timita

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A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic(flyingpenguin.com)
6 points by timita 5mo ago|1 comments
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by timita 1y ago
A binning method that is fast and does not suffer from the hierarchical issue you mention: quadtiles. Looks like there is an implementation in Go [0]. I haven't tried the kind of geofencing you mention in memory, but I've had succ
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by timita 1y ago
> Meteor is essentially dead today Care to explain what you mean by "dead"? Just today v3.2 came out, and the company, the community, and their paid-for hosting service seem pretty alive to me.
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by timita 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words! The prototype was launched in 2013, you'd think the world would have caught up since :D. The platform underneath allows far more advanced functionality, so stick around, there will be many more usable (and us
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by timita 2y ago
Yes, although not yet updated to the one of 2021 (2022 in Scotland). The main page has references to all data sources.
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by timita 2y ago
If you are based in the UK, there is https://xploria.co.uk . Click/tap on any location on the map and you get a lot of information about the place, inclusive of generations, what percentage of families, singles, etc, schools
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by timita 3y ago
> May I ask what a non-technical founder should look for in a technical co-founder? Breadth of expertise, ability to learn quickly, open minded when it comes to technology. Loves to work with clients and solve their problems more than th
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by timita 5y ago
> Am I supposed to use... excel to do that? This is gratuitous. You have a clear bias, granted, because it seems your domain is so specific, only a procedural language will do. But it seems you are unfamiliar with modern SQL tools. Some
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by timita 5y ago
Which is absolutely fine in a non-critical scenario such as picking litter, or finding your mates at a festival. But, as the article demonstrates in detail, there are too many possibilities for error, which in a life or death scenario we ca
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by timita 5y ago
The guys at OpenCage Geocoder[0] are doing a great job using only open data. But they are a team with over a decade of experience parsing an deduplicating address data from dozens of countries. That said, their jobs page doesn't have m
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by timita 5y ago
I agree that in general one would not use R to engineer software. However I disagree regarding low maintainability. I've seen very complex R packages that have been around for 30+ years. They are actively maintained. Applying good desi
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by timita 5y ago
Well, maybe _you_ don't write software in R. Others can write a pretty capable server[0] using just that. [0] https://github.com/opencpu/opencpu/tree/master/R
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by timita 13y ago
Not sure if 100% of their posts are mind blowing. It's hard to dispense much business wisdom via a Twitter feed. Still, you can learn a lot from them, especially if you follow the links they recommend. My favourite is at the top: David
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by timita 13y ago
Hi anish_t, About six months ago I tested Kinvey (a BaaS) for an application that makes heavy use of data. Basically you upload your data (say, from CSV) and then you access it via API calls. It looks like you can download your data at any