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linspace

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    Comment #32902451

    What if the pacemaker is the cheating device?

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    Comment #32872268

    > Henin was placed in handcuffs because police in New Jersey thought the car was stolen. That was because, months earlier, the car had been courtesy towed in West Philly, and she r…

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    Comment #32808033

    It's a tool for you. Being also a tool is a happy accident.

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    Comment #32777250

    Short term memory is very important for problem solving. Euler continued to work and publish mathematics after becoming blind

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    Comment #32756817

    I find it completely unpythonic. Python has become too important to do the right thing, there is money on the table.

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    Comment #32753887

    Refusing to compile takes the position that the compiler knows more than the developers. Or maybe are the compiler writers thinking they are the ones that know more? Maybe I'm bein…

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    Comment #32750713

    Sincerity under payment has to be taken for what it is. I expect and appreciate to be treated nicely when going to a restaurant but I'm under no illusion that it's because I'm goin…

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    Comment #32748463

    I think the problem is libraries implicitly affecting code outside the library. This time has been related to optimization of floating point operations, next time it will be other …

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    Comment #32746444

    > Also, it is interesting that outside of SV and HN crowd, we thought MATLAB is awesome. We had all the toolboxes, there is a gazillion of them. Even obscure RF related stuff. You …

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    Comment #32395307

    Engineers are frequently not entirely honest in their CVs, I wouldn't expect too much from the marketing department of a company.

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    Comment #32375954

    > flooding market with free money called quantitative easing isn’t anymore putting selective pressure on efficiency of company On the contrary I think that selective pressure is br…

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    Comment #32374092

    Your comment cheers me up, but you are assigning to much blame to individuals. Everybody notices that companies could function (even better actually) with something like 1/3 or les…

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    Comment #32353483

    > People are severely underestimating how complicated it is to host a private server People underestimate consistently how complicated is to build reliable things, hardware or soft…

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    Comment #32298487

    > Should I Switch From Turbo Pascal to Turbo Modula-2? The million dollar question. More seriously, I love Pascal and similar. My first two books were Algorithms + Data Structures …

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    Comment #32294934

    I was expecting something about (paper) page grammage. I suppose disambiguating by adding _web_ page is out of the question given the audience.

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    Comment #32229951

    > General-purpose computing is just too economically valuable to be gotten rid of. General-purpose computing is a just a local optimum for profit extraction. Nevertheless it feels …

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    Comment #32129714

    > Good times create weak men They give you strong science, economy and as a byproduct strong military. > You often see a growing discontent among wealthy societies where everything…

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    Comment #32088192

    What a pity Epic is not publicly traded, I just checked if it was possible to buy stock

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    Comment #32060547

    For what I've seen Tango is a general dag/pipeline that happens to have some facilities for PyTorch. I don't see any deep learning specific. You could execute sklearn or whatever.

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    Comment #31980625

    We are terrible at maintaining 100% concentration over extended periods of time while nothing is happening. People fall asleep driving. The mind starts to wander. We get distracted…

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    Comment #31965721

    > On the other hand: are humans really able to explain their inner workings of the brain, or aren’t we as well describing what kind of input features motivated our decisions? That'…

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    Comment #31866282

    My case is more biomechanical. Running will decrease hunger much more than cycling or the gym as it gives the stomach much less rest.

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    Comment #31744368

    There is no money in interface innovation. Certainly not for keyboards, over which only programmers obsses (me included). Most people is interested in how it looks at best, not in …

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    Comment #31737093

    But we have neural networks for NLP, who could read the spoilers.

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    Comment #31488053

    > I don't want to do all development-related tasks in my web browser You don't need to use a browser to do remote development. Emacs has been able to remote dev through SSH for age…