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by ced 18y ago
I never tried Twitter, and I have a hard time figuring out how that could happen. Does Comcast receive a notification whenever "Comcast" gets entered in a Twitter post?
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by ced 18y ago
- Unjustified name-calling irrelevant to the point of the article. - Compared to the other groups influencing society (marketing departments, political parties, artists, The Media), modern environmentalists and "commies" are 1. powerless 2.
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by ced 18y ago
Many years ago I looked into the problem, but for the Canadian market. We couldn't find a service with an API, so we took one of those 15$/month paying services that gives you some Java software to "analyze" the data (Stockwatch). I used a
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by ced 18y ago
I'd frame it that Experts deal with increasingly abstracted-out ideas. Expert physicists differ from pre-schooolers in "not having to sweat out arithmetic, algebra, etc." There's a natural abstraction hierarchy in every field I know. I clai
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by ced 18y ago
No. Whenever I go on a tangent, I just make a copy. I do AI, maybe that's the difference. Honestly, apart from utils.lisp, I wouldn't cry much if I suddenly lost all my files. Code is trivial, the important point is in the experience / insi
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by ced 18y ago
None. From where I stand, it seems like extra management duty, for marginal benefits.
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by ced 18y ago
But then... How did they come up with all these learning algorithms? Do all researchers have that 95% failure rate?
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by ced 18y ago
The Conservative Logic paper is intriguing http://calculemus.org/logsoc03/materialy/ConservativeLogic.p... It's about introducing conservation prinples from physics into the logic that goes into building electronic circuits. The idea soun
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by ced 18y ago
If you try your hand at machine learning, you learn very quickly that 95% of your amazing bright ideas don't work. I wonder why we can't tell the good ideas from the bad ones. There has got to be some core principles that are not properly
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by ced 18y ago
Has anyone read the books by E.O. Wilson? Any good ones? I read The Insect Societies, and while I'm sure it was very useful for biologists, the ratio of detail to intellectual insight was much too large for me. I didn't dare to tackle the o
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by ced 18y ago
Meh. I don't have hard data, but I would think that the one and only source of money in physics, the USG, might choose to spend it in more "useful" fields. That means, less opportunities for grad school. That is, unless you're willing to go
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by ced 18y ago
I learned it accidentally when I was 21. I was making fun of a children cartoon commercial, by repeating it in an Italian mafia boss voice. Lo and behold, the Spanish r came out of nowhere.
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by ced 18y ago
That was interesting. I have a question though. Lazy languages are simpler to deal with for strictly functional data... But what about side-effects? Is the pain of a monad less than the pain of explaining to a student that (defun if (then e
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by ced 18y ago
... right, but the point of the top post is that we should be looking for "the source"... Maybe that wasn't formulated properly. The point comes down to science vs engineering, induction vs building from parts. Biologists are already buildi
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by ced 18y ago
I disagree completely. For it to be object code, it would have to be compiled from something. If anything, DNA is the thing compiled (and modified ) several times from the ACGT form down to the protein form. Nature doesn't operate on the "
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by ced 18y ago
It's one part of an ambitious OS project. I discard a lot of assumptions about software and programming languages. It's actually not hard in principle. There is a very easy algorithm for deciding whether you should use a list or an array:
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by ced 18y ago
We need to move to algorithmic optimization. I want a language that will switch by itself between using a vector or a list to represent some sequence X, then choose the best one. In any case, that's what I'm working on.
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by ced 18y ago
Thanks for your contributions, but personally, I am fed up with the "business tips" topics. They may be practical and useful to someone with a startup, but they are otherwise not very intellectually stimulating.
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by ced 18y ago
I don't get the No OS bit. Why not call it an OS and claim: it boots in a few seconds? Then, make it run C code, and voila, you're set. Are we ever going to move beyond Unix?
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by ced 18y ago
Three years ago I was renting a room downtown from a lady, 130$ per week, which was supposedly on the cheaper side of the spectrum. I loved the place.
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by ced 18y ago
Ruby aids and abets designing your own syntax But... how? Can you give an example? And by isomorphic, I mean that, given a finite number of "utilities" one could translate line for line a Ruby program into a Python program, and still ge
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by ced 18y ago
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. Where do you see the orgy of self-sacrificing? And how is this presumed orgy making the world "perish"? This is just nonsense.
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by ced 18y ago
It works in the same way as the Google Minimum GPA. The probability that you are wasting your time reading/interviewing a candidate from Etc. U. is simply higher. Is it a better criteria than other bits of info on the CV? I don't know, but
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by ced 18y ago
I thought Ruby and Python were roughly isomorphic. Is there anything drastically different about Ruby's syntax? I wish he'd given an example. BTW, if I recall correctly, this is what PG calls "wishful thinking"-oriented development in On Li
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by ced 18y ago
>I don't buy that concision is power. This borders on a tautology, but expressiveness is power. Concision is part of that (a big part, even), but it's not everything. Yeah, I completely agree. I was going to write about it, but then fig
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by ced 18y ago
People tend to boggle when I decry Lisp as being hopelessly low-level. Intriguing. I'm not really convinced by your example though. In the spirit of conciseness is power[1], can you provide a short program that should be formally expressi
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by ced 18y ago
Do you have that written out in another post somewhere? I loved this one.
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by ced 18y ago
Look at the course outlines for the math dept. at a few good uni, make a list a the most used textbooks, then head off to your local uni's library. That's what I would have done if I'd known better. I regret getting into the B.Sc.
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by ced 18y ago
this methodology is worthless in practice when the total number of examples is small in relation to the natural variation that exists among different observations ... it therefore needs to be immediately replaces by Bayesian methods, for
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by ced 18y ago
It all depends on the algorithm used behind the scene. Why would 1 downmod + 1 upmod = 0? Calling them up/down might be part of the framing issue that we're stuck with since the reddit days. Fun property of a system with upmod and downmod:

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