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by bglazer 10y ago
I'd imagine it's their sneezes and coughs. The problem isn't what's going into the workers, it's what's coming out of them.
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by bglazer 10y ago
I think there are some folks at UCSB that are working on modeling the health state of trauma patients' based on incomplete and noisy data. Pretty fascinating stuff. I'm mostly familiar with it from talking to Dr. Bernie Daigle at
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by bglazer 10y ago
The original Nature article is here: http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-st... This is a reprint.
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by bglazer 10y ago
Can you explain how you got the CEO's cell phone number? That sounds pretty amusing, honestly.
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by bglazer 10y ago
I've been learning (trying to learn) linear algebra by studying Gilbert Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra" book. There are some really mind bending sections in which he explicitly treats a concept like linear regr
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by bglazer 10y ago
I agree. It seems like a lot of people are profoundly unable to be physically uncomfortable. It's disheartening to think about people who are so scared of sweating or having achey muscles that they'll avoid any experience that req
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by bglazer 10y ago
That's an interesting question. I can't think of one off the top of my head. You should try http://english.stackexchange.com/ Questions like this are pretty common there. As an added bonus, Peter Shor (famous for
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by bglazer 10y ago
I really like this word! Did you coin it just now?
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by bglazer 10y ago
https://processing.org/ I absolutely love Processing. It's a subset of Java with a dead simple IDE. Bonus points for exporting to Android, javascript, and executable jars for the desktop. Comes with excellent examples.
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by bglazer 10y ago
Is it broken or working like it's supposed to? I've never understood the desire of scientists to rank and self-segregate themselves into "elite" and "Tumbleweed State". First, it's not in scientist's
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by bglazer 10y ago
Well, now that I've looked for some sources to back this up, it seems that the fact that I stated above is either difficult to prove or just not true. The TSA is not very forthcoming with statistics on drug seizures. I'll admit th
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by bglazer 10y ago
Yes, and in Moscow as well. If the actual mission of the TSA was preventing terrorist acts, then they would have done something about this massive and completely obvious vulnerability. My opinion, however, is that the TSA has become an arm
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by bglazer 10y ago
It's an interesting thought, but I don't think this will be a significant problem. The inevitable combination of laws, surveillance, and social norms will, as it does now, keep the vast majority of people from doing random asshol
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by bglazer 10y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure that most people understand the extent to which commercial airline flight is automated. For example, most people are shocked when I tell people that pilots are required to let the plane auto-land under very
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by bglazer 11y ago
Desmos's MathQuill interface is great. By far the easiest to use math input I've encountered. I haven't tried to input anything really exotic, but it's extremely intuitive for the simple to intermediate level of complexi
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by bglazer 11y ago
They didn't run word2vec. They built a LSTM-RNN (Long Short Term Memory Recursive Neural Network). They mention this in the caption of the image showing word clusters. word2vec and LSTM-RNN both produce word embeddings, which are vecto
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by bglazer 11y ago
"How the sausage is made" is an American idiom. Generally, it means "a process that makes a good thing but is chaotic or messy". We say this because sausage is tasty, but most people prefer not to see all the animal part
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by bglazer 11y ago
In short, peace and quiet. I really can't describe how sublime the quiet of a winter forest is. Also, this may or may not be appealing to you, but I find it to be a humbling experience. Being alone in an empty winter forest really make
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by bglazer 11y ago
I think you're looking for "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?" by Microsoft Research. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1677... Edit: Here's a particular
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by bglazer 11y ago
Both in regards to decreasing the cost of living and also increasing prosperity for everyone, the clearest answer to me is to purposefully and meaningfully increase investment in areas outside of San Francisco. The Valley, through a variety
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by bglazer 11y ago
I've heard people suggest a comparison between birds wings and planes. We don't understand everything about bird wings. They're incredibly complex and messy biological structures. However, we do know enough about the gene
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by bglazer 11y ago
Hey, I just wanted to say that I checked out your company, and I think you have a very compelling product. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to buy it (junior engineer at a massive corp). Instead I just wanted to wish you luck!
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by bglazer 11y ago
> Barring massive public subsidy for car ownership Not to be trite, but one should never underestimate the impact of lobbying from massive established corporations.
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by bglazer 11y ago
All of these things are already possible. Hell I see an example of most of these behaviors pretty frequently. It's not like normal people are going to suddenly become psychopaths when they get self driving cars.
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by bglazer 11y ago
> What is striking is not so much their greater wealth ... Their relatives have started talking to them. Asked to explain how their lives have changed, one of the first things they say is that they now get invited to weddings. This is th
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by bglazer 11y ago
I noticed that you didn't capitalize god in your writing, unlike many Christians. Is this personal preference or specific to Quakers? Sorry to distract from the actual content of your well written post. I simply found this an interesti
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by bglazer 11y ago
Javascript too. D3 uses it quite extensively. See here: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/geo/centroid....
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by bglazer 11y ago
I agree the "feminist inspiration" part is a confusing non-sequitur. I think you're missing what they're trying to say, though. I interpreted that section as "we're making our algorithms and data open so that e
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by bglazer 11y ago
No idea how to get into this on the company side. Apparently hey use Robotics Operating System (ROS) quite extensively, so you could learn about that ( http://www.ros.org/ ) On the hobby side, check out farmbot http:/&#
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by bglazer 11y ago
I'm not a mental health professional but I suffer from depression. It's not an extreme case but it's still quite painful. I urge you to continue striving to throw off that grey veil that shrouds life. I can assure you that th

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