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How Dark Sky Works(journal.darkskyapp.com)
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by achompas 14y ago
Use this link instead: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/ml12/ It's the last class he taught before the book was published. I was in the class, and can confirm the lecture outline closely matches the book's contents.
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by achompas 14y ago
See my comments above. The book fills a large gap created by the popular ML textbooks (namely, none of them review learning theory).
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by achompas 14y ago
So this is a common misconception about the text (and Prof. Mohri's NYU class). In this case, "foundations" does not mean this is an introductory course. Rather, the class and text provide mathematical foundations for understanding the erro
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by achompas 14y ago
I took Prof. Mohri's class this spring, and we actually used a draft version of this book. I agree with you that it's very theoretical, but Bishop, Mitchell, and the other ML resources don't address learning theory. VC-dimension isn't for e
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by achompas 14y ago
Hey Mike! Hope you're doing well. Wah-wah, Millennials are entitled and don't want to do 70 hours per week of our grunt work, and they leave before they burn out and we can fire them. I think you're misrepresenting OP's argument here. He'
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by achompas 14y ago
I'll go even further and say it also differs by economic climate. Take today's environment. Companies can't fault people for leaving their first job when they might've landed it only after several months of searching. Chances are that job i
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by achompas 14y ago
It makes a hard concept easy I love what Statwing is doing here, but they could be providing people with enough information to be "dangerous." The employee count vs. founder age analysis in another thread is a perfect example. Posters are
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by achompas 14y ago
I wonder why that is? Let's not rush to find an explanation, now! Looking at the data, we see that two outliers (age 30 with 10 employees, age 33 with 12 employees) are driving what is admittedly a "small" correlation. These two companies
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by achompas 14y ago
This article is clearly tongue-in-cheek. "Too much free food" is a dead giveaway.
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed 100%. HNers belly-ache about Quora all day, but there is an incredible amount of information on there. If you doubt me, just go look at the best answers under the Machine Learning topic. Part of Quora's value comes from identifying a
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by achompas 14y ago
Again, you answered in your first 3 sentences. The propsed absence of advertising on app.net will change how users interact with the service, as well as how the service grows. Twitter and Facebook wants to market to their users. This now in
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by achompas 14y ago
I'm not really sure what the purpose of this service is. ... I myself wouldn't pay to use Facebook minus the ads. You answered your own question above, and also identified why app.net won't interest you. If you're okay with ads, then I th
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by achompas 14y ago
Yes please! I'd like to take the dive into Arch Linux at some point, this kind of post would be super helpful.
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by achompas 14y ago
Cool, sounds good!
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by achompas 14y ago
Other, more experienced people can speak to this, but I'd argue that statsd has a useful ontology for classifying metrics based on what you want them to track. If you're watching a number go up, use a statsd.Counter. Want to track request
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by achompas 14y ago
Very cool app! I'm using Graphite a lot at work these days, so it's cool to see an alternative from a team based in NY.
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by achompas 14y ago
> but optimizes for shortest time to app metrics viz. I'm not sure I understand what "shortest time to app metrics viz" means. Are you referring to the time Pup takes to create charts? Or the lowest time frequency (minutes, seconds etc.
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by achompas 14y ago
They especially didn't change their strategy after being given immediate and clear warning that they would be disqualified. I think this is the key piece--the referee in the South Korea/China match initially disqualified both teams befo
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by achompas 14y ago
CL has every right to do that, especially since scraping CL listings creates a very high amount of load on their servers. Higher load --> slower response time --> deteriorated user experience.
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by achompas 14y ago
Are you a lawyer? EDIT: Okay, let me be less flippant. I ask about you being a lawyer because we don't know how Craigslist will enforce this policy. Everyone is assuming the worst -- CL will not let you post anywhere else! -- when, in pract
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by achompas 14y ago
No, but the content is hosted on their servers. Services scraping this content will hit CL's infrastructure hard. It's actually in the interest of their users to minimize server load, so they can browse listings more quickly. And no, peopl
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by achompas 14y ago
Despite the reigning opinion on HN, adding this legalese to postings does not hinder CL's ability to serve its users.
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by achompas 14y ago
IANAL, of course, but before we all bring out the pitchforks, what does the word "content" mean in Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content Does it refer, as many posters suggest below, to the
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by achompas 14y ago
There's a big gap between "little interest in maximizing profit" and "little interest in fending off existential threats," no?
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by achompas 14y ago
This is a bit knee-jerk, no? I highly doubt you waive the right to repost your listing ANYWHERE; rather, this is legalese allowing them to sue anyone using their listings without consent.
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by achompas 14y ago
I was under the impression Facebook replaced Cassandra in their stack with HBase. Yes, I forgot about Netflix! Not only do they use it, but they've provided tons of excellent tools for it (Astyanax, Priam) and blog about it very frequently.
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by achompas 14y ago
Good point--I was just wondering if anyone had a comment on that thought. Sounds ridiculous to me...
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by achompas 14y ago
Wait, does this mean Cassandra == "outdated" by a "modern startup's" standards? I know its a couple of years old (4, says Wikipedia), but...really?
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by achompas 14y ago
Read: The ROI on the choice to use Facebook How much more did he sell by using Facebook than if he had sold without using Facebook?

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