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by apl 14y ago
Virtually none of that is in fact unique to MATLAB or even a strength in the first place. > Matlab is awesome above all else because the design is > coherent. Both the syntax and the standard libraries. It certainly is cohe
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by apl 14y ago
You know, I don't think any new ground was broken here with regard to content and message, but aesthetically, Holman's slide decks are invariably great.
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by apl 14y ago
... which makes Rabi an astoundingly effective supervisor.
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by apl 14y ago
> So, Deutsch und Spanisch lernen ist gut für mich? Tolle > Nachrichten, dies ist nicht eine Zeitverschwendung! Let's nitpick to make your brain grow even faster: German doesn't have "so" in the causal or consequential sen
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by apl 14y ago
> Particularly in non-scientific-method subjects like > psychology? That's a strong statement, especially when you include the more biology-leaning subfields like cognitive psychology. The methodology of modern psychology
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by apl 14y ago
> I think the response to the iPhone 5 so far [...] can > also be explained by something I claimed [...] iPhone > has peaked (just like the iPod did) That doesn't explain anything, unless you consider a vague and,
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by apl 14y ago
I'm equally confused by his point about non-statistics departments doing more statistics than their "proper" counterparts. While that may be true, the bulk of cutting edge research in a given field always comes from specialists. I've never
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by apl 14y ago
I keep coming across this type of complaint on high-priced items, and it makes me wonder how you justify shelling out 2200$ (at the very least) for something that can't be much more than an impulse buy? After all, you're deterred by a minor
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by apl 14y ago
> Most people have some perception of levels of security We're just trading intuitions here, of course, but I'm virtually certain that people's sensitive passwords are as abysmal as their non-sensitive ones. Sure, you'd pick a g
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by apl 14y ago
> but I highly disagree with that extrapolation. That's great, but your counter-claim isn't obvious at all. So please elaborate. Are you alluding to banks generally setting people's PINs for them, using more appropriate distribu
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Apple Announces Over Two Million iPhone 5 Pre-Orders in First Day of Sales (arstechnica.com)
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by apl 14y ago
I'm a tad disappointed by the abstracts associated with each submission; in effect, what's called the body is in fact the abstract and what's called the abstract is in fact the body. Still, an amusing project.
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by apl 14y ago
This tool hijacks the import mechanism by directly writing to Python's look-up tables. After all, when you do from sh import git there's no module 'sh' invoked in the normal sense. Instead, the library generates a wrapper for the she
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by apl 14y ago
> As an ex-atheist who previously believed in evolution and > is now a young earth creationist > loving the Mars missions How on earth do you reconcile this? The mind boggles, although it might just be me missing a
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by apl 14y ago
Octave sits at an awkward half-way point between MATLAB and Python/R/Julia/etc. You get the shitty syntax of MATLAB at not quite MATLAB's speed and miss out on support as well as various incompatible toolboxes. So unless you have hard depen
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by apl 14y ago
Which is, in fact, precisely what they're doing?
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by apl 14y ago
I'm willing to bet that any revolution in this field will involve Victor; one of the most fascinating thinkers in all of HCI.
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by apl 14y ago
> do these corrections Oh the irony. ad infinitum
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by apl 14y ago
> I'd say this was mostly true 20 years ago, sort of true 10 > years ago, and utterly false today. Remarkably, I've yet to meet one of these effortlessly self-educated men of the Internet age. Checking out a couple of Calc
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by apl 14y ago
A little coherence goes a long way.
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by apl 14y ago
> though as opposed to Tom I don't yet know if I made the > right decision or not ;) The interesting thing is -- it was probably the wrong call, and I'm saying this without having the faintest idea who you are or what you
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by apl 14y ago
> Giant brainless animals roam the ocean looking to sting > and absorb prey without ever really knowing they're even > doing it. They're pretty much ocean zombies. They do lack central nervous systems, but they're
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by apl 14y ago
I'll give you a couple of examples. > is sleep a cause or a result of some other underlying > factor? - Not sure what this objection means, exactly, yet. It's simple, really: Say most PD patients present with sleep dysfunc
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by apl 14y ago
Yeah, no offense, but all you've written is either widely known (Amphetamine-induced DA depletion inducing Parkinson's-like motor symptoms and so on), based on misunderstandings (some of your graph readings are horrifically beside the point
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by apl 14y ago
> We're starting to move toward python for future work. Thanks a lot for commenting. As somebody who does a lot of scientific coding in Python and part-time contributor to a couple of projects, I'm of course curious -- what's yo
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by apl 14y ago
A lot of that stuff is incidental stuff; see .php, .html, .js, and so on. (Apparently there are some web-based tools that he mentions; not sure, though.) The bulk amounts to MATLAB plus Java libraries for remedying MATLAB's functionality ga
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by apl 14y ago
> the code in Matlab seems like a disaster as far as ever > making this or similar approaches modular and so usable- > by-others goes. As always, it depends. I've seen very well maintained MATLAB code bases, and I've
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by apl 14y ago
With a data base consisting of hundreds of largely independent findings, it'd take one hell of a systematic bias to not get at least something right. Granted, they're obviously abstracting here, but we should avoid underplaying this achie
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by apl 14y ago
Nope. Seems to be heavily MATLAB-based.
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by apl 14y ago
http://wholecell.stanford.edu/ Source code and training data available online; written, of course, in MATLAB. Very refreshing, and I'm looking forward to dissecting this first-hand.

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