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Re:Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Pro...
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:20PM (#43257517)
My bad. Reposted. Link: https://jdhwilkins.com/mountains-cliffs-and-caves-a-comprehe...
Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
Americans Can Now Drive to France
The Shadow Price of Venture Capital
Re:Ask HN: Book comparing major programming languages at a technical l...
on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:22PM (#30158244)
You might enjoy something along the lines of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages. https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Pro...
Medieval War Horses Were Smaller Than Modern-Day Ponies
Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life
A New System Uses Sawdust to Print Wooden Objects
Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories
Re:Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remot...
on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:07PM (#24683922)
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Re:Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:44PM (#24072691)
Very cool, nice work! SQL Server / Azure SQL support available or on the roadmap?
The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
The United States Needs a New Foreign Policy
The beginning of the end of America’s obsession with student standardized tests
Exploration Strategies in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong
Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure
50 Years Ago: Cargo Cults of Melanesia (1959)
Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure
Re:ASK HN : Suggestions for ML/DL projects to solve business problems
on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:48PM (#20408456)
Optimizing marketing spend - you can show how a ML model will beat a conventional past performance regression algorithm by increasing sales, reducing cost, etc.
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite non-generic or semi-obscure programmi...
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:57PM (#20377803)
Learning Prolog was one of the better decisions I have made. Not because Prolog jobs are plentiful. Rather, understanding logic programming by broadened my problem-solving skill set.
Are we living in a simulated universe? Here's what scientists say
Re:Ask HN: Does your company get positive ROI from its ad spend?
on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:29PM (#20340314)
Good question! Combination of holdout groups (split testing) based on historical keyword traffic/conversion and tagging paid and natural search entries to compare cannibalization across campaigns.
Re:Ask HN: Does your company get positive ROI from its ad spend?
on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:48PM (#20338770)
I worked in ecommerce for 10 years and got to know the quantitative marketing folks well. All marketing campaigns were tracked and analyzed weekly based on the concept of "marketing income". Marketing income at the order level was defined as: Marketing Income$ = Order Total$ - Cost of Goods$ - Shipping$ - Marketing Expense$.
Re:How to monetize a small website about research in cancer, ALS
on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:19PM (#20319918)
I would imagine many folks who are visiting cancer/ALS content are impacted by the diseases either directly or indirectly. Affiliate marketing (directed to non-profits) seems like a place to start.