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by brendano 17y ago
One of my favorite machine learning textbooks, if you can call it that. It's a little oddball though. For any topic, it's extremely interesting and insightful, though usually not comprehensive enough to rely on it as a reference.
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by brendano 17y ago
I agree, 1GB is small. I do similar processing on more 100GB-ish tasks. But I should say, this is a large enough dataset size that loading it all into memory is sometimes infeasible, at least in interactive interpreted environments like Py
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by brendano 17y ago
Yeah, I was happy how the java turned out. The important point of comparison is to C++ and was WAY easier!
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by brendano 17y ago
aha, very nice! I was wondering how to do the awk-style structure in perl; it was unfair I didn't research it. Maybe it's just me, but I find it much harder to read than the awk syntax, I think mostly because of the dollar signs. I think
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by brendano 17y ago
the free, standard gui for mysql is much easier to use than the free gui for postgresql. (mysql query browser vs. pgadmin III).
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by brendano 17y ago
interesting. thanks for the clarification!
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by brendano 17y ago
the guy who invented spam filtering as we know it That is NOT TRUE! It's so frustrating people think this. He popularized one particular algorithm, which is great. But he did not invent it, not by a long shot.
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by brendano 17y ago
<i>2. As someone who cares deeply about research methods, I'd argue that there is little to no value in superficial, subjective and contextless comparisons like this.</i> I care deeply about research methods too, but I don't
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by brendano 17y ago
For an immutable type, there's no distinction between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference. How would you ever know the difference?
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by brendano 17y ago
he was sarcastic in the post
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by brendano 17y ago
do you already have a single score for each one? you could just take scores and average them. use a weighted average if you think certain services' scores are more important than others. is the problem they're on different scales? you alr
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by brendano 17y ago
also see the older http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919
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by brendano 17y ago
python is better for future work with matlab-related stuff like data preprocessing; or its matlab competitor library (scipy).
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by brendano 17y ago
Discussions about CouchDB focus on its very large and complicated featureset. It would be interesting to see examples of actual problems it's good for and why or how it worked for them. I've seen one example where it wasn't very good and
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Announcing TweetMotif - NLP summarization for twitter(tweetmotif.com)
1 points by brendano 17y ago|0 comments
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by brendano 17y ago
there were 150 tweets per language, but you're right lukas didnt say what the number of unique different people was per language.
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by brendano 17y ago
The Obie Fernandez book, "The Rails Way", helps make the magic make more sense. Unlike most Rails books, which are intro-level and full of the sort of marketing crap that makes Rails infamous, this one actually explains their design decisi
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by brendano 17y ago
Of course, it's open source, so it's not like we can decree this or anything He is employed by RedHat, so they're implicitly making the decision his working style is worth it. But this is an example of open source at work -- people forked
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by brendano 17y ago
this is not the normal use case for memcached -- single client here.
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by brendano 17y ago
hey i wrote the article. this is only measuring a single client -- NOT the normal use case for memcached. i think that's why it was so slow.
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by brendano 17y ago
great place
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by brendano 18y ago
more source material http://blog.doloreslabs.com/topics/colors/
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by brendano 18y ago
no. read the page.
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Tsvutils, for manipulating tab-separated tabular data(github.com)
3 points by brendano 18y ago|2 comments
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by brendano 18y ago
Metafilter has been very successful in preserving its user culture -- and it has a very particular community, with a sophisticated writing style, etc. It's easy to imagine that if they hadn't done the fee, the site could have degenerated i
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by brendano 18y ago
I don't work at Internet Archive, but I've found Heritrix is great. Crawling is all about crazy wonky edge cases and it deals with lots of them. Use the version 1.x series, not the new version 2. 1.x is less convoluted and easier to use.
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by brendano 18y ago
I'm still waiting for an Excel-like program that can make graphs as pretty as R.
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by brendano 18y ago
here's a better though longer frequentist vs bayesian article from brad efron. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005NEWMode...
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by brendano 18y ago
thanks mojombo!
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Palin meets ELIZA via Markov chains(palinspeak.com)
6 points by brendano 18y ago|3 comments

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