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by compbio 11y ago
Some weird alignment with the "l" in Google. It's 2 pixels off the baseline: http://i.imgur.com/BeSYG3a.png It also does not work with the country subtitle. These are touching the letter "e", perhap
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by compbio 11y ago
I only noticed this when I saw it on LinkedIn side-by-side. The Microsoft logo and the Google logo are very similar in style: http://i.imgur.com/s7kR6jJ.png The blocks in the middle are the colors from both the logos.
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by compbio 11y ago
If they are worrying about this, they may have just alienated their old users. I think it is simply the result of a more design-oriented culture at Google. After Google+ tool unification, now a design unification. I myself do not like this
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by compbio 11y ago
Very thought provoking answer! Thanks. As memes house in agents with an energy budget, I think that shorter simpler memes have more chance to take hold and reproduce ("Make something people want"). Words in a sentence are like mod
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by compbio 11y ago
Thank you! Very interesting research all around. I think these old German and Japanese languages may have been hard to understand for outsiders, but were used with high sophistication (you have to invest energy to access this information) a
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by compbio 11y ago
Working with word co-occurence clustering based on Kolmogorov complexity I have become convinced that there is a computational complexity element to every language. Words like "circumvent" and "environment" are close in
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by compbio 11y ago
Check out Genetify for some related approaches: http://ejohn.org/blog/genetic-ab-testing-with-javascript/ https://github.com/gregdingle/genetify
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by compbio 11y ago
> Why Didn’t Statisticians Own Big Data? Because they could not translate their sense of entitlement to actual results. > pure statisticians often scoff at the hype surrounding the rise of data scientists in the industry > some sta
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by compbio 11y ago
There is applied machine learning (using machine learning to solve business problems) and theoretical machine learning (Optimization bounds, proofs, algorithm design). With applied machine learning it is certainly possible to quickly get a
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by compbio 11y ago
Since I did not see it in the article or in the comments here: Intelligence is compression / dimensionality reduction. Finding the essential parts of a problem/object/concept and creating a code book for it. The better you ca
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by compbio 11y ago
I think it is a bit ironic that some seem to have no qualms accusing a company of creating fake child porn accusations. It follows the exact same reasoning for planting evidence: How would child porn be beyond the pale for a dissident? Even
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by compbio 11y ago
Let's not jump to conclusions. What is more likely? That this is generating test data for a forensics tool, or that this is planting child porn on a dissident's computer (with fixed file names and directories)? I think it is rathe
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by compbio 11y ago
I think the author is too constrained to promote Matlab, so the better (production-ready) alternatives are left out. Furthermore, I do not understand why this is called an "insider look", when it is about someone reading a blog fr
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by compbio 11y ago
This is a very hard problem. Not only do you have to find a distribution that follows the law, the numbers still have to make sense in context (changing a 1 hour consult/doctor visit to a 9 hour consult). With election fraud you are us
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by compbio 11y ago
MTurk is representative of the human population. I hear it often that people presume that MTurkers do not put in any effort for a few cents. But for most it is a hobby/nice pastime. They do it to make a few bucks, instead of playing ch
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by compbio 11y ago
Some Vipassana retreats require you to surrender to the Buddha and the master before starting. Invisible men in the sky are the antithesis of Vipassana since Vipassana masters claim that reality is not real anyway. You say invisble men in t
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by compbio 11y ago
Scientology and some Thelemic orgs use Vipassana and other meditative techniques to ensnare their students. The wonky experiences like out-of-body experiences are used to market the system. So it works, yet is still abused to capitalize on
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by compbio 11y ago
The private one is revealed after the competition is over. Only the private leaderboard counts. To get an idea of how well your model performs, you get scores for, let's say 30% of the holdout data, on the public leaderboard. You can a
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by compbio 11y ago
It depends on the competition. For this competition it was to be expected as: There was little training data and there were a lot of outliers (the problem was predicting restaurant profits). Luck played a huge role here. The 9th place team
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by compbio 11y ago
Kaggle hosts data science competitions. There is a public leaderboard and a private leaderboard. During the competition only the public leaderboard is visible. After the competition ends the private leaderboard is revealed and your standing
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by compbio 11y ago
Not that you are incorrect or that this is not an interesting aside, but I find these conclusions a bit dreadful. "American dies after eating 400 hotdogs in eating competition" = "unhealthy fastfood is pretty entrenched in Am
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by compbio 11y ago
- Design an application or website inside the browser (no photoshop mockup). - Find and read some front-end designer blogs. - Take a good (CSS) framework like HTML5 boilerplate and dissect its code. - Remake your last favorite designed site
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by compbio 11y ago
Baskerville has gorgeous ampersands: http://www.marsie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/marsie-ampe...
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by compbio 11y ago
If you consistently have no idea why you got downvoted, then HN might not be the place for you. Learn quickly to adapt, start lurking more, or find another community without high standards for replies. If you don't read the community g
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by compbio 11y ago
I feel that dynamic websites are not websites, but applications. Even after this thorough research, I'd still be very wary of turning a primarily content-based site into a dynamic app. A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be acces
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by compbio 11y ago
> used to access several of our internal systems on three separate dates in February and March 2015. > On April 8, the SendGrid account of a Bitcoin-related customer was compromised If I can gather this right: SendGrid was fully hacke
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by compbio 11y ago
I'd hope it would be PBKDF2. But then again, they could have just specified that. The lack of specificity makes me think otherwise.
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by compbio 11y ago
Interesting framing with the CS degree. I guess sometimes I forget that congress decides on issues that it has no formal education in. But the bold preface "with CS degree" makes me question if we would accept an opinion on this m
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by compbio 11y ago
Day 1: Spend some time setting your machine up for doing machine learning. For Python look at Numpy, IPython Notebook, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NLTK, XGBoost wrapper, Vowpal Wabbit wrapper, Theano + Nolearn. 2: Lear
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by compbio 11y ago
They have: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-large-scale-bra... Furthermore they already published their search engine algorithm: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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