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by apu 17y ago
Does anyone know why this is not implemented within Python, Perl, etc.? I don't think the article mentioned...
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by apu 17y ago
Add this to your .bashrc to have much more intelligent tab-completion: case $- in *i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;; esac In addition to the usual filename completions, this will do command-
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by apu 17y ago
readline is amazing, for bringing consistent shell-like behavior in a variety of programs, including the shell, python, mysql, etc. You configure it using ~/.inputrc...here are the commands I use: set completion-ignore-case on Tab-co
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by apu 17y ago
Braces in general are great for all sorts of tasks. The general principle is that it duplicates arguments, with changes. Thus, foo/bar/{a,b,c} expands out to foo/bar/a foo/bar/b foo/bar/c and you can also use {1..9} to expand
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by apu 17y ago
Or in bash, using .inputrc (readline): "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward
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by apu 17y ago
Apparently PG agreed, 4 years ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html It's nice to see some VCs adopting this stance -- I think it will indeed benefit all involved.
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by apu 17y ago
Can't talk about details yet, but there is something in the works along these lines. More info in a month or so...
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by apu 17y ago
Classic 2004 article from Mark. I somehow wandered onto it just now and was reminded of how awesome it was, and thought people here might be interested if they hadn't seen it before.
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Thought experiment [on XML](diveintomark.org)
38 points by apu 17y ago|7 comments
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by apu 17y ago
My Observations: * Instance-based methods can adapt to any kind of pattern if you have enough data. This is a well-known result in machine learning -- the interesting question is simply how much data do you need? * It's quite remarkable how
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by apu 17y ago
It's hard to judge the merits of the arguments posed by TC's guest authors, as they are invariably "what you'd expect," given the authors' profession -- i.e., always in their own best interest. This obvious conflict-of-interest, combined wi
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by apu 17y ago
For large collections of homogenous values, using the array or struct modules is best for memory (and often for speed as well). Or if math is needed, then numpy arrays are best. Storing homogenous data in lists/tuples is fine if performance
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by apu 17y ago
This article is amazing! I am also struck when reading Gawande that in many ways, his writing is like Gladwell's: interesting anecdote, statement of principle, seemingly unrelated anecdote, full description of principle. However, given thes
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by apu 17y ago
Wow, I had no idea you could transform the [statistical] 'mode' to the word 'modal.' Although, honestly, it took me a moment to parse it that way, as opposed to "on a [pop-up window that you can't background] day, I see 0 people..."
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by apu 17y ago
pg/jl/tlb/rtm: as you're primarily advisors and investors now, do you feel like you've started adopting any habits of VCs (either positive or negative)?
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Breaking 3×3 Boggle(danvk.org)
7 points by apu 17y ago|0 comments
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by apu 17y ago
konsole. It's so much better than the gnome-terminal (monitor for silence/activity rules!). Actually, in recent years, it seems like gnome has gotten harder and harder to use for an expert in all aspects...I occasionally have to work on a g
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by apu 17y ago
Do you have a source for WSJ being Chomsky's favorite newspaper? And I don't know if there's that much difference between them and the Times (except Editorials, of course) anymore. Both have very few real "reporters" who do even the basics
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by apu 17y ago
Too bad this is such a short and content-less article. I was hoping for more insights into how MS manages to run the best basic research lab in computer science in the world, while being hopelessly clueless in their corporate life.
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by apu 17y ago
Wow this is some bad advice. And with an arrogant/demeaning attitude to match.
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by apu 17y ago
An easier way to do it would be the way the "undo send email" in gmail works: you don't actually take the action for a few seconds, during which time the user can change his mind. My guess is that most accidental up/down votes are realized
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by apu 17y ago
I tried keeping a notebook for a while (as many of the other replies have said), but I found that it was awkward because either the book would be too big to keep easily in my pocket, or it was so small that writing in it would go through 10
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by apu 17y ago
Clarinet
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by apu 17y ago
Matt Taibbi covered this in great detail: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_grea...
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by apu 17y ago
Ah sorry, I didn't realize that =) I'll defer to your judgment about this stuff, then. (I'm a PhD student in computer vision, and we've recently been using a GPU SVM library that's been amazing for cutting down our processing times, so I gu
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by apu 17y ago
Things are changing extremely rapidly. Researchers (especially in parallel computing) are already figuring out how to port all sorts of algorithms over to the GPU -- and not just scientific or graphics code -- we're talking general purpose
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by apu 17y ago
Your statement about inductive transfer is false. There are many vision systems, for example, that use transfer learning (as it is known in our community) to use knowledge gained from one task in another. Moreover, many of these approaches
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by apu 17y ago
I don't agree that the higher level symbolic reasoning is necessarily harder, nor that the lower level is simply engineering. The problems at the low-level are still very tough, and require scientific (and not just hacky- or engineering-) a
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by apu 17y ago
There is a vast difference between AI for games (which are purely theoretical exercises) and AI for working in the real world. The fundamental characteristic of the real world is that there is uncertainty and ambiguity in every measurement
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by apu 17y ago
Once you get past the initial 2 years of classes, grad school (PhD) is the exact opposite: virtually no interruptions, with vast blocks of time to manage as you will. I often go a few days without having a single interruption -- no meetings

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