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Wookai
9y ago
Well, Sonos is actively working on Alexa integration (actually, integration with any voice-controlled assistant): https://www.cnet.com/news/sonos-demonstrates-amazon-alexa-co... In the meantime, you can connect an Echo
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Tips and tricks to help you writing scientific papers
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10y ago
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10y ago
Based on this plot, my naive reaction would be to decide that DBSCAN is the best algorithm, as it recovers the (qualitatively) best clusters in each case. Anybody has experience with DBSCAN? What are the downside?
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Microsoft's iPhone keyboard takes aim at Google with new built-in search
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Wookai
10y ago
You can get more technical details in the scientific paper: Julien Herzen, Albert Banchs, Vsevolod Shneer and Patrick Thiran. CSMA/CA in Time and Frequency Domains in IEEE ICNP, 2015. http://www.hrzn.ch/publications
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Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
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11y ago
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12y ago
Link to technical paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/186014/files/saw-infocom13...
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Wi-Fi and Neighborhood Conflicts: An Algorithm to Keep the Peace
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12y ago
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Voting patterns in Switzerland
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Wookai
13y ago
Robson, I got your email, thanks. I just answered. Cheers!
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Wookai
13y ago
Sure, many factors can explain the initial "surge" in pledges: pre-launch marketing, featuring on recently launched, novelty, first spread on social medias, etc. I did not really try to explain the causes of the different phases,
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13y ago
I haven't done it yet, but I could. This also depends on what your goal is, and how long the campaign last, but it is quite easy to extract such probabilities of success. For instance, this plot shows the estimated probability of succe
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13y ago
No problem, I'm glad to get feedback, I didn't take it negatively ;). Thanks a lot for your kind comments!
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13y ago
It is correct: on average, failed projects ask for more money than successful ones, except for projects in the Video Games category. There, it is the opposite. I'll add a "Stats" page to the website as soon as possible to s
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13y ago
Yes, I just have to see whether I could gather the same kind of information on these other websites. But I definitely want to compare the results I have with other crowdfunding websites.
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13y ago
It's true that that should have mentionned it in the paper. The basline here is always telling it fails, which gives you about 52% accuracy. I should definitely provide the confusion matrix, it's on my TODO list. I will add a perf
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13y ago
Let's say that the way the project starts is important. How long really depends on the campaign duration. After 4 hours on average, the accuracy is 76%, meaning that you can tell quite accurately pretty early. We focus on early predict
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Wookai
13y ago
I'm the main author of the paper, and creator of http://sidekick.epfl.ch/ . If you have any question, please ask, I'll be happy to answer!