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> It's baffling that so many people insist this is not happening, or that it's too computationally expensive. If i am not mistaken - this paper seems to look at explicit "Smart Spe…

One example I am trying to wrap my head around is if you have two adjacent polygons (say California and Oregon) and perform an interior cover of both with variable hex sizes. It se…

S2 is used pretty heavily across the industry. Comparison - ( https://h3geo.org/docs/comparisons/s2/ ) H3 doesn't guarantee a child hexagon at level N+1 strictly belongs to 1 paren…

Snap Inc | Distributed Systems + Recommendation Systems | Mountain View, LA, Seattle ONSITE | https://snap.com/en-US/jobs My team is currently building out Snaps' ML Recommendation…

Snap Inc | Distributed Systems + Recommendation Systems | Mountain View, LA, Seattle ONSITE | https://snap.com/en-US/jobs My team is currently building out Snaps' ML Recommendation…

I have used Numi for several years - and versus Alfred/Google variants i have found Numi to be incredibly helpful for most back of the hand calculations. I have yet to find an alte…

Snap Inc ML Infrastructure | ML Infrastructure Engineer | Mountain View, LA, Seattle ONSITE | https://snap.com/en-US/jobs My team is currently building out Snaps' ML Platform which…

Snap Inc ML Platform | ML Infrastructure Engineer | Mountain View, LA, Seattle ONSITE | https://snap.com/en-US/jobs My team is currently building out Snaps' ML Platform - handling …

Contrasting to Github PR its a better process but really only a marginal impact on developer productivity. When i was there - Codeflow had the following feature - Multiple reviewer…

from my understanding, H3 doesn't guarantee that a child cell falls strictly inside the geographical region of its parent (since is a hexagon cannot be perfectly comprised of small…

yes - i am skeptical on how generalizable the final model is - given lots of features (numerical and text) are closely linked to same domain.

You can buy an antenna from Amazon for 20$ and watch all the local channels and the games. Just fyi... I have never had cable but watch almost every Sunday night game on NBC.

has anybody ever tried/evaluated boht AWS Cloud search https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/ and Azure Search? AWS seems a lot cheaper.

Serilog to me is a much more modern logging solution. Allows us to pipe logs to table storage/sqlserver/loggly/logentries/docdb/azure event hub ... its the backbone of our app - re…

unless there is external regulation/certification, what incentive does one cloud service provider have to open a can of worms on themselves like this? It can only be assumed that a…

In my experience with Neo4J a few years ago, i naively used it as my primary DB. The latency (not suprising given its JVM based) was painful and often there are classic relational …

Although most of the language features have been discussed before. I am excited for null propogation as well as string interpolation. These are will improve the signal to noise rat…

Is actually possible to not have the ability to decrypt messages remotely? At first I thought that if just an iphone held the encryption keys and these were not on apple servers th…

There was no mention of where exactly these would go. I doubt it would be on machines serving response online ... since the bottle neck is often in IO. Being able to index, process…

i have always wished, google docs, or office's word versioning showed the tree / branch view like this does. it would be great to see other peoples work and how the auto merges are…

it is awesome that the book is free online, but I find it really tough to read with no syntax highlighting ...

at first glance, i thought the mere edge cases alone (listed under limitations in the readme) would be sufficient reason to stay well away from this c# -> js route. however on seco…

i often get the feeling that uber is positioning itself to strike gold with business billing. uber should build a feature that enables companies by allowing employees to expense th…

Apart from the fact that this isn't a new product. From a ranking and relevance point of view, can the same (internet) search algorithms be reused for internal (intranet) search? O…

woah looks cool, any reason you choose bitbucket over github? just curious...