DrJosiah

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by DrJosiah 16y ago
$3k or even $10k (as another commenter suggested) to bail out on a company that you just started at, is a way of making the people who really don't like the company not feel bad about leaving. Even at great companies, there are people who
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
By AGW, I mean Anti-Global Warming, in the context that they claim that Global Warming, even if it does happen (which they claim it doesn't), is not human caused.
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
As far as I know, nothing. But since I no longer work for Google, I would need to set up a dremel-like system (which would minimally include needing to inject logs, etc., into an new or existing hosted system), which increases the barrier
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Or I could use any one of a dozen other languages that are more convenient to use, already available on my system, already works with S4, and with a syntax that doesn't make me want to cry :P
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Did I ever once say that I supported the chatbot? No. However, I did refer to AGW followers as denialists. Not because I follow the "Global Warming Faith" [1], but because AGW followers' tactics of argumentation (or lack thereof) typicall
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
My point was that he's using psychology, computer science, and climate science to battle global warming denialists. That is actually in support of Science. That was my point, which opposes your seeming claim that his software wasn't usi
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
He's using known tested methods for getting people to listen to points of view that they don't agree with. That's psychology. He's also using some set of content matching algorithms, and may introduce other deeper learning algorithms. Tha
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Before Google's Go, there was another language named Go. "Chrome" is the name of the UI outside of the content in Mozilla's browser, email client, etc. Google has a smaller-scale ad-hoc SQL-inspired language and system for log queries cal
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Also, the language was purpose-built to be used as a step in mapreduce, and not as a general purpose language.
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Sawzall as a language is quite a bit uglier than the vast majority of general purpose languages. Couple this with the read/emit nature of the language, and it's either useful as a stream processing language, or as a step in a mapreduce cha
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I took a Sawzall class for a week at Google along with my team, our manager had requested it because there was a lot of things that we wanted to do with logs in the long-term, which were quickest to do with Sawzall. The people who taught t
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I'm not defending poor teachers, nor am I defending teaching poorly. Teachers should teach students well. But if a student isn't learning, they have choices. That's it. If a student has a problem asking peers for help (who may be better
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I'm sorry you didn't like my post, but I think you sort-of missed my point. It's not that an incompetent teacher is no barrier to learning (because learning is definitely enhanced by a good teacher), it's that students have choices in what
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
This is a very good point. Some University professors get into it for research, some for teaching, not many for both. The problem is that Universities will typically cater to one type of professor, leaving the others scrambling to spend a
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Being a student isn't easy, it requires actual work(dr-josiah.blogspot.com)
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I'm not so foolish to have spent money at any of those sites. But I do stand by my statement of calling you a crook. I don't believe that I will be able to convince you, but I do hope that I'll be able to convince others. Let's give you t
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Agreed. I'm thinking that they just have different sets of videos for different local times of the people viewing the page. Awesome though.
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
The thing is, Wavee is not an auction site. An auction site is one in which bids are free, and the winner pays what their bid says they pay. What Wavee had, and what you have built are, effectively, a method of taking money from people fo
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
So... what you built was a Facebook version of https://www.wavee.com/ (or any one of the other dozens of sites), which is basically a way of taking foolish people's money. Replacing PHP/Apache fork/threads with a C daemon is a good migrat
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
If you've not taken the GRE subject test for CS, then unless your program doesn't require it for entrance, it's going to be difficult or impossible to get into any of the top-tier schools (I don't know if that's your intent or not). Unless
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
For a lot of PhDs that I knew, the problem was that they were already spending 100-200% of their time on their main work, which made it impossible to spend any 20% time working on an entrance into what they really wanted to do (typically re
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I don't know how long it takes to finish a doctorate in machine learning, but if you claim to be able to finish in 5 years, I'll just wish you luck. Took me 5 1/2 to finish a doctorate in Algorithms and Data Structures (Theory), and I was
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
I knew a half-dozen people with doctorates in machine learning at Google. None of them were research scientists.
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YogaTable server now include a Lisp interpreter for scripting(dr-josiah.blogspot.com)
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Depending on the application, using a document store with the ability to add indexes and/or perform ad-hoc queries can simplify things (something like MongoDB/CoucnDB rather than Cassandra). And sometimes just the convenience of being able
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
This seems to be the case in more than just fighting.
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
Norvig's interpreter is pretty solid, but another fellow did it recently as well: http://fogus.me/fun/lithp/
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by DrJosiah 16y ago
http://ad.ly/ has been testing an ad network for stream-based applications (those that interact with timeline-based media like Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace's new interface). Ad.ly presented at http://appnationconference.com/ yesterda
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YogaTable Part 2: An Embedded (for now) NoSQL Database(dr-josiah.blogspot.com)
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Binary Space Partitions and You(dr-josiah.blogspot.com)
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