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by benten10 11y ago
Haha, oh yes, that too. I'm not doing too bad myself ( the 'gradstudent' lifestyle isn't THAAT bad), but I see what you mean. These things take up emotional energy to be dealt with, and most people consider the cost when
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I realize for an outsider it may feel like a support group or a bunch of complainers ranting, but I'd like to add here: Me Too! I left facebook late in 2011, for various reasons, but mostly because it was making me sad and depressed. I
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Ohh man, does Hackernews bring out all the tinfoiled gentlemen from nuclear apocalypse bunkers once in a while ! See: comments here.
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I would _love_ to play around with it. The Bank Of America finance tracker SUX big time, and I don't trust Mint et al. with my data (plus, I want to do tasty analysis/tracking myself, mmmm).
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by benten10 11y ago
Alright buddy, I don't want to get in a flame war here, but I'll summarize my arguments in short. A hits B. Hard. When B tries fighting back, A suggests the world should be a fair place, and really, he doesn't support violenc
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by benten10 11y ago
Sooo, you're suggesting humans haven't committed to changing sea level?
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Do read the first few comments too. They seem to raise legitimate concerns regarding the methodology /misaligned interests in the research. Regardless, I'm skeptical of the skeptics' suggestions.
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Thanks for the links! I am getting desperate to contribute (too much post-work free time, don't ask). I have been spamming my favorite python libraries on github with feature requests (so I can pick them up myself later ; ) ), but it&#
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Ask HN: Why does Uber need ID to DELETE account?
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Does it still need invitations? I uhh, would be grateful for one, if ANYONE had it..
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Introduced by Claude Shannon, the father of modern information theory, as we know. Ahhh Shannon. The guy who invented the entire field of digital freaking electronics for his master's thesis [1], and then moved on to even greater thing
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by benten10 11y ago
This is really excellent for researchers approaching the field from the more NLP angle than the ML/CompLing angle. It was only a few weeks(days?) ago that Chris Manning came up with the whitepaper arguing that linguists have just as mu
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by benten10 11y ago
Since this appears to be the 'related works' thread, I'll add my links here. A reasonable amount of work has already been done in disambiguation of the meanings of words with word embeddings, some of it trained, some untraine
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I have researched the issue lightly, and am told that EU rules are particularly ...bothersome. Is it true that an EU company has to advertise for/and keep open a position for 3 months and show that none of the applicants met the requir
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by benten10 11y ago
I would suspect that instead of word frequency, they likely use TF-IDF (or even better, BM25[1]) or LDA [2] to identify relevant keywords to highlight. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25 2. https://
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by benten10 11y ago
I guess that's where the term CONfidence man comes from: because they charm your pants off, and then rob you. Still, I'd argue it's a net asset than a liability. Guess that's how your managers got where they were though:
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by benten10 11y ago
You say that as if it's a bad thing ; ) The thing about being charmed is: there's a reason you like being charmed. Charmers are likely to get along with the team together, and make the clients happier. Sure, you need to be good at
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by benten10 11y ago
Cool idea for the hackers out there: Use public transport data from all the sources below, overlap them on Google aerial view, change the dots to 'top view' images of buses, and let the users follow buses in 'real time'
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Any need for Computer Scientists either? The U.S. is a crazy place to live for someone not from here. : (
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by benten10 11y ago
Was it? Not sure. It's too new-agey and commercialized for me, so I never checked. Blogger and Jekyll-github all the way! Perhaps if someone leveraged those technologies well, you actually would have source control for essays.
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...the HN-reader crowd you mean? Yupp! : )
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Idea: pull requests, but for essays.
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...and the byline?
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by benten10 11y ago
Since we're talking about content distribution networks, someone please tell me Google pulled the reader down because they were secretly working on a much better version of it (NOT G+) and will release it soon, and the world will be wo
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by benten10 11y ago
Huhh, that was a totally unexpected encounter to Prof. Ramsey's page.
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Hope someone at twitter's listening. I would pay money for such a client myself, and so would a lot of people, I bet.
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>There's a pretty big difference between communicating in and about the present vs. communicating about the past. I think what you've identified is the beginning of a distinction between those two activities in the technologies
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Disclaimer: I like twitter over facebook, which I don't use that much, and my comment history will show that I'm a twitter 'lackey', so to speak. Does anyone else feel that the facebook moment is fading away? People have
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by benten10 11y ago
2 points. I won't speak for myself, but from what I've gathered from friends: 1. A lot of people seem to like video ads. Movie ads specially tell you 'whats hot', and general ads put you 'in the loop' so to spe
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* Gods I see you are of the belief that Bishnu singlehandedly created mathematics, and I respect that, but I consider it more likely it must have been the work of a union of gods. Ganesh, who I consider to be my patron God (no snark here),

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