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by dbatten 9y ago
I see the logic if you have to live in, say, the New York City region... But the fact is, you don't. I live in a suburb of a moderate-sized southern city and work as a data scientist at a technology company just outside of downtown. Th
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Fun fact... although the Soviets (obviously) never executed, they actually independently developed the exact same solution for going to the moon as the US used - lunar orbit rendezvous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun
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I fundamentally disagree that the resulting distribution isn't more or less equal. It's basically randomly distributed around 45, with a pretty small standard deviation to boot...
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Let's be honest... research shows that even if you are a trained professional making a career of picking stocks, you STILL probably won't out-perform the market.
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If this is even real... I admire the generosity, but giving money away on Reddit is a terrible idea. It's really hard to give money away effectively, which is why folks like Bill Gates have now made it their full-time job.
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Really? I wonder if this is some sort of optical illusion like the dress? I can't imagine Apple releasing a skewed product photo, but I can't see anything but a trapezoid when I look at that iPad on the left...
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Is it just me, or does the one on the left look weirdly skewed, like the right side is bigger than the left side? Uncharacteristic design mistake for Apple...
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Ask HN: Is anybody successfully finding customers using ad tech?
2 points by dbatten 9y ago|0 comments
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by dbatten 9y ago
To expand... it's false, because wealth is not a zero sum game. There is WAY more wealth around on earth in 2017 than there was in 1917, 1017, or 117. Most of the wealthiest folks get rich by inventing/creating new wealth, not by
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by dbatten 10y ago
Isn't there another component to the probability story here? We're not just interested in the probability that Leiterman was at the crime scene vs. that the sample was cross-contaminated. We're interested in the probability t
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Data Scientist for Republic Wireless here. We operate a hybrid mobile phone service that leverages both VoIP and traditional circuit switched networks to let our customers make calls. When asked to rate the quality of a call, our users cons
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> It's amazing how often someone finds an NP-Complete problem and doesn't even attempt to try and solve it. Just out of curiosity, how are you coming across these? I've dabbled in integer programming with both Gurobi and S
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Show HN: Legion – Prepare Messy Data for RDBMS Ingestion with Hadoop MapReduce(github.com)
3 points by dbatten 10y ago|0 comments
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I actually used a tool from CMU (link below) to convert the names to their pronunciations, represented as a series of phonemes or sounds. I then simply compare the similarities in the sound representation of the different names. It's a
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by dbatten 10y ago
Built this tool after my wife and I found ourselves wishing for something like it while pregnant with our first baby. Type in a name, and you'll find others that sound similar. Really interested in hearing thoughts/feedback from t
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Show HN: Find names that sound like other names(namesthatsoundlike.com)
6 points by dbatten 10y ago|4 comments