Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 304 posts.
Content-aware fill is a powerful tool designers and photographers use to fill in unwanted or missing parts of images. Image completion and inpainting are closely related technologies used to fill in missing or corrupted parts of images. There are many ways to do content-aware fill, image completion, and inpainting. In…
Last year I wrote a blog post when we hit 10 million photos, to mark the date and thank everyone who helped us get there together. Today, we just passed 100 million.
As it turns out, there is no correlation between programming ability and the frequency of Stack Overflow visits.
I'm an EA FIFA enthusiast. More than that, I’ve played since 1994. Last year, I was talking with a friend about the game and he asked me if I was playing Career Mode. My first answer was: "That is boring ... I want to play the real game and not play as a manager". From that day, he decided to convince me to play…
By using a combination of curl, grep, cut, sort, uniq and other common bash utilities it is possible to extract structured data from Wikipedia and compute insights without writing a full program.
Businesses seek the best price and performance to suit the storage needs of workloads ranging from multimedia serving, to data analytics and machine learning, to data backup/archiving, all of which drive demand for a variety of storage options. At Google, we aim to build a powerful cloud platform that can meet the…
Machine learning for trading is a huge domain, but not all applications are practical in terms of making your money grow. Let's find out what really works!
Today, we are open-sourcing TrailDB, a core library powering AdRoll. TrailDB makes it fast and fun to handle event data.
Personal Blog of Will Drevo
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
pop culture + data science
So you know the Bayes rule. How does it relate to machine learning? It can be quite difficult to grasp how the puzzle pieces fit together - we know …
An article for none-Japanese readers....What I'm recently working on is a feature to load data blocks from NVMe-SSD to GPU using peer-to-peer DMA. It allows to bypass the CPU/RAM under a series of data loading process, thus, also allows to reduce number of expensive data copy. Once data blocks are l…
Relative market share of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Spark, H2O, and other data science tools
