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This is an excellent treatise on both the value of a computer science education and the importance of being sure that things you say in public aren't verifiably false.

> being attacked for mentioning possibilities. Given the tone of what you wrote in the linked thread, I think that the redditors there showed surprising civility.

Verilog has many drawbacks, including no support for structured signals. On the other hand, the other big language, VHDL, is really difficult to use for "modular" projects. Is anyo…

I feel like I've read this article before.

> Now, some people may argue that these algorithms are not examples of "intelligence". The obvious conclusion must be that hiring people, beating people at Go, and playing Super Ma…

PVS-Studio (or more specifically Andrey) used to do a really nice program called "CppHints", where they would email a little tip each day (and later each week I think). Anyway, I g…

mlpack has a nice command-line-accessible implementation: http://mlpack.org/docs/mlpack-2.0.3/man/mlpack_mean_shift.ht...

I had fun playing with this, but what I noticed is that the recommendations started well, but as I rated more movies, they became less and less accurate. Is it possible that whatev…

Number of stars on Github is not a great metric of the health of a project. TensorFlow, in particular, has received a lot of attention, so a lot of people have starred it, but this…

Hey, not all outdoor cats are pests! My cat is too incompetent to catch any birds and she just grazes on grass, so she's actually improving my yard by making it so I don't need to …

"Not even wrong". This entire analysis is built on reasonable statistics which are predicated on dubious and unprovable assumptions, which invalidate the entire thing. Consider "th…

Some useful links... github: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack ; homepage: http://www.mlpack.org

P99 rocks! (just sayin')

Now here is some helpful and caring advice. Sigh.

It was gray. You may see that I am not very active here, so I made an assumption. Today I have learned something; thank you.

This is just not a good response and does not speak to the author's problem. Yes, you can indeed say "you should be happy! It could be so much worse!" but this is not a gratifying …

I think it's unfortunate this has been downvoted; I think that many people feel the same way you do. It's probably worth thinking about whether your colleagues' life is really as e…

The project is currently in a state of transition to Github from svn, which explains the lack of issues and presence. http://www.mlpack.org/ has links to all of the old development…