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by equark 15y ago
So far the schema listed don't look very subtle. Extracting this type of information from unstructured text should really be something that machine learning algorithms can do pretty well.
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by equark 15y ago
Cambridge, MA / New York, NY / Remote. Statsia ( http://www.statsia.com ) -- Next-generation statistical computing and data analysis. We are a high-risk / reward startup building an exciting product to tackle some of the biggest challenges
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by equark 15y ago
You provide no evidence for the last statement: "that story will take a lot more than statistical learning to write." The existing evidence overwhelming suggests that a computer that can "learn to produce infinite, novel, contextual, and me
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by equark 15y ago
Palantir, some of their Gov contracts are public and they extend to the millions.
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by equark 15y ago
Even Google has admitted that they wish they had built transaction support into BigTable from the start. Instead each internal group tried to create their own hack.
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by equark 15y ago
I would agree, but watching the NativeClient talk at Google IO this year made me much less certain about the commitment. The presenter's answers to questions just seemed to suggest nobody was using it and Google/the developer didn't really
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by equark 15y ago
True. Although funding or enterprise adoption from somebody like IBM would say a lot. Right now it is not clear whether Mono is a viable enterprise platform for customers that value cross-platform deployments. At least that's the perceptio
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by equark 15y ago
Giving the Mono guys $50 million seems like a no-brainer investment to me. This is particularly true since MonoTouch directly helps bring apps to WP7. It would also help their cloud efforts. The future is heterogeneous, and while Mono ca
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by equark 15y ago
Doesn't look like the Mono guys were able to keep the key IP. That's too bad. It's hard to see what Attachmate gains by keeping it.
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by equark 15y ago
It's not clear what this means yet but libmono.so is shipping with the default Android 3.1 build and Miguel de Icaza seems to confirm that Mono is shipping as part of Android. http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/68435231035756544 P
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Google ships Mono with Android 3.1(twitter.com)
9 points by equark 15y ago|3 comments
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by equark 15y ago
My sense is there is growing momentum behind GWT for people working in large teams. I've talked to a number of very talented developers that have worked on large scale projects that report big payoffs. Unfortunately, there really don't see
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by equark 15y ago
This would be much more interesting if they were opening up the API infrastructure component.
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by equark 15y ago
I think the question is these don't look like NormalCDF(coef/se) p-values given the coef and se you report. They tend to be too small. From a frequentist perspective, counting zeroes don't make much sense because under the null of coef=0 t
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by equark 15y ago
If you have the opportunity to go to MIT and don't plan on being a ski bum, poet, or surfer after, take it.
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by equark 15y ago
Cambridge, MA / New York, NY / Remote. Statsia ( http://www.statsia.com ) - Next generation statistical computing and data analysis. Early stage data-oriented startup looking for statisticians, compiler and language designers, and big data
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by equark 15y ago
Specialize on something relatively new and easy. You can then reach the frontier quickly. You saw this happen you Ruby back when Rails came out and you still see this happening with lots of HTML5 related technology, where what people think
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by equark 15y ago
As somebody doing a PhD at a top university I can assure you that all the same anxieties exists here too. The only thing that is mildly comforting is that job prospects aren't as poor. The question of impact always remains.
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by equark 15y ago
This is exactly the same problem faced by people in every domain. It's hard to make a dent in the universe regardless of your mode of attack. Activists often become jaded for exactly the same reasons that academics do. It's hard to do som
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by equark 15y ago
This title doesn't match the one on The Register, but I think captures the important piece of news: Google appears to be exploring using the Portable Native Client to secure third-party native code running on their compute infrastructure.
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Google pushes Portable Native Client to secure native cloud(theregister.co.uk)
9 points by equark 15y ago|2 comments
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by equark 15y ago
The problem with statistical significance is really not about weighing type I vs type II errors. It's much more about 1) basing decisions conditional on the data rather than the null, 3) dealing with nuisance parameters, 3) combining info
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by equark 15y ago
Gwt requires .java.
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by equark 16y ago
Boo, which has both JVM and CLR backends.
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by equark 16y ago
The demo on an iPhone is very smooth except far the massively jarring page rerenders and the browser bar flashing on every page transitions. Is there really no way to fix these issues? It's depressing because the rest is very nice but the
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by equark 16y ago
Perhaps you should be selling the dream of becoming a published writer rather than just being "the easiest way to write for the Kindle."
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by equark 16y ago
The standard setup for compute clusters is that there is an admin ops team that is assumed to be trustworthy and then many untrusted users. Is this a problem for these use cases? I think the untrusted admin is less of an issue for most or
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by equark 16y ago
Well they can't link it against anything proprietary. Presumably they want to link into Finder in some way or into some of their other filesystem APIs.
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by equark 16y ago
You could increase the speed and stability by adding a drag force and using the Barnes-Hut approximation. See: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/force.html http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/jsdoc/symbols/pv.Layout.For... Implements fo
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by equark 16y ago
But you make native dialog calls too? Care to expand on how Qt, GWT, pure Javascript mix? I think you guys have really pulled off something great in terms of cross platform support and the web.

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