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This sounds kinda off-putting, but I'm not totally sure what it means. Are the SQL libraries for haskell comparable to e.g knex, or psycopg, or sqlalchemy? The bit about string int…

Do you have a reference for this? While Greece was strongly influenced by the cultures of the Near East and Egypt, it entirely misstates the situation to say that "most of their cu…

I noticed that, but haven't any idea what the purpose is?

Perhaps the elegance would be better illustrated if the planets were shown to move in elliptical rather than circular orbits - this of course was the primary historical difficulty …

I agree with the main point of the article, but I'm somewhat disturbed by the statistical errors and misconceptions. >Few websites actually get enough traffic for their >audiences …

How is that a 'devil's bargain'? Just seems like an everyday deal to me.

Perhaps your assessment says more about you than it does the actual facts of the case

That is precisely what happened with PDT, correct? It was spin out from MS

Nonsense. Tao is using perfectly idiomatic language here - "The sample space will be a probability space (once we have endowed it with some additional structure)".

Regarding d) - how much do you think the researcher, much of whose work was presumably funded by taxpayer dollars, should get?

Can someone explain the following comments, for someone with some knowledge of ML but none of NLP? "First, it's really much better to use Averaged Perceptron, or some other method …

Is this claim correct? "You do four of these sequential scans, and in each you write sequentially to one of 256 locations. Four passes, no random access. This is great. I don't eve…

Out of curiosity, how much better, typically, is the 'optimal' blending rule than blending with some random or 'reasonable' weights? Never really thought to ask myself that questio…

4-5x extremely minuscule is still minuscule.

Can someone summarize or translate (for non-Britons) the paragraph dealing with the educational background of Classics students?

They take place in the 15th century, and are fictional (although they chronicle many historical events), but I cannot recommend highly enough the 'House of Niccolo' series by Dorot…

How was theoretical physics key to the war?

Your point is well taken, but with some training most healthy men can deadlift 400 pounds.

The GP article seems like self-congratulatory fluff. So, just to be clear, what you're saying is that you're brilliant and this is a problem?

I remember I was incredibly excited about the release; it was some years after QFG IV, right? But I didn't feel it was quite as good as I or (especially) II. Still, even the weaker…

The number-one sign appears to be: You're like the author

Is this not how most 'modern' (read 90s) relational db's work?

Spark the platform seems awesome. I'm somewhat less convinced by mllib - I'm not sure there are as many use cases for distributed machine learning as people seem to think (and I wo…