From reading the documentation [0] I can't help but feel a bit underwhelmed by the feature set of a GIST index. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but what index provide near mathes (fuzzy, prefix) as well as exact term matches?
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Is it that you don't want to hurt the feelings of others that you lie? It's a little immature.
Are there lots of weak tems on .net? Sure, I would argue that is true.
> you can't be a good .NET developer
Really? That is Rob's conslusion? That's laughable. The best programmers I know are extremely strong .net developers. I'm no Jon Skeet but I personaly view myself as a 7-8 (out of ten) irregardless of platform.
If you identify with the platform you're on you are doing it wrong.
A link to a pdf file of a copy of an old calculus book from early nineteen-hundreds showed up on HN a week or so ago. I read the first couple of pages. That quote is likely referencing that particular book. I have lost the link now. Anyone remember?
Edit: sry, that was weak Googleing from my part. Here it is: http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
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Here is a similar statement: Since USA suck at [something USA sucks at] capitalism is clearly inferiour to [something that isn't capitalism].
But we should give most alpha males a break, I think. They're as insecure as you are, probably. Most alpha males I know are quite fun to be around. You get to stand in line outside of clubs less.
Always try to know at least an alpha male.
Shyness to me signals curiosity, a person with a healthy dose of undecisiveness, someone still learning. It's attractive to be in a learning or growing phase.
Me, personally, when it comes to women, I like them medium-shy.
No, and not always.
E.g. from my experience, many intelligent and beautiful women prefer the shy type over the boastful sales person becuase it signals you are a thinker and that you take nothing for granted. In that context, is shyness really a disadvantange?
Many employers also think like that.
But can shyness be a sign of a certain degree of imaturity? I think so, more than I subscribe to the idea it's a disorder.
Do you suffer from it and beat yourself up because of your shyness? Then it's a problem, perhaps a small issue with your self-esteem. It can be fixed though. Just like almost anyone can learn math, almost all mental hickups can be fixed, if you have an interest in fixing them.
1. Create a new browser where the concept of a URL is missing.
2a. Make terms, keywords, concepts first-class citizens. Ban URLs alltogether. Search using keywords to get to the places you want to go, not by typing URLs.
2b. Make it so that the browser gets smarter as you go and accustomed to your prose (the way you formulate your queries).
3. Make it so that the internet index is centralized so that all your browsers use the same "lookup URLS through keywords" service. Also let people use a local index version.
4. Create a buzz around this new browser. Start in the tech community of your choice. They will love using something that has a fair chance of becoming a Google-killer.
5. Your mom and dad already want to use this new browser. URLs are not important to them. Today, they google for "www.facebook.com" before starting their internet session.
6. We are done here. Internet has re-booted. We all profit.
Point 2b makes this perfect for the [random tech incubator], wouldn't you agree?
My point was not to say we have not come a long way in Sweden. It was to question if that really makes us feel less like slaves to the system. My view is we have built this system to make sure we have a happy work force. Allthough that might not sound sinister, it does make me feel part of a system that it is hard to opt-out from.
I definetly feel like a slave to the monetary system. But this is already way off-topic.
I thought the American system would at least to some degree make job-hopping a non-issue, giving you a much more flexible work force, not anxious, since the fact that you can get fired and have to leave the same day goes both ways. But perhaps that worry comes from not having any type of security nets where we have at least a few. So sure, I see where you come from when you say an American employee is a slave to the corporation that gives him health insurance. He can hop only to other employers with health insurance. He will have less options than me.
We are healther in Sweden, perhaps, but slaves to the money system like everyone else.
Alright then.
>When one does lose their job in Sweden, what happens when you break your leg next week? or get cancer?
Care for children is always for free in all clinics except private ones. Care for the rest of us cost 30 EUR, no matter if you have a job or not. There is an upper roof of how much your yearly medical bill is. This roof stays the same if you have a job or not. I have it that roof a couple of times but never for acctual medicine bills, so I don't know exactly how it works for medicine, but doctor bills, the upper roof is 10 doctor visits for 30 EUR then a year of no doctor bills.
Many have extra insurance to conver for events where you loose your ability to work.
