Gabriella439

I'm writing this post to publicly come out as trans (specifically: I wish to transition to become a woman).

This post won't be as polished or edited as my usual posts, because that's kind of the point: I'm tired of having to edit myself to make myself acceptable to others.

I'm a bit scared to let people know that I'm trans, especially because I'm not yet in a position where I can transition (for reasons I don't want to share, at least not in public) and it's really shameful. However, I'm getting really

fnky

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

• Ctrl-Key: ^[
• Octal: \033
• Unicode: \u001b
• Hexadecimal: \x1B
• Decimal: 27

sooryan

BLAKE2

• BLAKE2 is an improved version of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE, and was designed by a team of experts in cryptanalysis, implementation, and cryptographic engineering; namely Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn and Christian Winnerlein.

• BLAKE2s (the one checksum currently uses) computes a message digest that is 256 bits long, and represented as a 64-character hexadecimal number, e.g. 4264cb256d94533b6e152da59256638bc6adfda3efc5550d7607d4e6e45592fc.

Types

• BLAKE2b (or just BLAKE2) is optimized for 64-bit platforms and produces digests of any size between 1 and 64 bytes.

private_deps.md

Better Dependency Hygiene With Private Dependencies On JVM

A common pain when working with large projects is the diamond dependency. Consider a commonly used library such as ASM. One wants to build a big application reusing many powerful libraries, but unfortunately many of my desired dependencies themselves depend on different and incompatible versions of ASM. While compiling my code, since ASM does not appear in any APIs I touch, everything compiles fine, but at runtime the JVM only includes one version of classes of a given name leading to runtime binary errors.

OSGI Bundles are related to solving this problem, but it appears that is a heavy solution that has proven to be too cumbersome to actually use. Here we propose a lighter weight approach that benefits each incremental project that adopts this method.

Private dependencies are implemented by a build tool plug-in. In the build where one declares dependencies, one can label a jar dependency to be a private dependency. A private dependency means tha

johnynek

Unifying Sketch Monoids

As I discussed in Algebra for Analytics, many sketch monoids, such as Bloom filters, HyperLogLog, and Count-min sketch, can be described as a hashing (projection) of items into a sparse space, then using two different commutative monoids to read and write respectively. Finally, the read monoids always have the property that (a + b) <= a, b and the write monoids has the property that (a + b) >= a, b.

##Some questions:

1. Note how similar CMS and Bloom filters are. The difference: bloom hashes k times onto the same space, CMS hashes k times onto a k orthogonal subspaces. Why the difference? Imagine a fixed space bloom that hashes onto k orthogonal spaces, or an overlapping CMS that hashes onto k * m length space. How do the error asymptotics change?
2. CMS has many query modes (dot product, etc...) can those generalize to other sketchs (HLL, Bloom)?
3. What other sketch or non-sketch algorithms can be expressed in this dual mo

johnynek

import java.io.{FileNotFoundException, IOException}

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{
  FileSystem,
  FileStatus,
  FSDataInputStream,
  FSDataOutputStream,
  Path
}

robinsloan

require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"

eed3si9n

// requires Scala 2.10.0-M7
def kind[A: scala.reflect.TypeTag]: String = {
  import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
  def typeKind(sig: Type): String = sig match {
    case PolyType(params, resultType) =>
      (params map { p =>
        typeKind(p.typeSignature) match {
          case "*" => "*"
          case s   => "(" + s + ")"
        }

tbuktu

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