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by clay 16y ago
It is totally reasonable to assume that "random" from an unnamed distribution means the maximum entropy distribution, which is uniform in this case
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Religion set to go extinct in 9 countries(good.is)
4 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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Next Generation of Apache Hadoop MapReduce – The Scheduler(developer.yahoo.com)
3 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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17-year-olds will be poking holes in your arguments 2,400 years from now(doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com)
2 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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Haskell opens the door to philosophy(softtalkblog.com)
1 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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Human Optimization Through Calming Technologies(deltaself.com)
2 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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CIEL Project: Distributed computation with Javascript-like script syntax(cl.cam.ac.uk)
4 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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by clay 16y ago
"stuff = stuff or []" This would fail to have expected behaviour here: fill_list = [] stuff = function(info, full_list) print fill_list use the if list is None: paradigm
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Look Out Quora, InboxQ (YC W10) Takes Q&A Off-Site And Onto Twitter(techcrunch.com)
45 points by clay 16y ago|13 comments
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$3 million data mining prize for health data(heritagehealthprize.com)
3 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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Time to Move on From the P Value to Bayesian Analysis(jnci.oxfordjournals.org)
2 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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ESP Report Sets Off Debate on Data Analysis(nytimes.com)
4 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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by clay 16y ago
My high-school (The Science Academy of South Texas) offered computer science for incoming freshmen and later a CS 2 class. I assumed that this was normal because there was a CS AP exam.
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by clay 16y ago
"Today’s AI doesn’t try to re-create the brain. Instead, it uses machine learning, massive data sets, sophisticated sensors, and clever algorithms to master discrete tasks." The second sentence is basically my model for how the human brain
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Heroic Webhosting: Datacenter survivalism during Hurricane Katrina (2005)
1 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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by clay 16y ago
Chapter 2 of this book is awesome. Covers specific implementation and design strategies for map reduce matrix multiplication and table joins.
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by clay 16y ago
This plays into something that Robin Hanson was doing with colors. Blue = Far Mode = grainy, picture unclear and far away. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/05/color-meanings.html
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The Python Misinterpreter(thebigquestions.com)
3 points by clay 16y ago|0 comments
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HerWay.com: Dating where only women are allowed to message/search(herway.com)
10 points by clay 16y ago|10 comments
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by clay 16y ago
He's paying $800 for the room.
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by clay 16y ago
The idea behind my site CoClass is to meet up in real life to watch lectures and do study groups. You can easily host a CoClass of SICP: http://coclass.com/c/v/f/mit_6001_structure_and_interpretati... If you need me to change anything, fi
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by clay 16y ago
Is it too silly to suggest that people check the status of of the authors and their institution or the importance of the journal that published the paper?
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by clay 16y ago
This link says 1 inch = $30000. http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/height-matters-income-vs...
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by clay 16y ago
Have you ever proved a mathematical theorem on your own?
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by clay 16y ago
Dallas: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc... Dallas, Houston and Austin are super cheap with fairly big tech cultures. Austin might even be worth living in too.
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by clay 16y ago
HN might be interested in one of my projects, http://coclass.com , a website for people to meet up in real life and use open courseware materials together. The class we've been doing has been great. A small group meets once a week, we wat
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by clay 17y ago
He wrote it for a finance journal. That's how they do.
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by clay 17y ago
When I had a motorcycle, I would ride it everywhere. I even rode it to the doctors office and carried in my helmet. I sat down with the doctor and when he mentioned my helmet, I was certain he was going to lecture me about it or at least
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by clay 17y ago
He'd be a lot easier to pack as a carry-on without the xray machines
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by clay 17y ago
The GiveWell organization gave similar sentiments: http://blog.givewell.net/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake-donatio...

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