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by achompas 13y ago
Yep, definitely Fourier analysis, I haven't studied it formally at all. Thanks for the pointer to Osgood's lectures. A co-worker recommended Stein's "Fourier Analysis" after a bit of work on my part. Do you have any
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by achompas 13y ago
Love this because, if nothing else, The Awl's writers can...write...circles around the TC crew.
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Congrats, you've definitely worked hard to get where you are! How do you feel about non-NLP tasks? Are you focusing on NLP as a specialty, or using it to branch out into other tasks?
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by achompas 13y ago
This is so bad. There's a dot over my neighborhood in Manhattan, just south of Washington Square. It's red, and says "Park Slope."
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by achompas 13y ago
Your primers look great! Do you have any sources for people interested in learning more about the various topics?
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by achompas 13y ago
The article came out 2 weeks ago, fwiw, when it was clearly unavailable for purchase (I hit the page then, it said "Sign up to find out when the Moto X will be available"). If you're still interested, the Moto X is available
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by achompas 13y ago
Pick one example where the content has a flaw and use it to claim that all of his content is therefore "useless". I don't know the author's motives. You don't know the author's main point either. He did not a
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by achompas 13y ago
Are you talking about the [C]? It looks no different than the iPhone 4S box kerning: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/White_iPh...
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by achompas 13y ago
Seriously, came in here to say "gzipped flat files." :)
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Here's the Brookings quote in full context: From a theoretical standpoint, it is likely that the extra supply of foreign-born workers does bring downward pressure on the wages of incumbent workers, as research suggests.20 Yet, it appe
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by achompas 13y ago
To be fair, it's not my conclusion. I just suggested an alternate explanation. :) You're right that the Brookings article suggests that my quote isn't the case. I wish we had more information on how they controlled for diff
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by achompas 13y ago
I'm not a fan of this analogy, as it perpetuates the idea that SV companies need a humongous collection rockstar ninja h4x0rs. I suspect that's not the case for the majority of positions--there's probably a shortage at the ta
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by achompas 13y ago
The article is addressing a shortage of workers for STEM jobs. Quote from the article: "If you're a high math student in America, from a purely economic point of view, it's crazy to go into STEM." The best of these stud
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by achompas 13y ago
This paper http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill... seems to say yes: "Analyzing new data, drawing on a number of our prior analyses, and reviewing other studies of wages and employment in t
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by achompas 13y ago
If anyone is curious where the mistake is in this article's reasoning, it's in the assumption that people are more or less interchangeable, and that all you have to do is train them to be Xes, and you can have as many Xes as you
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by achompas 13y ago
I commented on this subject recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6064248
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by achompas 13y ago
Yeah, sorry for the snarky one-liners. I wrote a bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060821 There are two pieces Kaggle can't help you with: working through the full research cycle and developing perfo
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by achompas 13y ago
This should be at the top of this thread. Save the $60k for a MS or PhD in machine learning, applied math, or information systems at a graduate program. Don't do this.
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by achompas 13y ago
Sure thing. Sorry for the previous terseness--I really really really hate this whole "Coursera --> Kaggle --> DS job at Facebook" meme when it (rarely) appears on HN, since it isn't even close to reality. I'm not a
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by achompas 13y ago
This is a recipe to get very good at basic analysis. It won't prepare you for the day-to-day responsibilities of a data scientist, though.
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Or how many in the field are extremely skeptical of any lessons an aspiring analyst could learn from it.
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by achompas 13y ago
Don't take the article's view as canon. Daft Punk are legends in the States.
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I think you're extrapolating your opinion to "most" people. Gmail is extremely popular, and while Docs is no Gmail, it has no serious competition for cloud-based editing. Even if you're not using Gmail's webapp, it&
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by achompas 13y ago
You can't hand-wave away the fact that Gmail, Docs, and Maps are best-in-class.
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by achompas 13y ago
When I was shopping for apartments before my Masters program, NYU charged more for dorms than many available apartments in South Village.
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by achompas 13y ago
For purely technical stuff, I've bookmarked a bunch of domain specific Stack Overflows (and clones). Next: break the HN habit by adding it to /etc/hosts! Also like Lobsters (lobste.rs), and you can curate your front page there.
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by achompas 13y ago
I'm not fan of Dots, actually. While Eliss and Letterpress have their own rules and strategies (similar to Braid, for example), Dots feels too much like a Bejeweled clone to me. Maybe I didn't give it a fair shot? What do you think?
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Because I think this type of design invites the player, instead of frightening or intimidating them. Visual clutter can discourage potential gamers (especially the casual audience I have in mind). The lack of clutter (along with a well-desi
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Ask HN: Well-designed, simple-but-complex games like Letterpress?
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Telling people to just collect the "important data" is like telling someone who has lost his keys just to go back to where he left them. He doesn't tell anyone to collect the "important data," and he doesn't insist FB or Yahoo are not web

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