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http://qr.ae/ROlwZp - I've found this answer on quora to be one of the best explanations as to why software estimates are so off.
Re:TensorFlow Tutorials on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:18AM (#11032817)
An evaluation of the open source ML options - https://github.com/zer0n/deepframeworks
Re:Global Sea Level Rise Map on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:29AM (#10886991)
This map is not accurate. I tested by looking at the Maldives, of which the highest point is only 2.4m above the sea level but even at 7m, the map indicates that some islands would be above the surface.
Re:Hacking Redis to Save Money on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:33AM (#10842291)
tl;dr version: Intersection operation took too long, forked redis to enable key retrievals/expirations on a slave instance and ran the CPU intensive intersection on the slave.
Re:Sam Altman's Twitter AMA on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:45AM (#10424312)
Github also has a file finder similar to the Command-T plugin for vim - https://github.com/blog/793-introducing-the-file-finder

This extension is great for exploring but if you know what you're looking for, cmd+t will save you more time.

Re:Go Continuous Delivery is now open source on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:04AM (#7646939)
Project site - http://www.go.cd/
Re:Indian Ocean garbage patch on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:38AM (#7434742)
The 5 Gyres Foundation http://5gyres.org advocates both cleaning up plastic from the ocean and cutting down the use of it
Maldivian here. The army (MNDF) wasn't able to pick anything up from the surface monitor radars. There is no data to back this story outside of eye witness accounts from the residents of Kuda Huvadhoo.

Can neither confirm nor disprove :(

Re:Keeping Parts of Your Codebase Private on GitHub on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:03AM (#6873451)
You can have multiple git repositories within each other so you could just `git init` in the directory you want private, add it to the parent repo's .gitignore and point it to a different remote.
Re:Terminal Wedding – Ruby gem for Prerita and Jai's marriage on Thursday November 21, 2013 @01:16PM (#6776335)
It took a while to pass the parental CI
Re:Here's Waldo on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @12:45PM (#6769564)
Forget the measuring tape, find Waldo with Mathematica! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
Re:How to attract girls to the tech industry on Monday October 21, 2013 @08:18AM (#6584961)
Engineers and doctors are held in high esteem by Indians (not to mention a lot of other Asians) so no, the women in India do not 'work in IT to get ahead because India is poor'
Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For on Sunday October 20, 2013 @06:19AM (#6579466)
This reminds me of Jonathan's card, which was shortly exploited as an 'experiment' and ultimately frozen by Starbucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877779

Re:Are STEM Workers Overpaid? on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:25AM (#6338835)
Wages are so skewed towards the top earners - A typical corporate CEO gets paid $7000/hour. Suppressing tech wages isn't going to make a dent in income equality. Tech is already more egalitarian with the offering of shares to employees at most (if not all) levels.

http://moneymorning.com/2013/04/19/ceo-pay-now-7000-an-hour-...

Re:Google Latitude will be retired on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:14AM (#6019708)
Reader is actually harder since it provided RSS feeds for websites that didn't support RSS (using the in-house indexed data)
Re:Worst CAPTCHA Ever on Saturday March 30, 2013 @12:31PM (#5465864)
Haha, sadly the vast majority doesn't last past 6 years due to EOL on various components and inflexibility to changing business requirements. A more common need is the ability to have a scapegoat / fall-guy for failures of projects that have unrealistic/arbitary requirements and/or deadlines set by an upper management that is no longer in touch with technology.
Re:Worst CAPTCHA Ever on Saturday March 30, 2013 @12:23PM (#5465838)
Exactly. They're not the people everybody trusts to determine if incoming traffic is human/machine.

Your response implies that they are inept at their area of expertise.

Re:What made you realize that math is beautiful? on Friday March 08, 2013 @05:44AM (#5342817)
I think the responses have been skewed towards visual presentations since the questioner intends to write a children's book. Thanks for the link - simple, powerful and beautiful.

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