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by bravura 13y ago
Does the size of the hat have any significance? (Genuine interest.)
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by bravura 13y ago
In more formal terms, you are trying to minimize the expected risk (generalization error). The expected risk is the sum of empirical risk (training set error) and the structural risk (model complexity). In many instances, having low empiric
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by bravura 13y ago
Quick and dirty guide: - Use the tanh activation function. - Use many hidden nodes, e.g. 100 or 1000 for complex tasks. - Tune the learning rate. - Add a penalty of k*w^2 to each hidden node. Tune the parameter k to minimize the held-out er
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by bravura 13y ago
This looks great. It has similarities to PreQL, the query language from Prior Knowledge (acq. Saleforce). I would love to see a full set of QL primitives for common data science operations.
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by bravura 13y ago
I actually think it's time for object databases (e.g. ZopeDB) to make a comeback. Sometimes it's useful to persist a mass of crap, without thinking through the format at all . Webscraping is a good example offered by the project
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by bravura 13y ago
Except Blossom has validated their market by generating a huge waiting list of potential customers. [edit: And they've already proven their technology. And, it's easy for investors to vet their product, because a lot of investors
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by bravura 13y ago
You hit the nail on the head. But your advice is still not applicable for most people. In-person interaction is a hugely valuable thing. The point for remote work, though, is that some people have a spouse or family or friends in a particul
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by bravura 13y ago
I have a more modest request: Could debuggers please store the code paths and variable values, over the last 50 executions or perhaps the test suite (deterministic)? This is particularly useful for understanding someone else's code. [e
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by bravura 13y ago
vworker (formerly: rentacoder) was great while it lasted. Honest, talented engineers. When they got bought by freelancer, everything became way more scammy. It also became much more difficult to interview potential hires. Lame.
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by bravura 13y ago
Amazon S3, requester pays.
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by bravura 13y ago
Found a typo: "You do not want to be pursuing some Ph.D. when all your friends are pouring crystal all over benjamins in the Cayman islands." "crystal" should by "Cristal", the much hyped bubbly in hip-hop lyri
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by bravura 13y ago
How does Meteor fit in to all of this? Are no YC startups that you polled using it? Why not?
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by bravura 13y ago
For the benefit of those of us who don't know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?
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by bravura 13y ago
Question: Why do I have to implement hyperparameter selection? For me, the promise of in-the-cloud machine learning is that I can call 'train' method, and specify one single hyperparameter: training budget (i.e. $). Perhaps also t
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by bravura 13y ago
When is nostalgia harmful? I fear that one can gorge on nostalgia, and horde memories. When is forgetting and letting go, instead, a more healthy course of action?
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by bravura 13y ago
tldr; Author experienced an 6-hour outage in Google Apps service, after upgrading to a paid Google Apps account. This behavior is not documented.
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by bravura 13y ago
What's interesting and gruesome about the "free-to-play" (F2P) game market is this: Game companies can extract the most money from players if they exploit patterns of human dependence and addiction. An understanding of techni
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by bravura 13y ago
They are simply trying to own a particular, important part of human consciousness: Lyrics. The founders court popularity as their primary business function, and they hype Rap Genius lavishly. Monetization is completely an afterthought. I am
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by bravura 13y ago
Can someone explain why the CC companies ban high-chargeback-risk companies? Why can't they simply ask for a higher fee?
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by bravura 13y ago
For those who don't know, Radford Neal is an highly respected statistician and machine learning researcher. His most well-known contribution is showing the community how to train neural networks in a Bayesian way. He is at Toronto, whe
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by bravura 13y ago
As always, VentureHacks has great practical advice on the board: http://venturehacks.com/articles/one-way-control http://venturehacks.com/articles/board-structure
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by bravura 13y ago
I was hoping for a Q+A interview format, where the interviewer and the interviewee are the same person. Glenn Gould, the prodigy pianist, famously interviewed himself: http://www.angelfire.com/in/eimaj/interviews&#
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by bravura 13y ago
If found this brief bit: "Say no to most things: Features. People. Partnerships. “Coffees.” Projects. Only a few of them really matter. (Yes, it’s hard to know which.) Don’t get distracted." http://addicted2success.com&
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by bravura 13y ago
"Sauce-Bearnaise Syndrome" When one develops a taste aversion towards a food, after one has become sick shortly after eating said food. http://www.salon.com/1999/04/28/taste_aversion/
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by bravura 13y ago
"The city knows better than anyone that technology companies like having things their way, whether it be taxes, transport or lifestyle." Since moving to San Francisco from NYC, I have realized that almost everyone in SF likes having things
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by bravura 13y ago
An interesting concept. However, as the number of reviewers grows, how do you maintain quality? In the limit, the system becomes one in which anyone can sign up. So how do you maintain quality once the floodgates eventually open? (Saying: "
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by bravura 13y ago
Is it just me, or does the following quote suggest that Harper-Collins was strongly outleveraged in the negotiation, regardless of Jobs's negotiating skill? "Apple is the only other company currently capable of making a serious impact, and
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The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art(adamcap.com)
120 points by bravura 13y ago|41 comments
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by bravura 13y ago
Can you please add integration for gchat and pidgin? Convincing everyone to adopt a new chat client will be tricky for me, so I would like to give the team options to keep using what they have.
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by bravura 13y ago
Is there an open-source library for archiving a URL, including all assets (JS, graphics, etc.)? This task is trickier than it initially seems. I'd love to have a local cache of bookmarked URLs.

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