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by brendano 16y ago
Awesome. One note, it'll be hard to get really good translation quality without a network connection, because good models require tons of CPU and memory -- Google Translate is far better than word-for-word because it uses such things.
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by brendano 16y ago
Everyone loves to say "Delicious tags are great data for finding relevant information," but I'm not so sure -- at least for doing keyword queries, compared to web search engines. The right comparison is: is Delicious tagging really better
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by brendano 16y ago
Isn't this more about how good Cairo and Pango are, rather than C++ vs. Scheme?
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by brendano 16y ago
The definition in the Russell and Norvig textbook is nice: "computational rationality"
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by brendano 16y ago
I love how de-cluttered it is. I have a sinking feeling, though, that when a homepage gets into production, feature creep has to happen because of all the different departments within the company -- everyone wants a link to their specific
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by brendano 16y ago
There have been several systems that probabilistically extend Prolog or do something similar. I'm not aware of any that do those things specifically, though. Here's a list of some that I made a bit ago:: http://anyall.org/blog/2009/12/li
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by brendano 16y ago
Have they compared their algorithm against standard well-known algorithms for the tasks they claim to solve? Last time I checked they still hadn't done that, or at least hadn't reported any such results. Without that, they're not worth an
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by brendano 16y ago
Good fun but too long. I loved it when I first read it, and in college I ran a reading course where we read it over one semester. But when I learned more and later came back to it, I found it disappointing content-wise. I'm still glad I
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by brendano 16y ago
Hate to sound preachy, but compare to Python developers, who very carefully maintain and update their stdlib. I feel like it is risky to commit to using Ruby for the long-term.
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by brendano 16y ago
I still don't understand why they didn't use a more pleasant image, say, pictures of kids learning in classrooms.
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by brendano 16y ago
This argument/response comes up every time.... Argument: "Lisp has too many parentheses. It's unreadable." Response: "It's conceptually elegant that everything is parentheses." This doesn't address the real point -- you can't read it well.
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by brendano 16y ago
Thanks for putting this as its own domain, folks. I wanted to go to it after Aria's EMNLP talk but couldn't remember the URL, it went by too fast.
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by brendano 16y ago
I rather like Eric Gilbert's "Widespread Worry and the Stock Market" on this. http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/gilbert/38
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by brendano 16y ago
In the article, Rapleaf says de-anonymized linking of ID's to real names "wasn't intentional." That's a little hard to believe -- isn't the point of the company to have a massive person database of information like this?
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by brendano 16y ago
Awk can also be faster than (naively written) C++. http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and...
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by brendano 16y ago
http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
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by brendano 16y ago
But the main Google Trends indicator is over search query logs, not web results. (That's another tab for web results, but it doesn't work for this query.) So queries like "django" count for this one. However, we don't know whether those s
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by brendano 16y ago
The best review of New Kind of Science: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
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by brendano 16y ago
Microsoft bashing seems so dated now. Poor MS. Had no idea how to build a decent shell.
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Ggplot2, plotting library for R(had.co.nz)
3 points by brendano 16y ago|0 comments
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by brendano 17y ago
There's lots of ongoing work on the topic, new conferences, etc. One of the keywords is "privacy preserving data mining".
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by brendano 17y ago
i'm confused who's the "common wisdom" you're strawman-ing against. at the top you say "managers", at the bottom, "defensive domestic coders"; aren't those way different?
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by brendano 17y ago
betweenness centrality also has a nice interpretation that might make some sense for this application. or so.
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by brendano 17y ago
Hi - is your Rails app for ancient Chinese literature? Is it public anywhere?
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by brendano 17y ago
This certainly sounds nice. It's easy to be a cynic though. There was a lot of theoretical and conceptual work on AI back in the day, but it didn't really lead to anything very effective. The problem of intelligent behavior was much, m
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by brendano 17y ago
I wrote the following python script to read xlsx. It's extremely basic, but works very well for me. http://github.com/brendano/tsvutils/blob/master/xlsx2tsv I've never tried it on a 20,000 row file. I suspect it would work. A really la
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by brendano 17y ago
Great, thanks for doing this! A while ago, I wrote a little Python script to read from xlsx Excel files. It's nice that these Microsoft Office XML files can be processed in pure Python. http://github.com/brendano/tsvutils/blob/master/xlsx
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by brendano 17y ago
The article is old, from when Java was new. His criticism was correct back then. Java didn't get generics until 8 years after it was introduced. (Java 1.5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history )
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Advantages of a name-brand school(stanford.edu)
21 points by brendano 17y ago|50 comments
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by brendano 17y ago
misspelled "Barak Obama"

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