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by cloudkj 14y ago
That's an interesting idea. Is the main motivation of your suggestion to find a way to enable you to better discover things you might like without relying purely on reviews and ratings? In general, I agree that ratings and reviews have inhe
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House updates 1988 privacy law to allow online sharing of Netflix choices(arstechnica.com)
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by cloudkj 15y ago
Similarly, the stable marriage problem provides a mathematical basis for encouraging hackers to put themselves out there and take initiative in seeking out potential mates as the Gale-Shapley algorithm proves that the end result is optimal
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by cloudkj 15y ago
And along those same lines, adds more weight to the implications of the Great Filter argument. That is, if the early steps in the path to intelligent life are really not that unlikely, then the later steps to advanced intelligent life are m
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Overstock.com Offers $1 Million For Improved Recommendations(fastcompany.com)
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by cloudkj 15y ago
Nice summary; I like the format as well. However, the title of the cheat sheet is misleading since (a) many of the algorithms listed can be used for non-linear classification and (b) some of them can be considered supervised learning, such
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Would you recommend The Little Schemer as a book for teaching programming/computation concepts to kids?
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I was just looking for a simple SSH client for the iPhone today, and was disappointed that all the apps cost a few pretty pennies. Any recommendations on the SSH client(s) that will get me the best bang for my buck? EDIT: I caved and just b
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by cloudkj 16y ago
At Berkeley, the BA and BS for Computer Science are effectively the same. All the core courses are the same, it's just the general requirements are different. The degree designation really doesn't matter. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Harv
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XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions(xorswap.com)
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Like. I do these type of time-saving calculations in my head whenever someone like the bus driver drives too slow and fails to make a light, thus costing everyone on the bus an extra minute of their lives. You actually saved 24 minutes time
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Pretty much the entire Pacific Rim...
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Have there been applicants that were accepted but ended up turning it down for whatever reason (job, move, visa, etc)? Have any of these reapplied and participated in the subsequent go?
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Netflix in the clouds(techblog.netflix.com)
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I think you're taking quite an extreme interpretation of Graham's/Buffet's thoughts on index investing. It's a given that, with index investing, your returns will match the market. Index investing isn't aimed at getting higher returns. Rath
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Levenshtein/edit distance isn't too useful for spell checking though. Edit distance can yield you the absolute difference between two words, but your goal is to find the words that have the smallest such distance with the word in question.
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by cloudkj 16y ago
HTML5 will bridge the gap. Here's a Netflix job posting: http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix4467
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I haven't really been living off of my apps, but since I've been unemployed for the past 6 months with no other streams of income, I'll count them. http://www.facebook.com/amznwishlist was pretty profitable up until about mid-October when
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I've been looking for a service that does this exact thing. Give me personalized recommendations on restaurants so I can stop trying to comb through mountains of sometimes non-sensical, irrelevant Yelp reviews to decide what new restauran
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Glassdoor.com seems to provide supporting evidence of this.
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I'm also curious as to how you get the data. The fact that there seems to be almost a monopoly by STATS on the data leads me to believe that there needs to be more competition in this space. Curious as to how you guys are going about it.
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Hmmm, seems to me there's a business opportunity in providing lower cost, more developer friendly sports data. I remember looking into getting access to sports data since I wanted to do some analytics after I read Moneyball. Old, archived d
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I believe CitySearch was also spun off. That one isn't going so well. I know there are a few core products that were results of acquisitions, namely PowerPoint and Visio. They've pretty much integrated deeply into Microsoft, so that's alway
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Just wanted to point out that it's pretty silly to talk about an AI's APM, since its APM is infinite (bounded by hardware limits like clock speed, etc).
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Not sure how good this AI would be. It pretty much delegates micromanagement and lets the user make high-level decisions. However, it doesn't seem fine grained enough to handle different situations. The fact that the 8 buttons include unit
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I also disagree with his downplaying of the importance of branding and design. I definitely remember stumbling across Wesabe a few years ago when I was starting my first job and looking for a personal finance tool on the web. One look at We
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by cloudkj 16y ago
E-junkie is decent, and cheap ($5 for lowest plan). Not the best interface, but it's simple to set up and works well if you're not looking to do too much customization of the checkout pipeline.
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by cloudkj 16y ago
This exact thing happened to someone I know. He got a call right as he was leaving his old job on his last day. The guy said something along the same lines - due to changing circumstances, the original position we were offering you has been
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Curious - can you cite any cases to support this?
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Cool. Good luck to you guys! One suggestion is that you guys should look into releasing a Safari version as well. Since it's Webkit-based, it takes almost zero effort going from Chrome to Safari. I recently wrote a Firefox extension and was

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