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by achompas 15y ago
Yup, got mine a few weeks back. Must've been part of the first batch--I responded very quickly.
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by achompas 15y ago
Spanish is fine: http://translate.google.com/#es|en|google%20es%20estupido http://translate.google.com/#es|en|google%20es%20un%20estupi... (the former translates to correct english, the latter is correct spanish)
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by achompas 15y ago
For those who don't click through, the article's title is supremely misleading. There are only anecdotes about corrections departments and college athletics. But hoooooly crap this little gem: Social media monitoring on colleges, while spr
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by achompas 15y ago
Agreed. More incorrect: Java developers who really know Java well are most definitely not a dime a dozen. It's one thing to create a HelloWorldClass in Java. But I hear that understanding typing or concurrency in Java is much harder than
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by achompas 15y ago
This type of faux-populist attitude is bothersome, especially since it's so popular on HN. Why dichotomize attempts to change education along monetary lines? Khan is changing education from without, and Knewton is changing it from within. W
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Knewton Is Building The World's Smartest Tutor(forbes.com)
31 points by achompas 15y ago|8 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
HN's algorithm is great at pushing linkbait, self-help articles, and frameworks associated with popular languages to the top. None of those are interesting to me, however, so a personalized HN classifier is awesome.
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by achompas 15y ago
Sorry, that's a fair distinction worth making. I was worried you were dismissing some very salient points against PG's essay (and PG's writing in general).
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by achompas 15y ago
Bitter, maybe, but are the MeFi comments actually wrong?
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by achompas 15y ago
Awesome, thanks for the pointer to MetaOptimize. I always forget to check there for info.
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by achompas 15y ago
Posted to see if anyone has experience working with GraphLab. Alternatively, do any GL contributors frequent HN?
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GraphLab: A New Parallel Framework For Machine Learning(graphlab.org)
35 points by achompas 15y ago|4 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
Hah, no worries! Sorry for being so picky about your results, and congrats on producing a novel insight.
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by achompas 15y ago
Thanks for making my point for me! The chart really misleads re: the difference between languages. Do we even know if Clojure wages are statistically different from, say, Scala rates? Other problems: 1. As hinted above, what are the standar
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by achompas 15y ago
Re #3, that's Tom's point: your decision is affecting HOW readers compare the two numbers.
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by achompas 15y ago
MongoDB is a VC-backed technology, which has spurred its adoption at funded startups. Since they're funded, those startups can also afford to pay engineers more.
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by achompas 15y ago
"The way you were raised, namely with wealthy or less fortunate parents, also plays a role. Gladwell explains that when wealthy parents drive their children to the doctor, they tell their children things like, “Johnny, now if you have any
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by achompas 15y ago
I'm learning/reviewing MCMC methods now for work and...how about a MCMC algorithm that takes in basketball box scores and attempts to generate estimates of each player's ability? You'd probably have to deal with too many parameters (one for
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by achompas 15y ago
So what if he hasn't played against an elite defensive team. That is irrelevant to determine whether or not he will succeed. I think the bigger concern is that our small data sample on Lin's performance is significantly biased in that he
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by achompas 15y ago
It feels a bit like Python is better for programming beginners or people that tend to be too lazy sometimes and Perl is for people who want to be able to be lazier since they know what they are doing. I'm sorry, I don't understand this at
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by achompas 15y ago
Right, in addition to the usual efficiency concerns (can you afford that 0.5-1s of JVM spinup? do you need mature multiprocessing libraries?)
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by achompas 15y ago
Man, this is so awesome. So soooooo awesome. I ranted about abstractions below, but this woman shipped code. Dedicated to her boyfriend, no less! I'd be incredibly flattered if I were him, and kudos to her for launching something.
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by achompas 15y ago
But piecing together web apps is a solved problem! Follow a tutorial, and you'll see that Django/Rails + MySQL + memcached gets you there. Toss in a bit of Twitter Bootstrap and you have a fully-styled webapp with a backend and caching. You
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by achompas 15y ago
You may not have been judging people on their past. Thanks for retracting that. :)
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by achompas 15y ago
Hard is quite different to impossible, which is what achompas implied. The beauty of computing is that you are only limited by your imagination. Anyone can accomplish anything they want. You do not need a CS degree to get there – though fo
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by achompas 15y ago
This is also a false dichotomy. No, it's a reality of the labor market for doctorate holders. Startups are experiencing a shortage of coders, but the supply of CS doctoral students is robust. Just look at how quickly internships/positions
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by achompas 15y ago
Before going any further, I should point out (as a former economist-in-training) that the relationship between money supply and prices is not understood well. The Quantity Theory of Money is a theory in the truest sense of the word, and has
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by achompas 15y ago
I've replied below a few times, but I need to respond directly to this comment: It's only a matter of time before the rest of the world catches up to my way of thinking. What's so special about this way of thinking? Do you really believe
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by achompas 15y ago
I'm talking about the certification aspect. I finished college 29 years ago, and in all that time I've never had the issue of showing some kind of certificate come up when being offered a job. Doesn't this proof of certification happen th
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by achompas 15y ago
You're putting together a collection of false dichotomies in this thread. Let me muddle them up for you: CS departments are not all ivory towers. Consider the following opportunities in my department: (1) TA or grade production-quality so

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