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by brent 18y ago
"A salary spread of $50k to $100k is too much for the same job, and I never noticed older teachers being much more effective than teachers with five years of experience." First, there are similar margins in engineering as well. It is not u
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by brent 18y ago
"Well for tests, let students have a formula sheet. I don't understand why in this day and age we need to learn everything by heart, when in the real world everything is 1 search query away." I think this is exactly the problem. When formu
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by brent 18y ago
The OP's argument is that it will increase productivity. If it pays itself off and makes the company a net gain will you still be upset?
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by brent 18y ago
Hmm... I thought this was going to be about dynamic programming based on the title.
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by brent 18y ago
"We are here to provide a source of entertainment for any sort of drinking game/activity. We wanted to provide the best place to find any activity for drinking so feel free to look around and add a game/activity or two." This is not as conc
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by brent 18y ago
Tip: having truly "extensive experience" in 7+ languages is probably overstating your knowledge. It would take a couple seconds for an expert in any of them to confirm this.
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by brent 18y ago
There are a couple things I would change about the interface (easy insertion), but I am generally extremely impressed. In my case, I knew the score, wrote out several measures and realized I missed a note. They don't seem to have any simp
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by brent 18y ago
Give yourself a couple of small projects with a timeframe within 8 months (a game, software related to other hobbies, etc. ... something you can get passionate about). Split your time between learning the fundamentals and explicitly workin
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by brent 18y ago
I do not use Excel regularly and I thus am certainly not a power user. However, I would think scripting for plots would be useful (like I do in matlab or matplotlib) for repetitive, highly configured, high quality plots with the ability to
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by brent 18y ago
I haven't used the osx terminal, but gnome-terminal can be transparent if that is all you want.
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by brent 18y ago
(disclaimer: I attend a non - "top school") 0. If you want answers as to what schools look for in students start by looking at CV's of students in the department. More specifically, look at students in the research areas you may be interes
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by brent 18y ago
Even in certain areas of computer science (specifically, machine learning) nearly all recent articles are open. I find in most cases that both statisticians and computer scientists tend to post links to pdfs or ps on their websites as well
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by brent 18y ago
There are a number of packages for relatively obscure statistical techniques (say, nonmetric multidimensional scaling) that are available for R, but not for python (that I have seen). I also believe R is easier for statisticians who cannot
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by brent 18y ago
Except for the inaccuracies. I find MathWorld to be a safer bet.
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by brent 18y ago
You haven't had a Thinkpad :-) (ducks).
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by brent 18y ago
Not a game, per se, but demos got me interested in programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene for the young.
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by brent 18y ago
Try minikanren for all your logic programming needs: http://kanren.sourceforge.net/ . :)
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by brent 18y ago
Well, your site doesn't answer the netbook question I want to know. Why would anyone get an Aspire One A110L over an EEE 901? To me it looks like equivalent models are about the same price, except the 901 has twice the battery.
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by brent 18y ago
Well, if you're interested in machine learning NIPS was last week. http://books.nips.cc/nips21.html There were several papers near applied areas like text classification, breaking audio captchas, and even brain machine interfacing. Howev
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by brent 18y ago
- or - You can try the free metatrader if you're less serious.
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by brent 18y ago
Likewise, if people ignored scientific evidence in favor of their intuition we would still think the earth was flat. It turns out we're all better off if we first understand the "current scientific dogma" and then challenge it with scient
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by brent 18y ago
Arbitrary priors don't imply rigor <ducks>. :-)
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by brent 18y ago
I'm going to take a stab in the dark (I've never used Xobni) and say: 1. Search your Yahoo! Mail without leaving Outlook 2. Instant Facebook Status and Photos 3. Smart Skype Integration 4. Hoover’s arms you with instant research on your con
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by brent 18y ago
Point taken. I didn't read the details. Sounds more like it truly is worth $0.
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by brent 18y ago
$10 (or $40) isn't enough for me to take you serious. Would you make a move on $10 stock advice?
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by brent 18y ago
For what its worth, most claims seem to be that Forrest Mims has taken his words out of context. Pianka has stated that Mims took his statements out of context and that Pianka was stating what would happen from biological principles alone
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by brent 18y ago
I'm also near Broad Ripple. Was a YC interviewee and now a graduate student in Bloomington.
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by brent 18y ago
I'm guessing most of the downvotes are due to the confusion between software engineering and computer science. From wikipedia: Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the science of the theoretical foundations of informatio
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by brent 18y ago
Maybe that was because vi users outnumbered emacs users 8:1.
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by brent 18y ago
It is $322 for me. Amazon must just roll the price dice.

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