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by abhaga 15y ago
This has been available in form of CreateSpace, Lulu, FastPencil etc in USA for quite a long time. My own company, pothi.com provides a similar platform to Indian authors and to outside authors targeting Indian market. I personally believe
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by abhaga 15y ago
I think Kanigel's book talks about this. It seems he had worked through first few thousand numbers and knew all of them quite well. Thus instead of a spark of genius, this seems to be a fruit of years worth of hard work and an excellent mem
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by abhaga 15y ago
What are the chances that some news crunching system at a trading firm caught up on this development and predicted the up side on the Seagate stock? I am interested from the technology point of view. Do we have deployed systems that are abl
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by abhaga 15y ago
I am assuming it will recognize languages even when they are using the same character sets. No?
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by abhaga 15y ago
On the contrary, given the serious lack of natural resources facing us on mother earth, our space race should be - "the space race". We might have just enough time to figure out how to start living on Moon or may be Mars before we collapse
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by abhaga 15y ago
This. But while in friend circles, homophily can be a strong factor, the sibling and spouse relationship measurements are interesting since homophily cannot affect those to the same extent.
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by abhaga 15y ago
Read The Web at CMU is also a similar system. http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/
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by abhaga 15y ago
I was explaining exactly this phenomenon to a friend, couple of days back. I see this trend inherently tied in with the increasing availability of self-learning resources by virtue of internet and initiatives like OCW, p2pu and others. This
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by abhaga 15y ago
Not at all unique to Arabic. The Indo-Gangatic plain is a big continuum of people speaking various dialects of Hindi. We even have a saying: Water changes every kos (~2 miles) and language changes every 4 kos (~ 8 miles).
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by abhaga 15y ago
> Let's say, for example, it actually had been started with variables using a £ rather than $, would it have made any difference at all? I cannot see £ sign on my keyboard, so that would be slightly inconvenient. :)
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by abhaga 15y ago
I am reminded of what C P Snow wrote about the beautiful piece of writing called "A Mathematician's Apology" by G H Hardy: A mathematicians apology is, if read with the textual attention it deserves, a book of haunting sadness. Yes, it is
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by abhaga 15y ago
Let me present the case of Ubercart as a counterpoint. It was the upcoming, loved by many e-commerce system built on top of Drupal. When I first looked at it in 2008, it was still in alpha. But it looked like having solid devs and good comm
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by abhaga 15y ago
I doubt it is the lack of money which is the primary cause of the state of our society. No amount of money can bring out a society from the corruption & mismanagement. By all means, let us use part of the treasure for public good (I say
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by abhaga 15y ago
I wish they would add Indic scripts too!
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by abhaga 15y ago
I don't understand. The $49 price point has been achieved under govt subsidy. How is that a technology innovation? They can subsidize it down to any price they want. Wasn't the deal to actually develop a tablet which costs $35 to build/sale
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by abhaga 15y ago
> A lot of people complain about traffic. You know the salary of a driver on a monthly basis? About $100-250 (depending on the car you drive). This is precisely what the author seems to be complaining about. We throw money at the proble
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by abhaga 15y ago
I returned to India 3 years ago. I have other friends and people I know who have come back since. Many of them are doing startups. Others are working in academia. Not a single one is setting up offshore offices or looking to fly back (AFAIK
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by abhaga 15y ago
Was a user of DirecPay for 1 year about a year back. They think base64 encoding is "encryption".
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by abhaga 16y ago
2 points. One is that starting a company is only frowned upon by a section of Indian society - the middle class professionals who grew up reading the mantra of job security. Also there are not yet enough stories of people making big by star
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by abhaga 16y ago
Without a legal protection in place which disallows something like this for deciding the insurance rates, this sounds like something which can get abused. But I think it is better that is happens in public via an open competition rather the
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by abhaga 16y ago
Absolutely! It is not rare for me to get to the allow screen, notice that the app is basically requesting full access to my account which it clearly doesn't need, and leave. As the worms spreading through e-mail show, social filtering may n
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by abhaga 16y ago
All the Project Gutenberg books are proofread by humans in the end. So they may be able to use these after all. No harm in asking.
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by abhaga 16y ago
Here is the link for best paper awards for 3 more conferences from NLP/CL area: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Best_paper_awa... .
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by abhaga 16y ago
Yes, they have been hiring people ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/google-hires-ebay-v... ) and launching products in the space ( http://www.boutiques.com/ ). Also Google ebook Store has also been launched now. I expect we are goi
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by abhaga 16y ago
Oh the human factor! Somehow that seems to be completely missing when dealing with anything Adsense. I run a 2 year old startup in the domain of self-publishing. Tried signing up for an Adsense account. Even after multiple rounds of back an
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by abhaga 16y ago
But with infinite scroll, how does the "flipping between 1 column and 2 columns on the go" work? Do we read down the left column and then go up to the right? And how do we know where we are if we switch back to 1 column. Of course, we can s
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by abhaga 16y ago
If you look at it from the point of view of charities, they might prefer getting a lump sum donation in big amounts rather than a lot of small contributions. First it is less of a hassle. Second, knowing that they have this certain big amou
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by abhaga 16y ago
Actually, the definition of incest varies wildly across cultures, even among those that are located right next to each other. Consider this. In certain northern states of India, marriages or relationships within the same village are conside
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by abhaga 16y ago
> A particular bookseller choosing not to sell incest erotica does not constitute a book being "banned" or "censored", which only apply when the government forcibly prevents every bookseller from selling particular material. Going by th
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by abhaga 16y ago
Fortunately, the situation is much better in some specific areas of CS. For example, computational linguistics: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/

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