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by drpgq 12y ago
The Curt Schilling story has always fascinated me (the video game part, not the baseball one). I live in Ontario and like a lot of other place, Ontario gives pretty large tax incentives to video game companies. I've interacted a bit wi
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by drpgq 12y ago
For number 3 and NBA players, wouldn't the fact that having to be so tall would trump the age effect? Being 7 feet tall is an extremely rare statistic event, so whether the player is born in January or December isn't material.
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by drpgq 12y ago
Somewhat related, here's the latest NIST results for age estimation based on face photographs (PDF): http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915238
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by drpgq 12y ago
My favourite weird old Olympic event was the plunge for distance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_for_distance
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by drpgq 12y ago
Does it matter much what the Adsense is on? I've had a couple of blogspot blogs that I've built up to around $50 on average per month. I've had them for years and never been banned, although it took me over a year to get my f
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by drpgq 13y ago
So Hell isn't other people, it's being a startup founder?
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by drpgq 13y ago
Maybe three down football wouldn't go over so well either.
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by drpgq 13y ago
It's strange that Europe is progressive in some ways, but really takes personal bankruptcy seriously.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I find it annoying that more and more takeout places have a tip jar. How much are you supposed to tip on a sub?
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by drpgq 13y ago
Prescribing Idaho stops would be even better.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I wish Ontario would do this. The fact that California doesn't allow non-competes should be pretty compelling for any state or province that is trying to grow their tech sector.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Apart from the sitcom the Big Bang Theory.
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by drpgq 13y ago
As a face recognition researcher I've always wanted a set of face images annotated with IQ to see how well a face based IQ estimator would work.
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by drpgq 13y ago
No mention of the Samwers?
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by drpgq 13y ago
I liked the Ascent of Money.
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by drpgq 13y ago
What would be the current payout in Bitcoins for $300 per day approximately?
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by drpgq 13y ago
OK, I'm often a bit skeptical about some of the startups from Y Combinator, but Airhelp is definitely something interesting for me. Anything that simplifies going after relatively small sums of money is good in my book.
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by drpgq 13y ago
PDF of the report here: http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915238
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US NIST Face Age Estimation Algorithm Test Results Now Avaliable(nist.gov)
1 points by drpgq 13y ago|1 comments
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by drpgq 13y ago
I'm a research scientist for a face recognition company and have done a lot of work with attractiveness estimators and sex classification. I've found that the sex classification score and female attractiveness has a pretty high co
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by drpgq 13y ago
"When the H-1B cap is reached, large companies like Google often look to L-1s instead, moving new employees to their Canadian offices for a year to make them eligible." Huh. I knew Microsoft did this in Vancouver but hadn't h
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by drpgq 13y ago
"Employees in the US, and in those small towns, also say they’re unhappy that IBM is shrinking in America while outsourcing to countries like India." Aren't they laying off in India now too?
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by drpgq 13y ago
If there's no steering wheel, what do the pirates do?
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by drpgq 13y ago
I liked Nate Silver's chapter on climate modeling predictions in his book The Signal and the Noise. He wasn't impressed. Maybe somebody needs to start a fantasy weather league.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Isn't the problem more that the investors are against this rather than the startup founders?
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by drpgq 13y ago
I wonder how large you have to be before Google will answer.
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by drpgq 13y ago
There were some decent ColecoVision games like some of the arcade ports. The joystick was murder on your hands though if you played long enough.
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by drpgq 13y ago
It would help a little bit, but part of the reason of wearing dark sunglasses is to totally obscure the eyes. They're used as anchor points and if an algorithm can't find them, it is going to have trouble, especially in an identif
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by drpgq 13y ago
That would work too. Although I fear the cat is out of the bag for a lot people.
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by drpgq 13y ago
My advice as a research scientist at company that makes face recognition software: big, dark sunglasses.

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