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by bglazer 12y ago
Thanks for the reply! 1. This is a good point. I haven't incorporated sampling after the outage into the analysis, but that should be a good qualitative measure of the accuracy of the forecast. 2. I typically have good data from server
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by bglazer 12y ago
One of my responsibilities is to do post-outage reporting to estimate how much money we lost. Right now I use Holt-Winters to give a forecast starting just before the outage began. I then estimate the loss to be the difference between the f
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by bglazer 12y ago
Since minimum income and negative income taxes are an often discussed topic on HN, I wonder what supporters of these ideas think about this article? It's pretty troubling to me that 27% of the surveyed men were watching TV at 2 in the
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by bglazer 12y ago
Very interesting article. I bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?
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by bglazer 12y ago
Agreed, I don't hold any hope for this, but I also don't have the expertise to honestly judge it. Makes for a nice local news story though, I just wish they'd have taken a slightly more critical look. His ideas are that famil
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by bglazer 12y ago
Pares has submitted papers to journals and proposals to conventions. When he does get a response at all, he’s told his discovery is "premature." “It is so far out there, he’s not going to get funding to do it,” says Jack Kasher
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by bglazer 12y ago
Do doctors have any incentive to connect with these communities? Is it ethical or reasonable to monitor and attempt to intervene in cases of Morgellons or anorexia that present themselves?
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by bglazer 12y ago
So would a better solution be to use something like: public static doSomething(Database db){ db.write("did something" }
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by bglazer 12y ago
From the linked article: > Look at Stack-Overflow ... they also use only static methods for performance, we should do the same ... Gordy had dismissed Ina’s love of unit testing. It’s hard to unit test code written mostly with static
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by bglazer 12y ago
The article you're referencing is detection of the notoriously secretive Idaho giant salamander [1]. Your idea is particularly interesting because it has already been used to detect and study the diversity of Demodex face mites in huma
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by bglazer 12y ago
That's a super cool idea. I do wonder about unintended consequences. Invasive glowing trees might wreak havoc on ecosystems, especially on tree dwelling nocturnal creatures. At least they'd be easy to spot :)
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by bglazer 12y ago
I evangelize a lot for Processing [1] but it is the best experience I've had for getting to draw a circle as quickly as possible. It's a limited subset of Java included in a very basic IDE, that was developed at the MIT Media Lab.
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by bglazer 12y ago
I'd like to recommend a python command line utility called pyp. It allows you to do python string manipulation on text streams using the standard pipe operator. https://code.google.com/p/pyp/
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by bglazer 12y ago
This is certainly an impressive list of projects. Ada seems to be favored for critical software that can't ever fail. I've been considering how to achieve this type of software reliability for more "enterprisey" applicat
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by bglazer 12y ago
Oh wow. This is a huge nostalgia rush. Jeffery Ventrella's website absolutely hooked me on programming. The visualizations were totally mesmerizing for me as a 10 year old kid. Especially this: http://www.ventrella.com/
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by bglazer 12y ago
>I guess we should just train an RNN to output a caption so that it can tell us what it thinks is there. Then maybe the philosophers and cognitive scientists will stop telling us what our nets cannot do. I wonder if he knew about the Sta
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by bglazer 12y ago
Could you elaborate a little? I ask because the Perl 5 code looks a lot like the Perl that I write. I'd like to improve, but the existing Perl code that I'm writing on top of is really bad. Like really, really bad. I don't ha
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by bglazer 12y ago
Thanks. I guess this speaks more to my lack of lack of experience.
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by bglazer 12y ago
Hi zzleeper, you've mentioned here and above in your top level comment that a bad adviser can make a PhD torturous. Perhaps this is a naïve question, but can you switch? Is it possible to just find and study under better advisor? Thank
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by bglazer 12y ago
I think you might be surprised by the type and value of information posted to these services. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-revealed-wh...
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by bglazer 12y ago
Well I read it. The situation in Detroit sounds remarkably similar to the situation in Memphis. Instead of race riots sparking massive white flight, we had desegregation and busing. Immediately, there was a huge exodus to the suburbs. Withi
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by bglazer 12y ago
It's not an explicitly racist term. Just like "blacklist" or the "pot calling the kettle black". Black has a negative connotation that is separate from race. http://english.stackexchange.com/question
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by bglazer 12y ago
I've heard all good things about ggplot2 and I sincerely believe they're true. However, my only experience has been trying to plot 2 overlapping timeseries that didn't have the same length to the same plot area. I found that
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by bglazer 12y ago
For Linear Algebra, I'd humbly suggest Gilbert Strang's Introduction to Linear Algebra. This is the companion book to the lectures here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr...
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by bglazer 12y ago
It boggled my mind to see that Shor is an expert in English language and history, in addition to being one of the more important computer scientists of the century.
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Peter Shor's (Shor's Algorithm) Profile on the English Language Stackexchange(english.stackexchange.com)
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by bglazer 12y ago
Did they actually build one? I got the impression that they have a working memcomputing machine, albeit one that is non-universal.
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by bglazer 12y ago
Ok that makes sense. From a practical perspective, would this essentially make Turing machines obsolete in solving NP problems? Essentially does this mean that NP=P, in a non-Turing machine context?
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by bglazer 12y ago
From the conclusion of the paper: > In conclusion we have demonstrated experimentally a deterministic memcomputing machine that is able to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time (actually in one step) using only polynomial resou
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by bglazer 12y ago
Assuming that you're referring to the "Photonic Fence" by Intellectual Ventures[1], you're actually going to get a pretty cold reception from many on HN. Intellectual Ventures and their founder, Nathan Myrhvold, are cons

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