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Re:Python wats on Sunday October 11, 2015 @03:54AM (#10368482)
Both behaviors are documented and "if not midnight" adds a fair bit of complexity, probably a good idea to know exactly what happens when you write that.

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-...

[2] https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#time-objects

Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#10235436)
Geoffrey Hinton's archived course is all about neural nets, I think you can enroll in the archived version, no code, just theory.

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

Re:The Max Headroom TV Hack on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:00AM (#9845857)
In 2007 a Czech art group hacked a webcam and incorporated a nuclear explosion at the location it monitored. It later got showed on a weather news segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHkOd9hBJE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ztohoven#The_Media_Reality

Check out Open Refine. Has a feature that clusters similar strings and unifies. I remember last time I looked at this data set... 4 letter acronyms spelled 12 different ways, it's unbelievably messy.
Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:20AM (#8400107)
Shiny is pretty nice for presentations and Plotly works with R. Not to knock IPyNb because I love it too.

http://shiny.rstudio.com

https://plot.ly/r/shiny-tutorial/

Re:Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @05:39PM (#8391455)
AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia
Re:Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:42PM (#7827200)
That's most likely what happened. Search and Identification branch of the Crime Bureau (?) worked with Sweden in the past - these guys http://www.policja.pl/pol/kgp/biuro-sluzby-kryminaln/bsk-str....
Re:ipython 2.0.0 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:55AM (#7514158)
Stable is up on pypi.
They restored full access for Syria.
Re:How To Find Unadvertised Jobs on Sunday January 12, 2014 @03:04PM (#7047220)
Taleo makes a great job making it as painful as possible to search and apply for jobs. I find it pretty funny a "hack" of how to look through taleo listings is in an article about unadvertised jobs.
Re:Into the Bitcoin Mines on Saturday December 21, 2013 @05:20PM (#6948337)
Couple weeks ago these photos from a Hong Kong based mining facility floated up, pretty crazy setup.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.msg3709913#ms...

Re:Software patent reform just died in the House on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:02PM (#6769703)
He is apparently involved with Intellectual Ventures, so while probably not directly involved in killing the reform, this isn't the most noble of positions.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/bill-gates-still-...

Re:Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track on Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:52AM (#6732958)
You might like Data Analysis from Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis

From the post it looks like Udacity too is working on courses that address this.

Re:Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes? on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:06AM (#6552726)
I think it means "#1 son". Bender and Flexo follow the same numbering pattern. Makes sense if you assume all bending units' serial numbers are expressible as sums of two cubes.
Re:Pulsar: Concurrent framework for Python on Sunday October 13, 2013 @10:28PM (#6545070)
What about concurrent.futures from standard library?
Re:Functional Python Made Easy on Sunday October 13, 2013 @06:16PM (#6544342)
btw, Python 3.3 introduced ChainMap for "merging" dicts.

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections#collections.C...

Re:Show HN: Curated Who's Hiring on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @04:12AM (#6319682)
I've been working on another one of those apps. It's a real pain in the ass to get accurate location. Both NER or regex location extraction and geocoding services can be slow and inaccurate in variety of ways. The way that brought me the most success is regex and a tabulated file with city names, coordinates and some other info. In either case, there's manual labor involved in finding false positives and negatives.
Re:Principles of Reactive Programming on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:38PM (#6285713)
Typesafe also just announced a tutoring program for this and the intro course.

http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tu...

Re:Scala School on Monday August 19, 2013 @01:05PM (#6238273)
Coursera has a class as well. Martin Odersky tweeted a while ago about a possible advanced course in the fall but it doesn't look like it's happening yet.

http://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

Incidentally Coursera's Intro to Data Science looks/ed to be a trial run for the first of three classes in the UW Data Science certificate program [1]. Each class is a bit over $1k. UW did the same with Intro to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.

[1] http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/data-science.html

For you there's an additional tool. Salaries for sponsored persons is public data.

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm

Re:“Dihydrogen monoxide” joke gets DJs suspended on Sunday April 07, 2013 @09:06AM (#5507072)
Race doesn't necessarily mean ethnicity.
Re:Sophie In North Korea on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:16PM (#5084777)
There's a great writeup on reddit about "What North Koreans were told about World War II" [1] with a list of books and couple other media buried in the thread.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15lw49/histor...

After the fact you can try to make it sound however you like. But when your option is to get off the lawn or get a bullet in the head, it sounds entirely different. The release is loaded with statements making it sound like he "deserved it" and some empty "didn't intend to" is worthless.
Speaking of Coursera, Data Analysis[1] starts January - "applied statistics course focusing on data analysis".

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis

Re:Gmail.com was down on Monday December 10, 2012 @12:32PM (#4900344)
Oh that's what happened. This is a pretty unexpected oversight from a company that tests their software so extensively to have browsers crash because an email service/sync service is down.
Re:Try R — A new online course, for free on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:25PM (#4878965)
Videos are available on Roger Peng's Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rdpeng/videos?flow=grid&view...

Re:Coursera's Functional Programming - Cheating Discovered on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @10:26AM (#4631641)
Certificates and other records from this and Robert Sedgewick's algorithms course (maybe others) can be shared with employers through Coursera's placement service. Not entirely meaningless.
Re:Microsoft: 'To fill 6,000 jobs, we'll pay $10K per visa' on Sunday September 30, 2012 @07:28AM (#4592632)
Microsoft doesn't pay that low. Here's[1] some data from 2 years back. Friend of mine got over 100k last year, they treat H1-B holders well.

[1] http://goo.gl/P0UCj

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