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by bravura 14y ago
I'm curious what the competition is like in the space of the UK rental market. Craiglist? etc. Why do you think you are growing so rapidly?
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Kixeye's Cross-Complaint Against Zynga(businessinsider.com)
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by bravura 14y ago
I argue for your definition: "Big data is when the size of the data becomes part of the problem." Mike Loukides (O'Reilly) mentioned to me that Roger Magoulas (O'Reilly) was the first he heard using that definition. According to this defini
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by bravura 14y ago
I did my postdoctoral research on deep learning, and got into it back when Geoff Hinton's work was just an unpublished tech report. So if anyone has any questions on it, I will try to answer.
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by bravura 14y ago
I love his minimalism. He loves hacking but he hates devices. He lives in the most natural milieu he can construct. "I mean the guy no harm, but so much of what he says strikes me as incredibly back-worldly." No. He approach is incredible
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by bravura 14y ago
atpassos_ml told me an even cooler heuristic. He was doing some research on detecting which comments are authoritative based upon textual analysis (no username or social analysis). They made a complicated topic model, but found that the fol
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by bravura 14y ago
You seriously need auto-link shortening built in.
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by bravura 14y ago
"As you can see from the screenshot snippet above, Zappos' terms of use says "We reserve the right to change...these terms and conditions at any time." Zappos isn't the only website using language like this; it's ubiquitous on the Internet
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by bravura 14y ago
I found this end note interesting: "Kan faces competition from the YC family itself. Another Y Combinator-backed startup Pathjoy is doing maid services for as little as $20 an hour." Besides the fact that Pathjoy has terrible design (sorry,
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by bravura 14y ago
Force majeure is typically a good reason to push back a deadline. [edit: Originally said "deus ex machina". My mistake, thanks Falling3]
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by bravura 14y ago
If my slides are PDF, what's the simplest path to implementing this? Can iMovie do this?
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by bravura 14y ago
Aside: What is the appropriate website to host video or audio of talks with slides? What I don't want: Just slides no audio. I also don't want video of the talk uploaded to youtube, because sometimes the slides aren't visible in the vid
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by bravura 14y ago
Cool! @matpalm, please run your English extractor scripts on it! ( http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/12/10/common_crawl_visible_text... ) 'If you would like access to this set of crawl data, please contact us at info at archive dot org and let u
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by bravura 14y ago
Seriously? An article about "make meaning, not money". Which lionizes Nathan Myhrvold, the world's largest patent troll. Seriously?
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by bravura 14y ago
You have a chicken-and-egg problem. Also, each renter now must do fulfillment themselves. If I'm renting my bike for $5/day, it's a huge pain if the person that is renting from me is twenty minutes late to pick up and return it. What I want
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by bravura 14y ago
PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP. PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP. They are a great company and their recommendations are consistently amazing. Anyone who says that Yelp tried to extort money from them to remove negative revi
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by bravura 14y ago
Is this good for programming through an SSH shell? I am looking for the most portable device that I can use for programming. The key concerns are: Weight + size, and keyboard layout. Since I code through an SSH shell, the laptop's mem + CPU
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by bravura 14y ago
I don't have the chat history handy, but I replied to the effect of: "If I need a POS tagger, I will get a specialized POS tagger." Someone else chimed in and criticized NLTK (noting that it seemed rudimentary). Then discussion moved on, an
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by bravura 14y ago
I wrote NLTK is lame. I don't think I used that exact language, I think I just said I don't think it's useful. I have been doing NLP for a decade and don't see the use in NLTK. Most NLP practitioners with whom I have spoken seem to agree.
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by bravura 14y ago
Could you please explain how you will address: * quality: How do I know the quality of the work will be good? What happens in the case of disputes? * reputation: How will you keep track of reputation of the workers? Odesk, Vworker, Ebay are
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by bravura 14y ago
For client sites, we end up fighting to override Bootstrap. Could you describe this more? I didn't really see much about it in your blog post.
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by bravura 14y ago
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/top-low-end-vps-providers-2012... http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/5136/best-leb-host-q3-2...
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by bravura 14y ago
SENNA by Collobert + Weston do SRL. It's free for non-commercial use. Hoifung Poon's unsupervised semantic parser can be used for SRL. It's available as open-source (I think?), but will require more work out of the box to get it working. Na
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by bravura 14y ago
A colleague of mine commented that he would not sell volume through Amazon, and instead creates his own ecommerce sites. Why? Because, he argued, Amazon uses volume sellers to discover new products to sell, and then Amazon undercuts large s
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by bravura 14y ago
I agree that there probably was bias in her hiring. Positive? Negative? What is clear is that there is bias when it comes to the gamut of groups that you mentioned. In certain circumstances, this bias manifests as favorable, and sometimes i
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by bravura 14y ago
Cue up a lot of people who are going to use rhetoric to take make a "reasonable", "non-dogmatic" issue about this topic, while only barely acknowledging sub-conscious prejudice for or against. I don't have a solution here, I'm sorry. But wh
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by bravura 14y ago
This deserves to be a full blog post.
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by bravura 14y ago
tl;dr: I've been using Mac for ten years. "Two days ago I got my Dell XPS 13 as part of a Dell beta progam called project Sputnik." After two days of use, I haven't run into any serious roadblocks, so I'm not using Mac anymore. a) Is writin
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by bravura 14y ago
I think avoiding creepiness requires using intuition from human interaction. In particular, it's creepy if someone knows something about you and you don't know why . So if you don't want data mining to be creepy, you have two options: a) E
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by bravura 14y ago
"Generally speaking, there are two ways (and only two ways) to scale a business to hit that $100 million threshold." Actually, there's another way to hit >= $100M. Be a strategic acquisition target. (Route two: The viral effect can over

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