texthompson

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by texthompson 2y ago
Why does it matter where the bytes are stored at rest? Isn't everything you need for SHA-256 just the results of the SHA-256 algorithm on every 4096-byte block? I think you could just calculate that as the data is streamed in.
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by texthompson 2y ago
Why would you PUT an object, then download it again to a central server in the first place? If a service is accepting an upload of the bytes, it is already doing a pass over all the bytes anyway. It doesn't seem like a ton of overhead
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by texthompson 2y ago
That's interesting. Would you want it to be something like a bucket setting, like "any time an object is uploaded, don't let an object write complete unless S3 verifies that a pre-defined hash function (like SHA256) is called
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by texthompson 2y ago
> Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was. This is only mostly right. Every cell in your body has an astonishingly similar amount of DNA, but e
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by texthompson 7y ago
If you didn't know, that 80% number is probably the result of Little's Law. That's the result where if your demand is generated by a Poisson process, and your service has a queue, 80% utilization of the service is where the p
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by texthompson 7y ago
One of the funniest stories I've ever heard was about how a junior developer asked a more senior developer a creatively terrifying question: How do I install half of an RPM?
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by texthompson 9y ago
I think of myself as a very absent-minded person. I also can't imagine being in my car without knowing my daughter is in my car. After reading this, I'll probably check the back seat for her even when I'm very confident she&#
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by texthompson 10y ago
People in Flint, Michigan still don't have clean water. Lots of other folks in the world also don't have clean water. Doesn't that seem like an easier thing to fix than trying out experimental therapies?
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by texthompson 10y ago
I hope that you feel better soon.
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by texthompson 10y ago
Daycare.
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by texthompson 10y ago
It turns out that the people who need the most help might have a hard time telling doctors the truth about their symptoms for a variety of reasons. I think you're right that this would be better, but I think it would be really sad to a
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by texthompson 10y ago
I've never seen anecdata before. Thanks for sharing that word, love it. :)
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by texthompson 10y ago
Why is it not in anyone's interest to write an explicit rebuttal?
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by texthompson 10y ago
Being #3 in a growing market is not a bad place to be.
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by texthompson 10y ago
I think this is consistent with an institutional interest in going through the motions of diagnostic tests, but not caring about accuracy.
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by texthompson 11y ago
It looks like Professor Eisen's blog is down at the moment. Here's a link to the Google cache of that page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by texthompson 11y ago
Michael Eisen is a professor at Berkeley, founder of the Public Library of Science and pioneered the use of microarrays for studying gene expression. This blog post is in response to the recent controversy about CRISPR, in particular Eric L
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The Villain of CRISPR(michaeleisen.org)
227 points by texthompson 11y ago|103 comments
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by texthompson 11y ago
I think that evolutionary psychology might be worse, but perhaps that's because serious scientists actually care about nanotechnology and its related fields.
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by texthompson 11y ago
This article would be really interesting with more context and explanation, but I find a bit unreadable in its current state. That being said, I enjoyed the algorithm for generating the next Paxos algorithm. That's fun, but I'm st
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by texthompson 11y ago
It's too bad that there's not a more robust discussion about the institutional incentives that drive scientists to fool themselves.
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by texthompson 11y ago
Coins can be biased, they just need to be bent so far out of shape that it's obvious. Here's a fun example: https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...
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by texthompson 11y ago
I'm a big fan of two books: * The Elements of Statistical Learning, by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman ( https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/OLD/ESLI... ). * Probability Theory: The Lo
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by texthompson 11y ago
I don't think that the title or the content claimed that "presenting mathematics in an understandable way" is a hack. "Statistics for Hackers" sounds to me like hackers are the intended audience. This method of pres
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by texthompson 11y ago
That's a great idea, because the number of Kafka nodes scales with the size of your data. Your Zookeeper nodes don't need to scale along with your data.
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by texthompson 11y ago
Totally agree. Both correctness and security are important, but they're not the only concerns in developing useful software.
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by texthompson 11y ago
It's probably good to not put too much of a gap between them, independent of order. :)
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by texthompson 11y ago
> With the right tone and body language, people just open up. It's wonderful. Also, your boss might be genuinely curious. A lot of people who employ this technique precompute trajectory for arriving at their conclusion. They're
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by texthompson 11y ago
I didn't see any place where this method was claimed to be a magic bullet, or even a more common silver bullet. In fact, the author specifically mentioned this: > When the class period ended, I and the classroom teacher > believ
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by texthompson 11y ago
My usual rule of thumb is "does AWS sell a single instance big enough to store and process data in real time?" If you can't find an instance big enough, you have big data.

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