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One of the fun things about machine learning is you have large datasets. A naive algorithm often isn't fast enough and forces optimisation.

Python 3.4: Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter. http://t.co/fFpbGDyoqJ Hurrah!

Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance: http://t.co/E5T3G5XBdT

Current status: installing setuptools but getting the error 'no module named setuptools'. Sheesh.

Deleted just over 150,000 lines of legacy code today without any loss of functionality!

x86 page fault handling is Turing complete: http://t.co/yuPHJX9OKm (bonkers but cool)

RPython is fun, but it feels quite different to plain old Python.

I've never seen the benefit of online stores that give the option of view 10/20/50/all per page. Just show me everything you have.

Gobsmacked to see pandoc produce great results from latex to docx. Really impressive.

@KrystalHosting you are sending me unwanted marketing emails without unsubscribe links. Emailing contact@krystal.co.uk bounces. Please fix.

Microsoft are planning an iPad version of Office for 'fall 2014': http://t.co/2ttceAU7le . The times, they are a'changing.

DRM isn't broken, and it works well: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qtnxhuojytbjbr04ci3cowrmtehsy324 Deep insight from Ian Hickson

The tragedy of backwards compatibility: Excel still considers 1900 to be leap year and doesn't plan to fix it: http://t.co/c52HXkaiEP

Multi-monitor is still so hit-and-miss on Linux with X. Roll on Wayland. Competition is good anyway.

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