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A better jittering approach for discretization acknowledgment in density estimation
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aakinshin.net
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2 years ago
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In [[discrete-sample-jittering]], I proposed a jittering approach. It turned out that it does not always work well. It is not always capable of preserving the original distribution shape and avoiding gaps. In this post, I would like to propose a better strategy.
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Emacs 29 introduced the handy sqlite-mode . Soon after, I tried a couple of experiments here and there to bring additional functionality. Folks reached out. The additions seemed useful to them and were keen on upstreaming or pushing to MELPA. While I can't commit to upstreaming at this moment, I can happily meet halfway on MELPA. As of a couple of days, you can find sqlite-mode-extras on MELPA and GitHub . Contributions total..
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Lately, I've been slightly obsessed with Som Tam , a magnificent salad packing both crunch and flavour. I didn't have all the right ingredients for the full-blown salad at home, so I set out to experiment with the dressing's punchy flavours. While I've gone a little rogue here, I mean no disrespect to the faithful recipe and all its glory. Luckily, I did have fish sauce at home, which I considered the core ingredient, and made do with ev....
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A better jittering approach for discretization acknowledgment in density estimation
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aakinshin.net
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2 years ago
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eng
In [[discrete-sample-jittering]], I proposed a jittering approach. It turned out that it does not always work well. It is not always capable of preserving the original distribution shape and avoiding gaps. In this post, I would like to propose a better strategy.
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I was assigning an object of one type to another object of another type the other day, and ran into an interesting thing since both types were partials.
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Every day a new tools pops out claiming “Throw the data analysts and data scientists of your company away, you don’t need to write SQL anymore, everyone can use data with our groundbreaking ’talk to your data’ tool”, and Benn discusses this: There are thousands of computational devils in details like how to handle nulls. For analysts, describing these specifics in English is inefficient and inexact. For everyone else, they wouldn’t know..
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Every day a new tools pops out claiming “Throw the data analysts and data scientists of your company away, you don’t need to write SQL anymore, everyone can use data with our groundbreaking ’talk to your data’ tool”, and Benn discusses this: There are thousands of computational devils in details like how to handle nulls. For analysts, describing these specifics in English is inefficient and inexact. For everyone else, they wouldn’t know..
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Every day a new tools pops out claiming “Throw the data analysts and data scientists of your company away, you don’t need to write SQL anymore, everyone can use data with our groundbreaking ’talk to your data’ tool”, and Benn discusses this: There are thousands of computational devils in details like how to handle nulls. For analysts, describing these specifics in English is inefficient and inexact. For everyone else, they wouldn’t know..
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From a hackernews thread on dealing with spammers on your platform: … one of the most effective ways of dealing with spammers is to “shadowban” them. Allow them to use your service, but don’t indicate to them that you’ve identified them as malicious. For instance, when dealing with chat spammers, allow them to chat, but do not show their chats to other users. Another level would be to allow them to chat, but only show their chat to o..
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From a hackernews thread on dealing with spammers on your platform: … one of the most effective ways of dealing with spammers is to “shadowban” them. Allow them to use your service, but don’t indicate to them that you’ve identified them as malicious. For instance, when dealing with chat spammers, allow them to chat, but do not show their chats to other users. Another level would be to allow them to chat, but only show their chat to o....
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From a hackernews thread on dealing with spammers on your platform: … one of the most effective ways of dealing with spammers is to “shadowban” them. Allow them to use your service, but don’t indicate to them that you’ve identified them as malicious. For instance, when dealing with chat spammers, allow them to chat, but do not show their chats to other users. Another level would be to allow them to chat, but only show their chat to o..
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The other day, I was looking for means of zipping two Java streams : connecting them element by element—essentially a join based on stream offset position—and emitting an output stream with the results. Unfortunately, there is no zip() method offered by the Java Streams API itself. While it was considered for inclusion in early preview versions, the method was removed before the API went GA with Java 8 and you have to resort to 3rd party..
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The other day, I was looking for means of zipping two Java streams : connecting them element by element—essentially a join based on stream offset position—and emitting an output stream with the results. Unfortunately, there is no zip() method offered by the Java Streams API itself. While it was considered for inclusion in early preview versions, the method was removed before the API went GA with Java 8 and you have to resort to 3rd party..
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Yesterday I went for a walk in the mountains. This tour starts from Bocconi (on the road to Muraglione Pass) and the nice humpback bridge that is just below the village (I think it’s called “della Brusia”). Ponte della Brusia, Bocconi (FC) It is a nice hike, with the ascent that becomes quite challenging in the final part, towards the ridge tops, which, once reached, you’ll follow for a long time, partially on a forest road, befo..
