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New Funding for Jupyter from Helmsley, Moore, Sloan Foundations(blog.jupyter.org)
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by aheilbut 11y ago
I like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Programmer-Introduction-Cre...
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Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition(nytimes.com)
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by aheilbut 11y ago
I think there are conflicting incentives, and we've seen how these things tend to play out. It's really the universities and the professors teaching the classes who are providing the courses, and they need to be careful that they
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by aheilbut 11y ago
For now.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
The poor guy seems to have a remarkable knack for accidentally stumbling into all kinds of drama. http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/03/23/the-strange-tal...
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by aheilbut 11y ago
PLoS has tried to do that, with journals like PLoS Biology. Hypothetically, AAAS is in the best position to pull something like this off, but as the publishers of Science, they're sadly very committed to preserving the status quo...
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Confirms a Hacker Attack(nytimes.com)
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by aheilbut 12y ago
That's what I'd like to get at with some examples...
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by aheilbut 12y ago
The take home message is that there is very large class (probably a majority) of data analysis problems for which SQL databases are very well suited. Though PostgreSQL would be a better choice. And while we're at it, we may want to co
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Ask HN: Big Data case studies
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by aheilbut 12y ago
The MOOCs force one to "enroll" in the class to have a look at it or watch a few videos, to juice their enrollment numbers. Both the enrollments and completion rates are essentially meaningless.
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by aheilbut 12y ago
I didn't say it's trivial.. I think it's a cool model (and much better to be Amazon than all the suckers paying for AWS!), I know it's hard to do well (and expensive), and I don't doubt at all that your software is
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by aheilbut 12y ago
Techcrunch has zero understanding of biotech research or how expensive and hard it is, or the current state of the art. ($20k in credits is not going to go very far..) I like the idea of Transcriptic, but it's relevant only to a very
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by aheilbut 12y ago
I'd like to propose finding a new street parking spot in NYC after moving out of the way of the street-sweeper as a Turing test for the autonomous car.
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by aheilbut 12y ago
They want people to give them $1M for empty boxes from the future? Are they on drugs? It might well be a good idea to study the therapeutic applications of these compounds more, or to change the laws. But the bottlenecks are in laws and i
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by aheilbut 12y ago
It is also much easier to conjure up some entertaining but biologically meaningless mathematical model than to spend years doing real biological experiments. I think the overall problem is that the physicists and the biologists don't h
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by aheilbut 12y ago
The marketing and salesmanship of the Human Brain Project may have been a little too successful for its own good. On one hand, the idea that simply building a giant brain simulation would be possible or scientifically useful is not current
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by aheilbut 12y ago
NX pretty much does this, and works much better than VNC or ordinary X forwarding.
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by aheilbut 12y ago
Presumably they're manufacturing polio vaccine
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by aheilbut 12y ago
The hype is ultimately due to the very good performance recently (ie. much better than other methods, on learning tasks that people had been struggling to do better on for a long time) in a lot of practical applications like speech and imag
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by aheilbut 12y ago
The problem with this fantasy is that easily automated and distributed tasks are not the rate-limiting steps in most biomedical research. The hard parts (in addition to designing the right experiments and analyzing data..) are in construct
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by aheilbut 12y ago
Anyone remember Third Voice?
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by aheilbut 12y ago
I hope they come with a helmet.
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by aheilbut 12y ago
I have the 39" Seiki, and I'm very happy with it, especially for the price, though it required some fiddling to make the colors look decent. I just like being able to have a lot on the screen at once, and I use it mainly for prog
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My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”(scottaaronson.com)
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by aheilbut 12y ago
Somewhere in La Jolla, Peter Schultz is probably not all that worried about it.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
fixed it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apply+dog+vision+to+pho...
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by aheilbut 13y ago
If you're a researcher in the US, you can access a 32Tb version of one of these boxes (PSC Blacklight) through NSF XSEDE. (And it's surprisingly easy to apply and get an allocation! We used it to do some de novo transcriptome as
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The network nonsense of Albert-László Barabási(liorpachter.wordpress.com)
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