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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 is source available (it's written in Pascal!)
Hacker News discussion GitHub mirror of source code I mentioned this to a couple of you recently. I incorrectly believed that the source code release was recent. It actually happened 11 years ago! Reading through the code, I was surprised by how "modern" Pascal seemed.... The curious case of the gravitational constant
This is a story that came up at Hack 6. I couldn’t remember if it had also come up at Hacks prior or I had found it through some other means. See also:... The
algorithm
is extremely simple at the moment:activity = voteCount + (10 * numComments)
then there are thresholds for how many bars to show.
Expand up the tree
sounds exciting to me.related to @dave’s question about deleting, how do we deal with editing a title?
I think we just got a heap of useful feedback.
Automatic score recomputation seems to be busted after the backend process got killed due to OOM.
- dingotron...
Scikit Metric Learning
In the metric-learn package, all algorithms currently implemented learn so-called Mahalanobis distances.
Looks like for metric learning, it’s Mahalanobis or bust. Are we misusing voting?
In What should we eat?, it seems easy to use votes as an indication our food preferences. That might muck with the "trust" signal. I think this could happen all over the place in a larger system. Thoughts?... Read the full post