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by cvigoe 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if what happened in underground music scenes will happen in the visual arts: a lot of pioneering electronic music (eg techno & house) exists completely off of the internet and is only available on vinyl (or on di
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by cvigoe 6y ago
For anyone interested in seeing this in the context of statistical decision theory, see the final page of this lecture notes pdf: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~siva/705/lec16.pdf In particular, for the parametric estim
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by cvigoe 8y ago
If anyone is interested in topics like this and wants to delve some more into the mathematics, I’d highly recommend Tim Roughgarden’s lecture series on Algortihmic Game Theory: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WL
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by cvigoe 8y ago
That doesn’t show a graphical element of when the reminder is scheduled to occur at, as far as I can tell. But that is the type of distinction I’m thinking of: event vs reminder
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by cvigoe 8y ago
Some calendars (google, native mac) allow for events that have 0 time, but they are displayed as a block of time on the calendar instead of a single horizontal line (when I look at the thin block, my OCD kicks in and asks whether the deadli
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Ask HN: Powerusers, why do all major calendar apps miss the same feature?
3 points by cvigoe 8y ago|4 comments
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by cvigoe 9y ago
I just realized what my confusion was over! https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Carnegie%20Mel... I was looking at the results of going from CMU to my little secondary school in Dublin, Ireland. I saw the results
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by cvigoe 9y ago
Love the idea, and it’s brilliantly executed! Well done. Perhaps I misinterpreted the concept of “degrees of separation”, but I was expecting the site to tell me how to start at page X and get to page Y with the min number of clicks. If you
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by cvigoe 9y ago
Anyone know if the program is open to current grad students?
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by cvigoe 9y ago
Any chance you could link the specific paper you’re talking about? This seems like a area I’d love to explore and the older you mentioned seems like a good starting point - I looked up the author on arxiv and there seems to be a few papers
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Musk’s commercial rocket travel on Earth would be a logistical nightmare(theverge.com)
2 points by cvigoe 9y ago|0 comments
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by cvigoe 9y ago
These are all interesting questions! I would like to mention that it is important to remember when analyzing these scenarios that the world in which we live is very much a real-time system; seldom is it necessary to make decisions for &quot
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by cvigoe 9y ago
Certainly, it is important to make efforts to be cognizant of negative ripple effects arising from even the most altruistic of endeavors, but it is also necessary to actually make decisions. The Horizon Effect[1] is unavoidable in situation
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by cvigoe 9y ago
Anyone interested in nature in cities, urban planning and new urbanism should vhe l out "Happy City" by Charles Montgomery. A really enjoyable read.
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by cvigoe 9y ago
More of a motivational book than anything else, but Salman Khan's "One World Schoolhouse" was a very enjoyable book on the future of education (on and offline). It's more of a pop-sci book but it does give encouraging ac
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Ask HN: Help my 11 year old sister not get put off of science
4 points by cvigoe 9y ago|1 comments
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by cvigoe 9y ago
That makes a lot of sense as to why there doesn't seem to be a "Bible" for java - thanks for the recommendation, I'll take a look at it
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What's the Java equivalent of Kernighan and Ritchie's C programming language?
2 points by cvigoe 9y ago|3 comments
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by cvigoe 10y ago
I think I am in quite a similar position to you: after secondary school here in Ireland, I didn't consider any universities outside of my home town (pretty much because I didn't know a single person who was considering bigger and
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by cvigoe 10y ago
Have you looked at https://triplebyte.com ?
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by cvigoe 10y ago
You could extend that argument about aesthetic design to any application though, but I think that may be framing it in the wrong way. It's (usually) not much extra effort to, say, choose a nice font or use a pleasing colour scheme. I d
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by cvigoe 10y ago
https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
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by cvigoe 10y ago
This reminds me strongly of when cigarette companies started to produce nicotine patches. Without sounding too cynical (it does look like a product that could be useful for people who just happen to be in noisey environments a lot) , I can&
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by cvigoe 10y ago
Perfect! Thanks!
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by cvigoe 10y ago
For anyone looking for a higher resolution version of the linked image: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1e/54/40/1e5440628...
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by cvigoe 10y ago
Thanks! Yes I was aware that my list was very STEM heavy, most of my friends are in STEM fields which of course has heavily influenced the list. Funnily enough, the thought of asking a librarian had completely slipped my mind, definitely so
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Ask HN: I have no commitments for the next 6 months – what books should I read?
4 points by cvigoe 10y ago|12 comments