Bill_Dimm

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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
I think changing your name to be a rather obvious trademark infringement is a pretty bad place to start (Lindows) Uhm, what? Lindows became Linspire. Mandriva was originally Mandrake (renamed after merging with Conectiva). As far as I
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
That is a nice piece of work. If you click on any of the 3D graphs you can grab them and drag to view from different angles. Very cool.
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Did you perhaps mean "penalty" rather than "procedure"?
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
They should really run this against a bunch of photos from a dating site to measure the difference between the claimed age and guessed age and then compare to the result from whatever training set they used. I'm guessing they would ge
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Women twice as likely to be hired for academic posts as men(rsc.org)
9 points by Bill_Dimm 11y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Good observation -- I missed that (obviously). They seem to be using data from the word2vec project, so I would guess that it is intentional rather than a lack of cleaning.
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
It's not removed from the list -- it is second from the bottom. madsravn's question is a good one.
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
I've been saying exactly this for quite a while. It is so incredibly stupid to replace the ads when the back button is hit. The probability that I hit the back button to click one of the ads is quite high, and the probability that I&
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
I just did some tests using "Edit > Find > Search Messages" to search (I'm not sure what asutherland means by the "global search mechanism") and based on a few tests searching for "contains" matches
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Really? I don't remember having any major problems with search recently. Search is a few orders of magnitude better than the junk mail classification, at least for me. I don't know what algorithms they use for junk classificati
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Any idea why? On the surface, that seems completely insane.
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
I agree. When I follow kuschku's link (starting at the 900th result), there is no next page link at the bottom, and if I try hacking the "start" value in the URL to go even one document farther I get no results and a "S
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Seems like a reasonable hypothesis, but you can easily prove that it's wrong by doing a search for a single word, so there is no step (3). I did a search for "hackerspace" (no quotes) and it claims "About 588,000 results
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Counterpoint: If you are extremely nearsighted, contact lenses can give you much better vision than glasses. If I look at the red digits on an alarm clock from across the room while wearing glasses, and I tilt my head, I can see the numbe
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Not to diminish the accomplishment, but the press release title says "...make LibreOffice Beta available..." whereas it is apparently a LibreOffice viewer , not full-blown LibreOffice.
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Brands pay Twitter to falsely appear in your following list(gigaom.com)
85 points by Bill_Dimm 12y ago|22 comments
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Movie Studios Fear a Google Fiber Piracy Surge(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by Bill_Dimm 12y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
> How old is this benchmark? It says they used SQLite version 3.7.8. Since 3.7.8 came out on September 19, 2011 and 3.7.9 came out on November 1, 2011, it was probably in that range.
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Ah, it's getting stuck on /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup Rerunning with "-D skip"
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
This seems to get stuck for me after a few minutes (grep stops taking up CPU cycles). I thought maybe it was getting stuck trying to read something it shouldn't, but lsof gives no clues.
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
I think a clearer way to put it is this: The 23% number was measured across networks displaying ads on many sites. Some of those sites employ botnets to generate fake views, giving them much more than 23% fraudulent views, while other sit
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
OK, I found where Hinton claimed that[1], but it would be nice to have a better reference than a Reddit comment if anyone knows of one. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2lmo0l/ama_...
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
"The results are not specific to neural networks (similar techniques could be used to fool logistic regression)." Do you have any references or examples where such behavior has been demonstrated on non-NN algorithms (like logistic
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
"...calculate how far apart they are one minute before they collide" So, the answer is 500 miles (not 1000 miles).
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Yep, I still find myself switching to the old version so I can get terrain view. In the new version, once you type in an address the "terrain" link below the address box disappears. I can't imagine why that is supposed to b
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
It's been done (not $0.25, though): http://grrrltraveler.com/top-packing-tips/vapur-water-bottle...
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This ‘egregious’ patent troll just got smacked by the FTC(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by Bill_Dimm 12y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
It's a shame the "being the same age" item didn't separate the data for men being older from the data for women being older (for heterosexual marriages). With society being somewhat more accepting of older men marrying
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
I thought DMCA applied to copyright (hence the "C" in the name), not trademark. Am I wrong?
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
The title is wrong and misleading. It should be "YogaGlo Patent Dropped." They did not patent yoga; they patented a method of filming yoga classes.

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