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yzan
·4 years ago·discuss
For a laptop with >15 Watt peak consumption, a fan based design is easier to get working on the first attempt: maybe the fan will rotate faster than strictly necessary, but it will work.

On the other end, it generally takes a couple of iterations to get a fan-less design right, because you can't simply slap an oversized heatsink into a mobile device.
yzan
·4 years ago·discuss
I have two issue with dataflow programming languages: 1) They generally do not support batch processing. In the past, when I needed batch rename variables in a dataflow, my solution was to export the flow into an XML, do the batch rename in a text editor, and import the XML back. 2) They generally do not support macros (operators, which would generate new operators). As a workaround, I was using Python scripts to generate the XMLs...
yzan
·5 years ago·discuss
Also, the ranking algorithm should take into account the rank of the content when the upvote happened - 10 upvotes for a content on the 5th page is much more impressive than 10 upvotes for a content on the 1st page (keeping everything else constant).
yzan
·5 years ago·discuss
An obligatory link to an article by Evan Miller about ranking: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

However, to get the following requirement from the article:

> The algorithm should not produce false negatives, the community should find all high-quality content.

it might be better to estimate the upper confidence bound, like in Upper Confidence Bound bandit, rather than the lower confidence bound.
yzan
·5 years ago·discuss
There is also DBLint (https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=dblint), which has a fairly comprehensive set of checks.