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by cschmidt 13y ago
The New York Times had a whole article on why watch ads are at 10:10: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/business/media/28adco.html
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Her 9 page CV is here: http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/sta... From that she is currently on the corporate boards of KiOR, C3 Energy, and Makena Capital. She previously was on the boa
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Something like Lipitor people take forever, so its use will grow over time. This drug cures people, who no longer continue to take it. There must be a big backlog of people with hepatitis C. Once you go through those people, I would exp
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I hope that they offer next day replacement machines. As it is now, when my laptop dies, I go to the Apple store, they say it will take a week to repair so I buy a new one on the spot. I later get the old one fixed and give it to my son as
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You should be fine. I use it along with the technique in this blog post to make a nice stripe form that dynamically displays the card logo.... https://yoast.com/checkout-field-validation/
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I will certainly give you "very rarely", but you can also make photopolymer plates of a digital file, and then print it using letterpress printing. That's how I did my wedding invitations. Unfortunately, the font I used didn
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I don't know if any of the rest of you remember it, but my favorite book club ever was the Global Business Network (GBN)[1] book club, edited by Stewart Brand [2]. The GBN was a network of "interesting" people, and they would
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by cschmidt 13y ago
For the curious this Václav Havel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._J._Havel is not the better known Czech politician of the same name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel
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ScratchJr: Coding for Young Kids(kickstarter.com)
3 points by cschmidt 13y ago|0 comments
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by cschmidt 13y ago
By Li Deng and Dong Yu of Microsoft Research. Hopefully they intend for it to be freely downloaded. The link is going around Twitter, and points directly to research.microsoft.com. I couldn't find a book landing page.
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Deep Learning: Methods and Applications (free ebook, .pdf)(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by cschmidt 13y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Sure, but I saw the headline and though "Oh, the guy who wrote the LaTex book". http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/... I imagine that is how he is best known. I didn't even know
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by cschmidt 13y ago
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.4/Lib/statistics.py
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's very interesting. I used a C implementation of quickselect in that past that was way faster than sorting. That said, my data was also larger than 10,000 elements. FWIW, here is some old timing data on a 2008 era Mac: * a
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I haven't got time at the moment, but I would consider contributing an implementation in the long run, if no one else does by then. It just shouldn't be O(n log(n)) when it doesn't have to be.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It makes me slightly sad that the median routine just sorts the data, and looks at the middle. I was hoping for quickselect, which uses 4N comparisons in the average case. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/161/96012
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You should never use a contact email that is on the domain for the DNS record in question. Only bad things can result. I use my most basic fastmail.fm email for that purpose.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I take it from your comment that you infer that it was 39% because they had lower standards for women. Therefore, they are affirmative action babies who shouldn't be there. I think it is more likely that their outreach programs (throu
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You are totally using the candidate's past work and experience to judge them. I'm sure those that get in have outstanding AP tests in math and science, great test scores, etc. A hot-short programmer would have that experience coun
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by cschmidt 13y ago
> In the past, admissions gave preference to people with lots of previous programming experience.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It sounds like the only thing they did with admissions was to not look at previous programming experience as a major factor. I was admitted to a Chemical Engineering college program, despite the fact that I had no previous high school exper
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I wonder how much better the prediction market does compared to a predictive model based on the score and time remaining. Given data on the games, it would be pretty easy to develop a model on the P(winning|scores,time_remaining). Would tha
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It is one of the weirdest sites I've been to recently. I'm not sure if they're making fun of the Daily Mail, or trying to be like it to get hits, or what. The stories just seem off.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I often answer my question if no one else does. But my process is: 1. post question on SO 2. realize I'm stuck, so spend the day figuring out the answer. 3. since no one else has answered, write up my solution I'm
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm still hoping that the BBC will take my money and let me have the iPlayer in the US. My wife is British, and would absolutely love to be able to watch all the BBC content. Let me pay a TV license fee [1], or whatever. Just take my
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think alokv28 meant statistical mechanics, rather than quantum mechanics.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
A nice list, although I'd quibble a bit about dS >= 0 being on there. That entropy increases is important, but the equation itself doesn't really have a mathematical relation like the others.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
As a random data point, at the salon where my wife has her hair cut, about half the stylists have college degrees. Plus their training to cut hair. I'd never heard of that before, but I guess it has become a fallback job that pays rea

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