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by dthal 11y ago
>> Was there image processing to distill the dress into major components, hand tagging of variables (like short/long, color, etc), or just raw pixel data processed? Its pretty clear that this is PCA on raw pixels of the images, s
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by dthal 11y ago
It does survive, in a certain sense, in scientific programming and data science. Both iPython notebooks and Rmarkdown are a sort of literate programming, although with the emphasis on the text more than the code. In that setting, the execu
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by dthal 11y ago
Ok...That's pretty cool. Thx :)
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Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters(theguardian.com)
61 points by dthal 11y ago|56 comments
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies from Thalidomide, Dies at 101(nytimes.com)
16 points by dthal 11y ago|5 comments
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Missed Calls: Is the NSA lying about its failure to prevent 9/11?(foreignpolicy.com)
6 points by dthal 11y ago|1 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
Does Criteo count? Yahoo finance says its market cap is 3.3B[1]. [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRTO
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by dthal 11y ago
> It is possible to put a lot of work into taking a MOOC and get nothing but false understandings and misconceptions out of it because the trust we put in the developers is misplaced. Of course, bad classes taught by unqualified instruct
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by dthal 11y ago
Is there any information to be had anywhere about terms? We hear the valuation shouted from the rooftops, but with nothing about the terms, its hard to know what the big number really means. Specifically, does anybody know if this a common
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Can DNA testing be trusted? The imprecise science of a courtroom tool(fusion.net)
4 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer(firstlook.org)
121 points by dthal 11y ago|26 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
>> a) I think one of the biggest challenges in a Kaggle competition is getting away from overfitting to the leaderboard. This actually depends on the data. The commenter above won the Social Circles competition. That competition had a
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by dthal 11y ago
I think the key is that R (and S before it) were designed from the start to provide a continuous path from being a user to being a programmer. Unlike real programming languages, you can get a lot of value out of R without really coding. Its
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by dthal 11y ago
From [1]: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is the United Kingdom's most high-profile climate denier group . Its founder is Nigel Lawson[2]. [1] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Warming_Policy_
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by dthal 11y ago
>>Several journals are trying a new approach...in which researchers publicly “preregister” all their study analysis plans in advance. This gives them less wiggle room to engage in the sort of unconscious—or even deliberate—p-hacking t
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Here's Why Companies Keep Losing the Battle Against Hackers(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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Baseball’s new metal detectors won’t keep you safe(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
From the article: >>libSPRITE defines engineering units as types (i.e., Meters or Radians instead of double or int). I guess experience is a harsh teacher.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#C
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Data and Goliath's Big Idea(schneier.com)
26 points by dthal 12y ago|2 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
>>Reservoir sampling is appropriate with more than just a set of unknown size -- you very frequently know the size of a set, but it's still too big to sample directly. I'm not sure that I buy this...Do you have an example? S
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by dthal 12y ago
I'm not a ruby guy at all (never used it), but if I understand this correctly: j = rand(idx) out[j] = i if j < n ..it is keeping the sampling probability at n/idx where n is the sample/reservoir size and idx is
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The Eiffel Tower has new wind turbines(theverge.com)
14 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Cyberweapons Have No Allegiance(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Fines Remain Rare Even as Health Data Breaches Multiply(propublica.org)
35 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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Japan Is Holding Actual Funerals for Sony's Robotic AIBO Dogs(toyland.gizmodo.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Gemalto Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know(firstlook.org)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
>>The document noted that many SIM card manufacturers transferred the encryption keys to wireless network providers “by email or FTP with simple encryption methods that can be broken … or occasionally with no encryption at all.” If th
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Police talk about use of “stingrays,” but aren’t saying anything(arstechnica.com)
3 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
Nice point...Can the worker set prices? At a minimum, if the answer to that is 'yes', then they are a contractor. And most people who can't set prices are employees, or are at least edge cases(e.g. taxi drivers). That'
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by dthal 12y ago
I'll kick things off by linking to the comments from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769067 .

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