>How much student debt to those in Sweden incur for a 4 years bachelor degree?
One part of the debt you take on you never pay back. That part is like a carte blanche check that students get to spend on whatever education they like, at University level. Second part is a loan. Some work part-time while at University and others hit the roof which would be something like 17 semesters and 17*2000=34K EUR. Then you start paying that back as soon as you take on your first job but never over ~1% of your income.
>How many weeks of leave does Sweden mandate by law from full-time work?
5 weeks. Many have 6 weeks. You can get those in money instead of as vacation. 4 weeks is around a months pay.
>How about maternity leave and sick leave?
Everyone have sickleave. First day: no money for you, poor sick fellow. Next day its around 70% of your pay. If you are chronically ill a special incurance takes care of you, puts you in early retirement.
All mothers: around 300 days of leave per child. You get goverment money during those days. All fathers: minimum is 3 months I think? They can also use some of the mother's days.
Households in Sweden take on heavy debt. If we loose our jobs here some of us fall back for a while on a (voluntary) system which from an angle looks like a basic income but that cover only a fraction of that household's mortage, enslaving us to a system in the same way Americans may seem enslaved in their.
I always though Americans were used to and didn't have a lost sence of security when job-hopping, the way their employment system is designed.
Edit: clarified the opt-in nature of such an insurance
It's doable, working two shifts. It takes a 30 minute walk from work to home to reset and prepare myself for shift #2. If my boss want both those shifts though I shall ask for double the money. I don't see how I could be working any more. This is my max. Both shifts require a creative and hungry mind. I'm very hungry at the moment but I suspect this is a phase.
UX % UI = ?
Is it a feeling or a thing perhaps?
Also, is there a link between the sematic and conceptual distance between two terms, does anyone know?
It would surprise me if there was such a correlation, because the concepts of "near" are different in the semantic and conceptual world. Then again, it would be facinating if there was.
Businesses are getting crushed under the weight of their data. They "solve" it by stashing it onto Hadoop. Unfortunately, no one then knows how to map/reduce over that data. So they're none the wiser even though they kept the data that could have made their analysts smarter than their competitor's. This of course totally awsome if you're a Hadoop consultant.
Well, that's at least why I dwell on data structures.
Edit: spelin
I'm struggling with finding a use case for that data structure through. Why would you construct a BK-tree that would only become powerful when it contains millions of words, which would then create a nuisance when representing that amount of data in memory, making it not so fast anymore, when you could represent the same data in a compressed form and with the same (as well as an extended set of) querying capabilities?
Perhaps BK-trees are for big machines with powerful CPUs? I'm sure there is a setup that would make that tree in fact better than any other tree.
IMO there is no data structure better suited for a search tree than the doubly-chained character trie [0], as it has the following features:
- small in memory (every word is stored once at the most, but more often less than once)
- traversing and doing exact matching allow you to prune half of the tree at every step
- requires you to calculate the distance only at querying time, not when constructing the tree
- apart from exact and fuzzy matches also support prefix matches (traverse up to the path of the prefix, return all children that are EndOfWords)
- can be represented on disk in a way that makes reading insignificantly slower than reading from memory
- if nodes are lexically sorted when tree is constructed, you have also pretty much solved range queries
[0] https://github.com/kreeben/resin/blob/master/src/Resin/IO/Lc...
The trie is to be the perfect tool for when you find yourself combatting big data. What you find out eventually about all of the cloud offerings from all of the big players that claim they will solve both storing and map/reducing over your data is that you can do the same thing on your laptop, for cheap money, as long as the data is represented in a compressed form that still allow for querying. The trie is a zip file and a search engine in one.
Edit: formatting and clarification
Personaly I think the usefulness is already to be able to enterpret a concept encoded in slang as the same as the concept derived from a message encoded in a different dialect (or language).
I would never assume a machine spoke this language, only that they understood it. Machines should evolve into speaking succinctly as to not include unneccessary complexity in their messages as they would strive to be well-understood like all other persons do. I fail to see why we would want to produce slang-encoded messages, unless we want to mask the fact we are a machine.