earl

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by earl 16y ago
Depending on what you mean by analysis, plenty of startups have them, including two I've worked for. No names here because apparently every word I say represents all employers, past, present, and future : rolleyes : Nonetheless, in slightl
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by earl 16y ago
But you'd get fat by being outside. That seems suboptimal.
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by earl 16y ago
From the article: "Last week, a Marine company from California arrived in the rugged outback of Helmand Province bearing novel equipment: portable solar panels that fold up into boxes; energy-conserving lights; solar tent shields that provi
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by earl 16y ago
Demanding single sex accommodations for your gender while being strongly opposed to single sex accommodations for the opposite gender is, bluntly, horseshit. If women have a problem with they way they're treated in gyms, they're free to st
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by earl 16y ago
I don't know where I read this, but it does seem like MS got so obsessed with Google and the online advertising market that they sort of forgot about their core markets. Where I would call making good software that runs on devices a core m
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by earl 16y ago
Gauss invented least squares. Before 1800 IIRC. Also, I had no idea svm predated em. Cool. As for the gpus... I'm dubious. Most optimization problems I'm aware of are poorly suited for gpu style parallelism. More's the pity.
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by earl 16y ago
If you don't see how incredibly wrong deliberately infecting a human being with a disease without consent is, there's something wrong with you and you're evil too. And your whole argument is bullshit -- "infecting someone with a disease
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by earl 16y ago
Bullshit. If this really was no big deal, if we really hard regarded Guatemalens as people, it could have been done here at home in the US on white people. Instead, it was performed on people who didn't matter -- just like the Tuskegee exp
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by earl 16y ago
This is, at least historically, a well known MS tactic, for which they have been sued.
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by earl 16y ago
Sorry, I thought GOF was a common name for it. I don't really have time to type out a long reply as to why C++/Java style design patterns don't occur in better languages, but I'd recommend putting some time in on lisp, ruby, or haskell. If
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by earl 16y ago
Even G often seems to perform quite poorly. Viz Dodgeball / 4square. Thoroughly alienating Dennis Crowley seems like an enormous mistake. Or Paul Buchheit. Or the Delicious guy who worked at G but didn't find it a welcoming environment.
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by earl 16y ago
Well, it's been my (and many people seem to agree) experience that the design patterns -- at least from the GOF book -- are really only recurring patterns in inferior languages. C++, java, etc. In languages with better abstractions, most
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by earl 16y ago
Cool -- and best of luck to Ed.
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by earl 16y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a career path, or lack thereof, but the companies' perspective on software: I left biotech because the companies I worked for, and it seemed to be an industry problem, viewed software not as their differentiat
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by earl 16y ago
For the record, the complaint most "ivy league nobel prize economists" have with Japan's behavior is not the quantity of spending, but the type -- they didn't force banks to recognize losses, instead allowing them to renegotiate loans on mu
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by earl 16y ago
After talking to a lawyer, burn the company. Post here and on a blog and email TC. Assholes should be called out, and fucking with someone's life like this is indefensible, doubly so when he or she has visa requirements. Remember in the
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by earl 16y ago
You realize that probably most poor people don't have friends that can trivially part with $300, right? Apparently not.
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by earl 16y ago
I wrote a long post refuting your points, but ended up erasing it because I don't think you can reach sociopaths. Let's just leave it as sometimes shit happens to people in life, and folks with money and financial resources have a much eas
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by earl 16y ago
This. A million times, this. It drives me fucking insane when I'm trying to work stuff out mentally to hear people speaking. Edit: ear buds aren't great since I'd like to still hear in 10 years, plus, in my ears, they get uncomfortable a
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by earl 16y ago
Let me help you with that. http://img.skitch.com/20100917-84gr9ftx22rpcu9f3keuu3xpq8.jp...
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by earl 16y ago
To be fair, other companies are less, well... stupid. Today on SF Groupon, I see a climbing gym trying to get new people to come for their first lesson by offering 2/3 off. That makes a lot more sense along the lines of the gillette / dea
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by earl 16y ago
Hells yeah you can. Deliver integer (integer >1) multiples of my salary and you can hire my talent tomorrow. And if you're interested, I know a group of people that built systems that work at enormous scale, probably only shy of the G
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by earl 16y ago
Thanks a bunch for the help. It would be nice if this were documented somewhere besides reading the source code though :( And none of my googling turned up m2.data. I'd actually guessed that it might be making columns full, but I'd expe
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by earl 16y ago
Typo in above -- it should be 1.3e7 columns. Sorry.
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by earl 16y ago
R needs it's own language because one of the most important factors in it's widespread use is the language itself. First, it is very similar to an older language that is one of the first widely used statistical packages. Second, the synta
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by earl 16y ago
cdavid -- see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1688694
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by earl 16y ago
Here's my code -- I would have contacted you directly, but I can't find your email. It's as simple as this: http://gist.github.com/578226#file_gistfile1.py (sorry, that's an editable link, so please be nice) Anyway -- the machine is not
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by earl 16y ago
I think the interviewee has, elsewhere, been pretty explicit about his desire for the R committee to get away from maintaining their own language and to build on a platform maintained elsewhere. Basically, it seems like he thinks R should
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by earl 16y ago
Yes, but (to my shock), their speed makes even R look fast. Which I didn't think as possible. My problem was taking a matrix market formatted matrix, loading it, turning it into a sparse column vector representation, then computing norms
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by earl 16y ago
Um... if you think that's bad, all I can say is you haven't used public transport in the US. To pick just one thing -- the subway in NYC isn't air conditioned. In a city that regularly sees 80F-95F temperatures with high humidity. In the

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