cheesycheese

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   by cheesycheese 13y ago

   The normal approximation is notoriously [1][2] bad when the binomial proportion you're trying to estimate is small and you don't have a big n. If one still wants a closed-form out-of-the-box formula (to avoid the exact resolution
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   by cheesycheese 13y ago

   As you said the PageRank is just one of the many features used by the ranking algorithm. I highly doubt that there is any patent issue here (it's "just" an eigenvector computation), and there is a ton of literature and practi
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   by cheesycheese 13y ago

   The work of Zubrzycki is impressive. For having studied acoustics quite a bit, I'm very impressed by the fact that the sound manages to have both a very short attack an a very good sustain (thanks to the wheel). Controlling the vibrati
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   by cheesycheese 13y ago

   Well if I were Google, I would make sure that the Incognito mode of Chrome prevents targeting except for adwords/adsense. Pretty easy to do when you control the browser...
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   by cheesycheese 13y ago

   There are some gross simplifications here: 8. Wavelets are not "recursive Fourier analysis". If you want to make it simple, it's more like a spatially localized Fourier extension. I agree that they are under-used though. 9.