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by apu 17y ago
Do you really think that MS is in trouble because they focused on non-core ventures? If anything, I'd say the complete opposite: they're in trouble because they're not good at focusing on the web, which is a major non-core venture for the
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by apu 17y ago
Because awesome is usually used in a relative sense -- something is awesome compared to other stuff . The implicit other stuff is "everything else."
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by apu 17y ago
It's also not practical for many scenarios. Signals in python can only be received by the main thread, and since that's what multiprocessing uses for communication, it means many common scenarios are out: GUI programs where the main thread
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by apu 17y ago
I've been fairly skeptical of the Camel paper ever since reading Alan Kay's rebuttal: http://www.secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp I trust Kay much more than these authors on matters of computer science, teaching, or ideas in general.
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by apu 17y ago
I saw Catmull's keynote at SIGGRAPH 2008, and it was spectacular. It had some common elements to this one, but was different overall. What really struck me was how he is not quite a manager, nor a technical person, nor a creative person, bu
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by apu 17y ago
You do know that that video was done by MS as an intentional self-parody, right? http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/Microsoft_Confirms_i...
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by apu 17y ago
Uh, I think you're in the wrong place. google is that way ->
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by apu 17y ago
Hah, the list of things wrong with the NYC subway that would have millions of people screaming (in other cities or countries) is already very long -- dirtiness, lack of punctuality, or even a fixed schedule, no notifications of arriving tra
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by apu 17y ago
Nope, no wi-fi either, as far as I know.
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by apu 17y ago
Ah sorry, I meant in NYC.
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by apu 17y ago
Uh, no one gets phone signal anywhere in the subways, on any carrier.
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by apu 17y ago
This could really use a visual search, like this: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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by apu 17y ago
That was amazing to watch. I have often wondered how awesome it would be to see great hackers at work in a similar way. I've had the luck to watch one or two sit next to me and work (during school), and it's mind-blowing how fast they are,
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by apu 17y ago
This is the same company that 'discovered' the power of sex in advertising: http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-...
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by apu 17y ago
The biggest thing that would probably help is not changing the features to SIFT, but to make the recognition part using a classifier rather than the set of rules he's using. Thus, instead of having to join edges into lines, and then applyin
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by apu 17y ago
Right, although they don't have to manually look at this -- they have many sophisticated monitors in place that immediately notify engineers if things are not in normal ranges.
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by apu 17y ago
With regards to (1), I'm sure they do, especially considering the negative PR Microsoft was accruing for this lay-off. With one stroke, you get a good guy working for you and you make your competitor look bad. Win-win.
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by apu 17y ago
Richard Hamming talks about doing this in his "You and Your Research" talk: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html (search for 'ashamed')
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by apu 17y ago
Someone clearly doesn't know how Bayesian inference works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
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by apu 17y ago
http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html "Estimating Age, Gender, and Identity using First Name Priors" Although the paper looks at this in the context of computer vision -- matching faces in an image with names in the ca
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by apu 17y ago
I've been building up a javascript library to do this, as visualizizing results/data takes up more than half my research time. Unfortunately, this library is nowhere close to ready to be released, but I can describe roughly the architecture
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by apu 17y ago
I often see this kind of advice and it always reeks of "I went through this and I turned out ok, so you should do it too." The problem is that I think it's completely the wrong thing to do. One of the major effects of programming in a langu
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by apu 17y ago
Wow, someone else using web.py, and that too for a "real" project! I always feel like a n00b for using such a stripped-down "framework" but after spending some time trying Pylons and Django, I found them both to be too "heavy-weight" for me
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by apu 17y ago
That's a lot of text to get to ROC curves...I'd rewrite down to essentials and get to the curves ASAP. Fundamentally, you have a threshold. Things above are classified as "positive" and below as "negative". At different threshold values, yo
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What Startups Are Really Like(paulgraham.com)
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by apu 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by apu 17y ago
Do women actually have higher absenteeism than men? My guess is that this is not actually true, and only assumed to be true. (I haven't seen any numbers either way.) If this is not true, then the process is definitely sexist. (I make no cla
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by apu 17y ago
I thought 'with' was generally frowned upon? Is it guaranteed to work correctly in all situations? And why is this a better namespacing method?
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by apu 17y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what was the final diagnosis? How was it discovered? And how are you coping?
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by apu 17y ago
Papers for SIGGRAPH & SIGGRAPH Asia are accepted a few months before the conference. These are the best two conferences in computer graphics, and the bar to get in is extremely high -- reviewers are very very tough and submitted papers

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