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by achy 14y ago
This. If the 2009 model worked well, did you try letting your algorithm to 'forget' the 2010 data and see if the model worked better?
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by achy 14y ago
Like many things, Chomsky is both right and wrong. He's right in that if we studied the structure and functioning of the brain we could built more accurate AI. He's terribly wrong because the structures of the brain are fuzzy and give rise
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by achy 14y ago
Even your own blog posts says that you basically just followed the getting started guide for ruby. Personally, I would not use an untested, brand new to me, technology on anything that 'had to work'. And if this wasn't that important, then
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by achy 14y ago
Jetpack is my favourite childhood computer game. This is awesome.
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by achy 14y ago
Do my bitcoins stay as my bitcoins OR do I transfer my coins to coinbase and when I want to use them you transfer the same value back? I would feel a lot more comfortable with the later where your company was liable if you got hacked.
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by achy 14y ago
There's a huge difference between privacy and secrecy. Any debate about this topic that does not immediately make that distinction is futile. I don't keep secrets from my wife, but I still close the door when I use the washroom.
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by achy 14y ago
This is dumb for one simple reason, It divides candidates based on an arbitrary line that has only limited correlation to the desired split: Those who fit your job requirements vs. those who do not. Instead, ask them to solve a pertinent pr
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by achy 14y ago
How can he write such an article, stating that he used C# because he knows it, and not tackle the problem using the main resource for such issues in C# / Java: Interfaces. Using interfaces, you can decouple all of those classes from each ot
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by achy 14y ago
The benefits of writing your own package is that you can post it on HN as a 'news' article and have thousands of potential employers look at it without applying to any specific jobs... :)
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by achy 14y ago
The only time your actual hourly value matches your potential hourly value is when 1) You have significant funding, 2) You have a time-to-market deadline, 3) You have either an income model OR a continued funding potential based on point 2.
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by achy 14y ago
Can you please explain what you mean by 'It doesn't change limit orders'?
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by achy 14y ago
From my understanding of this, HFT basically makes it impossible for a non-HFT trader to buy at anything but his maximum buying price and to sell at anything but his lowest selling price. This seems like it would significantly undermine the
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by achy 14y ago
Note: The term 'explaining' was used with extreme liberality above!
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by achy 14y ago
Amazing that almost zero thought on the side of aerodynamics and engineering went into the production of such a high-amount-of-work project. The second the 3-foot tie points are removed, the center of mass of the driver will cause it to fli
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by achy 15y ago
Or, you know, you could just use the electricity to convert water to hydrogen (itself a usable fuel). How much of the energy required for this reaction is actually coming from the carbon / atmosphere? I would guess very little.
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by achy 15y ago
It was, but the workforce was severely slashed, and (due to low market necessity) would have been moreso if not for a unionized work force.
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by achy 15y ago
The majority of AECL (the CANDU reactor team) is un- or under employed after the buyout from the Canadian government - that's an entire workforce to tap into.
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by achy 15y ago
They haven't actually changes the lambda code at all, they have only changed the fact that previously the foreach variable was declared outside the loop, now it is declared inside the scope. The lambda still closes over the loop variable. I
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by achy 15y ago
I have never used Haiku myself, but that is exactly what I was thinking while playing with this example. Did Haiku 'remember' the original size so that it bounced back as you dragged it away from the edge?
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by achy 15y ago
I think apple was smart with the way they went mobile, in that they didn't really try to carry over any of their exiting OSX UI. Often it is 10x harder to unlearn habits than to form new ones. If I'm presented with something that is 'exactl
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by achy 15y ago
Are the measured effects of tDCS really large enough to outweigh any effects from confirmation bias and statistical anomalies? Were the tests performed double-blind using placebo units?