dvcat

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by dvcat 15y ago
I don't understand why using mturk is against Dropbox's TOS. Surely from Dropbox's pov, the privacy (or loss of privacy) is identical in both the case of mturk and adwords.
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Ask HN: Living as a hacker in the bay area.
1 points by dvcat 15y ago|2 comments
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by dvcat 15y ago
Maybe my point wasn't clear enough: 1. I am comfortable with using someone else's library without having to reinvent the wheel but I want to know exactly what I am getting into without having to browse through tons of Java code. There are z
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by dvcat 15y ago
Dunno about weka but my last experience ( 5 months back) with Mahout was not good. There still are quite a few bugs and the fact that entire code base is in Java makes it extremely unpleasant for someone who wants to hack and modify the cod
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by dvcat 15y ago
This makes a lot of sense. I was working through a couple of the assignments last night when I realized that a lot of the questions seemed to test reading comprehension rather than proper understanding of the material. I had a while back us
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by dvcat 15y ago
Can anyone clarify if song data is dense? If it is dense, I am not even sure if Mapreduce is the right paradigm to use mainly because you will eventually get to a situation where transfer time overwhelms compute time.
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by dvcat 15y ago
2) "Publishing" (Blogging about this) will help. I am not too sure what you mean by "know the techniques well enough". In my case, I cracked a few books on LA/Stat and worked through them and encountered situations where I had to use those
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by dvcat 15y ago
I do machine learning and would consider myself a data scientist. I was an engineer who decided to do an advanced degree in statistics and computer science just because I liked this stuff. I currently work in the analytics division of a sma
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by dvcat 15y ago
I am mainly writing code for Hadoop. I find that I learn better when I actually physically write the code which is why I am trying to find a more vim like editor but the problem is that Java is incredibly verbose which makes it rather tired
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Ask HN: What is your favorite Java IDE?
1 points by dvcat 15y ago|9 comments