via regexps. For correct parsing and thus for correct highlighting of Markdown you need a real parser. See e.g. this: https://github.com/tpope/vim
16.
by stiff 6y ago
For the people who did not notice, in the "Open Access" tab you can download the PDF of the whole book legally and for free. There is also a second book by the same author which is a bit harder and more comprehensive, and also ope
17.
by stiff 6y ago
For interviews and programming puzzles you only need to know notation for basic mathematical logic, basic set theory and the summation notation and maybe some bits and pieces from number theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
18.
by stiff 7y ago
Knuth is one of the founders of analysis of algorithms as an academic discipline and the original publication of TAOCP played a role in founding the field.
19.
by stiff 7y ago
This is a very good book, fairly mathematical: https://archive.org/details/ofmathemahistory00todhrich Ian Hacking has two books, he is a philosopher, accordingly they have a broader outlook: "The Taming of Chance&
20.
by stiff 7y ago
Looks like Git has its own string type: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/strbuf.h https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/strbuf.c See this for the story of why
21.
by stiff 7y ago
This is one of Lem's most approachable, fun to read books. I also much recommend his books starring Ijon Tichy, the only books that make me laugh out loud - "The Star Diaries" and "The Futurological Congress": http
22.
by stiff 7y ago
I watched the TV series some weeks or months after having seen the Gary Oldman movie, I enjoyed both, but the TV series is great while the movie I thought was just good. Both have excellent cast and are worth watching just for this reason,
23.
by stiff 7y ago
If we are speaking movies, the old BBC TV mini-series "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People" with Alec Guinness as Smiley are absolutely great.
24.
by stiff 7y ago
IIRC the book "How to measure anything" contains some advice like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118539273/ The author also offers webinars, so maybe it was from him: https://www.howtomeasur
25.
by stiff 7y ago
I disagree, it's trivial these days to get a list of anything (books, movies, software etc.) simply from google, so if you are going to manually compose a list it better be A) really strictly selected based on true personal experienc
26.
by stiff 8y ago
The article is titled "Avoiding Problem Paralysis". The HN submission title is rather unfortunate, I think.
27.
by stiff 8y ago
A dishonest scientist can mine a dataset for statistically significant hypotheses and for a long time no institutional protection against it was in place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging https://
28.
by stiff 8y ago
For learning to get things done with Unix, I recommend the two old books "Unix Programming Environment" and "The AWK Programming Language". There are many resources to learn the various commands etc., but there is still
29.
by stiff 8y ago
They changed a decades-old behavior many people rely on, and it must have been obvious from the start people will loose work because of it.
30.
by stiff 8y ago
There are some good lecture videos with Dijkstra online that give a better introduction to his way of thinking than anything he wrote: "Reasoning about programs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3URhx6i2E "

More ›