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by brent 18y ago
You honestly think his rhetoric (mostly ignored) overshadows emacs, gcc, and gdb? You must be kidding. Also, if he wasn't such a pedant from the start we'd be MUCH worse off.
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by brent 18y ago
"... so I appreciate the benefits of free software as much as anyone. But at home I use some proprietary technologies too. Windows and OSX can be found on the computers there, because they’re still both much more user-friendly than the fre
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by brent 18y ago
Well, I'm a full-time researcher (cs phd student) and I find it sexy. I'm not even rare, I feel the same spirit amongst most of my peers. It is certainly labor intensive and tedious, this does not mean that the work is trivial. In the co
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by brent 18y ago
While I would agree there is a large amount of "crap work" involved in academic research I think it is a stretch to label it trivial. It is practically the opposite by definition.
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by brent 18y ago
> Really? You think passion for medicine is that rare? I sit in biology classes with my mouth wide open, in absolute awe at the principles that guide the human body. Then, when I think about applications of that knowledge in clinical se
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by brent 18y ago
Good observation. I believe a similar concept is used in high frequency trading (in markets such as foreign exchange). So derivatives are not dt, but du where u is a surrogate for time in ticks.
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by brent 18y ago
At least two answers to your question: 1) He authored http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_criterion 2) I believe some theorists have already looked at it and I haven't heard anything negative [disclaimer: I'm far from an expert and wouldn
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by brent 18y ago
> "If it books 80 percent through its restaurant partner sites, that means it charges 25 cents on about 2.4 million seated, and then charges $1 on the remaining 20 percent, or 600,000 seated, through its own site. So OpenTable is making
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by brent 18y ago
Don't blame college or your parents if you're intentionally staying in a bad market. _Move_ to a place where your wife will clear 60 and you will clear 60. Easy.
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by brent 18y ago
Stanford ($), Berkeley, Caltech ($), LA, SD, USC ($) are all great. This is in an approximate order (at least for graduate level).
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by brent 18y ago
yc appreciates genius.
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by brent 18y ago
Are you saying an improvement from O(n^2) to O(n) is not impressive? BTW, if this is the improvement you are referring to, its not a "order of magnitude".
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by brent 18y ago
I think this is dead on. The OP should look towards publishing in a conference proceedings. In CS this is much more common than journals and his odds of getting it accepted are probably much higher. You nailed the top conferences in this
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by brent 18y ago
If I had to guess I would presume the OP has not done a formal analysis of the algorithm. This would undoubtedly be the contribution of the professor/researcher assuming the analysis proves it is an improvement over prior algorithms. This
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by brent 18y ago
I agree with plinkplonk, but if you'd like examples: 1) I mentioned multidimensional scaling elsewhere. In the book there is implementation and it doesn't even say what the goal is (in terms of objective function) and/or how well it perfor
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by brent 18y ago
I am not the 'parent', but as I said elsewhere I would recommend The Elements of Statistical Learning. It gets quite a bit deeper than PCI, but I'm fairly confident you could learn almost everything in PCI from ESL. It doesn't come with pr
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by brent 18y ago
I agree about #2. I have Russell and Norvig and agree that it is an excellent book, but I am not sure how much overlap there truly is here. I also do not have PRML, but Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Bishop is excellent (and in
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by brent 18y ago
One example , simply because I opened the book to this page after reading your comment and happen to know a bit about the subject (p49): "[t]he algorithm takes the difference between every pair of items and tries to make a chart in which t
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by brent 18y ago
It is certainly a "dummie's guide" approach and probably the best book applying this framework to machine learning related problems. It introduces a lot of ideas to people where the math would simply not be approachable. That said I have t
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by brent 18y ago
There are two cookie stores within a block from one another in Bloomington, IN (home of IU). They have both lasted for at least a couple years if I'm not mistaken. http://www.bakedofbloomington.com/ http://www.insomniacookies.com/index.
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by brent 18y ago
I second videolectures as an excellent source. Just listen to the ones you are interested in! One tip I'd offer is to make sure you understand the math of each lecture before moving on. Skip over the maths enough and you'll find you have
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by brent 18y ago
What part of the article indicates that he is well off?
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by brent 18y ago
"On a log scale I was midway between crib and globe." That is a gem of a description of suburbia.
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by brent 18y ago
There is an exception to every rule. You can't cover every base in a short essay. I'm sure his next few paragraphs were going to make explicit his exclusion of the extremely progressive.
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by brent 18y ago
Isn't it funny how this is never mentioned in these articles. I'm both a homeowner and making a profit on my renters :-). Keep renting guys!!
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by brent 18y ago
I agree. The feedback is the best I've felt. However, I also like the spacing and arrangement of the keys.
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by brent 18y ago
What does this have to do with theory?
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by brent 18y ago
Perhaps I can help, but first. What calculations are you doing (e.g. are they all linear algebra?) What language is it currently written in?
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by brent 18y ago
R isn't "an open source matlab". R is an open source implementation of S-plus. If anything is the open source Matlab it is octave. However, I agree they can be used interchangeably for solving many problems.
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by brent 18y ago
This is exactly why I have urged people to learn Matlab (on this forum and others). Specifically, I'm sick of seeing hundreds of lines of code written in Java that are essentially a poor (slow) implementation of a one liner in Matlab that

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