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Kudos to Google for moving this along! A few weeks, the HN community picked up [0, 1] on a presentation [2] about the Tint shading language, a WebGPU shading language prototype. It…

Qt's licensing for commercial products is something like $500/month/developer. For a small team of 6 developers, that's $36k in licensing a year. Unfortunately, you're not allowed …

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Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook th…

Here's an article of a developer who went through something similar: http://findingscience.com/ruby/2014/11/17/why-im-renaming-a-... The bit that stands out to me is an e-mail he r…

Neat! I've been looking around for a comprehensive guide in how to write a custom React renderer for an upcoming project of mine. It's unfortunate that Facebook hasn't had the time…

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Take a look at the recent book Sprint: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814544-sprint?from_sear... It details a creative process for developing concepts and testing them. Given…

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This is pretty much the main idea behind another paper that Eamonn wrote [0]. The idea is that you can normalize and discretize timeseries data into a lecicographical representatio…

Neat! I did some similar analysis of conducting topic modeling around tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing a couple of years back. It was pretty cool to see how topics were ne…

> Spatial statistics aren't the same as regular statistics I've always been frustrated with the gap between statistics and spatial statistics. For example, some of the methodologie…

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For those cases where I have to dip into R for specific functionality, I'll use Rpy2. Pandas has great support for translating Pandas data frames to R data frames!

You ought to take a look at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython-sql . This, in conjunction with IPython magic helpers specified in your IPython profile, can turn IPython into a SQ…

I'm not familiar with Haskell, but can someone provide some insight into how this compares to PyMC or OpenBUGS?

Also check out Vowpal Wabbit [0]. Although this is a tool that provides several online versions of classification, regression, etc, there's an online LDA module included as well. I…

I did something similar to this with tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing [0]. One of the coolest things that I saw was that the topics themselves were neatly ordered in time.…

I'm delighted to share that I'm currently reading Kelley's book right now. Great read thus far! It's refreshing to see a story on Monk make the front page of HN.