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Skanect creates 3D models of you and your house using Kinect sensor(wired.co.uk)
1 points by davidst 14y ago|0 comments
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Highlights Android’s Tablet Problem (mashable.com)
1 points by davidst 14y ago|0 comments
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.Net's Sort Is Not Secure. Don't Use It. Here's a Better One.(zimbry.blogspot.com)
3 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 15y ago
> Plus, why would a restaurant offer a coupon to a traveler (at least a coupon of value)? Because it brings in business. I see restaurants advertising for tourists all the time. Look in any in-flight magazine or any of the free guideboo
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by davidst 15y ago
Take heart: Without AdWords, Google itself was an idea that was amazing but a failing startup. You need a better revenue model than competing with cheap guidebooks. Here's one idea: Give it away but include coupons for each stop on the itin
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YouTube Buys Company That Processes Music Royalties(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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Translation algorithms used to crack centuries-old secret code(arstechnica.com)
1 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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Myspace: Five lessons learned from the front(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
4 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant(allthingsd.com)
16 points by davidst 15y ago|29 comments
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Better Bit Mixing - Improving on MurmurHash3's 64-bit Finalizer(zimbry.blogspot.com)
3 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 15y ago
There's another perspective that is equally true: Employee #1 is getting paid to see how a startup is created, struggles, pivots, pivots again, and eventually turns into a viable business. There is no better way to prepare yourself to be a
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by davidst 15y ago
> So what would you do to convince this organization that the manager is the problem? If you could do that you would still be working there. They are going to have to find out for themselves. The best thing you can do is not burn your b
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by davidst 15y ago
You just answered it. That's a perfectly fine, honest answer. The interviewer might follow up with a question about trying to get another position within the same company so be prepared to answer that.
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GameStop hands out $50 gift cards after pulling free OnLive game coupons(venturebeat.com)
4 points by davidst 15y ago|1 comments
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Unedited Thoughts About Technology Better Left Unposted(gizmodo.com)
3 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 15y ago
Humility is your friend. There is so much to know you must assume that, in areas where you are not already an acknowledge expert, you are already doing stupid things and you don't know it. Related to humility: Never forget the fundamentals.
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by davidst 15y ago
I'm gathering statistics on words, phrases and a few other things from a medium-sized (about a terabyte) corpus. There are several billion that aren't hapaxes. That's just the initial feature collection pass. Next, I'm looking for correlati
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by davidst 15y ago
How about an email address to contact you?
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by davidst 15y ago
Is 4GB RAM enough for your project? If so, you're probably fine. I do a lot of statistical ML (feel free to AMA) and chafe at the 32GB limit of the machines I'm using.
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A Modem Dial-Up Sound Slowed Down 700 Percent Is Pure Creepfest(gizmodo.com)
4 points by davidst 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 15y ago
Yes, depending on your expectations. With a LOT of effort it would be entirely possible to build something like SHRDLU that could handle a specific game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU Caution: Don't be misled by the impressive-looki
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by davidst 15y ago
Forgot to mention: It also lists video content authors and their reputations based on their popularity (the links their videos get.)
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Free data mining resource: 1 million videos with metadata and links(developer.metadatalabs.com)
2 points by davidst 15y ago|1 comments
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by davidst 15y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this suggestion but it seems worth pondering: If you have an advertising-supported site and advertising is what is supporting the community then it seems reasonable to show more or less advertising based on the
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by davidst 15y ago
You're not missing anything. I don't want to knock the author because there's a lot of good stuff here that is well-worth reading but in this case I think he got a little carried away and missed the obvious, simple solution.
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by davidst 16y ago
Note: This was an experiment to see if javascript could be fast enough to do this sort of thing. It was never finished. The count of anagrams should be updated and the crossword finder should be hooked up. Feel free to take it and hack o
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by davidst 16y ago
Here's an example of decoding and searching a DAWG in real-time in javascript. It encodes a dictionary of 106,495 words (an old Scrabble dictionary) into 427,982 base64 characters. http://www.davidst.com/jsanagram/
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Advice to entrepreneurs: ‘Never stop selling your company’ (geekwire.com)
2 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Said to Plan Windows for Tablets Release in 2012(businessweek.com)
2 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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Video: How a MEMS (Micro Mechanical Systems) accelerometer works(appliedmaterials.com)
2 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments

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