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by vkb 2y ago
Author here. That's definitely my bad and not an intended user experience. The text was initially meant as a transcript accompanying presentation slides. I've compressed the images so it should be at least slightly better now.
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by vkb 3y ago
The good news is that this already exists in the Redis search module [1], which allows you to do similarity search against indexed embeddings, among other features, and offers comparable performance against other ANN libraries [2], dependin
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by vkb 4y ago
Author here. The primary difference is that Confluence is more like a reference manual. A P2 is more like a conversation and a record of decisions made, along with all the context for those decisions, since each post has a threaded comment
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All numbers are made up, some are useful(vicki.substack.com)
6 points by vkb 7y ago|0 comments
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Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re realizing they’re full of errors(vox.com)
14 points by vkb 7y ago|3 comments
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Can money create a neighborhood?(curbed.com)
1 points by vkb 8y ago|0 comments
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Metafilter financial update and future directions(metatalk.metafilter.com)
1 points by vkb 8y ago|0 comments
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Reflections on Anaconda as I start a new chapter with Quansight(technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com)
2 points by vkb 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Newsfeed: Bringing People Closer Together(newsroom.fb.com)
3 points by vkb 9y ago|0 comments
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Introducing the Zarf beta(tanmulabs.com)
1 points by vkb 9y ago|0 comments
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Lyft and learn(chronicle.com)
1 points by vkb 9y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 9y ago
Added, thanks.
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by vkb 9y ago
No, they were comments on a Facebook post.
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by vkb 9y ago
Editor here. Thank you for sharing your memories. And, for the note. Some details about the origin: the vignettes were originally English-language comments in a private Facebook group. It was a huge team effort to get them all collated, org
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by vkb 9y ago
Editor here. These were originally written in English, so we have plans to translate to Russian, which might take a while since we only have one fully-qualified translator. Help is welcome! Shoot me an email (included in my profile).
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Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl(ironedcurtains.com)
154 points by vkb 9y ago|121 comments
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Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
609 points by vkb 9y ago|424 comments
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How I Lost $7 Selling McDonalds Sauces Online(reddit.com)
2 points by vkb 9y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 9y ago
This is a rather interesting stance to take for a publication whose article quality has degraded and ad size has increased (thirty-eight trackers, including two from Facebook, detected by my adblocker when I tried to access the article) ove
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by vkb 9y ago
I don't know that that's necessarily true. The most recent StackOverflow survey[1] shows a difference of 8%, which is not an overwhelming majority. Granted, that's not an unbiased sample size, but I think the OP above is corr
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by vkb 9y ago
Came across this yesterday. Can someone (maybe poster?) talk about when you would use this versus something like scikit-learn or any number of R libraries? Is the goal simply to have all machine learning in Java so it can be productionized
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by vkb 10y ago
Perhaps it's just my selective biases, but I feel like I am reading about more notable people in the tech industry speaking out in favor of privacy over the past couple months than even when the Snowden revelations happened in 2013. Co
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by vkb 10y ago
Data scientist here. It is 100% possible to do things with kids, but you really have to be motivated to do it, AND it really helps if you have a support system of other people to help take care of your child. I wrote about the dangerous de
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What is computer literacy in today’s world?(education.penelopetrunk.com)
2 points by vkb 10y ago|0 comments
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“Big data” problem(2016)(lists.apache.org)
2 points by vkb 10y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 10y ago
There are definitely a lot of people who fall into those categories, but the articles/links give the impression that everyone is senior. Which is why it's great when articles like this come around.
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by vkb 10y ago
This is a fantastic article for intermediate beginners. On HN, everyone is a senior data scientist working with Spark and Keras and Tensorflow and deep learning. In the real world, there is a huge chasm of difference between people just lea
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What should you think about when using Facebook?(veekaybee.github.io)
363 points by vkb 10y ago|234 comments
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Dealing with countries – in data(medium.com)
3 points by vkb 10y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 10y ago
I am disappointed at the type of criticism of this post on Hacker News. This write-up is the kind of high-quality, original, analytical writing we so desperately need these days, in an online world that is completely saturated with clickba

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