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by davidwihl 10y ago
Harvard SEAS maintains an internally hosted git-based code repository so that is a non-GitHub option. GitHub is increasingly important for job seekers to present a portfolio, which is why it is useful for students, besides being a commonly
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Did you take the courses online or on campus? Did you feel like a "regular student" or "divided but equal"? Did you look at alternatives like Harvard Extension ALM in Software Engineering?
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Fun fact about octal: every commercial and most non-commercial aircraft have a transponder to identify with Air Traffic Control. The squawk code is in octal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aeronautics)
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by davidwihl 10y ago
The neurons in the eyes pre-process a huge amount of information converting data from about 126M rods and cones to 1M ganglion cells - a pretty amazing amount of data compression. Ref: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Precisely. The key short phrase is "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" It is only one short clause amongst several others in the amendment.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
what in the world do you still write in snobol / spitbol? I haven't heard anyone even mention that language since 1983.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Still a good read: http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-paten... "I was asked 'Why didn't you patent this yourself, if you developed it first?' My reply was 'It only took me a
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Robert Morris Sr said basically the same thing: "The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it."
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Nor Kurt Gödel
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Through the Extension school, all online. I found it worthwhile.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Amazon revenue was already $1.6B in 1999. Clearly out of startup phase by then. So it depends on your measure. eCommerce is still a relatively small percentage of GDP, 5.4% of US according to https://www.statista.com/statist
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Which fund? According to whom? SPY / VFIAX / S&P 500 has a CAGR 4.9% from Nov 2000 to Nov 2016.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
It depends on the fund. I just did a report on this for one of my classes. https://github.com/wihl/stats107-project/blob/master/writeup... All the code is in the same repository as R Markdown.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
I'm all for entrepreneurship but the original question asked about passive income. Your suggestion is clearly very active.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Amazon and eBay launched in 1995. There were many examples by 1999.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
No, those would be two digit courses. 1xx courses are typically for either undergrad or grad credit. 2xx courses are typically for grad credit. CS50 is the classic entry level CompSci course at Harvard. https://www.seas.harvard.e
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DeepMath – Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection(papers.nips.cc)
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by davidwihl 10y ago
With only 13,000 training entries, I humbly think we built a better predictive model than anything else we could find. Certainly way better than Naviance. All the code and analysis is available on github if someone wants to make a business
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Looks like an old DNS name expired. It has now been renewed.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
My project is at 28:00 of the final project presentations. We won overall that year. I'm TF (teaching fellow) for the current course and Head TF for the advanced course (CS109b) in the Spring. AMA.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
The first third of Harvard's Math 23a includes finite fields in Linear Algebra. It is available as an online class. https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/linear-a... For example, see https:&#x2
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Is RPA coming back to Harvard?
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by davidwihl 10y ago
You answered the question yourself. Goose Bay is closer to the typical Great Circle route than Gander.
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by davidwihl 10y ago
Sept 2005: http://philip.greenspun.com/business/mobile-phone-as-home-co...
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by davidwihl 10y ago
In 1996 I asked Robert Morris Sr if he was worried that so much crypto was dependent upon factorization. "Worried? I'm not worried, but I can tell you that if US Military lives are at stake, we don't use algorithms that depen
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by davidwihl 10y ago
I was a volunteer ham working a first aid station during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The cell bandwidth was rapidly overwhelmed. Ham continued to work, including amazing professionalism on the part of Net Control when things got reall
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by davidwihl 10y ago
1) Time management, 2) Efficiency in learning in all endeavors, not just technical. With those two skills, all other skills can be obtained more readily, including the need for better oral and written communication. Empathy and salesmanship
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by davidwihl 10y ago
SA-FileUp, one of the first ASP components, originally written by me in 1997 to receive web based uploads. Still sells enough licenses every year to put my kids through college. http://fileup.softartisans.com/
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by davidwihl 10y ago
A lot of these idea came out of Harvard HIPS lab under Ryan Adams. Their work is open source at https://github.com/HIPS , specifically Spearmint and Autograd. His company, Whetlab, was mentioned in article as acquired by Twi
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by davidwihl 10y ago
a long way, as there are many unpredictable unforeseen combinations of events in the sky. A much more likely scenario is single pilot commercial flights, especially for regionals, effectively doubling pilot capacity.

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