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My First 4 months at Bazaarvoice as a DevOps Engineer
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blog.developer.bazaarvoice.com
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2 years ago
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eng
I joined Bazaarvoice as a DevOps engineer into the Cloud engineering team in September 2023. It has been a very busy first 4 months learning a lot in terms of technical and soft skills. In this post I have highlighted my key learnings from my start at BV. Communication One of the key takeaways I […]
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Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still remember my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, and then my first day at Mozilla. I still remember my first […] The post I’m So Old: Web Edition appeared first on David Walsh Blog .
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Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still remember my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, and then my first day at Mozilla. I still remember my first […] The post I’m So Old: Web Edition appeared first on David Walsh Blog .
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Building a Write-Heavy System: Key Considerations for Success
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akashrajpurohit.com
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2 years ago
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eng
In this article, we'll discuss crucial considerations that can guide you towards success in building a write-heavy system and help you navigate the complexities of managing high volumes of write operations.
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Building a Write-Heavy System: Key Considerations for Success
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akashrajpurohit.com
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2 years ago
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eng
In this article, we'll discuss crucial considerations that can guide you towards success in building a write-heavy system and help you navigate the complexities of managing high volumes of write operations.
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Building a Write-Heavy System: Key Considerations for Success
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akashrajpurohit.com
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2 years ago
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eng
In this article, we'll discuss crucial considerations that can guide you towards success in building a write-heavy system and help you navigate the complexities of managing high volumes of write operations.
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When I began sending email newsletters for Signal Tower in 2013, I turned to a hometown business with a peculiar name and loveable mascot—Mailchimp.
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I really like lists! I also really like mental models . This post is about both. I use “mental models” quite loosely here: any kind of model, law, idiom, aphorism, etc. that helps me take something about how the world works and capture, compress, and distill it down to something named. They’re like pointers in an index that help me retrieve and recall the right page (and the content that lives there).
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I really like lists! I also really like mental models . This post is about both. I use “mental models” quite loosely here: any kind of model, law, idiom, aphorism, etc. that helps me take something about how the world works and capture, compress, and distill it down to something named. They’re like pointers in an index that help me retrieve and recall the right page (and the content that lives there).
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In a beautiful essay published in Waiting for God, Simone Weil reminds us that study serves to develop attention, and almost no matter what is studied, even a mathematical exercise that turns out to be incomprehensible is fine. “Without feeling or knowing it,” Weil writes, “that seemingly sterile and fruitless effort has brought more light into the soul. One day one will find the fruit of it (…) in any sphere of intelligence, perhaps entire..
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As it appears, cannibalism was much more widespread than previously thought, and perhaps for more complex reasons than we think. To honor the dead, for example. Our ancestors have been eating each other for a million years or more. In fact, it seems that, down the ages, around a fifth of societies have practised cannibalism. While some of this people-eating may have been done simply to survive, in many cases, the reasons look more compl..
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In search of a "Zero Toil" HomeLab: Immutable Linux, ZFS, WatchTower and Keel
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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2 years ago
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eng
I run a HomeLab for hosting a few bits (for example atuin, omnivore and matrix-bridges) Like all software these things need to be kept up-to-date. This saps the fun out of hosting things. I do not want any toil , here is the goal: I don’t want to manually do OS updates I don’t want to manually update versions of software that I’m hosting I don’t ever want to have to worry about losing data I always want a simple, quick, rollback ..
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Compositing the Sistine Chapel (Issue #155) 2024-03-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: Apple & DMA & webapps & iOS browser diversity, Gilded age entrepreneurship, Rogan, Tiktok, Filterworld, running restaurants, bitcoin bull run, RFK Issue details: Title: Compositing the Sistine Chapel Issue: 155 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
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Back in 2020, I wrote a blog post detailing 6 tips for working in the tech industry. And while these tips are sage for any tech worker, there is a 7th tip that applies to life in general: Adopt a growth mindset . What is a growth mindset? A growth mindset is a way of viewing challenges and setbacks. People who adopt a growth mindset believe that challenges can always be overcome with time and effort, and that setbacks and failures ar..
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Back in 2020, I wrote a blog post detailing 6 tips for working in the tech industry. And while these tips are sage for any tech worker, there is a 7th tip that applies to life in general: Adopt a growth mindset . What is a growth mindset? A growth mindset is a way of viewing challenges and setbacks. People who adopt a growth mindset believe that challenges can always be overcome with time and effort, and that setbacks and failures ar..
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What are the advantages of determining the type of an object by how it behaves? What coding circumstances are not a good fit for duck typing? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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You may have noticed iPhones don't exactly look the same… A lot has changed internally, User Interface (UI) components look far different than they used to. The code to create these views has evolved, and as a result, so have the UI components themselves. Swift, Apple's programming language for creating native iOS apps, has used UIKit as its framework for UI components since 2008. Over time, UIKit has evolved into a robust and flexi....
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in tribute to Akira Toriyama who passed away earlier this month and commemorate the 40th anniversary...
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