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by tylerhobbs 9y ago
Great comment! Yes, there are many other approaches that are more true to reality, to the point where they are fairly thorough simulations of physics. My approach is somewhat like a five minute figure drawing sketch compared to the equivale
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by tylerhobbs 9y ago
Author here. Thank you! Yes, I think you have the basic gist of it. Split each line, then move an endpoint. There's nothing too complicated about the algorithm, the trick is really around fine tuning all of the possible parameters. If
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A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints(tylerlhobbs.com)
3 points by tylerhobbs 9y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhobbs 10y ago
If you read the quoted portion of his comment, you'll see he's talking about the officers being sentenced, not the offense happening in the first place.
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by tylerhobbs 10y ago
I'm assuming both you and your spouse are earning money, in my numbers. Additionally, you would presumably make investments with the money that you're saving, so you don't quite have to save the whole $1.5m straight up. I&#
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by tylerhobbs 10y ago
3% of $1.5m is only $45k. If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning, you can save ~$100k per year and accumulate $1.5m by the time you're 40, easily. See Mr. Money Moustache for details on how this i
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Generative Artwork(reddit.com)
1 points by tylerhobbs 10y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
> And apartment blocks had shops on the ground floor. This is one of my favorite features of the Mueller area: the apartments do have shops on the ground floor. I actually live in a live-work unit in one of the apartments. My wife and
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Painting with Mathematica: A Talk with John Muellerleile(tylerlhobbs.com)
3 points by tylerhobbs 12y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
Thank you! (I'm the author of the post.) I am indeed writing my own code; I'm just using simple functions from Processing. Thank you very much for the video link. It occurred to me while working on this that video game artists an
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the post. I don't normally release my code, but in this case I did post a gist of the main function to Twitter: https://gist.github.com/thobbs/e879b7dad8f3733d58d1 I'm using Quil,
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What Programming Brings to Art(tylerlhobbs.com)
2 points by tylerhobbs 12y ago|0 comments
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Probability Distributions for Algorithmic Artists(tylerlhobbs.com)
9 points by tylerhobbs 12y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
This is true. Most companies either start using Cassandra when their existing database infrastructure is struggling with a particular workload or they're planning a new feature that would be prohibitively difficult or expensive with a
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
Cassandra isn't designed to replace relational databases for all use cases. There are certain use cases where Cassandra excels, certain use cases where an RDBMS excels, and plenty of ground in between where you're making tradeoff
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by tylerhobbs 12y ago
"Cassandra [...] isn't real-time in the sense that you can do immediate, fast queries about the relationships across those records as they are hitting the system." That depends on how you are using Cassandra. Typically, you
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
Cassandra uses a technique known as consistent hashing to allow each node to independently determine what nodes are replicas for a given row. The process really just involves hashing the row key and then comparing the result to the token o
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
You would need to define "consistency" in order to have a more reasonable discussion about what each system provides, but Cassandra certainly isn't only eventually consistent. You can choose the number of replicas that must respond in orde
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
Some of these are a bit dated, but it's still a reasonably accurate list of companies that have publicly disclosed their usage of Cassandra: http://www.datastax.com/cassandrausers .
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Virtual Nodes in Cassandra 1.2(datastax.com)
3 points by tylerhobbs 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
Submitter here. For those who are short on time, these are a few of my favorites: 1. For those unfamiliar with Cassandra, Patrick McFadin's talk (Building a Cassandra Based Application from Scratch) can give you a good feel for how Cassand
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Cassandra Summit 2012 - Slides and Videos(datastax.com)
31 points by tylerhobbs 14y ago|2 comments
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
A nice alternative is to do: " Allow easy navigation to relative files cmap %/ %:p:h/ This basically replaces everything before the slash with the directory of the file you're editing. That way, you don't have to necessarily cd, b
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
We have been using Clojure for a product for about 9 months now, and in my experience, I have no trouble identifying what different blocks of code do. It may depend on proper syntax highlighting, but I think one of the keys is that there i
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
S3 isn't where the SSDs will go, it's the EC2 instances. Many, many, people would pay those numbers for local, dedicated SSDs when their instance is running a database.
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
There's a very good Google Tech Talk by Geoff Hinton (who has worked closely with Dahl on a lot of this research and developed some of the key algorithms in this field) that explains how to build deep belief networks using layers of RBMs:
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
That is an excellent point, and well expressed. I do see how anecdotes and stories can be used in a very positive way to shift opinion; there are definitely some grey regions. (How do you know you're on the right sight?)
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by tylerhobbs 14y ago
Great comment. I am most certainly not claiming that you shouldn't question research findings on other grounds, such as sampling bias or statistical significance, as you have done here; those types of points are extremely valuable.
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You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes(thobbs.github.com)
219 points by tylerhobbs 14y ago|152 comments
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by tylerhobbs 15y ago
K-means is only grouping all of the pixels in to K disjoint clusters, not actually altering the value of the pixels. Taking an entire cluster of pixels and shifting their values in the RGB space could produce some very interesting images. F

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