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2017-05-05

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qqq04:05:47

why does slack, in it\s right hand bar, often show long threads that are in no way related to me?

qqq04:05:19

for example, right now, there's this fasinating threat of cljs on the jvm, -- it's technically interesting -- but does not involve me in anyway -- and I don't know why it's popped up in my slack window

fellshard06:05:31

qqq: if you ever opened the thread for whatever reason, it stays open until you open something else that requires the sidebar

john11:05:47

I've never see this thread bar open without my causing it to open. Even when people open threads to me, I have to open them manually :thinking_face:

qqq16:05:45

I must have mis clicked then.

martinklepsch05:05:30

what’s a good computer to buy for up to 500€?

achesnais05:05:09

Hi all, does anyone know of a natural language API similar to IBM Watson’s personality insights? What I’m looking for is a service that analyses unstructured text, but does more than just sentiment analysis or entity extraction, and whose results are more directly useable

camdenclark06:05:48

@achesnais I’m not sure exactly what your looking for and haven’t used it myself, but I’ve heard good things about http://wit.ai

achesnais06:05:46

nice, thanks – that’s actually a good idea

mrchance08:05:35

They just moved some services from Clojure to Haskell though 😞

qqq16:05:12

can anyone recommend a book for cuda? in particular implementing neural networks in cuda (the important ops are: scatter, gather, and matrix multiply)

qqq21:05:42

so I just got my chromebook for $380

qqq21:05:00

turns out it's new (as far as I can tell; brand new google packaging, device can't find scratches)

qqq21:05:02

and it's amazing

dominicm21:05:54

How much memory?

qqq21:05:17

4gb ram, 64gb ssd

qqq21:05:38

now, let me see if I can get emacs to run on this 🙂

dominicm21:05:46

That's pretty good.

dominicm21:05:26

Eight million megabytes and constantly swapping? ;)

qqq21:05:40

the display is 2560x1700 and touch screen

qqq21:05:53

either thisxis underpriced or other machines are overpriced

noisesmith21:05:20

that plus 4g internet and ssh tunnel to a high powered server and you’re set

noisesmith21:05:39

(is that one of the chromebooks that takes a sim and does 4g?)

qqq21:05:50

I think it has lte builtin

qqq21:05:05

my main beef with it is: it requires a google account to login

qqq21:05:20

but I like to use random chars in a keychain as password; whereas chromebook forces me to memorize it

noisesmith21:05:56

with 2fa you can afford a typable password

noisesmith21:05:32

nice to know the chromebook works well, sounds like a sweet deal

qqq22:05:49

apparently after 4 years on shelves, the battery is drained and will now take 5 hours to fully charge

qqq22:05:29

want to use the touch screen in linux? recomple the kernel : http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt

juhoteperi09:05:48

qqq: That's not recompiling kernel, just compiling a few additional modules. Anyway, the text is 4 years old and everything should be supported by default now.