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by aneesh 17y ago
Get NDISwrapper: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ It will allows you to use the Windows driver for that wireless card.
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by aneesh 17y ago
R is very powerful, but its use is mostly limited to statisticians. So providing a simple interface for people to leverage predictive models built in R is a great idea. But their sample output ( http://predict.i2pi.com/8MjSV2AA ) just show
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by aneesh 17y ago
Have they added support for Django models as well?
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by aneesh 17y ago
perfectlygoodideas.com
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by aneesh 17y ago
Bing Travel's design is almost exactly what Farecast -- acquired by MS in early 2008, and part of Live Search -- has had for at least the past year (maybe more, I first visited Farecast about a year ago). Farecast and Kayak have had a very
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by aneesh 17y ago
The funny thing is, most of this stuff isn't new. The integration is just better. Cashback launched about a year ago, and has been integrated into the product search for months. Infinite scroll on images is nice too, but that's been there
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by aneesh 17y ago
PayPal has a Direct Payment option where the credit card is processed in the background, and the user stays on your page instead of being redirected to PayPal. Essentially, the user doesn't know that PayPal is being used to process their p
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "It will be a TAX on every energy consumer in the world ... It won't actually DO anything to fix the environment" Actually, it will. The use of taxes to influence consumption is well-documented. It's basic economics: price increase
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by aneesh 17y ago
I say work backwards. Instead of thinking how you want to compute the score, think about how you want the distribution of scores to be. Anything you come up with will be fairly arbitrary, so you might as well "game the system" by creating
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by aneesh 17y ago
Plenty of times. Sometimes I even submit them and delete them a minute later. I felt like I had something interesting to say, but when I actually articulated it, it didn't add much to the conversation. If you noticed PG's essay that he wr
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by aneesh 17y ago
If you code in Perl, the NYT released a nice Perl profiler: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/the-new-york-times-...
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by aneesh 17y ago
If you want to create industrial/scientific applications, libraries are going to be pretty important. For that reason, I'd recommend Python (see SciPy and NumPy). I'd also recommend learning R if you're at all interested in scientific data
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by aneesh 17y ago
Windows Marketplace used to sell third-party apps until 2008. Now it basically just points to store.microsoft.com
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by aneesh 17y ago
Yep, context is key. I recall reading that Amazon found placing the "This is recommended because you bought book X" actually reassured their customers a lot. It seems like people prefer recommendation algorithms they can understand, rathe
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by aneesh 17y ago
Paul Erdős was quite a character. Read The Man Who Loved Only Numbers for some fun stories about him.
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by aneesh 17y ago
This is quite creditable for Atlanta. But I wouldn't say "Move over, SF". This includes all businesses, from new ice cream shops to new biotech companies. SF probably still leads if you look at tech startups.
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by aneesh 17y ago
LaTeX is pretty standard for typesetting math/CS texts of any length. You can use your favorite version control system, and write a Makefile to build a PDF/PS document. If you want to make it easily readable on a webpage (and not just a PD
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by aneesh 17y ago
I remember a psychology study that showed people recognize www.yahoo.com as a url more quickly than yahoo.com -- with the latter, you don't see the ".com" until you get to the end of the phrase, and that's when you realize it's a url. I c
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by aneesh 17y ago
Maybe the RescueTime folks can tell us the impact on office productivity in that period.
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by aneesh 17y ago
Assuming zero interest :-)
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by aneesh 17y ago
Then just install Mathematica :-)
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by aneesh 17y ago
His salary covered the child support/alimony, as well as the mortgage.
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "But with her take-home income averaging only about $2,400 a month, we didn’t make enough to cover our bills because my take-home pay was going straight to the mortgage." What the heck are you buying if $2,400 per month can't cover yo
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by aneesh 17y ago
As an interesting data point, many Asian languages don't have a concept of capitalization in the language at all.
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by aneesh 17y ago
To stop their slide, and grow their market share again (which is, I presume, the goal of the IE team at Microsoft), Microsoft basically needs to get Firefox users to switch back to IE. Everything becomes a lot simpler when you think abou
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by aneesh 17y ago
There's a similar service at genderanalyzer.com, based on UClassify's API - http://blog.uclassify.com/gender-text-analysis/ . It thinks Sergey Brin writes like a woman: http://www.genderanalyzer.com/?url=too.blogspot.com
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by aneesh 17y ago
Ah, okay. But I was getting at the doctors' reaction to this proposal. Judging by a few of the comments on the article, doctors don't agree with that proposal. But is it because they're concerned for their patients' well-being, or becaus
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by aneesh 17y ago
Did you read the article? He doesn't think this would be "cool"! He's saying that this could be used to identify people who thought they were anonymous. The main point he makes is that people consider the fact identification is difficult
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by aneesh 17y ago
It's so hard to get good information on this issue because so many of the people we get our information from are themselves key stakeholders in the process. Of course the general public wants more doctors. That would generally mean lower
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by aneesh 17y ago
This is the most persuasive argument for structured data I've seen so far. Google's biggest limitation is that it can only help you find things that someone has put on a webpage.

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