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An embedding is a collection of learned vectors. Each vector is an array of n floats that represent a location of a thing in an n-dimensional space. The idea of learning an embeddi…

I’ve worked on e-commerce recs. Typically you would represent each product with a vector. Then finding similar products becomes a nearest-neighbour search over these vectors. Depen…

> This is about countries, like Ireland or Netherlands, with 0% corporate tax rates. Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5%. It is one of the lowest in Europe but certainly not 0%.

Why is this a Show HN? It's a blog post/article. See the Show HN rules here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html " Show HN is for something you've made that other people can p…

Add to that the fact that the meeting breaks up everyones day, making it more difficult for attendees to have long uninterrupted periods of deep, concentrated work.

The Tesla Model S scored 82% for adult protection and 77% for child protection in the Euroncap crash tests: http://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model-s/7897 That's quite a bit…

Here are 2 good articles that follow up on the arguments presented by VWO in that article. From the first link below: "They do make a compelling case that A/B testing is superior t…

Yes, a lot of sales platforms now handle EU VAT. I've used Gumroad, Sendowl and Leanpub and they all handle the EU VAT problem. In each case the author sets a price. They then dete…

In theory, if you are selling to customers in the EU you are supposed to collect VAT from your EU customers and make the appropriate VAT return to the VATMOSS authorities. Or else …

I used softcover for writing http://books.aidanf.net/learn-swift The software is awesome for the purposes of writing the book. The reason I didn't go with softcover as a selling pl…

Nice work! I'm a long-time emacs user who thought that emacs was the best way to write clojure code. I was really happy with emacs as a clojure dev environment but after trying cur…

From the README, under the performance section: > This package is not written for speed. It is meant to serve as a working example of an artificial neural network. As such, there i…

This is nonsense. Taxi services are regulated for good reason. Many cities and countries have well-regulated transparent taxi industries. Uber often seems to seek to bypass that re…

There are quite a few machine learning API services. Here are a few: * BigML https://bigml.com/ * Dato https://dato.com/ * Amazon Machine Learning http://aws.amazon.com/machine-lea…

Thanks for that - I'll fix the errors you've listed. I know how to use its and it's, and I've proof-read the book several times, but there's still a good bit of stuff like this tha…

Thanks. The code is 1.2, but the Xcode references are out of date. I'll update soon, I'm also going to update the whole thing to Swift 2 when it's released.

Was it the share buttons? I tested these on iphone and they dropped to the bottom of the page. But it looks like they only do this for phones below a certain resolution. So I've re…

Thanks, fixed.

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll add another chapter at the end that walks through a longer example start-to-finish.

Thanks, I'll try that. Although I'm reluctant to clear the cache until it goes off the HN front page :)

Thanks :) The REPL example with the error has a deliberate typo (int instead of Int) to show how multi-line editing works in the REPL - is that the part you're asking about?

Thanks, fixed.

Thanks for letting me know, I hadn't noticed that.

You're right - it's not as comprehensive as the official documentation, nor is it meant to be. It's a quick tour of the main language features, with a particular emphasis on the pa…