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by aheilbut 13y ago
I was puzzled when they switched from the marketplace model to an agency model. From the tutors' perspective, it was much better to have direct control over interaction with the students, scheduling, and the ability to adjust and test
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by aheilbut 13y ago
What is also crazy about it is that the government is apparently not setting a high enough price for the liens. If they correctly priced the 'option' that the lien wouldn't be paid and the buyer could foreclose, then it would
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by aheilbut 13y ago
As they mention, there have been simple reforms in other jurisdictions to prevent this sort of predatory behavior (not selling liens at all, especially if the owners are seniors or disabled, and putting limits on legal fees). It sounds like
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by aheilbut 13y ago
It's odd how little information is provided about the actual new technologies behind this.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Just wanting to talk to her does not seem inappropriate. Lawyers in particular are expected to chose their words carefully and keep decorum. Perhaps it's a teachable moment.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Despite the name, there's nothing mystical about neural networks that make them not 'statistical based methods' It's just a particular way of describing a mixture of nonlinear regression models. There are some nice, alt
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by aheilbut 13y ago
He nails the point, and then misses it himself: the key to success is in cleverly selecting, finding, or creating a data source that answers a particular question It's about asking the right question and then finding or generating th
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by aheilbut 13y ago
This doesn't really sound like a completely new theory; Haeckel proposed in the 1800s that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", and it is widely understood that cancer is like a de-differentiated state.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Sort of, but there are still numerous patents on BRCA testing that were not part of the SCOTUS ruling, which Myriad is continuing to try to enforce: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-09/myriad-genetics-...
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by aheilbut 13y ago
I self-censored my comment earlier, but fuck you. If you deny reality there is no discussion to be had. I want to sit in Washington square park and dance without smelling acrid smoke.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
You got me; I'd also like to ban semi-automatic rifles. Give those deer a fighting chance.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Since nobody seems to have been paying any attention or have a memory, 9/11 was sadly the information about scenario two. It's not a bloody experiment anymore.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
If you configure youtube to use the HTML5 player, there's an option to watch videos at 1.5 or 2X speed.. key points I remember: * Java isn't dead, or dying; it's still among the most popular languages and growing, based on an
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by aheilbut 13y ago
What about Flask vs. CherryPy?
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Looks interesting... If doing everything in javascript is not sufficient, another nice open source project with a slick interface on top of a real OLAP server (Mondrian) is Saiku - http://analytical-labs.com/
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by aheilbut 13y ago
I'm glad somebody did the reading...
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by aheilbut 13y ago
The point is that security is a precondition to enjoying all of the freedoms you list. There are trade-offs to make between freedom and security, and neither the freedoms nor the security are absolute, and they never have been.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Be slightly careful with your analogies between the US and Nazi Germany, too.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
No, really, that's not just the official story. The reality is that tens of millions of people were killed in wars and genocides in just the 20th century. The most basic role of government is to protect its own citizens against that
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by aheilbut 13y ago
If you stop playing the game Civilization and look back at history, you'll see that there are a lot of very bad people in the world who do very bad things. All of the freedoms that we enjoy in Western democracies were hard-won and con
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by aheilbut 13y ago
That strategy demonstrably worked -- we got through the Cold War. The problem is you can't always assume that the other guy has good intentions. If they're rational, then mutually assured destruction keeps everyone rational. If
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by aheilbut 13y ago
Those investors were all very astute, and you can bet they were mostly out after the IPO.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
That demo from Microsoft is nothing at all like Victor's demo; it seems to be a drawing-based interface to make the kinds of canned charts one can do in products like Excel.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
using fetal bovine serum?
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by aheilbut 13y ago
There are more than those 2 options.
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by aheilbut 13y ago
There's no reason that the same thinking can't be applied to one's individual strategy.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Lots of kinds of analyses require some kind of normalization or whitening to work properly. The problem with PCA is that everyone knows about it and kind of understands it, and thinks that it'll magically tell them something interesting abo
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by aheilbut 14y ago
There's something inspiring about seeing someone hustle to create an opportunity to improve themselves, and about how the internet is empowering individuals to do that on a global scale.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
For most places, it is too late to apply for this September. Your best bet is probably to go to the best university you can in Portugal, excel there, and go to the US for grad school -- or if you really want to, apply to transfer after a ye
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by aheilbut 14y ago
http://checkvist.com is great for this.

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