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7,546karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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I used Zappa[0] and AWS Lambda to host a Flask application recently. After years of deploying Flask applications to VPSs behind Apache, I was pretty impressed by how simple it was to deploy a serverle…
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There are two types of people this world: those who use oxford commas, those who don't and those who should.
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A 'batch' is how much of the data you put in memory at once while training the NN. To train even a small language model, you'll go through 1000s of batches, so the time difference is wa…
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I wrote this article -- feedback, comments, etc are highly appreciated.
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I'm not American, but noticed a strong difference in memes leading up to each of the last three elections. I have no numbers, but I noticed that there seemed to be an unnatural amount of pro-Obam…
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I'm surprised that the author combines "the C languages" saying that most adverts that mention any of C/C++/C# mention all three. In my experience there is a large difference …
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I enjoy reading public apologies from companies. They're always a good reminder of how difficult it to say "I'm sorry" in a post like this. "We would like to apologize" i…
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Well I was convinced :) If it were me, I'd probably just remove the mention of significance -- or if you have more people and some time you can probably set up a proper experiment, control for so…
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Great intro to PDB, but I have to be critical of: "The second group took 9 minutes on average, and the first one 14 minutes! Those are not completely statistically significant, but that’s still a…
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I applied for a community role at Digital Ocean and got a generic "background doesn't match" response. Would be great to chat to a real person about if I might fit another role better o…
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Some people have commented on the website already. I'm not a designer, but the first thing I think of when I see it is a Word Document made by a secretary who has been told to "spice it up&q…
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Advancing it by 30 seconds seems very similar to a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and-three-quarters... If you have such a lo…
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This looks really nice. I've always hated how buggy the free hosted Jupyter notebook services are, and setting up a remote server yourself is definitely not a one-click experience. Surprised to s…
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This is focused on teaching "computer science without a computer" to children, but some of my professors used it for bachelors students too. I'd highly recommended it to people of any a…
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I've been using this for years. Really really nice both practically (the data is useful) and conceptually (I always use this or OpenWeatherMap to explain to students what an API is)
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I really like this post. So much NLP research is 'locked away' in academic papers, and making the knowledge more accessible through posts like this is very important for large-scale adoption…
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Maybe unjustified, but I'm always kind of suspicious of a post which is largely focused on raw data (like this one) and which presents only pie-chart visualsations [0]. Yes, Python has a pretty d…
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Well there are different levels of description here. First, I think I am pretty representative of the target audience for the main website (it's sad, but most non technical people still don'…
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Considering the part I quoted literally includes the phrase "based on a master password", you could probably have taken the time to 'figure out how it works' ;)
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evil hax0r has database of leaked hashes from shittyonlinewebappyoudidntknowyousignedupfor.com, which includes your email address and a bad hash of your password. They run them through some standard p…
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I really dislike the copy/marketing of this tool. OK, so it doesn't sync? How does it work? reads whole front page and all features .
No sync, but access anywhere? How does it work?? *click…
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This reminds me of one of the chapters from "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" by Jordan Ellenberg (highly recommended). He describes how "stock brokers" wou…
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Here [0] are some nice comparisons from a year ago. If these are still more or less correct, then I'm happy to be paying the extra few USD/month on Digital Ocean. If they've made perfor…