Posts by oxfordmale78

Re: UK will pull out of GDPR

The UK pulling out of GDPR would be massively stupid in economic terms, although I wouldn't put it past the current government to take this step.

I am currently working for a SaaS company, based in London, selling worldwide. As the UK is still complies with GDPR we can process EU data, however, once the UK pulls out we won't be able to do this, and would need to move jobs to an EU subsidiary.

It is also unlikely Facebook and Google would move from Ireland. Ireland is covered by GDPR, and it is only the favourable tax conditions plus and English speaking population that attracts these companies to this country in the first place. Prior to COVID I could see the UK becoming a low tax country, however, with the massive COVID debts and an ageing population that is now unrealistic.

Re: To the Victor, the Valiant Hotspur that Leads ....

I suspect you will have to wait a bit longer, I doubt this bill will be a priority with the Corana virus outbreak going to peak in April/May

Re: 3.4 times faster and up to 87 per cent less expensive

.....due to asymmetry in nature your left ball is probably slightly different than your right ball, but both of them will get the job done they were intended for.

However, I would advise though not to run too many benchmarks for this purpose as it can become prohibitely expensive. I would advise exhaustive testing prior to running these bench marks.

Re: subtly different article

There is not such thing as "BREAKING FREE", not if you are the size of the United Kingdom. Even the USA needs its trade deals.

"Deepnudes" are already being published. Given the vast amount of nudes, it is trivial to find a matching nude body for a given celebrity. Combine this with some Photoshop editing skills, and your low tech "deep nude" is ready to go.

Re: The SQL Empire Strikes Back

Are you employed by Oracle by any chance ?

I agree that SQL is making a comeback, but your views of Oracle's product are rather optimistic.

Re: PCI is a joke

The PCI audit tends to be focused on documentation, not on reality. As long as the documentation is in order, it doesn't matter if credit card details are stored unencrypted on a publicly accessible server.

Re: No need to go to Uni....

Many developers are quite happy to run a linear regression on a data set without understanding the actual mathematics behind it. A similar approach can be applied to many of the machine learning algorithms available in default libraries like Scikit-learn. Unfortunately there is still a lot of machine learning snobbery out there by those who hold a PhD in Machine learning. They are preventing the wider adaptation of machine learning by criticising the simpler but still valuable implementations. Yes, you need a PhD in machine learning if you want to build a Google scheduler that can make appointments for you, but you don't need if you are trying to understand customer churn.

.eu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union (EU).[1] Launched on 7 December 2005, the domain is available for any person, company or organization based in the European Economic Area. Thanks to May we will be leaving the EEA as well.

Re: With the rise of the city farm...

The difference is that the existing system, although complex, has been up and running for years, whereas the new system is still in the design phase and will be cheaply outsourced leaving the developers with little chance of delivering a robust system in the next decade.

Those thumbs down voters, this is economic reality. Are you really going to pay £10,000 for an average flat screen television ? Or a £1,000,000 for your next car ?

Re: Don't buy

Spark still offer free parallelisation and that can be useful if your language of choice doesn't support parallelisation very well (e.g. Python). However, it is indeed most suited when you need to scale out to multiple machines.

Regarding MongoDB, I found it a pain to setup and to maintain. AWS DynamoDB has its own problems, but is a lot easier to setup and maintain and has better security by default. In-house I generally use PostgreSQL or Hadoop HDFS, depending on the problems I am trying to solve. However, more importantly for this IPO, the companies that I have worked for and are using MongoDB, are generally very happy to run the community edition without a support contract. That probably explains the large losses.

Re: Security Researchers

Never underestimate the stupidity of users...you only need one of them.

Re: Suggestions for replacement?

You mean the Windows 10 Chrome downloader ?

Re: Data speculation - Done successfully

Based on their job ads Cambridge Analytica have an impressive technology stack, however, as a data scientist myself, it is almost never the technology stack that is the limiting factor, but mapping and data quality issues instead. For example, how can I map your username Flocke Kroes reliable to your other social media accounts and secondly how can I infer your political opinions from your posts, in particular if you only ever post videos of cats or dogs on your public profile. Based on my personal experience, I don't believe Cambridge Analytica can deliver what they are promising, they seems to have nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet to record voter information derived from door to door leafleting combined with a limited subset of voter information scraped from social media.

Re: Way to go!

All those thousands of drones registered to 10 and 11 Downing street, do May and Hammond really have the time to play with them all ?

Re: Who is going to pay for all this?

You are a traitor, not respecting the will of the people. We are going to have our strong and stable leader May negotiate a strong and stable trade deal with every strong and stable country in the world and it shall be good.

Re: What utter s*****

Probably nobody. If you are really skilled and don't mind been thrown out after five years, you are better off in Silicon Valey where the pay is at least double what you can get in the UK.

Re: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 sha1 calculations

It costs nothing if you use some else's hardware...think botnets.

Re: Uh-oh

W3C validator says no:

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.theregister.co.uk%2Fforum%2F1%2F2017%2F02%2F24%2Fcloudbleed_buffer_overflow_bug_spaffs_personal_data%2F

Sex robots with rights.....that kind of defies the purpose. If you get no sex after spending lots of money, you can just as well get married:-)

Re: We need a new icon...

Unfortunately Big Sister Theresa May and her MP colleagues seem to be clueless regarding the internet. How long will it take for one of the kids to figure out you can bypass most of these filters using Google DNS or a VPN server. If all else fails, you could also of course use your dad's computer to watch that stuff.

Re: Basic misunderstanding how AI works

Until the AI learns to rip you off too:-)

Re: If one reads between the lines

I have used MongoDB in production and I am considering to become a certified developer. Not because I love MongoDB, but because I good make a good living as a consultant by redesigning badly thought out schemas or migrating MongoDB back to a SQL based environment. Personally I only use MongoDB for storing JSON retrieved from external APIs. You only need a few lines of Python for this and can be very useful if you want to scrape additional fields at a later stage. However, it is less useful for storing big data, especially as I found the integration with Apache Spark (beginning of 2016) not very good.