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by cowmoo 19y ago
JW FLV Player at http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=jw_media_player Prominent websites that utilizes the JW FLV Player for streaming mp3's, HypeMachine (hypem.com).
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by cowmoo 19y ago
As a college undergrad (yes, I profess my status as a CS underling) doing a senior thesis in GA, I have read some papers on this GA's applied to trading. The dirty secret that these papers do not tell you is that: genetic algorithms are qui
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by cowmoo 19y ago
Actually, I thought the last part was the most interesting. Yeah, I know most people on 'Hacker News' are either, a) the true academic "hacker" who are offended about Joel Spolsky's sacrilegious comments about Haskell and Prolog (he insulte
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by cowmoo 19y ago
I go to one of those liberal arts school where English majors count on a JD for a career; and let me tell you, as much as I hate to admit it as a CS/Biol major, they are surprisingly well-adjusted people. But don't get me wrong, my experie
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by cowmoo 19y ago
I second the second point. It seems somethings change and somethings never change - high school was Xanga and AIM, Colllege is now facebook.
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by cowmoo 19y ago
"Finally, most things we learn, we learn by imitating others. Our brains are hardwired to learn that way, but it's not very helpful for learning to program." I would like to disagree (respectfully). Although in most CS programs, algorithms
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by cowmoo 19y ago
Here's the kicker though: Grad school is by definition, professional training for academia, if you were more a hacker-type, would you be eventually forced into "publish or perish" thinking instead of building real world applications. And I
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by cowmoo 19y ago
Thanks. Your advice have been very helpful. What I am gonna take away from this, is that it's not environment that makes the man, because the environment tends to smooth out to the averages, even if the environment is the "high-tech" startu
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by cowmoo 19y ago
A question for you from a graduating college senior who's trying to decide between grad school and work: Do programming work get boring in a business-setting? I am trying to decide whether I should go to grad school or to work. My experienc
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Ask YC: Should you go to graduate school?
2 points by cowmoo 19y ago|2 comments
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by cowmoo 19y ago
20, undergrad, CS and Biology