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_FBGraphQLConnectionStorePersistentPageLoaderOperationDelegate-Protocol.h _FBReactionAcornSportsContentSettingsSetShouldNotPushNotificationsMutationCall.h FBBoostedComponentCreateInputDataCreativeObjectStorySpecLinkDataCallToActionValue.h FBEventUpdateNotificationSubscriptionLevelMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h
I just threw up a little. See also https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-dalvik-patch-for-facebook-for-android/10151345597798920 , in which the FB Android devs happily reveal that they hot-patch the Dalvik VM at runtime to work around a limit — rather than refactoring their app.(tags: facebook horrors coding ios android dalvik hot-patching apps)
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I can’t believe this is the state of food blogging in the UK and Ireland. full-on payola for reviews. See also @damienmulley’s excellent rant on the subject in this country: https://twitter.com/damienmulley/status/633353368757497858 — there’s even rate cards for positive review tweets/posts/facebook updates etc.
(tags: food blogging restaurants uk bakeries reviews payola blogger-blackmail pr)
The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis
Useful stats hack from Google: “We show how to safely reuse a holdout data set many times to validate the results of adaptively chosen analyses.”
(tags: statistics google reusable-holdout training ml machine-learning data-analysis holdout corpus sampling)
Recommender Systems (Machine Learning Summer School 2014 @ CMU)
Extremely authoritative slide deck on building a recommendation system, from Xavier Amatriain, Research/Engineering Manager at Netflix
(tags: netflix recommendations recommenders ml machine-learning cmu clustering algorithms)
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our full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up with no external library dependencies entirely in x86_64 assembly language, and is the result of many years’ experience with high volume web environments. In addition to all of the common things you’d expect a modern web server to do, we also include assembly language function hooks ready-made to facilitate Rapid Web Application Server (in Assembler) development.
(tags: assembly http performance https ssl x86_64 web ops rwasa tls)