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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Chrome is open source, so in case something like this happen you can either investigate the source code, or create a more privacy compliant version. No such luck with I.E. or Safari.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
help people and businesses realize their full potential and Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Wow this guy is a real idiot if he is making statement like this, probably he can use same logic to justify Hamas.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Can US government do the same? If it can I see no problem in Indian government expecting a similar capability.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Can US government decrypt the messages or get them via Warrantless Wiretapping, or force RIM? If the answer is yes, then I do not see any reason why India or some other country should not be allowed to do the same.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I agree, I have been using it to call to india, and its better than most of the competitors, also I made few calls within US and they were much better than AT & T.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
And isn't it a bit of a sign of discrimination to merely assume off-hand that another culture's definition of "science and engineering" isn't as "rigorous" as ours, even if we seem to be gearing up for a clash with them? Instead of
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
70% of the technical degree holders living under the Iranian patriarchal theology Highly unlikely, their must be some difference in definition of "Technical", are they including Biology, Nursing even Teaching under "Technical"? E
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
1. A certain amount of group think -- CS at Cornell seems to focus a lot more on theory/research. I know this is the case at any reputable CS school but the top CS students either aim to go get their PhDs and pursue the most abstract
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I am at Cornell, actually I just started, There is a good grad level entrepreneurship course at the Management school, also you can enroll for software engineering course, where you work on delivering a product for a startup/other clients.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
given that unlabeled samples are far more abundant than labeled samples It is also related to Transfer learning. This paper provides a good background http://www.stanford.edu/~hllee/icml07-selftaughtlearning.pdf It contains a n
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
AdMob/Google likely have better targeting algorithms due to amazing amount of data that they posses. Also Google employs army of Machine Learning/Recommendation System engineers, while Apple is just getting in to this field.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
The biggest problem with such lists is that unlike novels, academic Books are rarely read cover to cover. If you try to read the book cover to cover you will most likely start forgetting it after few weeks. However when you learn things slo
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I assume I got few upvotes as well, its sad to see HN overtaken by Apple fanboi's. For those who disliked the comment didn't the POTUS [Obama] himself comment that iPad was a distraction.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
is breathing light really a requirement? I would prefer faster and cheaper computers. IMHO I find Apple computers to be equivalent of SUV's. You can get a descent laptop at nearly 20-30% cheaper from Dell/HP/ASUS. Maybe only Americans can a
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I agree your last comment, but I thought this service was for sharing with friends who are intimate enough to care for such pictures. Also how is sending a link or notification about new pictures different from sending actual images. In cas
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
facebook provides a better way of organizing them via tags. and regarding trusting facebook, people are motivated to learn facebook privacy settings, since they are using it everyday. Finally a person savvy enough to use such website/ email
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
non parametric statistics isnt Machine Learning. Only few methods such as K nearest neighbors are non parametric, rest all methods such as SVM's, decision trees are all parametric. So using it as a jargon is a bad idea.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
wouldn't it be easier to email the pics to the friends directly? Posterous works because people actually intend to publish their thoughts, and they are uncomfortable with using an web interface. But in case of picture I dont think people wo
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
well you could argue that Theory of CS is same as Mathematics of Computation. or Biology is just Chemistry and Chemistry is just Physics. Traditionally statistics is more geared towards hypothesis testing and analytics. While Machine Learni
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
wow this article is so wrong that I wont even comment about issues with it. Anyone who wants to read good research in nano tech can browse through this journal: http://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd This is same as saying to someone working
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Good luck with that. Barriers to professions - which includes access to research - is what keeps the professionals well paid and thus perhaps allow them to fund more research. >> No, Public interest in research is what kee
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
you are getting confused in semantics of word "prediction". Weather in theory is an Chaotic system thus there is no simple laws such as F = Ma to predict it. Time frames of week , seconds and years are meaningless. You can always argue that
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
read before you type, from my comment above: Weather is usually predictable only about a week ahead. and about December in the Northern hemisphere might be colder than this last. Thats not exactly a prediction, It is a s
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory To his surprise the weather that the machine began to predict was completely different from the weather calculated before. Lorenz tracked this down to the computer printout. The computer wo
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
already out of date and is of very limited use Depends on the type of the information, news: yes,information about biology, or Geo-Information or encyclopedic: not so fast. on other hand we now have access to real time data.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Depends on your background / intended purpose: 1. if you are making web apps then Google App Engine / Python is a good choice 2. If you are developing Ipod/ipad/iphone touch apps then you should learn obj C 3. If you are more scientifically
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
GraphLab is intended for efficiently parallelizing Processing intensive Machine learning algorithms, this is different from "Bring Computation near data" philosophy of Hadoop/HDFS/Map-Reduce. Generally most of enterprise mapreduce applicati
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Could you point out specific holes in his arguments? I find your comment to be too much relying on metaphors and not backed up with example or data and without any specifics? E.g. One of the recurrent themes in his books is how forecasters
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
interesting http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/09/goldman-sachs-alpha-markets... says that the fund failed in ~ 2007, while this article talks latest debacles. Thanks for the reference.

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