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by cafebeen 12y ago
Is something "publicly available" if you can be sued for using it? That's the case for patented material for the 20 years before it expires. There's a difference between the details of the invention being known and it b
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by cafebeen 12y ago
There's certainly going to be a selection bias, as others have said. I think the most exciting opportunity though is for very fine grained and longitudinal studies.
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Either college has gotten way less fun or Quora is a lot more fun than other tech companies
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by cafebeen 12y ago
The point of a patent is to exclude others from using intellectual property, not to make it "publicly available": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent#Effects To quote the supreme court: "A patent is n
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Just pointing out that the reality is more complicated. The research wasn't "publicly available", rather it was licensed (exclusively) from Stanford. There is legislation that applies to the ownership of federally funded re
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Then why does Stanford own the PageRank patent instead of Page and Brin?
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by cafebeen 12y ago
It's better to think of grad school as an apprenticeship, where you're training under a master scholar. Here are Adam Smith's thoughts on the matter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship#Analog
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by cafebeen 12y ago
One interesting benefit of the square difference is that it's differentiable, while the absolute difference isn't, which can come in handy for some optimization problems.
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Never seen covariance spelled with a hyphen...
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by cafebeen 12y ago
This is an amazing, thank you for sharing!
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Yes, but the spectrum of the light hitting the eye is a physical thing. The physical problem is that multiple environments can make the same spectrum, e.g. is it a bluish light source & white dress or white light and bluish dress. Wh
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Well, without knowing the light source, it's impossible to accurately measure color. They mention applying white balancing to fix it, but this makes an assumption of some characteristic light source: http://www.cambridg
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by cafebeen 12y ago
They claim to study the "how and why" of soylent usage, but I don't see any data or discussion of the "why". Am I missing something?
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Here's the key passage: <quote> BASP will require strong descriptive statistics, including effect sizes. We also encourage the presentation of frequency or distributional data when this is feasible. Finally, we encourage the use
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by cafebeen 12y ago
I agree that the "dark age" designation is not the best (and perhaps sensational), but the basic issue of how to maintain digital data isn't worth writing off...
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Well, cracking 100 years from now will probably be much harder. For example, could CSS be as easily cracked if you didn't know it was for DVD video and didn't have access to a working reference implementation? Either way, we&#x
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by cafebeen 12y ago
I think there's a middle ground though. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphics were around but not understood until the rosetta stone was found. Without a "digital rosetta stone" those terabytes would be similarly useless. The
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by cafebeen 12y ago
I'd probably lump "obscured by snow, leaves, or who-knows-what else" into the inclement weather category :) I'd be curious to hear what the insurance industry makes of all of this too, they must be preparing for it in so
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by cafebeen 12y ago
I'm all for self-driving cars, but what I want to hear about is how on earth they'll overcome things like inclement weather, pedestrians, poorly maintained roads, and combinations thereof... but maybe that's just because I&#x
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by cafebeen 12y ago
This might be helpful: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2014/Overview/ It includes a number of the data mining techniques others have mentioned and implements some nice design guidelines from vis
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by cafebeen 12y ago
This isn't generally true though, at top journals and conferences peer review would trash any paper that uses meaningless jargon.
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by cafebeen 12y ago
An interesting post in need of a reference to past work: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn.1991.3.... nearly 25 years old and 13k references, so it's pretty well studied...!
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Just follow Asimov's laws of robotics: 0) A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot mus
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by cafebeen 12y ago
To followup with a note from the article: "A very practical reason for preferring functional programming in a freshman course is that most students already have a certain familiarity with imperative programming. Facing them with the n
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Interesting stuff--it's worth mentioning some of the prior visualization work in this area, e.g. Interactive data exporation: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75818/cockburn-ComputingS... Distance-based vis
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Great story--I think one thing to highlight is 3D Slicer (the publicly-funded open source medical imaging tool used for all this): http://www.slicer.org More doctors should be using tools like this. Hopefully stories like this
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Any evidence to qualify the "tiny, easy task" claim? IIRC, plasticity likely involves interactions of many neurons and is not well understood...
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by cafebeen 12y ago
David Mumford did a great job summarizing his contributions: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendie... On a side note, this was an obituary invited by Nature that was surprisingly r
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by cafebeen 12y ago
Anyone seen a similar run-down for 3D grids?
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by cafebeen 12y ago
To summarize, the article suggests making the "software science" job title to: * "reduce career path anxiety" * "enhance engineering organizations' self-understanding" * "advance the general understan

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