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by danteembermage 14y ago
I'm using a dumb phone with perpetual battery life. I use IFTTT to send me texts 15 min ahead of my outlook calendar appointments. I also text notes to their number which push to my Evernote. I also had all a close friends tweets sent to my
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by danteembermage 14y ago
That's the point; for better or worse we don't do novelty titles here. I think the thought is that it is the content that should garner the upvotes, not naming cleverness, and that this is an important message to send to the community that
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by danteembermage 14y ago
It's not obvious from the page, is it 5 coins per minute (for a normal server) while someone is online or is it 5 coins per minute 24/7? If it's while online only this could be an incredible cost savings relative to a $5 a month server that
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by danteembermage 14y ago
Thank you for pointing out this important aspect of the story, when these public shamings lead to structural change it is much different than just switching the particular use case the produced the embarrassing result. Welcome to the commun
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Futuristic Rocketship schools redefine teaching(usatoday.com)
15 points by danteembermage 14y ago|8 comments
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by danteembermage 14y ago
I would hope your girlfriend would have the maturity and care for you that this wouldn't put your relationship in danger. You know 50% of sexually active people are in a relationship where their partner is less interested in sex than they a
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by danteembermage 14y ago
I think the silver bullet will be when you can sit down with your own personal Watson have it socratic method you. A really good teacher can find the boundary of understanding and push students to think at near maximum capacity by carefully
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Onlive assets sold in sale; new owners to still operate consumer facing service(mercurynews.com)
1 points by danteembermage 14y ago|0 comments
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by danteembermage 14y ago
The average IPO proceeds for the past two decades have never exceeded 100 million and have been hovering around 70 for a while. At 3% that means the typical cut is $2.1 million or less. Facebook plans to raise $11.8 billion, which at 1% wou
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by danteembermage 14y ago
The game was created in hypercard, so technically it was exactly zero more than a slideshow. Probably the most atmospheric game I've ever played though; there was something intensely creepy about wandering around a beautiful empty island fu
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by danteembermage 15y ago
This is exactly the product I need. I teach evening MBA students business statistics and decision making and I've just spent the last three days trying to debug why someone's t test wouldn't work over email. I emailed everyone saying I'm wi
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by danteembermage 15y ago
This is true of the first five films, but the later ones were separately negotiated "Radcliffe found himself playing the lead role of Harry Potter in the anticipated family film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, based on J.K. Rowli
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by danteembermage 15y ago
This is absolutely true for the first movie, I wonder how much it applies to the seventh. I think Daniel Radcliffe would have a not of negotiation power in discussing salary for Harry Potter 7 part 2; there's a bit of a hold up problem. Als
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I don't understand why actors don't negotiate on observables like total box office receipts rather than numbers that can be gamed. That said I'm going to be purely speculative and venture a guess: I'm suspicious that actors and actresses ac
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I know it's surprising but it kinda does. If the forward exchange rates were always higher and the spot rates were always flat you could: Promise to sell 100 Yen for in the future $1.10 Wait Buy 100 Yen for $1.00 since the rate didn't chan
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by danteembermage 15y ago
That is correct, if you raise interest rates you get a sudden and immediate increase in the value of your currency, followed by a slow decline, instead of a sudden decline followed by a long term increase. That's why the increase could be m
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by danteembermage 15y ago
While I'm sensitive to the overall point of this article the currency appreciation part is an inevitable consequence of domestic interest rates there. To see why, suppose I have 0 Yen in the form of a 100 Yen note and a 100 Yen loan. Furthe
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Cool idea, but I'm going to quibble a bit on the Audience vs. Band Chart. Suppose for simplicity that a band has four songs A, B, C, and D that respectively 40% 20% 20% and 20% of people would prefer to hear at a concert. Now suppose the ba
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I'd love to see Wages = b0 + b1 * Bachelor's degree dummy + b2 * parents income + b3 * IQ + b4 * [thing I can't say] + b5 * [other thing I can't say] + b5 * work ethic measure (HS GPA?) + e There are a million things wrong with doing it
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by danteembermage 15y ago
From the GDP per capita adjusted by PPP you're right, there's not that huge a difference betweeen them (52k vs. 38k): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_... Whereas the nominal GDP per capita is huge (84k vs. 49k
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I think the big innovation highlighted in the video is that he used historical data on frequency of certain topics, the dollar value assigned to those topics, and his personal performance on certain categories to figure out which categories
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Thank you, that was a fascinating read
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I think true AIs would be no more or less deserving of the love of their creator than the real people. Now maybe the programmer running the genetic training algorithm has no love for the AIs and then you're right, it wouldn't really fit. Bu
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by danteembermage 15y ago
It's really interesting to think about the theological implications of simulationism. If the world were really structured as described in the article (which is not the point he was making, I'm just having fun), then one has to wonder what t
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Iteratively solving for the model parameters using gradient descent is not standard practice in a statistics class; paying attention to the numerical methods behind logistic regression is a very CS kind of thing to do.
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Dollars do not pay interest and even risk free debt does (due to consumption time preference)
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by danteembermage 15y ago
In my experience mixed strategies are very important to pushing the boundaries of game theory but are rarely important in applying it (I come from business/economics so that biases the kinds of models that are useful). For example, when we
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Think about it this way: Suppose we are playing battleship on a board with one patrol boat and five squares in a line. There are only five possible places to put a patrol boat on this board. The three middle squares are equally likely to be
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Thanks for mentioning your product; I signed up for Convergence using the sign up link at the top of the page. Is that the process to sign up for the trial? It looks as though your page is targeted towards University IT rather than individu
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by danteembermage 15y ago
That's a tough question to answer, although just behaving sanely would be a start (if you overtype a grade in a neighboring column it destroys the old grade immediately and permanently, Blackboards solution to prevent this is to make you pr

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