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06-04-2021
The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions - MIT Technology Review

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions - MIT Technology Review

Source: technologyreview.com

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Tags: Technology AI
06-04-2021
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake

Source: adamdrake.com

Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR.

Tags: tool
06-04-2021
Rewriting deprecated APIs with parser gem | Arkency Blog

Rewriting deprecated APIs with parser gem | Arkency Blog

Source: blog.arkency.com

Rewriting deprecated APIs with parser gem In upcoming Rails Event Store release we’re going to deprecate existing reader methods. They’ll be replaced in favor of fluent query interface — popularized by ActiveRecord. In order to make this transition a bit easier, we’ve prepared a script to transform given codebase to utilize new APIs.

06-04-2021
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How to solve the Google recruiters’ puzzle about throwing eggs from a building | Codementor

How to solve the Google recruiters’ puzzle about throwing eggs from a building | Codementor

Source: codementor.io

You work in a 100 floor building and you get 2 identical eggs. You need to figure out the highest floor an egg can be dropped without breaking. Find an algorithm that is minimizing number of throws in the worst-case scenario.

Tags: puzzle google eggs algorithm