Radim

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by Radim 14y ago
You mean, build a statistically relevant sample of B2B products and then "test" selling them to enterprises? I guess I must have misunderstood, because this is not worthwhile advice :)
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by Radim 14y ago
Spot on. In enterprise B2B, nobody's going to give the time of the day to a startup whizzkid just because his solution is technologically better or faster or whatever, without connections and financial backing (stability). Enterprise is
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by Radim 14y ago
Huh? They actually charge a hefty fee for publishing: http://www.plos.org/publish/pricing-policy/publication-fees/ The donations and open-access merchandise are a nice extra. They are turning fabulous profits (almost $3 million in 2010; $
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by Radim 14y ago
That you have a different criteria for what cases to prosecute doesn't make them evil. Oh, but it does -- it makes them morally questionable in -- at least -- jacquesm's eyes (note, he didn't use the term "evil"). How else would y
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by Radim 14y ago
You mean, "how is a thought on the commendability of pursuing one's internal motivation relevant to a discussion of internal motivation"? If you have a genuine argument, please articulate it. I'd be of course happy to answer.
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by Radim 14y ago
Cut back the welfare state and let natural selection regain her course... "Internal motivation" is a resultant of complex social forces, rather than some absolute immutable physical law. Btw "progress in doing things that you really like" t
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by Radim 14y ago
Aye, decoupling the rendering (visual "frames") from the simulation speed and physics in general can be tricky! I remember I wrote a fun little OpenGL game [1] some time ago, with flocking agents aka boids. I had a lot of fun making the cre
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by Radim 14y ago
Good job I guess (I use `requests` all the time and didn't even notice any issues, that's how neat it is). But the marketing-speak here makes my hair bristle! "Requests is SEXY AWESOME!" "No wait, it's crap, complex, hard-to-follow code. Bu
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by Radim 14y ago
Uhm... asking serious questions about the price of something is supply and demand.
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by Radim 14y ago
Uhm, what did I miss, what is his rate now?
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by Radim 14y ago
Not to split hairs, but that would be "free markets". Free markets are neither necessary nor sufficient condition for capitalism. Compare the US in its heyday vs. the present day "state capitalism" in Europe and China.
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by Radim 14y ago
This. Asking a question typically leads to a handful of "shotgunned" answers. Yes, they do come immediately -- but the real story is, they are templated ("I'll fix it later, just lemme be the first to answer"), incomplete, and/or simply wro
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by Radim 14y ago
Ad absurdum, appeal to emotion. Personally, I would find it in bad taste. Profitable? Perhaps... but likely not. At least not directly -- a PR stunt, at most. So, a rather bad combo overall IMO: would piss people off & not make the buck
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by Radim 14y ago
False equivalence: clever (here: profitable) vs humane. You can easily be one without being the other. Or both, or neither. Moreover, people suffer and need every spare pair of hands these days just as they do every day. In NY, in NJ, eve
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by Radim 14y ago
I also like how they consistently place "spies" in double quotes ... only to admit several sentences later that many actually were, with ample evidence published in the painstakingly reconstructed "Documents From the US Espionage Den" :)
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by Radim 14y ago
The modesty is refreshing indeed. "I do not know how to lead people" "[Company] will remain small - to grow the company of several hundred people, we do not want." Compare that to the typical Silicon Valley swagger of all the productless pl
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by Radim 14y ago
I see what you mean. Only the size of the group that stands behind you when someone challenges your property is a matter of scale, not principle. Is it only you? Your immediate family? Pack? Your country? There's always someone with a bigge
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by Radim 14y ago
This is patently false, as "the concept of property" predates all governments. Coming from an ex-communist country, comments like yours that assume property/life/liberty must be somehow graciously "granted" by the big brother make me sad.
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by Radim 14y ago
Hah! And how about... a big train?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agFWob0E7ns
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by Radim 14y ago
Fair enough, OP's "idiots" was unnecessarily harsh. There is indeed some chance that mining diamonds from far-off planets would make economical sense. But there is some chance for almost anything happening. It's a trivial statement that doe
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by Radim 14y ago
And perhaps not. OP says mining diamonds from outer space is nonsense, with good arguments, and you say ... what exactly? That space-mined diamonds are somehow more valuable than earth-produced ones?
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by Radim 14y ago
A better title: "An English-only spellchecker with a fixed, static vocabulary used to be a major feat of software engineering". (because other cases still pretty much are)
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by Radim 14y ago
My app with a very similar goal (predators & prey), but C++ with OpenGL :) https://github.com/piskvorky/PredatorPrey I remember decoupling the simulation speed from graphics rendering speed (aka frame rate) and AI thinking speed was a
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The "hashing trick" implemented in open-source gensim(groups.google.com)
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by Radim 14y ago
No, the sparse matrix code in SciPy is plain C (not even multi-core, let alone distributed). EDIT: or did you mean Disco offers distributed sparse CSC operations?
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by Radim 14y ago
I'm assuming you're talking about tourist visas, with that "90 days border hops" (single entry). Working in Thailand on such tourist visa is illegal. Getting a business visa (and thus work permit) is not easy at all. Foreigners are not allo
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by Radim 14y ago
Don't forget gensim (and its tutorials): http://radimrehurek.com/gensim Plus it's the only one on that list that will scale beyond the "My Data Set" size.
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by Radim 14y ago
Prague, Czech Republic; fulltime. Looking for skilled backend engineers to join a small, dedicated team of developers. You'll be directly dealing with data from the world's largest publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley)... and that's lots o
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by Radim 14y ago
I like the embarrassing arguments from MathOverflow moderators re. not closing Mr. Thurston's (vague, subjective, "not a question") question on MathOverflow. Nicely put by Georges Elencwajg in one of the comments: ...posed by somebody else
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by Radim 14y ago
Seems to have been flagged. Fascinating how HN, of all places, is enraged by presenting some raw data. If you question the data or methodology, just say so, improve on it. The article quotes its sources (which btw do seem to be somewhat con

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