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by antics 14y ago
This is actually completely false. Most of these algorithms were specifically designed to make a specific intractable subcase of some algorithm tractable, not only in theory, but in practice. Most of them are completely practical, and toget
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by antics 14y ago
The cause of this bug seems to be the OSX system spell checker; I've crashed a few applications to take a look at the dumps, and so far they common point of failure seems to be that they all have some call to something like `NSSpellChecker`
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by antics 14y ago
Chomsky's argument here is basically the same argument he used to reinvent linguistics in the 50's and 60's, so understanding what's really being said here depends on a bit of context. Since neither previous discussions nor this article h
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How and why the US Justice Department over-prosecutes(susiebright.blogs.com)
217 points by antics 14y ago|125 comments
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by antics 14y ago
Better eulogies will follow, to be sure, but in the mean time, much of what can be said about him is captured in a touching talk he gave called "How to Get a Job Like Mine" [1]. What I think is especially touching about this is how he gentl
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by antics 14y ago
Facebook is, by a huge margin, the buggiest release software that I use every day. When I look hard, I notice at least a dozen UI bugs a week. Yet, Facebook is hugely successful -- so successful, in fact, that it's hard for me to think of
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by antics 14y ago
This is not my area of specialty, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the case that we can determine whether to numbers are inequal ? If so, then isn't also the case that your criticism that you can't determine equality is overstated?
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by antics 14y ago
I know this is not on topic, but I wrote that answer! It's a huge kick to see it on a random HN comment. :D
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by antics 14y ago
And that's the problem with rankings. Because it matters what you mean by "top tier". I'd argue that Harvard CS is top tier, it's just much, much smaller than the schools it competes against. Michael Mitzenmacher, Leslie Valiant, Michael
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by antics 14y ago
One of the cooler things about the field of machine learning is that conferences like ICML, and little mini-summer schools like this are very "rich", so talks like this are all over the Internet. For those who are curious Tenenbaum has rece
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by antics 14y ago
Berger's actually written a seminal book on the topic called "Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis"[1]. If you're interested in that area, consider checking it out of your library. I'm not quite as sharp in the area as I used t
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by antics 14y ago
As I said, my Bayesian theory is rusty, but there are no "frequentist properties" of an estimator. Frequentist inference is inference -- it doesn't make guarantees about the underlying thing it's approximating, it provides guarantees about
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by antics 14y ago
My Bayesian theory is a bit rusty, but here we go. Say we have data X, and some non-finite dimensional index into the family of functions that describe the the data, called \theta. The Bayesian perspective classically holds \theta constant
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by antics 14y ago
There has been a lot of rich discussion about the relative merits of the Bayesian and frequentist perspectives on statistical inference. If you are thinking about applying inference techniques to some problem, then it is well worth your tim
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Caltech ML course registration is open(work.caltech.edu)
3 points by antics 15y ago|0 comments
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by antics 15y ago
I hesitate to write this, but: Google Play is cool, but social isn't about features. It's about people , and the people are on Facebook. Maybe Google+ isn't designed to supplant Facebook, and maybe it shouldn't be, but it's hard to argue t
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by antics 15y ago
Before we all grab our pitchforks, I have just gone through the entire first page of results and a huge majority of them were explicitly noted as test applications. Sometimes you can see this in the names: test / rails_app_v3 / te
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by antics 15y ago
Discussions of whether OCaml is "practical" or useful or good aside, this book really, really needed to be written. It may be the case that there are truly excellent resources for learning OCaml, but I know the language, and I've never he
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by antics 15y ago
Respectfully, the summary should be "Do things, Tell people".
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by antics 15y ago
> There are plenty of ways to bring smart people together to learn and do research. > They could be nonprofit; they could be separate from teaching or integrated > with it. You could even call them "universities" if you
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by antics 15y ago
If there are plenty of other things to cut first, why are we comparing the two? Why not complain that they should cut something else instead of universities? I know the answer to this, and it makes me a bit sad. It's easy for Americans to r
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by antics 15y ago
Why is this comment being downvoted? I don't agree with this user either, but it's so much more constructive to explain why you're downvoting things than it is to just downvote them and not say anything. As for you georgieporgie, good on
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by antics 15y ago
Respectfully, no. The primary issue in spam filtering is not that we don't have training corpora, it's that spammers are very efficient at finding holes in your system. One example is when the Hotmail team first enabled keyword filtering.
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by antics 15y ago
Do you know why we have oil and coal? When all those carbon-based life forms died all those years ago, there was nothing to break them down. So they persisted, and the result is oil and coal. I've often wondered whether a similar thing woul
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by antics 15y ago
I've got one of those stories. My parents live on the opposite side of the country. I flew to see them one Christmas and then flew back home. As I unpacked after the trip, I discovered that my huge hunting knife had accidentally been in my
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by antics 15y ago
That's a great suggestion.
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Show HN: I made a list of online education resources; help me finish it(char.io)
6 points by antics 15y ago|5 comments
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by antics 15y ago
The scribd link appears anytime you submit a PDF directly. This was/is useful for people who hate downloading PDFs, since scribd does not require this. Of course, a lot of us (myself included) use Chrome, which allows you to open PDFs inlin
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by antics 15y ago
I don't mean to be crabby, but the infographic explicitly mentions that some of the jobs are from the service industry. If you look at the infographic in context[1], it lists the source[2]. Also, while I generally agree with your point ab
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by antics 15y ago
Let's be clear that among the blackout messages, yours is unequivocally the best. Specifically, it is concise and effective in a way that neither Wikipedia nor Google's messages are. That said, I do agree that it would be more effective san

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