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Daily 04/06/2018

• A brief look at sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier - 4 Go Language Criticisms Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Interesting links for 04/04/2018

• 1.10. Decision Trees — scikit-learn 0.19.1 documentation - From Rails to Clojure, then to Java, then back to Rails – Engineering Management - Next step Git for those that already know add and commit Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Interesting links I found today 04/03/2018

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music Great resource tags: music classical library Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Interesting links I found today 04/02/2018

Rails Refactoring Techniques – Concerns | Best Practice on Ruby on Rails | Hire Ruby on Rails developers tags: Rails ruby [best practice](h...

Interesting links I found today 04/01/2018

• FIND3 Overview · FIND3 - LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: detecting integer constant expressions in macros - [LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: detecting integer constant expressions in macros](https://lkml.org/lkm...

Interesting Links

• 5 Tips To Write Idiomatic Pandas Code (article) – DataCamp - Architecting Ruby on Rails Apps as Microservices | Codeship | via @codeship - [Good Module, Bad ...

Tempted

I came across my old blog that I’ve not posted to in 3 years and, well, found some really good stuff. I recently dropped all social media because it had become a total time sync. Bit yeah, some really good stuff. Also WordPress is a very nice platform. It’s evolved right  under me and now it’s downright pleasant to use. Maybe… Should I start blogging again?

The dark side of low prices

I spent over an frustrating hour on the phone yesterday with Bank Of America and Paypal trying to sort out what a charge that was showing up on my credit card. All of $4,200.00. So nothing small. It turned out that it was correct, but the description was so incorrect that it was impossible for me to...

About intellectual property and other things

I came across a wonderful quote about intellectual property. I am not sure I agree with it myself but wanted to share it. It is from Carsie Blanton’s blog post “New Rules for the Music Business” and it goes like this: > ““Intellectual property” is an absurd concep...

The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever

In the world of machine vision, the equivalent goal is to win the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. This is a competition that has run every year since 2010 to evaluate image recognition algorithms. (It is designed to follow-on from a similar project called PASCAL VOC which ran from 2005 until 2012) Click to read the article.

What about that iWatch? It’s about the Software!

I’ve seen commentary that it’s “disappointingly familiar”, i.e. it looks just like several other computer watches, like the Pebble or even the [iPod Nano attache...

Worth reading: The Trouble With Harvard!

The most-read article in the history of [The New Republic] is not about war, politics, or great works of art. It’s about the admissions policies of a handful of elite universities, most prominently my employer, Harvard, which is figuratively and literally immolated on the cover.  It’s not surprisin...

Worth reading: Journalism is doing just fine, thanks — it’s mass-media business models that are ailing — Tech News and Analysis

This is worth looking at: Is the internet destroying journalism? In a piece at Salon, writer Andrew Leonard argues that it is — primarily because “the economics of news gathering in the Internet age suck,” as he puts it. Link: "http://ift.tt/1qrLoY6"

On Being a Female in Venture Capital

Interesting story… > “My summer internship was full of many positive experiences. I won’t forget, though, the burning sensation I felt in my face every time a secretary walked into a room to remind a partner his next meeting had arrived. Or the strange pride I felt when the only woman on our bowl...

Haven’t used windows for a while, but does it do THIS?

### I hadn’t checked in a while but my Mac has been up for 38 days straight. Does Windows do this?

Worth reading: Don’t BS the American People About Iraq, Syria, and ISIL

This is worth looking at: The apparent beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a stark reminder of the group’s terrible brutality and the seriousness required to counter them. > ““No one has offered a plausible strategy to defeat ISIL tha...

Worth reading: At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another

This is worth looking at: There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else. The first is making exorbitant amounts of money. The second is pretending they don’t care about that money. Link: Link to original

Worth reading: How to Be Polite — The Message — Medium

This is worth looking at: Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches.

Worth reading: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

This is worth looking at: John Graham-Cumming wrote an article today complaining about how a computer system he was working with described his last name as having invalid characters.  It of course does not, because anything someone tells you is their name is — by definition — an appropriate identifier for them. Link: Link to original