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Oh neat, this is scala via scalajs.

This looks extremely cool.

It confuses me why they wouldn't just verify the images since they have the signature in the manifest. Is this because they don't want to wait for a complete image before the start…

I'm the king of using ambiguous terminology (I wish I were clever enough to be ambiguous right now).

fork the code and post the benchmark results

how much emphasis to give to which messages is always the hardest part for me to writing these posts. I'll keep in mind that at times I can be too subtle.

I'd greatly appreciate it if you left this as a comment on the original post.

Sure, but it's not a post about the bestest solution. It's a post about how using more advanced math can ("can" not "will") lead to a worse solution for your context. Fibonacci num…

I do distinguish between math and Math. Decide for yourself what that distinction means.

best and scariest quote of the post Twitter has a PIN code feature that requires every message to be prepended with a four-digit alphanumeric code. This feature mitigates the issue…

try a `gem update`. Memory performance should be much better now but I'm still curious about speed

the code isn't special. but it's easy for anyone to install and use

sigh, memory leak. It's fixed in github. When camilo is around I'll get him to update the gem

yup, the order is biased. definitely worth a couple of minutes to fix that

but yes. it has to wait until the stream is done before producing any output.

the magic of reservoir sampling is the memory footprint is the size of the output while being completely random. In this particular implementation the order of the output is slight…

So the faults of AirBnB would be much clearer if the author would make clear that he understands he made obvious mistakes. This is one of those cases a little bit of mea culpa woul…

Oh, I'm a big fan of logistic regressions. And this model actually has some logistic regression in the mix. But I just used this break down of 5 groups to easily report the perform…

Um... "You can write RESTful SOAP, I don't think the two ideas are perpendicular." (emphasis mine) He's saying they aren't perpendicular and also saying they are independent.

I think you may be confused on the meaning of 'perpendicular'