chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

noahlz

(ns joy.q)
;; nil

(defn nom [n] (take n (repeatedly #(rand-int n))))
;; #'joy.q/nom

(defn sort-parts [work]
     (lazy-seq
      (loop [[part & parts] work]            ;; Pull apart work - note: work will be a list of lists.
        (if-let [[pivot & xs] (seq part)]    ;; This blows up unless work was a list of lists.

alotaiba

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

sebfisch

Delimited Continuations

Delimited continuations manipulate the control flow of programs. Similar to control structures like conditionals or loops they allow to deviate from a sequential flow of control.

We use exception handling as another example for control flow manipulation and later show how to implement it using delimited continuations. Finally, we show that nondeterminism can also be expressed using delimited continuations.

Exception Handling

cookrn

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• Original (404'ed) -- https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf
• Fakeout -- http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/ryan_dahl_i_hate_almost_all_software.html
• Repost -- https://plus.google.com/116904230181415286707/posts/DnAMAN5sUR8

bouk

import Data.List (insert)

fst3 (x,_,_) = x
snd3 (_,x,_) = x
trd3 (_,_,x) = x

toTuple2Int :: String -> (Int, Int)
toTuple2Int s = (read $ takeWhile (/=' ') s :: Int, read $ dropWhile (==' ') $ dropWhile (/=' ') s :: Int)

toTupleTuple2Int :: String -> (Int, (Int, Int))

codyroux

(* Sigma types *)

(* Inductive Sigma (A:Set)(B:A -> Set) :Set := Spair: forall a:A, forall b : B a,Sigma A B. *)

(* Definition E (A:Set)(B:A -> Set) (C: Sigma A B -> Set) (c: Sigma A B)  *)
(*   (d: (forall x:A, forall y:B x, C (Spair A B x y))): C c := *)
(*   match c as c0 return (C c0) with  *)
(*     | Spair a b => d a b  *)
(*   end. *)

callistabee

- Haskell Mergesort
- Copyright (C) 2014 by Kendall Stewart


First we define a couple of helper functions that
will be useful in splitting the list in half:

> fsthalf :: [a] -> [a]
> fsthalf xs = take (length xs `div` 2) xs

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

---

syhw

"""
A deep neural network with or w/o dropout in one file.
"""

import numpy
import theano
import sys
import math
from theano import tensor as T
from theano import shared