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Will it python - R vs Python for ML(slendrmeans.wordpress.com)
11 points by dbecker 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbecker 14y ago
I was #4 at the time my current employer contacted me. I've continued in the competition with a small team of their employees, and we are currently #2. I don't know how sensitive the number of job contacts is to your ranking. My hunch is
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by dbecker 14y ago
Whether or not you have these skills: potential employers need to SEE them. There are lots of pretenders out there, and employers are appropriately wary. Are you showing employers results on your web page that a worse ML practitioner can't
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by dbecker 14y ago
I agree that Kaggle is awesome... though I've also been wondering how Kaggle gets so much attention and TopCoder seems to get so much less (and TunedIt.org appears totally inactive). Mainly, I want to know because I suspect there is a good
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by dbecker 14y ago
Inability to communicate is not required in the classical prisoners dilemma. It's inability to credibly commit. The distinction is illustrated with the common application of the prisoner's dilemma to cartels. Cartel members can tell each
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by dbecker 15y ago
I think many people would think that's a good set of benchmarks. Personally, numerical computing is more important to me. So the 7 benchmarks listed at julialang.org seem great to me.
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by dbecker 15y ago
I just flipped through the docs, and this looks amazing. It would be nice to see some benchmarks. If Numba lives up to expectations, Travis Oliphant should be knighted.
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by dbecker 15y ago
I've seen so many news articles full of hyperbole about HFT, and this is the first legitimate explanation I've seen. Thank you.
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by dbecker 15y ago
What an impressive kid... I think he has a very bright future.
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by dbecker 15y ago
FM radio? Should it send telegraphs too?
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by dbecker 15y ago
Signing up for facebook and telling people what you are doing prevents you from keeping this info private. But writing letters does the same thing, and I don't see people complaining about pen and paper. It's a shame that FB privacy setting
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by dbecker 15y ago
I don't think I understood what you are saying. But, would you suggest that by using (and enjoying) fb, I am oppressing people who don't want to use it?
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by dbecker 15y ago
The "Business Week" story about brogrammers which sparked a lot of the recent conversation talks about brogrammers programming with one hand while doing pushups with the other. That's just laughable.
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by dbecker 15y ago
There will be a few surprises in any system... But Yahoo ahead of Facebook, Amazon and Apple? Myspace ahead of Apple? Paul Graham is #943 among people? Cool project, even with the eyebrow-raising results.
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by dbecker 15y ago
I've played a fair amount of bughouse. You are right about the point about bughouse strategy. Stipulated. These guys are enjoying themselves. They feel rejuvenated for work after playing it for a few minutes. Why impose your priorities on
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by dbecker 15y ago
This is about to get massively downvoted... but oh well. Of course it matters! Would you say it's "complete account of my reasoning" if I wore t-shirts to work because they are comfortable? But I wear a dress shirt and tie because my compan
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by dbecker 15y ago
I hadn't heard of dotCloud before. From their web page, it looks like they might really simplify AWS deployment. Can any current users comment on how it compares to going through Amazon? The pricing page doesn't indicate how much storage
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by dbecker 15y ago
I thought this was an interesting post... but let's say for the sake of argument that it doesn't have a "decent point." Do you think Jeff Atwood is less likely to have a decent point if Apple is paying him for his writing?
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by dbecker 15y ago
The story wasn't just "not 100% factual," it was substantively misleading. For example: A huge part of the story was about 12 and 13 year old kids that Daisy met at the factory gates. He says he saw lots of them, and he suggests that this
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3/23 signup deadline for Stanford Tech Entrepreneurship class(eesley.blogspot.com)
1 points by dbecker 15y ago|0 comments
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by dbecker 15y ago
One of my friends had a housefire last year. Lost hundreds of books, letters, notes from old classes, you name it. Not a single document from his gmail archive or dropbox folder was lost. If I want to keep something safe, paper definitely
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by dbecker 15y ago
> Like Google Code Search? That didn't turn out too well. Duckduckgo is sort of trying this approach. It isn't taking over the world, but I think it's having reasonable success. > Occasionally I will send myself a reminder mail wi
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by dbecker 15y ago
The pundits also panned the iPhone 4S for the first couple days when it came out. And then, after it'd been out for about three days, they changed their tune and started raving about how great it was.
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by dbecker 15y ago
> The fact is though, if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2. Or you could wait until it's unveiled before deciding whether it is worth buying.
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by dbecker 15y ago
Stack Overflow has made the internet a better "place" Experts-Exchange just got in my way when I googled for answers.
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by dbecker 15y ago
Interoperability between clojure and python is promising, because it lets you do lisp programming with python libraries and data structures. If you want to do lisp programming with CL libraries, you could just use CL. I'm not sure what the
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by dbecker 15y ago
Using (and even researching) new AWS services has always been surprisingly frustrating to me. You have to sift through buzzword-filled ad copy and corporate-speak to find any explanation of what the product is or how to use it.
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by dbecker 15y ago
I wish they used some sort of evidence to support the claim. Even if the evidence was: "here's how I know I got more done on days without to-do lists," that would be more convincing than "to-do lists don't work, because I say they don't."
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by dbecker 15y ago
I like their quotes at the bottom about the cognitive benefits of running. One from a Nobel prize winning phsyicist... the other from Alanis Morissette.
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by dbecker 15y ago
If I were a DDoS attacker, I wouldn't want to make enemies with the sort of people that rely on github. Though it's easy to imagine that those guys think differently than I do.

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