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by bhl 7y ago
> his old research students Who’s the subject of this sentence? I didn’t know PageRank had academic descendants. What’s the current research on PageRank like? I looked at Sergey Brin’s academic page a couple months back and was surprised
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by bhl 7y ago
An even, shorter intuition would be that: number of pairs in a group of n people grows O(n^2), which implies some square root factor. I would lead with that before starting a more rigorous proof.
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by bhl 7y ago
On a related note, does anyone know of a good reference of applying space filling curves as a method of dimensionality reduction? It seems like an intuitive idea since Hilbert curves [1] map points from a higher to a lower dim space but tri
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by bhl 7y ago
What do you mean? Most analyses of multi-armed bandit algorithms assume a finite time horizon. And if not, they use the doubling trick for infinite time horizons.
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Megapixels – art and research project on face recognition datasets(megapixels.cc)
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by bhl 7y ago
Is the right word inequality? There aren't less college places, houses in NY/the Bay, etc in the world than there were in the 80s. By extension, the problem is not enough new wealth creation rather than inequality. Yes, the righ
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by bhl 7y ago
My school uses this for its data science classes so let me provide an example. Say that you have a lab or homework assignment done in Python. It may require a lot of storage (a large dataset), compute (maybe you have a large model), or depe
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by bhl 7y ago
What if we stopped relying on higher education with its high tuition fees to produce skilled workers, and instead focus on community colleges and K-12 education?
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by bhl 7y ago
Heuristic algorithms using hand-crafted features.
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by bhl 7y ago
Reading those comments make me wish that I had known about this site back in 2007, back when graham responded to comments about his essays or when now-famous founders browsed as well [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by bhl 7y ago
The line between approximate and compute is a blurry one: some may say if the polynomial approximation depends on log of the error, meaning you can exponentially get better with each step, computation and approximation are the same.
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by bhl 8y ago
Zoning is one way NIMBYism can keep housing from being developers and housing prices high. They’re not separate ideas.
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by bhl 8y ago
ActivityPub doesn’t seem that mature as a framework yet. I myself got lost in the documentation.
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Why can’t a network have self moderation at a global and local level? Reddit does this to an extent, with each community having its own separate moderation and culture, and the front page which is curated from a list of communities. The tri
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by bhl 8y ago
Is this a free rider problem? While a developer is being mentored and improving, they’re still contributing to the company for the same salary even though their market value is rising. Eventually, without a raise in salary, they’ll move to
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by bhl 8y ago
You're onto something. The thing that got the United States out of the Great Depression and into 20 years of prosperity between mid 1940s and late 1960s was the Federal government's massive involvement in the economy, mainly durin
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by bhl 8y ago
Last semester when I had a course where scribing for notes was required, I would first write down everything in pen and paper. And then transcribe them into LaTeX with Overleaf. This two part process was pretty effective: get the basic idea
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by bhl 8y ago
How does arxiv-vanity render LaTeX formulas without the original source? I’m wondering if it’s possible to convert some pdf class notes to html.
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by bhl 8y ago
Just pad the end of the list with 0s, but keep the original size of the list.
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by bhl 8y ago
One thing that may be politically feasible would be to replace the prison system for non violent offenders with military boot camp. That way, you can get an education, discipline, and a sense of patriotism.
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by bhl 8y ago
The issue with a liberal arts education is not that certain classes are mandatory: it's that the mandatory classes are simply not useful or general enough. An easy solution would just to make replacements. Have students take introduc
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by bhl 8y ago
> If you spend less on one thing, you can spend more on other things (or tax less), so I don't see how that follows. As an additional note, universities right now are getting a huge subsidy: not only through tuition and student loan
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by bhl 8y ago
Facebook already bans ISIS propaganda videos, so it's a small leap to assume that they'll also ban Al-Qaeda released videos as well.
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by bhl 8y ago
I don't think oversupply is the causal element in this case. Most of us know that to be a graduate student is to be in an extremely privileged position: it's the pressure from having that position that allows for abuse to be toler
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by bhl 8y ago
Do you know of an open dataset to experiment on?
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by bhl 8y ago
You might like this post from last week: Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755
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by bhl 8y ago
You’re missing the point: Apple seems to be abusing its power as a platform to unfairly charge content based providers with 30% tax while not applying it to themself. On Amazon, it would be comparable to charging you 15% while not charging
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by bhl 8y ago
In an ideal economic world, yes, employees would have perfect information about a market and make changes accordingly, being rational agents and all of that yada yada. But for the average worker, that’s just simply not true: the job market
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by bhl 8y ago
I’m more inclined to believe that the reason why people find less meaning in their work is due to a gap in productivity and pay: if a person’s output is increased but their income has not — income for most is a way of measuring the value of
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by bhl 8y ago
Curious to know whether someone has made a website to compare DDG and Google search results side by side. Anyone on HN want to take up that challenge? This story is definitely not the first DDG against Google story in the last few months.

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