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by dbecker 14y ago
I haven't touched a Windows 8 machine, but the TV commercials make Windows 8 look foreign and unlike anything I already know how to use. I view it as a Windows 8 ninja rapidly switching between all sorts of tasks I vaguely understand, and t
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There is a huge research literature about money and happiness. For many years, the consensus was that wealthy people in a given society were happier than the poorer people in that society... but that wealthy societies weren't happier than l
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Perhaps he is referring to one of the Hackintosh projects that emulate Apple hardware so you can run OS X on non-Apple hardware. Though that seems transparently different to me than this project.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Does Linux have something like Alfred? I run a Linux desktop and a Mac laptop. Alfred is the biggest reason I enjoy my OS X computer more. Huge thanks to anyone who can suggest a Linux alternative.
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"Elements of Statistical Learning" should definitely be on the list. It is one of (if not THE) leading intro graduate textbooks in machine learning. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ or straight to the PDF at http://www.
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His claim at that point is that raw strength is more useful for general fitness and injury prevention than what he was doing before (which was stability ball training). While his poor squat performance shows that his stability ball workout
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by dbecker 14y ago
I've been considering reading Fowler's Refactoring book, but I haven't written Java in 10 years. Is the book accessible to someone with minimal Java knowledge?
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This article is largely rehashing what everyone I know already thinks. BUT, if you are going to claim to contradict widespread views, you should appeal to evidence. If I disagreed with anything in this article, there is nothing here that w
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by dbecker 14y ago
It's an emerging technology. It's got a long way to go, and fortunately people (yourself included) are moving the technology forward. But your article makes it sound like the shortcomings of 3d printing exist because the people before you w
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Deviations from the Poisson distribution are exactly what he is testing for. The paper you referenced discusses how to model in the presence of overdispersion. Not how to test that as a hypothesis. Moreover Poisson distributions are gener
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All the author has proven is that there is an 18% chance that the data does not come from a Poisson distribution. This isn't right either. You've committed the inverse fallacy [1]. The correct way to read that p-value is: "If the data ca
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I think I'm squarely in your target market, but I didn't end up downloading the app because I couldn't tell from the web page what it does. From the FAQ, it looks like a way for surfers and kitesurfers to post wind and wave conditions to ea
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Treating every dropped use case as a public relations crisis is just an exercise in getting yourself worked up for no reason. Whether or not it's a PR crisis, it is at a gotcha that is worth knowing about. Unless, of course, you're the t
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by dbecker 14y ago
In university, the faculty is very open with the fact that they are shoehorning us into software jobs at big oil and gas companies I don't know where you went to school, but I don't think this is common at most schools (it's the first tim
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I agree with your claim, but it's also my understanding that the CT killer (and many murderers in general) stole the gun from a friend or relative. So a killer wouldn't need to attend the 80 hour course if he had access to a gun purchased b
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All assault rifle owners are required to serve as volunteer police If someone wants to use a gun for criminal purposes, it's hard to imagine that giving them a badge first is going to solve anything. It just means they could go on their
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by dbecker 14y ago
Most people claiming to be "pro free market" still oppose cartels. A cartel is the banding together of multiple companies or parties in an agreement to work together to raise prices. A union is a cartel. I don't mean that in as a normativ
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by dbecker 14y ago
The "why I dropped to found a startup" genre would be more interesting if we got to see how well it turned out. Most of these stories I've seen are written when the startup still has 0 users. This one claims to have some "traction." I don't
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think you are taking his comment too literally. From the part he quoted, it is clear he is saying that Leo is still working hard rather than simply relaxing, as the analogy would suggest.
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Neither an conventional undergrad class nor this are "better." They just have different focuses. But many (perhaps "most") intro stats classes don't involve any programming. So if you want to "implement" anything, an intro stats class may
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they've changed their front page over the course of the day (perhaps in response to these comments). When I first read it, it looked like a way for advertisers to reach potential buyers. If that's the case, the
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If you have to reply to get paid, you could hire someone on oDesk to reply to your gramicon mails for $3/hr.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Great response. I would think it took some time to compose that. Out of curiosity, is this procrastinating before finals, or is this free time after finals?
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You are right that "pay to send" solves the spam problem. But gmail filters spam so well that this is already a solved problem. Additionally, the sidebar ads in google or facebook are auctioned off to the highest bidder. So users are alre
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I don't know who your target advertisor or target advertisee is But, if I were an advertiser, I'd worry that people willing to spend time looking at ad messages for money don't have a lot of disposable income... and thus they are exactly th
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by dbecker 14y ago
These reviews are really helpful. Many reviews in the popular press ignore the overall experience and focus on minor technical differences (e.g. a tenth of an inch difference in thickness). Reviews focusing on the overall experience are on
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Unfortunately, it's a buzzword that marketers use however is convenient. The most common definition refers to the size of the dataset, but I've heard it used by so-called-experts in reference to some very small datasets.
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That may have been why it was mentioned, but within micro applications, that is getting the relationship flipped. Micro models estimated from agent's optimization problems are more frequently estimated using MLE (John Rust's GMC bus paper b
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Yes. But historically the content producers weren't selling the device as a loss-leader. It's hard to match google's prices on android devices when google is content to break even on the device.
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Most of this is true in a strict sense, and it's disappointing that it is presented in such a judgmental way. Machine learning typically focuses on prediction. There are lots of business problems where prediction is the #1 goal, and ML is

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