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by davidwihl 10y ago
The CEEO at Tufts does a lot of research in this specific area. http://ceeo.tufts.edu/research/
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by davidwihl 11y ago
I agree about the homework, but that's why the project component was worth 40% of the grade and took the final month of the semester.
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by davidwihl 11y ago
I took this class last semester and our team won best overall project from approx. 100 teams. iPython notebooks and writeup can be found at http://project.chanceme.info/
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by davidwihl 11y ago
Will this research continue at HIPS or is it all going to Twitter?
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by davidwihl 11y ago
As Farley Mowat, the Canadian novelist, said: "I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!" Also relevant: Lee McIntyre's book on willful ignorance in the Internet age. With so many facts readily at hand, the flip side
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by davidwihl 11y ago
Even if you knew the number of shares outstanding at the time of the option grant, it would still be useless. The company can issue new shares at any time leading to dilution. Also at some future liquidity event (acquisition, IPO), a signif
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by davidwihl 11y ago
it is too smart for that.
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by davidwihl 11y ago
We did something like this in OfficeWriter [1]. We built a set of APIs to create, edit and generate Excel (and Word) files programmatically without the need for MS Office in the server. In addition, we had a "template mode" so a u
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by davidwihl 12y ago
Like an autopilot in a plane, I imagine that there are some problems that a self driving car cannot or should not attempt to solve. This shifts the ethical and moral burden to the human driver as it should be. Though Armstrong in "Smar
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by davidwihl 12y ago
I'm amazed that you say that calculus has had a much greater impact on society when virtually every database, graphics manipulation or economic analysis uses principles of linear algebra. Can you substantiate "millions of transfer
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by davidwihl 12y ago
Having read the book recently, it is quite clear that Bostrom has never coded or built any ML or AI implementation and therefore lacks credibility on the subject.
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by davidwihl 12y ago
There is rampant speculation by people, including Bostrum, who have never written any Machine Learning code that Hard AI will spontaneously appear. Anyone who has implemented ML knows that this is silly given the heavy manual effort of feat
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Beyond the Turing Test(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by davidwihl 12y ago
That's incredibly cynical. I took up private piloting at age 37, went on to multiple certifications including Single Pilot Multi-engine jet, about as high as you can go. I'm 50 now and continue to learn and study new things every
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by davidwihl 12y ago
I agree that Machine Learning is not always the right approach but wouldn't it be a relatively inexpensive experiment to see if it could be used for more accurate predictions? I'm surprised that topographical patterns are mapped t
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by davidwihl 12y ago
Independently I was just wondering tonight why weather forecasting does not use some Machine Learning techniques as there is an abundance of training data. Wouldn't any number of regression ML algorithms find a more accurate prediction
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by davidwihl 12y ago
It isn't particularly difficult for a small aircraft, provided airline traffic isn't too busy. NYC ATC is usually pretty accommodating. There are helicopters constantly buzzing the city. Note that the terror threat is very small s
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by davidwihl 12y ago
I think the Vatican has some prior experience with crowdfunding.
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by davidwihl 12y ago
Chevrons do not "mark the direction of a given strip". Imagine chevrons pointed toward grass and rock instead of the runway - what sane pilot would follow that instead of the pavement? Chevrons "are used to show pavement area
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by davidwihl 12y ago
So going deep into a hostile territory, at night, near a foreign military compound, using unproven equipment with little fuel reserves against a dangerous, armed a forsworn enemy is not heroic? I'd like to see your definition of A-leve
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by davidwihl 12y ago
"27. AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; Obituary, "Daniel Lewin," Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2001, p. B7" Therefore an eyewitness, primary source from the time of the eve
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by davidwihl 12y ago
I know a number of people who provided primary material to Molly Raskin. In general, they feel the reporting was balanced and accurate. To harp on whether he was precisely the first victim or not is trivializing the event, the man and the i
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by davidwihl 12y ago
Would you say that the Navy Seals who risked their lives and captured Bin Laden are not also heroes?
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by davidwihl 13y ago
I'm a CEO who does his family's dishes as night. It keeps you grounded. It's a good message for your kids that in spite of their wealth they should clean up after themselves. It makes a connection to the millions of hard work
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by davidwihl 13y ago
Very limited growth. Profits are flat. No wonder the stock is down 6%. Apple needs to find more competitive means in both phones and tablets - their market share will continue to erode. They are priced as a growth stock, but they are not gr
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by davidwihl 13y ago
The Pilatus PC12 single engine turboprop is far more efficient for this sort of mission than a twin engine turbofan jet. This lowers operation and maintenance costs which this airline is passing onto consumers.
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by davidwihl 13y ago
besides changing the world and helping free millions of email slaves, we also like dogs.
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by davidwihl 13y ago
How is this going to sync just a slice of the database rather than everything in a given table? I would only want to publish one subset rather than all rows?
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by davidwihl 14y ago
Gmail's important inbox requires training to be useful. It also has a very high false positive rate (lots marked as important that really isn't). We use a combination of algorithms to make a smarter automated split, but can still learn if t