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A Meadow in the Ocean with 'Flowers' Everywhere(npr.org)
29 points by dthal 12y ago|2 comments
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Uber Wants to Patent Its Controversial Surge-Pricing Plan(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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China to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace with Homegrown Suppliers(bloomberg.com)
10 points by dthal 12y ago|3 comments
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Smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy'(theguardian.com)
8 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS(theverge.com)
5 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
One problem with that is that the hackers that you really need to worry about are ones who are coming after you: competitors trying to steal IP, business rivals investigating your deals and so on. These high profile attacks like the Sony
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by dthal 12y ago
Did the DA offer just one plea deal or was a series of offers made over the time Jelani was in jail? This seems to me like the DA was using pre-trial detention as a pressure tactic.
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Am I a data scientist?(robjhyndman.com)
3 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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SCOTUS:Amazon Workers Don’t Need to Be Paid During Mandatory Security Screenings(slate.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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Schneier: Why Uber's 'god view' is creepy(cnn.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
This reminds me of something that came up in Andrew Ng's online ML class. He said that it is important to check the correctness of your gradient calculation in backprop (by comparing it to a finite difference of the loss) because if yo
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by dthal 12y ago
Temperatures on the exterior of the rocket reached as high as 115.4 degrees Celsius during liftoff and 128.3 degrees Celsius during atmospheric reentry Doesn't that re-entry temperature seem way too low? I get that its probably a rea
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by dthal 12y ago
I use both Python and R a fair bit. As a language, absolutely I prefer Python to R. However, I think there are two areas where R is better than Python and together, I think they add up to a durable advantage, at least for stats people. 1
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by dthal 12y ago
There is something bothering me about this...Weka's accuracy seems quite high in comparison to the results at Yann LeCun's MNIST page [1]. Its hard for me to believe that "the answer" to the MNIST problem is "use WE
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by dthal 12y ago
Usually RF will improve up to some point, and then the test (or OOB) accuracy will rattle around a little bit, centered around some final value. RF should never overfit from having too many trees. Both plots start at 50 trees, so it looks l
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U.S. entrepreneur considered suing Uber over tracking activities(reuters.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Gecko-inspired contraption lets you climb glass walls(vox.com)
7 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Judges impose rare, stricter requirement for “stingray” use by police(arstechnica.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
I believe that if they admit to using a Stingray, then the Stingray's legality can be challenged. At this point, nobody actually knows that a Stingray was used, so I don't think anybody can bring a case like that. They are trying
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Does the TPP (Still) Make Buffer Copies Illegal?(publicknowledge.org)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Why the Best Supreme Court Predictor in the World Is Some Random Guy in Queens(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
From Hellman's letter to Stanford's attorney: >Although it is a remote possibility, the danger of initially inadvertent police state type surveillance through computerization must be considered. Yup...I'd say we've pr
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Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality(businessweek.com)
7 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
It sounds to me like Mr. Silver is going to have another correction to make in his models. He isn't going to be able to make people stop doing this.
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by dthal 12y ago
The idea that business should be allowed to collect everything, and that only use should be regulated is nonsense. It is difficult, but perhaps not impossible, to tell what has been collected. But once data is collected, those holding it ca
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Google’s French arm faces daily €1,000 fines over links to defamatory article(theguardian.com)
6 points by dthal 12y ago|2 comments
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The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar(slate.com)
109 points by dthal 12y ago|69 comments
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Hacking Internet Voting via Ballot Tampering(galois.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Silk Road, other Tor “darknet” sites may have been “decloaked” through DDoS(arstechnica.com)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
> In 2012-13, 68.75 percent of her students met or exceeded state standards in both English and math. She was labeled “effective” that year. In 2013-14, her students’ test results were very similar but she was rated “ineffective.” That s

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