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by caffeine 17y ago
I really love getting this question. I'm pretty young so I've only had a couple jobs and am now a student, but answers I've given to this: - "I keep our analysts from investing in evil companies by making sure all the info from NGOs/rating
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by caffeine 17y ago
Depends what I'm looking at. If I'm looking at a website, I think in SQL (cf. dude I can write SO in like 4 minutes ;) If I'm looking at stats/ML stuff, I try to think in pictures (usually of probability densities being transformed in vario
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by caffeine 17y ago
Haha! The gratuitous graph is hilarious, and you're totally right. Forget about Android.
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by caffeine 17y ago
The measurable benefits of college (i.e. technical abilities) are largely obtainable without going to college. A substantial investment in effort and materials is required, and perhaps the final product does not attain that achieved by a c
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yep, exactly what I meant. Thanks for explaining it better.
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by caffeine 17y ago
So that's good .. but all the other products have those features too. So what does yours do that the others don't do? If it's C++, maybe its faster?
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by caffeine 17y ago
Not really. It's more like asking a truck driver to read a sign at 20 feet, and to flex his hands and legs to make sure he's able to control the wheel and pedals. The idea with writing code on paper in an interview is to disqualify the blin
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by caffeine 17y ago
To be honest, part of it is the knack of finding the right keywords. Some ideas I use: - Hit up Google Books / Amazon for SIP (Statistically improbable phrases) related to your topic. These are useful. - Add a bunch of +[Author name] keyw
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by caffeine 17y ago
Feature Idea: Compile to "Vlookup" or compile to VBA. In other words: I build a spreadsheet with QueryCell, but I want people who don't have QueryCell to be able to use it. So I hit "Compile", and the program generates standard formulas usi
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by caffeine 17y ago
This is nice, but their whole "Darwinian evolution" concept is flawed. Evolution works by finding the most stable configuration relative to environmental constraints. The constraints they are imposing here are fake. In other words, they n
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by caffeine 17y ago
You only need 1 tutorial to discover vim, and it comes with the program and requires 20 minutes. For me "discover" means "edit without the mouse." Once you do that, you're hooked - you can discover the voodoo magic at your leisure, from t
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by caffeine 17y ago
Actually, they haven't. For the most part, they've never read anything critically (or even really read anything period), and the crank-turning and hoo-ha that goes in math class certainly isn't mathematics. So by the time they hit Calcul
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yes; the true humour is in the comments.
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by caffeine 17y ago
If you just make discoveries, it's not science, no. If you communicate them widely in a way that makes your discoveries replicable by anyone of sufficient training and interest, then yes, it is science. It's just a word! Its meaning is
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by caffeine 17y ago
Could you add estimates of the amount of time each site took you (in hours), not including time spent teaching yourself, but including all time spent writing code, corresponding with clients, etc.? That would make it easier to compare.
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by caffeine 17y ago
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/users/red/ Yes. Your theory is correct. But the key link is prestige. The DGC entrants aren't really expecting make a profit.
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by caffeine 17y ago
In the article, it mentions Bradford's Amazon wishlist. For the curious: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3RB4REDIKE28I And those that have been purchased (a better list): http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3RB4REDIKE28
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by caffeine 17y ago
Peter Norvig says exactly what I said in that video. He says it when he says "... but the computer doesn't understand physics." Why not? The internet knows a hell of a lot more physics than I do. The statistical stuff is cool, but all you
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think you should probably shoot the competitor an e-mail and mention to them that you're doing it (and tell them about your useful export API, and ask if they can reciprocate!)
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by caffeine 17y ago
The idea was more interesting than his speaking, at least for me. I felt like Walter from The Big Lebowski - "... I did not know that...".
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by caffeine 17y ago
Personally, I think the million dollar prize is just a way to justify it to your spouse / boss / whoever holds the carrots and sticks in your life. It's an appeasement tactic so that those who love tinkering with this stuff can do so guilt
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by caffeine 17y ago
Lovely explanation of Zen. Thanks.
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by caffeine 17y ago
> How is that qualitatively different from training it on all your data It's different for the simple reason that to really verify a hypothesis, you don't just test it on the other half of the same data. That's just step 1. What you ne
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by caffeine 17y ago
Is there a working implementation of this somewhere? I remember searching for it a while back and couldn't seem to find one.
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by caffeine 17y ago
That's actually not true. There is something fundamental about the scientific method. Namely, it's the learning algorithm; the only one that actually actually works (so far). Everything else is just variations on or approximations of
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by caffeine 17y ago
Canada, baby! Or the UK. The UK is a great place to be.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Just get Adobe Air working. Doesn't have to be on an iPhone, just needs to work offline, and re-upload my progress. I study Japanese, but only on my way to Japan. The flight takes 9 hours. So I bring my Casio e-dictionary with stylus and
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by caffeine 17y ago
So .. Google have these data. Their hacking chops are not unremarkable. What have they done with it? Well, basically, you can ask for a word and they'll find other pages that feature that word ... And that's it. They have access to "th
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by caffeine 17y ago
Your role is to figure out who wants to buy your product, and how your product can be more like what they want to buy. Hint: If you're not rich yet, you haven't answered this question correctly. What's your story? Are you selling Chinese
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by caffeine 17y ago
Compojure's not really ready for prime-time yet. Try writing an app in it, you'll see what I mean ... once in a while, a baby tooth just falls out.

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