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Select count(*) takes a surprisingly long time, even on an indexed table. Apparently thus is because of the MVCC model and row count estimates are available to mitigate.

Are the newer ships more environmentally friendly? I'd assume only slightly because they're still burning bunker oil, only slightly more efficiently. Which I find perverse given th…

Cool. It sounds dumb but just shaping the inputs was a problem for me. I wanted an LSTM/RNN but epochs, batches and recurring sequences didn't click together for me. I also had tro…

Congratulations on hitting 1.0, Keras really looks like the way forward for python ML. I tried to use Keras after doing Andrew Ng's Coursera course but found that I just couldn't c…

wasn't that the idea with OLPC Sugar [ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar ]? The whole desktop and apps in python and hackable.

It's interesting to hear that having recently experienced the wholehearted enforcement of KYC rules and general efforts avoid/shed that reputation.

This is worth consideration too. Getting a bank account can be difficult.

How long before these vacuous AI assistants will be useful in the real world? * "Siri, check if there are better deals than renewing my car insurance with current provider." * "Cor…

The LSTM would be trained against an existing high quality Rust code base and it's IR; so I wouldn't expect a bunch of unsafe literal translations. Whether the C side IR has enough…

I was just recently wondering if an LSTM neural net could be trained as a decent decompiler from LLVM IR to Rust source. Feed that with Clang output of an established OS and coreut…

That code is so -erm- pretty. And by popular accounts, Elm is a pleasure to develop with. I hope it catches on.

I'm genuinely interested to know if the altruistic/community driven ethos of these efforts ever last? Once the NGO leaves town and the local federalè or whoever notices a nice litt…

Yup, that's the trade-off.

Install each of the pip/bundler requirements with a separate dockerfile RUN command. Each gets cached into its own container filesystem layer that way and only new requirements are…

use perl

There's no simple "this workbook" connection that I'm aware of. So you have to use external connections and Access flavoured SQL to a named file and it all becomes brittle & ugly.

I'm banging my head against Excel, wishing for SQL right now! But I could never go to my boss and ask for a purchase order for something called ThingieQuery. Give it a more bland g…