Aron

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   by Aron 12y ago

   This might be the platform for my re-entry into machine learning. So I appreciate your efforts to publish code ahead of time.
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   by Aron 13y ago

   I suspect this is the answer.
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   by Aron 13y ago

   I have an ongoing theory that diet matters extremely little aside from various extreme scenarios. Things like this help me to confirm my confirmation bias.
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   by Aron 13y ago

   In theory your red blood cells continue to get recycle correct? I always thought a sizeable amount of your feces was from this. Yet, he pooped every 40-50 days? Wonder what that looked like.
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   by Aron 13y ago

   I think this is happening in US as well. Amazon is picking up expensive contracts that Netflix drops or passes on. It seems perfectly reasonable to pay for both services if you aren't paying for overlapping content rights. Since Netfli
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   by Aron 13y ago

   The long-term success of Tesla seems to turn mostly on the improvement pace of batteries, so hanging up because of a debate on that subject seems a bit unfair. A 10k-12k$ battery with current ranges would be a miracle.
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   by Aron 13y ago

   I generally try to limit my spending to those things that I get a really high return of value from, knowing that most things do not qualify. On the income side, I put a value on maximizing freedom. I don't work backwards from a retirement d
8. 218.▲
   by Aron 14y ago

   CurtWelch's comments in that article are fantastic.
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   by Aron 14y ago

   The electric engine itself weighs under 80lb, and gas can be fueled up in under 5 minutes. What we need are better fuel cells it seems.
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    by Aron 14y ago

    Yeah interesting. It doesn't appear to characterize her bleak prognosis (regardless of treatment).
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    by Aron 14y ago

    I can imagine the use of this for political campaigns, wherein the strategy is determined by the combinations of sub-electorate most likely achievable via which policy positions, stumping, ad-spend, etc. I'd like to see the sports version a
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    by Aron 14y ago

    I think there are a variety of external measures. The # of likes on the show, the critic reception, the avg rating on Netflix, the google trends for 'House of Cards' (close to 'game of thrones' last I looked).. probably twitter activity. Co
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    by Aron 14y ago

    They are spending about 71% on content. Before they hit 40M subscribers they could produce 13 hours of House of Cards level content per week. That would surely be something. For 8$.
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    by Aron 14y ago

    I worked on the Netflix prize and haven't learned anything since then. There the RBM (or modified version per ruslan's paper) performed very well but not substantially better than the linear models (in apples to apples comparison.. ignore t
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    by Aron 14y ago

    So how much could Netflix pull in with ads? They streamed a billion hours in June, so if it was one ad per half-hour (on average), at 30$ CPM does that imply 60M$\month? That's a serious amount of money.
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    by Aron 14y ago

    I probably should just upvote you but I chuckled aloud.
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    by Aron 15y ago

    try www.hackingnetflix.com
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    by Aron 15y ago

    The article says he christian. Now there's a stunner.
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    by Aron 15y ago

    Might as well been chanting 'please shoot the students!' since almost everyone there wanted that to happen. It helps make the story bigger and their heroic roles in it more important. Why were they blocking the sidewalk in the first place?
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    by Aron 15y ago

    How do they expect to have images appear outside the 2d dimensions of the device?
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    by Aron 15y ago

    Memories 1,000 years from now will be pretty impressive. So I'll go with 'everyone who has been mentioned somewhere on the Web right now'.
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    by Aron 15y ago

    I'm curious about the coffee part. What happens with coffee?
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    by Aron 15y ago

    Is there like an infografikster.com or something
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    by Aron 15y ago

    Seems like the last time I looked up the GFLOPS on my PC GPU it came in as equal to the fastest supercomputer of 14 years ago.
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    by Aron 15y ago

    In terms of stock timing, I have a hard time believing that this kind of move was completely held secret. This takes a lot of prep work, and whispering has to go on, and rumors spread fast to connected people who can profit. I suspect the e
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    by Aron 15y ago

    I've been following Netflix for years and 'Focus' is Hastings' singular theme. They dodged cloning Hulu, Redbox, Youtube, various 5$\movie rental options, GameFly, etc. They ruthlessly cut out things like Friends features, used DVD sales. I
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    by Aron 15y ago

    The money on the table reference was in regard to the kind of interactivity one could add to a sports stream: camera angles, betting, fantasy\gaming stuff, stats, alternate commentary, etc. It really should be it's own thing. It's more than
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    by Aron 15y ago

    That seems to be more Hulu's territory. Netflix management has always been pretty good at staying within a tightly controlled niche (dodging Youtube or Hulu or GameFly or 5$ a pop new release type markets). But yeah, the things you could do
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    by Aron 15y ago

    I'm agreeing with your analysis in general. What do you think the odds are of Netflix dropping prices again in the face of competition as they did in 2004? That's certainly marketshare over profit. I presume they'd discount the hybrid custo
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    by Aron 15y ago

    bad pun on your name (George Romero of zombie movie fame).. ignore it.