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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
You're right. I didn't consider this too. Have you tried a language with units? I've tried it in F# and seen it in Frink. I found it cool but havent found a need for it. I suspect that is at least partially due to being used to not having i
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Just like no car will ever be able to transfer hundreds of people across an ocean. That is not the purpose of static types, instead they offer a basic guarantee on correctness, a minimal correctness proof on the structures of the program an
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
>As for charging money for software, the market changed. I do not agree. Nothing is free, its just that costs continually get shifted else where into abstraction. If you pay money to advertise your service then you and (others) are all
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
If it wouldn't trouble you to do so, could you go into more detail please? Do you have experience with this? You are saying that any sport event, in particular those that are in play actually have some statistical mineable property with pro
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Awesome. It sounds like you are running some kind of stochastic optimization algorithm on the data points and also doing so across a cluster! Are you eventually gonna leverage GPUs on the machines as well? Also, do you have a blog or someth
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
what do you mean? transmission of actual information from quantum entanglement based results are still bounded by classical channels.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I would remove one maybe both muches. I agree that in general SVMs are better but they are also every bit as black box. Deep belief networks though, are on another level. literally, svms are depth 2, dbn's are depth unbounded, i think. htt
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
what parts of betfair are you suggesting? I am skeptical but intrigued. while profitable gambling is possible I expect the potential returns are much less for respective successful strategies with advantaged gambling also less amenable to e
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
can you go more into the machine learning parts? i love such uses of ML, so futuristic.. im guessing you use either some kind of genetic algorithm or neural networks as is most common? or something else entirely?
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I also agree but while neural networks are a sort of black box they are also entirely mathematical. Also some of the most impressive current research is in the area of deep learners, an example of which is a type of neural network: RBMs and
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I dont read reddit much so that concept has a much more positive association for me since it brings to mind Accelerado and the crazy economics 2.0 with its sentient corporations using humans as currency and crazy intelligent 419 scams.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Ive read a commenter here in HN remark on how the Voice recognition of the Kinect is something that is seriously being slept on/not paid enough attention too.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
There are Ocaml, F# and Clojure with some combination of great tools, speed (clojure addressed this recently I think but i only have visual experience with clojure), light syntax, books and documentation, repl,excellent platform, wide libar
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I enjoy machine learning, pure and applied maths. Where do I start? Any books, any summaries of the state of the art for the computationally inclined? I ignorantly guess that graph theory, statistics and perhaps even group theory may provid
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
No functor support. Questionable if it would fit idiomatically with .net framework culture but not something you miss. In order of wish list to F#: - ability to create a structure isomorphic to GADTS - further enhancements to metapr
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
A genuinely curious question with the subtext that I do not agree with you but wish to find out where you form your basis. The core languages of both are nearly identical (ignore active patterns, computation expressions, .net libs f# functo
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Two things. Programming is too broad an umbrella of a term for any meaningful generalizations to be made from it. It ranges from artisan type crafts work to engineering to pure mathematical theorizing. You can't tell the people doing machin
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I see your point. But I would say maximize your utility but even that is questionable. As Daniel Bernoulli (St. Petersburg Paradox) showed, the concept of expected value to the real world is not straightforward. Short of it is: I don't agre
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I see. I did miss the part about the $100 late fee. And you know what, I would still take option A because the expected loss is not meaningful to me, I don't intend to have this happen again. For one, I should not have been speeding or what
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I do not think the reasoning in this piece is solid. Firstly the concept of expected value only make sense over repeated trials of the same experiment and using it here on a one off is a misapplication. Unless the person is expecting many s
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Thought I might leave this feedback even if I am an odd one out in the case you might be interested. But the first way I read that was Less 'O N(a)uts.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Even if that is so, you're not gonna have all the insights, experience, knowledge, training and divergent thinking openend to you till you have an audience, peer group, whatever, going over your thoughts. Half-jokingly, one other downside t
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
tl;dr - some little thing that the bottom feeder made for his dog nose scratcher recommender tool may prove useful in attacking cancer. ---------------------------- Kuhn's paradigm shifts are an idealization. An extreme. Technology doesn't
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Im learning Scala and the part that is currently tripping me up the most is the syntax around its OOP. Basically getting your head around all the ways that are not quite orthogonal to do the same thing is the big hurdle for me. def
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Why and where (which idioms) is this the case? Is this due to type erasure on generics or something else? I ask this as this is the sort of knowledge that remains implicit amongst the experienced. p.s. i'm new to scala (and using it on ap
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Nice. Can you go over more what scala idioms you mean and how you replaced them with java/imperative? idioms. A friend and I are just starting coding a small android app in Scala for learning and are always on the look out for info. Any res
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
A simple answer is because its hard. A slightly better answer I think, is that the current crop of more expressive languages (such as not Fortran and including functional languages) are harder to analyse and even harder (much more so) to sy
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The distinction is in how the information was presented and there is a difference (let us ignore the ages and assume i met the younger one then seeing as I met one girl my space is {(F,F), (F,M)} vs {(F,F), (F,M), (M,F)} for at least one gi
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I was trying to make a point that two problems that look the same actually lead to different results based on what information you are given. For example, being told someone has 2 kids and at least one is a girl then the space for this is S
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
(F,M,1) means met daughter (who is older) first. (M, F, 2) is met son who is younger than his sister first. These is the space of possible ways to meet his two kids ordered by age.

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