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by caffeine 17y ago
Consider some smaller colleges as well, where there's a chance your professors might learn your name. Olin, for example. Otherwise, had I the chance to go undergrad again, I might go for UCSB CCS. Shameless promo: If you have the option to
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by caffeine 17y ago
Go download David MacKay's Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms (free book). Go through the part on Bayes and the part on Neural Nets (and the info. theory part if you want to, which is fascinating but not as directly rele
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by caffeine 17y ago
Sorry to re-open this so late, but I thought about this discussion today as I was reading a paper which had a typo in the subscript specifying a distribution: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.138101 (it never ceases to amaze me t
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by caffeine 17y ago
Hail Paul G. Atreides, the Muad 'Dib.
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by caffeine 17y ago
The biggest barrier for beginners is usually getting an environment working that is transparent, to allow you to get to grips with the actual programming ideas (which, in the beginning, are relatively simple). For that reason, you might con
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by caffeine 17y ago
Nonsense! You have no sense of opera. Where would we put our SFT [1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel . This is probably the best transportation system ever.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yes it is still the land of Free white christian political conformists.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Did it really just say they want to do it in Rails? Never heard of anyone proving the safety of a Rails app. For that matter, not sure what language they should write it in. Maybe Standard ML? All I know is that Rails is awesome for bui
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by caffeine 17y ago
I don't really see the problem in the first place: we're just writing less by assuming that the subscript is identical to the argument (except maybe for capitalization) - and if it's not, people usually disambiguate by adding the subscripts
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by caffeine 17y ago
I don't really understand why what you said disagrees with what your parent said?
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by caffeine 17y ago
An example of someone who has recently started a new bank: Yes Bank, which is a fairly new bank in India (I think they started 5-6 years ago). http://www.yesbank.in/aboutyes.htm
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by caffeine 17y ago
That's a good way to guarantee that no one uses your app Exactly. It will therefore appeal to the market of geeks with disposable income - people who enjoy paying for something cool and exclusive. People who buy $500 mobile surveillance
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by caffeine 17y ago
addmitedly by a big studio instead of jut one person, but the point still stands The point doesn't really stand, no. A big studio making a game over a long time period will obviously do a much better job than an undergraduate writing his
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by caffeine 17y ago
I can't believe nobody's mentioned The Matrix yet ... this is precisely the film's whole point. In particular, that the most interesting system to which these ideas apply is your own mind. "Free your mind, Neo." So, then, spirituality, m
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by caffeine 17y ago
That loses a lot of the piece's poetry (or masturbatory prose, depending on how view you it). I resent this trend of twitterizing stuff. What's wrong with a bit of drama and posturing and exciting hats, anyway?
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by caffeine 17y ago
Xmonad is nice code indeed. For an introduction to a piece of it, check out Simon Peyton Jones's talk at OSCON 2007 - he uses Xmonad code as an introduction to Haskell, which gives you a taste of how the program is constructed.
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by caffeine 17y ago
A REAL business, such as twitter or facebook creates an ecosystem around it :s/REAL/big It's called an ecosystem because of the web of interdependencies. If it makes money, it's a business. Biologists define an organism as a "thing that
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by caffeine 17y ago
Some really nice quantum computation notes: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ae/papers/qc.pdf
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by caffeine 17y ago
Did this guy's URL (apprentice.kfitz.me) make anybody else think he might have the Talent? (Robin Hobb...)
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by caffeine 17y ago
He is, you're right. And I'm sure that it's individuals making incremental improvements in life quality that moves a place forward. But ... (and I'm trying to say this right) ... some part of me feels really depressed that a Malawi kid bu
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by caffeine 17y ago
Warning! Entering the fact-free zone. Seriously, it's impolite to publish articles that are angry accusations without (a) consulting the accused and (b) limiting one's accusations to the evidence at hand. Your article makes it sound like th
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by caffeine 17y ago
Would you care to expand? You mean that changing Magnolia's name is idiotic? Or keeping it intact is? I think he should be able to get away with renaming the site Ma.gnolia (with a dot).
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by caffeine 17y ago
You know, mentioning that ww.com is NSFW would've been nice. I just visited the home page and was greeted by a picture of some guy touching himself. Gross.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Not sure why all the downvoting ... My primary envisaged use for your app was on the move. I have a phone, and need to talk to several people at once. No problem, conference call. Whip out the app, add a few contacts, have the conference
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by caffeine 17y ago
I'll bite. Feature request: make it an iPhone app.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Probably about the same as the correlation between attention-seeking behavior and money for pop stars :) I think the system works similarly - a face gets turned into a trademark and a 'flavor', which is used to sell stuff to people. But po
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by caffeine 17y ago
A gem from that site: <Shipments> <LineItem LineNumber="1" SKU="123456"> <Order Number="555444"> <Package ShipMethod="UPS" Tracking="1Z123467WW53631"/> </Order>
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by caffeine 17y ago
So .. did anyone else read this post and immediately think, "Aha - so peacocks must find humans wearing Fubu to be astoundingly beautiful! " :)
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Dancing with the Gods - Eric. S. Raymond(catb.org)
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by caffeine 17y ago
It especially keeps out the people who pay smart people.

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